We stayed in ‘worst seaside holiday park EVER’ with filthy caravan in pub carpark – beach was 20 minutes down 50mph road

A FAMILY slammed the "worst seaside vacation parkland ever" with a filthy caravan successful a pub carpark with nary formation successful sight.

Richard and Lindsay Brown claimed they were horrified erstwhile they uncovered stains connected their bedding and bugs crawling astir their country astatine Cowden Holiday Park, Yorkshire.

The couple, who paid £195 for the trip, were looking guardant to a 3 nighttime enactment with their 4 daughters but fled aft little than 24 hours.

It was their three-month-old babe girl's archetypal vacation - which Richard and Lindsay claimed was thing abbreviated of a nightmare.

And, their caravan was successful a pub car parkland and the nearest formation was a "20-minute locomotion down 50mph roads".

Richard resorted to blasting the vacation parkland connected TikTok, posting a video showing information hazards for his kids.

However, alternatively of support, the parents were met with fierce backlash and "mass reporting" for "child nudity" implicit the pictures shared of his daughter's injuries.

It was banned astatine astir 400,000 views for "nudity and intersexual enactment involving minors" and the mates judge friends of the caravan parkland were to blame.

"It was online bullying. That was the last straw for me. I was gobsmacked. Totally unprofessional," said Richard.

"They tried everything to instrumentality down the videos. My videos were getting banned near close and centre connected Tiktok. Because I refused to instrumentality it down they thought they'd instrumentality it into their ain hands and study each my videos," helium added.

They were bombarded by vile comments specified arsenic beryllium a "f**king man" alternatively of a "schoolboy" and region the "sad small video".

Meanwhile, the vacation parkland lone said they would contented a refund if the household removed their TikTok video.

Richard said: "They rang maine up and fundamentally said to maine 'if you don't instrumentality the video down you won't get a refund'.

'SKID MARKS ON THE BED SHEETS'

But the defiant family-of-six kept their station uploaded - with the caption "This is honestly the worst parkland we've stayed astatine and we're easy pleased".

Richard, who lives successful Newcastle, Tyne and Wear, said: "It was the worst vacation parkland I've ever stayed in. It was the vacation parkland from hell.

"It was our archetypal ever household vacation with our babe and it was spoiled by the experience. When you've got a newborn babe you're conscionable hoping everything's cleanable and harmless for them.

"The beds and the cleanliness of the spot benignant of spoiled it. It looked similar skid marks connected the furniture sheets. It could've been someone's makeup. It was brown. We didn't analyse it that far.

"We were expecting to spell to a vacation parkland and fto the kids tally free. We weren't capable to due to the fact that it was successful a pub car park. It was conscionable adjacent to a clump of radical smoking and drinking outside.

"There were pictures [online] of families playing connected the formation truthful I assumed determination was a formation nearby.

"When we got determination it was on a 50 mph state road. I was similar 'there's nary way'. We started walking determination and went backmost to the car. I was with 5 kids and an aged pensioner.

"My girl [11-year-old Isabelle Brown] scraped her backmost connected [the playground] truly bad. There were crisp small clips connected it arsenic she was crawling done the tunnel.

"Not each vacation parks are great. Our expectations were low. We conscionable privation determination cleanable and got capable beds for everyone to slumber in. That's what we'll beryllium blessed with."

'NOT A TRUE REFLECTION'

The household were yet afloat reimbursed for their booking but Richard inactive dubbed it the "holiday parkland from hell".

"Later that time they rang maine up and said they'd springiness maine the refund but that they don't privation maine to marque immoderate much videos due to the fact that they don't privation immoderate much exposure," said Richard.

A spokesperson for Cowden Holiday Park said the website made it wide the formation is simply a abbreviated locomotion from the park.

They claimed their bedding is checked by their laundry institution arsenic good arsenic their housekeeping company.

They said they "feel Richard's relationship is not a existent reflection" of his enactment arsenic helium did not study immoderate issues portion helium was there.

But the dad-of-four claimed: "They tried to accidental connected the telephone 'why didn't you fto america cognize astir it'. We didn't person a choice.

"By the clip we unloaded our car and enactment each our worldly successful and I started to announcement things 1 aft the different the reception was shut."

The contented creator has been reviewing vacation parks for 4 years arsenic a contented creator.

"I had intended for it to beryllium a affirmative review. I didn't expect it to beryllium that way. I had the pistillate connected the telephone accidental to maine 'we're a tiny household business'," helium explained.

"I did consciousness atrocious for her successful that respect but astatine the aforesaid clip it wasn't my work for determination to beryllium cleanable furniture linen.

"We're paying a terms and it was up to them that they didn't marque the vacation crook retired that way. That was their responsibility, not ours.

"I'm conscionable determination to reappraisal it. It's not up to maine to marque a bully oregon atrocious review. It was however they intended for it to crook out.

"I shouldn't person to delete it conscionable due to the fact that it's antagonistic due to the fact that that's not connected me. It wasn't my work to marque the vacation a affirmative experience. That's the work of whoever's providing it."

A Cowden Holiday Park spokesperson said: "The determination is intelligibly stated connected the website astatine the constituent of booking the holiday, on with the remainder of the rental units.

"Our bedding goes done rigorous checks with initially our laundry institution who spot cheque for stains and secondly checked by our housekeeping company. The stains were not reported during either of these checks.

"When the enactment checked retired early, they were asked if everything was good during their stay. We were told it was good and nary points were raised.

"The statement connected the website states that the formation is simply a abbreviated locomotion from the park. This was afloat explained to the lawsuit astatine the constituent of cheque in; entree to the formation takes astir a minute's thrust successful the car.

"The children's playground is taxable to checks from an outer institution who provides a wellness and information study – API and ROSPA accredited.

"We asked for the video to beryllium removed from societal media arsenic we felt it was not a existent reflection of customer's experiences of our vacation parkland and we provided a afloat refund regardless.

"Mr Brown continued to station viral videos and recorded unit without their knowing oregon consent.

"We judge that this impermanent has grossly misrepresented the circumstances of their enactment astatine the park, [his mother] received a afloat refund connected 26/07/2024 and we understood that was the extremity of the matter.

"The bulk of our customers bask their acquisition of staying with us, starring to repetition customized and our galore 5* reviews enactment this."