Sidmouth

Park Improvements

Posted on August 1, 2016

Park Improvements

The Franks family are upgrading the facilities at Oakdown Holiday Park in Sidmouth.

The Franks family are upgrading the facilities at Oakdown Holiday Park in Sidmouth.

Oakdown Holiday Park in Sidmouth, East Devon, is undergoing a major redevelopment, following a £500,000 cash boost.

 

Park owners, the Franks family, have invested in ten new holiday units at the park as well as solar panels throughout and two new glamping pods, in addition to the three that were purchased in 2015.

Last year Oakdown recorded more than 90,000 nights stayed on the park and a return visit rate of 80 per cent.

Alastair Franks runs the park with his parents Doreen and Roger and wife Andrianna.

He said: “We are always looking at ways to improve the park. Everything we do has to be in keeping with this beautiful area that we live in, so we take great care with our development.

“As well as this major investment over the last six months or so, we are extending our reception, and looking at the best ways we can continue to deliver the best quality experience for our guests.”

East Devon Park Leads Green Tourism

Posted on November 29, 2013

The multi-award winning, family-run, Oakdown Holiday Park is the only holiday park in East Devon to hold an AA Five Star pennant.

East Devon Park Leads Green Tourism

In the past year alone, Oakdown Holiday Park on the Jurassic Coast in East Devon, has received seven coveted awards – among them a Highly Commended Visit England Award for Excellence 2013, Practical Caravan Magazine’s Best Green Site 2013 and a 16th consecutive David Bellamy Gold Environmental Award.

Oakdown is owned and run by the Franks Family; Doreen and Roger, Alastair and Andrianna and their team of dedicated staff. It is the only holiday park in East Devon to hold an AA Five Star pennant 2013/2014 – the equivalent of a top star rated hotel.

Oakdown Holiday Park is located between Branscombe and Sidmouth on the East Devon Heritage coast and lies within East Devon’s designated Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty. Its owners, The Franks family, have farmed the area for five generations, introducing the first static holiday caravan to the farm in 1951 and opening as Oakdown Holiday Park, catering for campers and touring caravans as well as statics, 21 years later.

Now, with 16 luxurious caravan leisure lodges, 150 landscaped pitches for touring caravans, motor homes and tents and 55 privately owned caravan holiday homes, the 20 acre park welcomes several hundred guests during peak season weeks and 2013 has been a very busy year for the family run park with the beautiful British sunshine making an all important appearance.

The Franks continue to work hard to maintain a consistently high level of customer satisfaction and strive to be top of the game in all aspects of holiday park life. The driving factor behind what they do came from the vision to become a ‘green’ holiday park - a vision that was established before the concept of green tourism was even invented. Oakdown was the recipient of one of the very first David Bellamy Gold Environmental Awards in 1997 – an accolade it has continued to be awarded every year for the past 16 years.