This year I took my blind fiance, my 17 year old son and my 10 year old daughter to Start Bay. It was a lovely quiet location, with the only drawback being that to get in and out of the area you have to travel miles on mostly single-track roads. Being the only driver, with a large people carrier, I found this really stressful…and to some extent spoilt my holiday. Due to the roads being so narrow we didn’t really want to walk too far either.
On a more positive note, the staff were lovely and couldn’t do enough for you. A special thank you to the two ladies on the catering side of things, who were a huge help. The bedrooms were a good size, and the rooms very clean. My fiance and I were lucky enough to have the disabled room with en suite and this was a real blessing. The drawback was that the children were upstairs on the other side of the centre, and I would have liked them closer. The reason for the 4 stars instead of 5 is two things; the mattresses were very uncomfortable and we both came away with aching backs; plus, the rooms were not sound-proofed very well. The occupant of the room above ours warned us when we arrived that you could hear every word spoken between the two rooms…and she was right!
We probably wouldn’t go back to Start Bay again, but only because of the amount of driving I had to do, but this is no bad reflection on the centre, which was great. It was still a very good value holiday, which we all enjoyed.
