We mentioned Twitchen House Holiday Park in our Woolacombe Beach guide as the caravan park we keep coming back to, and we promised a proper review. Here it is. We’ve stayed here multiple times, always in late August or September, and it’s become our default base whenever we’re doing North Devon.
Why We Keep Booking Twitchen House
Twitchen House Holiday Park sits just outside Woolacombe, built around a converted Edwardian manor house, with woodland paths connecting the site to the South West Coast Path and down to the beach. It’s one of three linked Woolacombe Bay Holiday Parks, so your pass also covers facilities at the other two sites — useful if you want more variety without changing accommodation. You can find the official site here: Twitchen House Holiday Park.
The main thing that keeps bringing us back is the size. Twitchen House is big enough to have a genuinely good range of facilities, but not so sprawling that it feels like an anonymous holiday complex. We’ve stayed at parks on both extremes — including a Haven park in North Wales that gave us a useful point of comparison — and too small means you run out of things to do after day two, while too big means you spend half your holiday just walking between areas. Twitchen House lands right in the middle, which for us is exactly right.
The Lighthouse Area
If you have a choice of areas within the park, we’d point you toward the Lighthouse Area. It’s a nicely laid-out section with static caravans, and it has a calmer, more considered feel than some of the busier parts of the site. The camping field and the motorhome/touring pitches sit right next to it, so if you’re travelling with friends or family in a tent or a camper, you can still end up close together despite booking different accommodation types. It’s the area we’ve booked every time we’ve returned, and it’s a big part of why we keep coming back to Twitchen House specifically rather than trying a different park nearby.
Our Caravan: Silver Grade, 3 Bedrooms
We stayed in a Silver-grade caravan with a decking/terrace area, set up with 3 bedrooms for up to 6 people. It was comfortable, well-equipped for a family or small group, and the decking was a genuinely nice touch for morning coffee or unwinding after a beach day. If you’re travelling as a larger group or family, this size category is a solid, practical choice without needing to jump to the top grade.
Facilities at the Main House
The manor house at the centre of the park is where most of the indoor facilities are, and there’s more packed in here than you might expect:
- Bar — a relaxed spot for an evening drink
- Cinema
- Restaurant
- Small on-site shop for basics, so you’re not forced into a supermarket run for every little thing
- Laundry facilities — genuinely useful for longer stays
- Amusement arcade
- Outdoor pool (the indoor pool is in a separate building on site)
- Playground
- Mini-golf course
For a family holiday, this is more than enough to fill a rainy day or an evening without ever leaving the park.
Evening Entertainment
The evening programme runs through the main house, and the one we experienced repeatedly was the daily bingo game — run in a relaxed, genuinely pleasant atmosphere rather than feeling forced or overly loud. It’s the kind of low-key entertainment that works well if you’ve got a mixed-age group and don’t want a full nightclub scene every evening.
Walking to Woolacombe Beach
From Twitchen House, it’s about a 25-minute walk to Woolacombe Beach, mostly along shaded woodland paths that connect to the South West Coast Path. It’s an easy, pleasant walk rather than a chore — we’ve covered it in a short video if you want to see exactly what the route looks like: Walking from Twitchen House to Woolacombe Beach.
If you’d rather not walk both ways every day, it’s worth knowing that as a car journey it’s much quicker, though parking at the beach itself comes with the seasonal price changes we covered in our Woolacombe Beach guide.
One important note if you’re driving a camper or motorhome: we wouldn’t recommend taking a larger vehicle to the beach via Mortehoe. The road through the village is narrow, and road signs along the route explicitly state “not suitable for caravans” — worth planning your route around rather than finding out the hard way.
Dogs at Twitchen House
Dogs are welcome at Twitchen House Holiday Park, which made it an easy choice for us given how central dog-friendliness was to picking a base for North Devon in the first place.
Best Time to Stay
We’ve always booked late August into September, which gave us a good balance — still warm enough for the pool and the beach, but noticeably calmer than peak summer. If you’re weighing up timing, our Woolacombe Beach guide goes into more detail on the seasonal trade-offs for the beach itself, and the same logic broadly applies to the park.
Final Thoughts
Twitchen House Holiday Park has become our go-to base for North Devon, and the Lighthouse Area specifically is what we’d book again without hesitation. The size of the park, the walk to the beach, and the relaxed evening entertainment all add up to a holiday that doesn’t feel like it’s trying too hard — which, after several visits, is exactly what keeps bringing us back.
Planning a stay near Woolacombe? Check out our Woolacombe Beach guide and our Mortehoe guide for more of the area.