Recreatiecentrum De Vogel, Zeeland Province, The Netherlands

4travelqueen82 5:00 PM Sep 2, 2018

Summer holiday
We booked this holiday after finding the campsite on vacansoleil, really liked what I saw, but didn’t want to pay €70 booking fee, so we went direct. We paid not much more than they wanted for a static and got a 3 bed house!!! We were very impressed with the house, it was spacious and would easily accommodate the 6 people it could sleep, the kitchen was well equipped, it had more than enough of everything needed, and more than the one of everything you usually get. The house had 2 bathrooms, one having a shower, one having a bath. The one with the bath was downstairs with a bedroom, the other being up stairs with the other 2 bedrooms. We have 2 children 8 & 3, we intended on putting our 8 year old downstairs, but found the steps extremely steep in comparison to our English home, and didn’t fancy them in the middle of the night, if he had to come up to us, or we had to go down to him. We used the down stairs bedroom as a dressing room, which worked well as we didn’t have to get the suitcase up the steps. There is a safety gate at the top of the steps, which was a relief to us, due to the steepness of the steps. Just a note that the bath didn’t have a bath mat so may be worth bringing one if you intend on using it. The house also had a big dining table, and a large seating area with tv. We couldn’t really get signal on the tv, but we took tablets so didn’t really use it anyway. The house also had its own garden, with electric canopy, garden table and chairs and room to play. My only criticism is it would have been nice to have a gate on the garden to stop the kids getting out. Luckily mine are old enough to understand, but for others with little ones, it would be nice. The site itself is lovely, there are little parks dotted everywhere, I don’t think you’d ever be far from one. There’s also 2 bouncy pillows a big hit with my 2. The bigger one is over the bridge away from the reception area, it also has a zip wire there. We hired a go kart to get there a couple of times. There’s also mini golf, which again was a hit with my 2. The kids favourite thing was the soft play area, which is in the plaza. They played there every-night, and it’s open until at least 10pm, which means we could enjoy a drink whilst they played. The plaza also contained a restaurant and a cafeteria. The cafeteria mainly served chips, sausage, burgers and ice creams etc. We only used the restaurant once but it was lovely. We had the €25 menu which was 3 courses, we both had the steak and it was cooked to perfection!! Worth noting that the cafeteria and restaurant do not accept MasterCard or visa debit, neither do most places in Holland. They use Maestro, which as far as I’m aware isn’t in use anymore in the U.K., so make sure you take enough cash! Also worth noting that the signs/menus etc are all in Dutch, but you’re in the Netherlands, so why wouldn’t they be? All the staff we spoke to English and they were very helpful and polite. My son is already asking when we can return....and I’m sure we will.

1Copperpot_uk 5:00 PM Aug 21, 2019

Indoor pool is a accident waiting to happen.
DANGER!! sums up the indoor pool, the lifeguards are child age, they tend to site around and dont "police" the pool, one young girl with very short shorts and dark hair/glasses sat around the whole time were were there (2 hours) chatting with her friend, there is a no balls in the pool rule, loads of people throwing balls, children must be accompanied, this rarely happened with one child hurting themselves on the water slide and we had to interrupt the life guard to get her attention from her mate, there is a fast water slide that you must move away from the splash area once down, this never happened and is not policed, I saw an adult come down the slide straight into children who were unaccompanied playing in the splash area, someone will be seriously injured and the management need to deal with this immediately, as for the man made beaches, the sand is like cement and the its littered with rubbish.