Seacroft Camping Site – Cromer – Rocknrollerbaby Travels – Review!

My Grandparent’s used to camp at Seacroft in Cromer long before I was born and because of their love for this pretty gorgeous site, situated a ten minute walk from Cromer town centre on the Runton Road, I have, in fact, been visiting since I was a baby!

Last year I took my children for the first time and we LOVED it, as did our pals who joined us, so we all went back for more this year with an extra family roped in and what a weekend we’ve just had despite some rather ropey weather!

I wanted to write a post about Seacroft because I genuinely love this place and as far as camping goes I’m not sure you could want more as a family. I am not a wild camper, I need a bit of luxe and this place offers enough for me to cope. The kids love it too and I think it’s a flipping brilliant site to go with the small people though actually we haven’t seen many others when visiting. I toyed with not posting about this place as struggled between wanting to give them some exposure but also wanting to keep it as a little gem just for myself. In the end I decided it was too good to not tell other parents about so here we go!

Family Camping At Seacroft, Cromer!

Prices: Cheap as chips mate but all the better for being so! We just paid around £50 for two nights per family. Tariffs do rise a little in the summer holidays but it’s really quite superb on cost and that’s my first major plus to being there with the kids. Costs need to be low but facilities HAVE to be good and this place offers all of that!

Camping: This place is part of the Caravan and Motor Home Club and as such the main bones of the area is reserved for caravans and motorhomes – durr… This wasn’t the case when I was little and the main campsite was for everyone which I preferred. These days if you only have a tent you have to be out the front by the road which sounds worse than it actually is yet I would prefer to be at the back if given the choice. Probably just because of nostalgia I suppose and I can see why they’ve got the caravans et al in the main body of the site as that’s where all the electric hook ups are and the tents are out on the front field alone not needing the points. I get it… It’s just a little niggle. The pitches are huge however and you can park right by your tent as well as being able to see the sea so it’s not all bad!

Facilities: The facilities are what attracts me as I am a bit of a fair weather camper who needs a decent shower every day. They are clean and well maintained and on this visit and our last unlike ones I had as a child we never had to queue for anything. There are hair dryers and personal wash stations with locakable doors and on top of that there’s a baby and toddler room which the staff at reception will give you a key to if you need to use it. It was a game changer for us with a clean tiny bath and shower over the top, a tiny toilet, baby change station and sink. The room is big enough for the whole family to go into at once which is handy and PERFECT for getting little ones clean. I loved it and never knew about this room until this visit!

On Site: There’s everything that you would expect from a campsite catering to families with a small shop for papers, eggs, bread and the like, a freezer to cool up your ice packs and a park which is fenced off right by the tents and perfect for all ages. As well as this there is a club house with a reasonable bar and live music often in the evenings as well as a pool table and restaurant. We ate here last year and the food was ok. Not too expensive and perfectly acceptable if not totally gourmet. But the rising star of this place is their heated swimming pool which I have loved and been swimming in since I was a child – I’ve many fond memories of being in this pool as a kid, as a teen, as a young adult with mates and now my children are enjoying it too. Warm enough to swim in even on the coldest of days, fully life guarded and with a baby pool for the tiny tots. Saying that the shallow end is not deep at all and the kids loved playing here this weekend – it was a case of can we get them out?! We did in the end but they may have come home webbed!

What to do in Cromer: The list is as long as my arm in tiny little writing so I’m just going to tell you some of my faves. Have fish and chips at Mary Jane’s (this is the local hang out – the tourists go to Number Ones but MJ has the lead for sure), go crabbing off the pier and see the end of the pier show, body board in the waves or take proper surf or SUP lessons with Glide Surf School (a whole post dedicated just to them coming soon), turn rocks over to find beach treasures, go into the old fashioned slot machine amusements, buy a Cromer crab for supper from the John Lee Crab Stall, climb the Cromer Church tower, visit the Cromer Museum part of Norwich Museums and included in the annual pass which is under £100 for a family of any size), tour the Cromer Life Boat Station or Henry Blogg Museum for FREE, take tea and cake in The Rocket House Cafe, sail model boats at the top of the cliff in North Lodge Park and wander around my fave place in the whole world enjoying this almost untouched british seaside town – there’s so much more to say but that would need a whole other post!