Where We've Stayed (Part One) - Fairway Holiday Park, Sandown

Fairway Holiday Park in Sandown is a fairly small, independent site comprising about 120 units, all of them six or eight berth caravans which are well-maintained and always clean.

Although it no longer appears to have a shop on site, there is a grocer's store immediately opposite the entrance to the park which sells a reasonable selection of all the basic foods, as well as newspapers and most of the usual provisions. If what you are looking for can't be found there then Sandown itself is about 15-20 minutes away on foot.

Fairway boasts a small swimming pool, a mini-arcade, a launderette and a children's play area. It also has an excellent clubhouse where one can purchase food, which is of a pretty good quality.

Later in the evening the entertainment is well worth the experience. Although it being a small site Fairway doesn't enjoy the range of visiting acts that some of the bigger holiday parks can call upon, its own resident entertainer is hugely versatile and more than a match for many if not most of the guest cabaret acts that you'll see elsewhere on the Island.

Having spent our first few years as regular visitors to the Island staying at Fairway, by accident rather than design we ended up broadening our portfolio of holiday venues. Nevertheless when The Sun sent us to Fairway again in June 2007 we were very happy to be going back, and very pleased to learn that in spite of some welcome asthetic improvements to the site itself the entertainment that we had been so fond of was still the same.

I'd be extremely interested to learn of others' experiences at this very pleasant holiday park.