Matthieu Oostveen Review of Hof van Saksen
Very nice holiday park, thoroughly enjoyed ourselv...
Very nice holiday park, thoroughly enjoyed ourselves despite the somewhat dreary weather.
House (824), 8 person luxury house: Good sized for the 5 adults and 2 kids (6 and 8) in our group. 3 toilets, 2 bathrooms with bath/shower. Decent size kitchen which was well equipped, the only thing missing was a pizza-slicer which is unfortunate since the park has the option to get pizza delivery to your accomodation!
Swimmingpool: Good sized for the amount of people on the park when we went these (on a switch-day), 3 pools indoor, including kiddy and "proper" swimming pool. Wild-water slide was the only one of the 4 slides that our youngest was allowed to go in which clearly was a big disappointment, they could do with at least one more slide that is accessible for under 7 years old.
Restaurants:
Grand Cafe (Dinner): Staff was friendly and helpful, small play area/TV for the kids to entertain themselves while we were waiting for the food (which was not long). Good quality food, decent size portions. Can definitely recommend the smooker menu! There was a slight problem with the dessert order for our youngest one which was very quickly noted and resolved with a smile and a joke make the overall experience a pleasant one.
Gastro bar (Dinner): Staff again very friendly, good quality food. This is a "Drentsche tapas" style arrangement, BUT... the time between ordering and the food actually getting out to the table was waaaaaay to long. Seems the kitchen isn't equipped/adjusted to delivering the requested "tapas" quickly enough for this to actually work. The concept is nice, but needs a little tweaking in execution.
Other activities on-site: We went bowling and the kids went onto the trampolines which was all well organised.
Activities in the area: Camp Westerbork is definitely worth a visit and obviously when in Drenthe, one needs to visit at least one hunebed. Can definitely recommend the hunebedcentrum a 10 or 15 minute drive from the site.
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