Sporting Club Village

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• Guerriero1991

  16 mayo 2015
  Happiness

  I was very happy there with my family,you have relax,fun,everything,I will go back for sure this summer,all clear,the staff was amazing you can play football,stay on the pool,dance very cool good moments,next time I hope to stay more long

  

• debbpic

  18 septiembre 2016
  Best but worst!

  We have been to many campsites over the years across Europe, this one had the best accommodation by far. It was new, clean and spacious. We went with Vacansoleil who we have also used many times. That's where the "best" bit ends. Let's start with the shop....very small and completely empty. I went in once to get a scoured pad to clean the bbq, some matches and some milk...nope, not one thing. Never went in again. Then there's the promised horse riding which was non existent, the sad covered over mini golf, the non existent football tournaments promised in the brochure. The pools were nice but the entertainment was a shocker! Peace was ruined when they turned up and started to sing! It was the worst sound I have ever heard. We had to leave. Then the child's pool was roped off for good.....why? No lifeguard. They are obviously in the run down part of the season but we are fully paying customers and deserve everything in fullness up until the end. Then there's the security/ control or lack of it. We decided to avoid holidays with Brits as they are, on the whole, brash, loud and annoying. This place was filled with brash, loud and annoying Italians. Shouting, singing, laughing at anytime of the night (3 am regularly). Dogs barking in their locked chalets all day and when I complain nothing is done about it. I would not recommend this campsite to anyone unless it was a Freebie!

  

• NeilD75Ireland

  29 septiembre 2016
  Shockingly poor facility

  We have just arrived back from 10 days at this campsite and it was an experience I won't be recommending or repeating. I am gobsmacked that it has received a 4 star rating, I can only assume it was from a scoring matrix of 0-100. We had a nightmare from the off. It all started with the car hire company at the airport and the impossible task of actually getting a car. It is safe to say I will not be using Firefly car hire again. I read TripAdvisor reviews, warnings and horror stories about hiring a car in Sicily prior to our holiday and decided to carry on regardless. Probably a big mistake in hindsight but It was essential for us to have a car given the distance to our accommodation and having two young children and masses of luggage. I won't go into in any further detail other than to say we got completely ripped off, ended up with no car, no refund and had to stump up 150 euro for a taxi to the campsite. Great start to our holiday with a 7 and 1 year old in tow. Going by the furious arguments at the various other car hire desks I am guessing we were not on our own. We tried to put our airport mishap behind us but when we arrived at the campsite I got an ominous feeling as the taxi bucked up and down through the potholes on the drive in. The stink of sewage from the river running parallel to the site was overwhelming. This is the same river that the campsite actually promote the provision of water sports from - astounding!! On the bank on the opposite side of the river a huge excavator/rock breaker was tearing up and filling in this mire with rocks. It was only when I had a chance to walk around the site that I came to the conclusion that the toilet facilities may have actually been draining into it as there was a hill on the opposite side of the site which meant it couldn't have gone anywhere else. They were most likely filling this mire in to try and contain and filter the stench of effluent pumping into it. The excavator was going Monday to Friday, all day long, scraping rock and dirt and generally being noisy, all within 20 feet of the pool and caravans. On the opposite side of the campsite we had a railway line perched about 30 feet above on the hill that flanked us. Great for anyone who likes a bit of amateur trainspotting, not so good when you and your children are in a nights sleep and get woken by your bed shaking at 6.30am. The trains were regular during the week but I am still trying to work out where they were going as it seemed impossible to find any public transport in the town. Maybe it was the wormhole to Hogwarts? We arrived on a Sunday and the place was deserted. We put the quietness down to it being the end of season or the Sicilian's being at mass or sacrificing a car hire manager. No supermarkets open, the mini-market onsite was locked up and never opened at all. The on site restaurant opening hours seemed to be whenever the chef woke up or turned up. I am all for the laid back way of life in the Mediterrianan but this place was practically abalienatus. We enquired about a bus service to the town and were given directions to the bus stop on the seafront. I didn't see one bus within a 105km radius of the campsite in 10 days. We enquired about a taxi service, we were told that there were no taxi's in the town!! We saw a tourist train (toy train, or whatever you would like to call it) driving along the promenade and my wife waved him down. He told us he stopped at the campsite and gave us a timetable with a line through the times which were off schedule. Progress we thought, an actual connection to civilisation. We saw the train the next morning at the campsite and when we went to get on it the driver was fast asleep drunk. Needless to say we never saw the train again after that. I felt like we were marooned due to the lack of basic infrastructure in the town. If you hadn't laughed you would have cried. The campsite itself is in major need of refurbishment. To their credit the pools were first class and immaculately kept. That's about all I can say in favour of the campsite as the rest was in need of major surgery. It has obviously not been maintained since it first opened. The promotional photos on their website were definitely then who the ribbon was cut or the toy train driver smashed his wine bottle against the gate. It needs a huge refurbishment and a crop dusting of weed killer. The tennis court surface was torn and worn with caved in creators around the edges - perfect for those looking to break their neck. Weeds were flourishing up along the fencing around the court and everywhere else for that matter. The fencing was falling down, badly patched and held together with elasticated s-hook ropes. The crazy golf course was hilariously pathetic. The kids hit a ball in the hole and lost it, where it went is anyones guess? probably ended up in the river via the drainage to our toilet. They had two bouncy castles which they never inflated. The football pitches were sun bleached and ripped. The children's play park should was very dangerous. The slides had what looked like a 70 degree gradient and my oldest son came down it like a missile!! Luckily he didn't faceplant on the concrete around it. The basic lack of safety in this park was on par with crossing the Irish Sea on a skateboard. Now for the best bit, the petting zoo. Lots of stray cats which like to pull the rubbish out of the bins that were infrequently emptied. They also liked to crawl onto your decking and over the barbeque made from iron reinforcing bars (the type an engineer specifies for reinforcing concrete floor slabs). Needless to say we never used this. The mere whiff of food from our caravan acted like a magnet for these scrawny cats. Half a dozen would surround the caravan glaring and hissing. We eventually gave up on eating outside due to cat intimidation and the smell of the river. The site also had a large scruffy dog which liked nothing better than laying turds all over the grass banks beside the kids play park. She thrived at it. She also like to relieve herself in the front gardens of the caravans which meant we could not let the kids anywhere near them. My one year old managed to stand on one of its deposits and get it on his shoe. This I didn't find funny at all. To round it all off the mangy mutt would bark and howl all night long disturbing everyone trying to sleep. I love animals but I would have happily cut this things knackers off by the 10th day. The caravan itself was basic and looked half decent inside at first glance. It was clean but lacked a lot of the basics like running water. It went off for 7 hours one day which was horrendously unhygienic. We couldn't wash the children, makes bottles for the baby etc. Our neighbours from the Netherlands were told to use the showers at the pool and the lady came back furious as she has found a used sanitary towel left it the shower. The caravan flooded 3 or 4 times as the waste pipe kept disconnecting from the toilet U-bend. The water would flow out into the kitchen/living and bedrooms resulting in our bed sheets and some clothing being soaked with toilet water. When the water did work it was temperamental. The cold water tap on the kitchen sink didn't work. The hot water tap would have stripped your skin to the bone. No warning signs to say that it was plumbed directly into Mount Etna. The shower controls had been broken previously and set back in with an Isopon type filler. The shower also had two settings 1. Third degree burns 2. Hypothermia. The itinerary of equipment was completely made up. No bread knife, no oven, no toaster or grill, no proper bowls (just shallow dishes) etc., etc. I know some of this may appear trivial but given the litany of charges this place was racking up it was really very annoying. I want to finish on a positive note. The staff were extremely friendly and helpful. They tried to solve all of our issues quickly but some were impossible to fix. They also arranged car hire for us from the camp site when they learned of our predicament at the airport. Before this happened they also arranged a member of their staff to drop us off in town and pick us up again in the site mini-bus. I thought that was a nice touch. Having said all that though, a holiday is supposed to relieve stress and not add to it. I wouldn't set foot back in this place even if they made me King of Mazara del Vallo and made the 51,359* locals cool the water in our sink by each blowing once on the hot water. Avoid this place like the plague. It makes Guantanamo Bay look like Valhalla. * Population figure accurate at the time of the 2009 census but I am guessing it has reduced since due to the bus and taxi drivers immigrating.

  

• places_to_recommend

  01 agosto 2018
  Really great!

  I really recommend the Camping Sporting Club Village! The accommodations are clean and the staff is very helpful and friendly! Also for children there is a rich offer of activities. Special thanks especially to Andrea from the front desk. He was always available for questions and was always there for everything we needed!

  

• gcbx

  27 abril 2019
  shabby place, nothing works, no pools, no wlan, the only thing they care about is the restaurant

  I had booked a bungalow for the eastern holidays in late April, where every else in Sicily they had high season. Despite the warm weather the pool was not ready yet (very dirty water), everything was still "in winter mode", the w-lan didn't work at all, all the sporting facilities are broken, we tried to play minigolf, they gave as a table tennis ball (!!!), the tennisnet is loose and can't be fixed, the minimarket wasn't open once in 5 days, the only thing the owner seems to care about is the restaurant, where you get nice food (and the staff is very friendly, but I will never go back to this place again. Reception staff absolutely useless and incompetent.