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Land Rover Discovery Beach School

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Kids Go Free

Full days and slow days, where the sand and sea are your playground and days tick by to your own family beat. We’re inviting children to stay for free, when sharing an adult double room.

For families

Kids' Zone

Kids' Zone sessions from 6 months to 12 yrs included with every stay.

The Kids Zone

Surf lessons

Year-round surf lessons for 7yrs+ with all the kit to keep you warm.

Surf lessons

Family suites

Time together and time apart with separate bunk bed rooms.

Family suites

Swim Club

25-metre ocean view swimming pool with shallow section for children.

Swim Club

Restaurants

Three different restaurants with children's menus.

Food & drink

Baby monitoring and babysitting

Available on request, camera and tablet for your room and babysitting.

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Early supper

Available during school holidays in The Dining Room. Think Taco Tuesdays and Fish Fridays with a build-your-own ice cream station.

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What to do during your stay

Find out what else to do during your stay.

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Book Kids Go Free

Dates available:  Sunday - Thursday (excluding School holidays & festive)
Unless otherwise advertised
Including: Breakfast in The Living Space dining room
Details: Children (3-12 years) go free when sharing a double room with an adul

Spend golden days on the shoreline with the youngest, while bigger water babies step up their skills with the Wavehunters surf crew, building ocean confidence in children aged six and up.

Back on dry land, our OFSTED-certified Kids’ Zone has the fun flowing and imaginations stoked with drop-in and bookable sessions, a newly refurbished games room and packed daily timetables – all included with your stay.

Back on dry land, our OFSTED-certified Kids’ Zone has the fun flowing and imaginations stoked with drop-in and bookable sessions, a newly refurbished games room and packed daily timetables – all included with your stay.

Kids' Zone sessions

Booked through the mobile guest app or with the team ahead of your stay.

Toddler sessions (6m-2yrs)

Messy play, music, and rhymes, sensory and heuristic play in a calm, stimulating, and supportive environment. Each child’s routine is incorporated within their play session.

Kids' sessions (3-8yrs)

Sessions include beach activities (wellies and coats essential), craft workshops, cookery classes, science experiments, and imaginative play.

XA Club (8-12yrs)

XA Club activities include beach sessions, sports tournaments, film nights, cookery skills, team games, craft workshops, quizzes, and board game nights. School holidays only.

Land Rover Discovery Beach School

Land Rover Discovery Beach School school holiday sessions educate and inspire children and teenagers about the coastal environment through various games and activities.

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Babysitting

Our registered babysitters are available between 6pm and 1am. Requests can be made can be made by completing an enquiry form ahead of your stay. 

Enquiry form

Baby monitoring

Works across all our restaurants, including The Beach Hut. Subject to availability, we'll give you a camera and a tablet to use around the hotel. Subject to availability.

Down at Swim Club, find a 25m Atlantic view pool with a shallow area, great for younger children and families to play. 

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Parents find their own rhythm at Watergate Bay

Family holidays can be full – in the best way. Surf lessons, sand castles, one more game, one more ice cream. But while younger ones race off to Kids’ Zone, spend hours on the beach, or tire themselves out in the surf, there’s space for you too – with everything you need right on your doorstep. Here are five ways to find your own rhythm at Watergate Bay this summer.

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Behind Kids' Zone: Meet Tammy

With imagination, patience and heart, Tammy leads the charge in the Kids’ Zone. We meet Tammy to find out why the Kids' Zone makes up such a big part of family holidays at Watergate Bay.

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Good food, well earned

We speak to three nutrition and exercise experts to find out the relationship between getting active outdoors and good food, including ten top tips.

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Meet: Pianist Joe Kirby

Our first musician-in-residence kicks off between 16 - 19 November. We caught up with pianist, Joe Kirby ahead of his residency.

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The Living Space playlist

Tune into The Living Space with three different sounds: Cool, Noon, and Sunset. Listen along with Spotify.

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Interior style: the 50s

Get the Watergate Bay look with interior design notes from our family suites.

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