We are glad you have chosen Prestwick Holiday Park, KA9 1UH and are confident you will enjoy many happy holidays here. We are open from March to the end of October. Touring caravans can holiday on the park for a maximum period of 7 days. Prestwick Holiday Park is a holiday park and it is important you consider what that means. The following questions and answers explain the holiday use requirement.

Q. What can my touring caravan or motor home be used for?

A. Touring caravans and Motor Homes at our park can only be used for holiday purposes. This means the caravan or motor home may not be someone’s main residence. That is why we ask you about the address of your main residence.

Q. What is a holiday?

A. A holiday is a period of recreation away from your main residence, during which no work is done.

Q. How long can I have a holiday at Prestwick Holiday Park?

A. You can book a holiday for a maximum of seven consecutive nights at Prestwick holiday Park in a touring caravan or motor home.

Q. When can I check in?

A. You can check in any time after 12 noon on the day of your confirmed arrival date.

Q. When do I check out?

A. You must check out before 12 noon on the day of your agreed departure date.

Q. Can I stay longer than my reservation?

A. No. You must depart on the agreed date at the agreed time.

Q. Can I work locally, and my children go to local schools?

A. No, as commuting to work or school from the park would be taken as strongly indicating the holiday home is being used as someone’s main residence.

Q. Can I register with the doctor locally?

A. Of course, people get ill on holiday and may use the local doctor as a temporary patient. It should not be necessary for someone with a main residence elsewhere to register with the doctor for holiday periods, unless they have health requirements.

Q. I am retired and want to use the caravan holiday home all the time?

A. Being retired does not mean you are on holiday. The test is whether you have a main residence elsewhere.

Q. My main residence is overseas does this count?

A. Yes, but all the facts are relevant when deciding whether the overseas property or the caravan holiday home is your main residence. These would include whether you own the overseas property or, if it is rented then how long you have rented it for, how much time you spend in the holiday home and how much in the overseas property.

Q. Can I run a business from the holiday home?

A. Definitely not. This would not be consistent with holiday use.

Q. Can I have post delivered to the park?

A. No. If post is delivered as a matter of course this would indicate the holiday home is being used as a sole, or main place of residence.

Q. Can I register for Council Tax in order to obtain Housing Benefit?

A. No. Business rates and not Council Tax are charged for caravan holiday homes. Paying Council Tax or receiving Housing Benefit to pay the pitch fees would be taken as strongly indicting the holiday home is being used as a main residence.

Q. What happens if I break the holiday restriction?

A. Your agreement with us contains your undertaking to comply with the holiday condition. If you broke that we would ask you to stop doing so. If you were to fail to comply, we would be entitled to terminate the agreement and to ask you to remove the touring caravan or motor home. The planning authority might also take action against you, for breach of the holiday condition by serving an Enforcement Notice.