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[Charlie]

I think they should move the sunbeds to allow more cars.

[Jimbo]

The car-parking zone is clearly limited. Sunday is always busy as local people go to the beach.

[Karen]

I think they should move the sunbeds to allow more cars.

Nothing would surprise me.

[Tredegar Boy]

I don't understand this sudden fixation on the car park. As Jimbo says the car park area is obvious and in all the years I've been going to San Stef I've never seen the beach so full that people have started to sunbathe where the cars park. It's a mystery to me this discussion.

[geordieborn]

I don't understand this sudden fixation on the car park. As Jimbo says the car park area is obvious and in all the years I've been going to San Stef I've never seen the beach so full that people have started to sunbathe where the cars park. It's a mystery to me this discussion.

A bit like Charlie post on smoking (as an ex-smoker I agree with some of it ) cars should be banned from public areas, especially beaches.... If you can't see the link, you need to think again! Does it matter how long we have been going there regards the debate, perhaps so... There are people on here I've noted have much more kudos than us in that respect, perhaps they can say how things were a long time back? Seriously, I don't think it's a fixation, just an observation that it does not look too good on the beach...

[Karen]

It is an observation. We have been going for 16 years and it has never been like this. I don't want to be sitting on a beautiful beach, looking at cars, it's like sunbathing in a car park.

[Rod]

I must admit, I have always found cars parked on the beach weird.  It does spoil the view and I haven't witnessed this ANYWHERE else when I've been on my holidays.

[Karen]

I must admit, I have always found cars parked on the beach weird.  It does spoil the view and I haven't witnessed this ANYWHERE else when I've been on my holidays.

It does spoil the view, Rod. There have always been a few,  but nothing like this and you do get old  cars that may be leaking oil. There are car fumes too.

[Jimbo]

I share TD's puzzlement over this.  The only place close to the car parking area is Waves. The beach is two kilometres long. That's one and a quarter miles! Very few places have a beach that long.

I don't think the car park is any busier than it has been. There is simply nowhere else to park the cars and bikes, is there?

Personally, I find the massed ranks of sunbeds from the river to past Havana far more offensive. 

[geordieborn]

But Jimbo the sunbeds pay to park there

[Karen]

But Jimbo the sunbeds pay to park there

They could pay a small charge, if they have to be there.

[Charlie]

I’m with Karen and Rod on this, an accident waiting to happen with children etc.
I can only think of one beach in the UK that allows cars on the beach. Brean Sands in Somerset at a charge of £3.00 per day, but it’s well controlled.
Here in Devon we have many beaches and coves, some of them quite vast, some have parking nearby but many don’t

Get of your arse and walk is what l would say.

[Karen]

It's like when we go to North Norfolk, the car parks get full quickly. We find somewhere out of the way to park and walk as far as is possible for hubby, with our rucksacks.

[Charlie]

It's like when we go to North Norfolk, the car parks get full quickly. We find somewhere out of the way to park and walk as far as is possible for hubby, with our rucksacks.

Well said Karen.

[Karen]

Well said Karen.

We also enjoy the walk and is good exercise.