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Newport Dunes Waterfront Resort & Marina is located in the heart of Newport Beach CA, along the scenic Back Bay. Our laid-back lux resort offers RV campers access to the same amenities as any hotel guest plus more, including beach access, hydrotherapy pools, beachfront dining, hiking & biking trails, water sports, and one of SoCal’s largest inflatable water park (summer season). We offer planned activities for families to take part in. Allow us to be your basecamp for everything Newport Beach and Orange County has to offer.
1131 Back Bay Dr, Newport Beach, CA 92660.
We are just off Jamboree and Pacific Coast Highway in Newport Beach.
This review is for the Aquatic Park only.
Tickets per person was about 18$ an hour plus convenience fees.
There is parking available onsite, but will cost ya $10 for 30min-2 hours. After parking, you'd walk along the path towards the aquatic park direction and you'll find their little office. You'll walk for about 10 minutes.
Once you get to the office, let them know you're there for the aquatic park and they'll give you a life vest and a wristband. Then you're supposed to swim towards the park in your life vest. We went on Labor Day so the park was filled with kids. With the amount of kids, I was really surprised there were no life guards in the park area. The water was murky and and pretty hard to see.
Though it was really fun, it just felt like the staff didn't care nor were they very organized. My friends had waited around 15 minutes for equipment with little to no direction. It was something cool to do just once.
Very nice RV centric campground, however, they support traditional car camping too. Very clean facilities and courteous staff. We were in and out for one night, but already planned a trip to go back. Beautiful property and nice beach fire pits.
I'm so disappointed to write this review because we have been coming here for more than 20 years. Apparently the new management doesn't care how much noise people make during the day, which was a real problem for us. We came for Thanksgiving, which is a family holiday. The people directly across from us had 3 sites all together and a speaker the size of a nightstand. They played music all day every day at top volume our entire stay. They also had a 12 person gas golf cart with the same size speaker and drove it around the park non-stop.
We asked security to deal with it twice and they said there are zero noise restrictions during the day. I'm all for having a good time, but when I can't hear my daughter talking to me when she's sitting next to me inside our trailer, it's a problem. Security said guests regularly call police for noise complaints and if their warnings to these folks to turn it down didn't work, we should call the police as well. We paid $200 a night to stay here and we'd like to sit outside and enjoy a fire without hearing someone else's music blasting so loud we can't hear each other talk.
It ruined our entire trip and we are really hesitant to ever stay here again. Apparently it's the luck of the draw whether you have considerate neighbors. It's a shame because it's a gorgeous location and great amenities.
