Live2Jump

Headcorn charges the highest prices in the UK for one of the lowest altitudes but still wont put the plane up unless it is completely full. Some staff are friendly but that's the exception, most are rude and unapproachable. There are very few jumpers going there now leaving the place almost entirely tandems. The Caravan jump plane is very squashed and expect to get shouted at by the tandem masters everytime. Although they are usually in the wrong spot causing the problems with fun jumpers being able to get to their seat belts. Expect to often wait 3 hours for a lift and only get a 5 min call. So don't go anywhere. On the positive side reasonable sized packing area, car park, and canteen. The canteen in over prized and the worst tasting food and drink I have come across on a dropzone. Staff there are robotic bit like a call-centre. The dz is very close to a train station making it easy to get to. Conclusion - Go elsewhere if you can. If you go expect rudeness and long waits with little indication of when you will jump.

I arrived in Poprad Slovakia on a boogie organised by the boogieclub.co.uk which had organised one with the same people last year so i thought it should be no problem. On the first day all 60 of us arrived from the hotel by coach at the field expecting the mi8 helicopter that had been booked same as last year. No helicopter there instead six people from Compact Skydive turned up and said we would not be jumping because the helicopter owner is a friend of theirs and all boogies in the area have to go through them so they wanted a cut for doing nothing. They refused to talk to the organiser which made things difficult. Eventually they said we could use the helicopter at their DZ but would have to pay 25 eur a jump which is more than their website offers (same as the boogie though) and they wanted a pay off of 50,000 crowns. They also didnt want to let our organiser come along even though he said in front of everyone that he was willing to lose his profit from the trip to ensure that we go to jump. We ofcourse found this all very unprofessional and basically extortion so refused. Our holiday was ruined by these people who had clearly planned it so they could hit us for as much money as possible. If you had any honest intentions they would have not have waited to pounce at a point when we could only agree or go home empty handed. I expect many others will be adding their experiences of these extortionists soon.