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Subject Topic: Help! bank holiday camping! Post Reply Post New Topic
19/8/2012 at 6:26pm
 Location: hertfordshire
 Outfit: Vango Zanzibar 800 Vango Oregon
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i am finding it very frustrating to book a campsite around the swanage dorset area for saturday and sunday night! everywhere is a min of 3 nights! 

as much as i would love to go for three nights i cant because of work saturday morning 17

anyone having the same problem?



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19/8/2012 at 6:59pm
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if your really really desperate to camp, just book and pay for the 3 nights but stay for 2 - its just 1 extra nights payment and you get your camping trip, thats how i would see it.


19/8/2012 at 7:10pm
 Location: hertfordshire
 Outfit: Vango Zanzibar 800 Vango Oregon
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yes, thought of doing that 17 

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19/8/2012 at 7:11pm
 Location: Northampton
 Outfit: Vango Icarus 500xl Royal Hampton 4 &
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I agree with dbice...I always book an extra night than we need so I can pack up at a leisurely pace rather than scrabbling about to get off the pitch by 11am 17


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19/8/2012 at 8:24pm
 Location: West Midlands
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Two night minimum (Bank Holidays) at Tom's Field (Langton Matravers) according to their website.


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19/8/2012 at 9:53pm
 Location: Kirkintilloch
 Outfit: Camplet Savanne TT & Vango Icarus 600
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I have found this frustrating as well. We are going down South this sat to pick up our new trailer tent and wanted to sleep it in half way up the road on the sat night (means we can practise putting it up again while we are still fresh!). Well its not a bank holiday weekend in Scotland, I had to phone round 20 sites before I found 1 willing to squeeze us in for 1 night.


19/8/2012 at 10:47pm
 Location: Corinium in the Cotswolds
 Outfit: Calais - Eldorado - Alaska - Romahome
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Try Downshay Farm. I camped there last Aug Bank Hol. No problem. Here

It's just outside Corfe Castle at Harmans Cross, with views.
It's a turn up and pitch site. Money is collected in the morning.
If they are full, just a bit further up the lane past the CC site is another campsite which had plenty of space last Aug bank hol. Primrose Hill.

Do not go to Toms Field.
Last aug Bank Hol. I walked through the site on the way to the coast path.

6mtr rule does not exist. 6 inch rule might.
They were packed in like sardines with guy ropes over lapping.

Or Woodyhyde between Corfe and Harmans Cross.
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You should be able to get into one of these.

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19/8/2012 at 11:07pm
 Location: Caerphilly South Wales
 Outfit: Outwell Montana 6P (2012)
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I find you have to book ahead these days, was not so 4 of so years ago as we often would decide to go camping the next day. We are going away mid next week and on the 10/09 both have been booked for months.



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