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Topic: Porth Beach Newquay

arsenaldes

27/8/2013 at 12:08am
Location: Aston Clinton
Outfit: Kampa Holkham + Outwell Yukon River*

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Hi all
Just back from Porth Beach and have to say what a great site this is, you literally leave the site walk over the road and youre on the beach. We were a little late in booking so the pitch available was only suitable for a 4 metre wide tent, as they insist on a 3 metre gap between tents, this ruled out the Kampa Holkham at 4.9 metres so we took the Outwell Yukon River 6 which as there was only 3 of us was not a problem especially as we had a Montana extension to try out.

On arrival it was absolutely "hissing" down to put it politely with winds of 25mph gusting to 35mph which resulted in the rain being blown horizontal rather than vertical. We sat in the car debating whether to wait for the rain to stop or just go for it. In the end Mrs Arsenal decided we should go for it and a very interesting tent pitch followed especially putting the extension up which really wanted to become a kite and fly over the campsite. The pitch however was big approx 10m x 11m so could have got the Kampa on it with ease

Entrance to the site

Outwell Yukon River with Montana Extension

Another view

And for those viewing in black and white

Cooking Des with the Multi cooker

The trusty Berlingo

View from our pitch

Cooking Des again this time with the Quest Grill and single hob

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arsenaldes

27/8/2013 at 12:14am
Location: Aston Clinton
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Even polycotton tents get hot inside

pewacker

27/8/2013 at 4:33am
Location: widnes
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Great pics thanks for sharing

LouieSpectacular

27/8/2013 at 7:49am
Location: Essex
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Great pics thank you for sharing. I was looking to book this site but had reservations about pitch size. Doesn't look like there's any issue there though! Definitely going to book here for next summer :) Can you recommend a pitch to request, if they'll let me?!

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moonstone

27/8/2013 at 8:10am
Location: Greater London
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glad to see you got a bit of sun in the end...thanks for sharing your photos with us...

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arsenaldes

27/8/2013 at 6:39pm
Location: Aston Clinton
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Hi Louie
They do pitches by tent width 3m, 4m and 5m. We had a 4m pitch which turned out to be 11m wide x 10m. Any pitch past the toilet block are ok book early if you want a certain pitch. There were some negative reviews but to be honest we couldnt fault it. Site was always tidy, toilet block spotless all went quiet by 11pm and there are wardens on site overnight. Beach is over the road outside the campsite and Newquay is just a 20 minute walk away.Will certainly go back next year

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27/8/2013 at 6:47pm
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hi des mate wicked photos wicked tee shirt and we have the multi cooker great bit of kit they are. the mrs loves it to bits looks like you had a good time , could just eat one of them sausages lol plus it looks a good bit of grass you pitched on quality photos speak to you soon mate- shaun

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geoffprinter

27/8/2013 at 7:07pm
Location: Kent
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Nice one Des. Cooking as well eh. Impressed. Im only allowed to cook the toast

Just as well you had a choice of tents. Trust you pointed that out to Mrs Arsenal.

arsenaldes

27/8/2013 at 7:20pm
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I did Geoff thats why i ended up doing all the cooking

LouieSpectacular

27/8/2013 at 8:33pm
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Quote: Originally posted by arsenaldes on 27/8/2013
Hi Louie
They do pitches by tent width 3m, 4m and 5m. We had a 4m pitch which turned out to be 11m wide x 10m. Any pitch past the toilet block are ok book early if you want a certain pitch. There were some negative reviews but to be honest we couldnt fault it. Site was always tidy, toilet block spotless all went quiet by 11pm and there are wardens on site overnight. Beach is over the road outside the campsite and Newquay is just a 20 minute walk away.Will certainly go back next year

That's brilliant cheers for the info. I will also definitely be booking for next year, looks and sounds like this could be my perfect campsite!

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27/8/2013 at 9:08pm
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arsenaldes

29/8/2013 at 8:20pm
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Ok

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KampaWendy

01/9/2013 at 11:33am
Location: High Wycombe
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Nice pics

arsenaldes

03/9/2013 at 12:14am
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Thanks Wendy

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