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I'm looking to go away in august to the new forest and one off the campsites I'm interested in is Sandy Balls. It looks like we have to picth our tent on a hard standing area. Being very new to camping what exactly will this involve. We only have a sunncamp villa 4, and I believe the hard standing area is about 5m x 5m, alot bigger then our tent. Will we be able to use our tent pegs and if so, do we need to put some sort of padding between the tent and the ground.

any advice greatly appreciatted as very new to this

Hi Mozz

Sandy Balls do have or did have a field that they opened up during the summer.  If not then you will need some rock pegs for the hard standing, just like 6 - 8 inch nails with a plastic hook on the end.  You can hire some astro turf on site for going under your tent if you need it.  Not sure you will need the astro turf.  If you have a built in grondsheet then a sheet of tarpaulin under neat should protect it from the stones.

Hi Mozz

Glad you asked this as I was going to do the same.  We were wondering if we would be able to pitch our TT here.

Valerie