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Joined 17/9/2014
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2024 - Submitted 11 Reviews with a total of 32 nights on campsites

Lee Valley Caravan Park Dobbs Weir, Hoddesdon, Hertfordshire
Stayed November 2024 for 1 night Party type: Solo traveller
This site was very peaceful if rather dull in that antiseptic C&CC-like way. The only nod ......read full review
Chertsey Camping And Caravanning Club Site, Chertsey, Surrey
Stayed October 2024 for 1 night Party type: Solo traveller
Another push-bike overnighter to Chertsey, which has lost none of its excellent qualities.......read full review
Grange Farm Brighstone Bay, Brighstone, Isle Of Wight
Stayed September 2024 for 1 night Party type: Solo traveller
My fifth stay at Grange Farm but my first ever in a pod. The pods here are completely bare......read full review
Radnors End Campsite, Hay On Wye , Powys
Stayed August 2024 for 7 nights Party type: Family with older children
This campsite is great - wonderful views, 10 mins' walk into Hay on Wye, small and peacefu......read full review
Baconsthorpe Meadows Campsite, Holt, Norfolk
Stayed July 2024 for 3 nights Party type: With friends
Another excellent long weekend at Baconsthorpe Meadows. Not much has changed since last ye......read full review
Llanungar Caravan And Camping, St Davids, Pembrokeshire
Stayed May 2024 for 6 nights Party type: Family with older children
This site is a ridiculously long drive from our home in south London, but it was worth it ......read full review
Norden Farm Touring Caravan & Camping Site, Wareham, Dorset
Stayed May 2024 for 2 nights Party type: With friends
A second trip to this delightful site. An admin glitch meant check in was slow and confusi......read full review
Manor Farm Caravan And Camping Site, Cromer, Norfolk
Stayed April 2024 for 8 nights Party type: Family with older children
It was busy over the Easter weekend but then emptied out leaving us alone on our half of t......read full review
Little Switzerland Caravan Site, Folkestone, Kent
Stayed March 2024 for 1 night Party type: Solo traveller
Great campsite: simple and well maintained with helpful and jovial management on site. The......read full review
The North Inn, Penzance, Cornwall (West)
Stayed February 2024 for 1 night Party type: Solo traveller
The North Inn is a wonderful pub with a very basic campsite a few dozen yards outside its ......read full review
Chertsey Camping And Caravanning Club Site, Chertsey, Surrey
Stayed January 2024 for 1 night Party type: Solo traveller
My third visit to the excellent C&CC Chertsey, again by bike and in my backpacking tent. E......read full review

2023 - Submitted 9 Reviews with a total of 29 nights on campsites

Chertsey Camping And Caravanning Club Site, Chertsey, Surrey
Stayed September 2023 for 1 night Party type: Solo traveller
This was another quick overnighter by push-bike and very pleasant. The site was rammed, bu......read full review
Thames View Camping, East Tilbury, Essex
Stayed August 2023 for 2 nights Party type: Solo traveller
A two night visit to this site, and this time I brought a push-bike. It's a great way to e......read full review
Lower Hill Campsite, Shrewsbury, Shropshire
Stayed July 2023 for 11 nights Party type: Family with older children
We were on one of the row of terraced pitches towards the glamping field on this, our thir......read full review
Baconsthorpe Meadows Campsite, Holt, Norfolk
Stayed June 2023 for 3 nights Party type: With friends
My third visit to this excellent campsite and it's better than ever. The new showers are s......read full review
Thames View Camping, East Tilbury, Essex
Stayed May 2023 for 1 night Party type: Solo traveller
Not much to add to Adam's excellent review here. It's a lovely site for a weekender and th......read full review
Norden Farm Touring Caravan & Camping Site, Wareham, Dorset
Stayed April 2023 for 2 nights Party type: With friends
We had a group of three very generous, flat pitches on the Pond field. The clay underfoot ......read full review
Manor Farm Caravan And Camping Site, Cromer, Norfolk
Stayed April 2023 for 7 nights Party type: Family with older children
We FINALLY got a table at Morston Hall - a truly excellent dining experience if you're fee......read full review
The Old Coastguards Campsite, Pendeen, Cornwall (West)
Stayed February 2023 for 1 night Party type: Solo traveller
A beautiful location about a hundred yards from Pendeen Watch lighthouse on the south west......read full review
Chertsey Camping And Caravanning Club Site, Chertsey, Surrey
Stayed February 2023 for 1 night Party type: Solo traveller
A delightful welcome from the wardens at Chertsey C&CC who take a lot of pride in the site......read full review

2022 - Submitted 8 Reviews with a total of 39 nights on campsites

Hook Farm Camping & Caravan Park, Lyme Regis, Dorset
Stayed October 2022 for 4 nights Party type: Family with older children
I really like this site: it's beautiful, maintained to an exceptionally high standard, and......read full review
Fforest Fields Caravan And Camping Park, Builth Wells, Powys
Stayed August 2022 for 14 nights Party type: Family with older children
We were greeted by a rather pert young man at reception who was surprised we wanted to sta......read full review
Beeston Regis Holiday Park, Cromer, Norfolk
Stayed July 2022 for 2 nights Party type: With friends
Another highly enjoyable long weekender on this efficient and well kept site, proving last......read full review
Merthyr Farm, Harlech, Gwynedd
Stayed June 2022 for 7 nights Party type: Family with older children
I've wanted to visit this site for years, and finally managed it on the week of the Jubile......read full review
Bodiam Boating Station, Rye, East Sussex
Stayed May 2022 for 2 nights Party type: Family with older children
A quick bank holiday two nighter at the fab Bodiam Boating Station. It was full of people,......read full review
Manor Farm Caravan And Camping Site, Cromer, Norfolk
Stayed April 2022 for 6 nights Party type: Family with older children
Our third stay at this excellent site, on the Marl Pit field again. This time the faciliti......read full review
Goonreeve House Certificated Site, Penryn, Cornwall (West)
Stayed February 2022 for 2 nights Party type: Solo traveller
A very good, attractive, basic, small site. It's excellent value for money, charmingly rus......read full review
Stream Valley Holiday Park (was Bone Valley), Penzance, Cornwall (West)
Stayed February 2022 for 2 nights Party type: Solo traveller
Pleased to say I was untroubled by rats or noisy neighbours at this excellent site. It is ......read full review

2021 - Submitted 5 Reviews with a total of 30 nights on campsites

Hadrians Wall Campsite, Haltwhistle, Northumberland
Stayed August 2021 for 14 nights Party type: Family with older children
This is a small, well-kept site on several different levels. It's on high ground overall, ......read full review
Beeston Regis Holiday Park, Cromer, Norfolk
Stayed July 2021 for 2 nights Party type: With friends
This was a long weekend to take in the sadly cancelled Potty Morris (and real ale) festiva......read full review
Grange Farm Brighstone Bay, Brighstone, Isle Of Wight
Stayed June 2021 for 7 nights Party type: Family with older children
We've been to this site four times now and it never disappoints. Friendly, helpful on site......read full review
Rother Valley Caravan And Camping Park, Northiam, East Sussex
Stayed May 2021 for 2 nights Party type: Family with older children
This very pleasant site is on a large, undulating and well-mown field with good views to t......read full review
Manor Farm Caravan And Camping Site, Cromer, Norfolk
Stayed April 2021 for 5 nights Party type: Family with older children
We came back as promised (see Oct 2020 review below) but lost all but 5 nights of our plan......read full review

2020 - Submitted 5 Reviews with a total of 31 nights on campsites

Manor Farm Caravan And Camping Site, Cromer, Norfolk
Stayed October 2020 for 8 nights Party type: Family with older children
Reception is quite a way from the camping fields, along farm tracks which must be a challe......read full review
Lower Hill Campsite, Shrewsbury, Shropshire
Stayed August 2020 for 13 nights Party type: Family with older children
A wonderful second stay for us at this brilliant site. The wash block has been done up a b......read full review
Grange Farm Brighstone Bay, Brighstone, Isle Of Wight
Stayed July 2020 for 7 nights Party type: Family with older children
This was our third visit to this wonderful site. Coronavirus measures are sensible but fai......read full review
Bodiam Boating Station, Rye, East Sussex
Stayed July 2020 for 1 night Party type: Family with older children
Our fourth visit here was a post-lockdown one-nighter on 4th July. We were told we could p......read full review
Long Acres Caravan & Camping Park, Lingfield, Surrey
Stayed March 2020 for 2 nights Party type: Family with older children
I'd like to try this site in high season. Whilst we were here it was surprisingly bleak an......read full review

2019 - Submitted 10 Reviews with a total of 50 nights on campsites

Lower Woodhouse Farm Certificated Site, Bristol, Gloucestershire
Stayed December 2019 for 2 nights Party type: Family with young children
This is a working farm CS run by the delightful Jane Roper. Do call her up before you set ......read full review
Applefields Campsite, Leiston, Suffolk
Stayed October 2019 for 6 nights Party type: Family with young children
This site is almost perfect: very gently sloping, quiet, very unobtrusively run, plenty of......read full review
Bodiam Boating Station, Rye, East Sussex
Stayed September 2019 for 2 nights Party type: Family with young children
Our third visit to this wonderful site. It's one of very few which has EHU and allows camp......read full review
Annstead Farm Caravan And Campsite, Beadnell, Northumberland
Stayed August 2019 for 10 nights Party type: Family with young children
Our second stay at this wonderful site (see review from Aug 2016) and it was even better. ......read full review
Woodside Ridge Caravan Park, Durham, Co Durham
Stayed August 2019 for 3 nights Party type: Family with young children
We came here straight from Cropredy festival. That had been windy, wet and raucous, everyo......read full review
Lytton Lawn Touring Park, Milford On Sea, Hampshire
Stayed July 2019 for 2 nights Party type: Family with young children
DD (10) and I did a quick two-nighter here on the first weekend of the school summer holid......read full review
Offenham Touring Park, Offenham, Worcestershire
Stayed May 2019 for 7 nights Party type: Family with young children
This site gets caravan-heavy when it's full. The pitches are arranged round the perimeter ......read full review
Britchcombe Farm Countryside Holidays, Uffington, Oxfordshire
Stayed May 2019 for 2 nights Party type: With friends
The setting is absolutely gorgeous, but the facilities are very basic. It reminded me of B......read full review
Woodhill Park, Cromer, Norfolk
Stayed April 2019 for 14 nights Party type: Family with young children
We stayed on a "serviced premium pitch" (ie not less than 100 square metres, with EHU) and......read full review
Painters Farm Campsite, Faversham, Kent
Stayed March 2019 for 2 nights Party type: Family with young children
We had a delightful welcome from Ann on arrival. She'd contacted us before we set off beca......read full review

2018 - Submitted 6 Reviews with a total of 37 nights on campsites

Lower Hill Campsite, Shrewsbury, Shropshire
Stayed October 2018 for 7 nights Party type: Family with young children
The view from this site is unbelievably good: a full 180 degrees of endless Shropshire cou......read full review
Bedruthan Steps Camping, Mawgan Porth, Cornwall (West)
Stayed August 2018 for 7 nights Party type: Family with young children
A wonderful, beautifully located site with very basic facilities and no discernible rules,......read full review
Grange Farm Brighstone Bay, Brighstone, Isle Of Wight
Stayed August 2018 for 11 nights Party type: Family with young children
We had another superb stay at Grange Farm (see previous review from July 2016). Once again......read full review
West Runton Camping And Caravanning Club Site, Cromer, Norfolk
Stayed July 2018 for 2 nights Party type: With friends
We stayed in a Readycamp tent for a long week end. It's a hoofing great Cabanon safari ten......read full review
Cottage Of Content, Bidford On Avon, Warwickshire
Stayed May 2018 for 3 nights Party type: Family with young children
This site is a pleasantly sized field behind a delightful village pub. EHU pitches are arr......read full review
Ravenglass Camping And Caravanning Club Site, Ravenglass, Cumbria
Stayed February 2018 for 7 nights Party type: Family with young children
We had a call from the site a couple of days before we were due to arrive: 'Are you quite ......read full review

2017

Salisbury Camping And Caravanning Club Site, Salisbury, Wiltshire
Stayed October 2017 for 3 nights Party type: Family with young children
C&C Club sites are great for off-season tent camping, and this one is no exception: good g......read full review
Knights Glamping At Leeds Castle, Maidstone, Kent
Stayed September 2017 for 1 night Party type: Group
This is a sumptuous glamping operation where a medieval theme tends to trump convenience. ......read full review
Hurst View Leisure Camping, Lymington, Hampshire
Stayed September 2017 for 3 nights Party type: Family with young children
I rather liked this site, but I'm not altogether sure why. We stayed on the tents-only non......read full review
Sparkhayes Camping Site, Minehead, Somerset
Stayed August 2017 for 3 nights Party type: Family with young children
Our third visit here (see review from March 2015) but only three nights this time. Doors h......read full review
East Fleet Farm Touring Park, Weymouth, Dorset
Stayed August 2017 for 10 nights Party type: Family with young children
This is a very well run and well kept site. The newer facilities are excellent - very spac......read full review
Sunny Lyn Holiday Park, Lynton, Devon (North)
Stayed April 2017 for 14 nights Party type: Family with young children
I developed quite an affection for Sunny Lyn over the two weeks we stayed running up to Ea......read full review
Kingsbury Water Park Camping And Caravanning Club Site, Sutton Coldfield, Warwickshire
Stayed February 2017 for 8 nights Party type: Family with young children
We stayed here for Feb half term week to help a friend with some DIY, so we didn't explore......read full review

2016

Shrubbery Caravan And Camping Park, Lyme Regis, Dorset
Stayed October 2016 for 7 nights Party type: Family with young children
This is a gently sloping site beside a relatively quiet A road. It’s mainly grass with som......read full review
Normans Bay Camping And Caravanning Club Site, Pevensey, East Sussex
Stayed September 2016 for 2 nights Party type: Family with young children
Norman's bay is approached via a narrow private road through a run down strip of poor qual......read full review
Annstead Farm Caravan And Campsite, Beadnell, Northumberland
Stayed August 2016 for 14 nights Party type: Family with young children
We stayed for a fortnight in the ‘farm field’. The pitches further from the gate and ablut......read full review
Grange Farm Brighstone Bay, Brighstone, Isle Of Wight
Stayed July 2016 for 7 nights Party type: Family with young children
I stayed here for a week with my daughter at the end of July and into early August. We pit......read full review
Overstrand Campsite, Cromer, Norfolk
Stayed July 2016 for 2 nights Party type: With friends
We were a party of four adults and one child and stayed in a pre-erected 6 berth frame ten......read full review
Ridge Farm Camping & Caravan Park, Wareham, Dorset
Stayed May 2016 for 8 nights Party type: Family with young children
This is a delightful, smallish site, very well placed on the Purbeck peninsula. It is quie......read full review
The Secret Garden Certificated Site, Wisbech, Cambridgeshire
Stayed April 2016 for 4 nights Party type: Family with young children
This was our second visit - see previous review from October 2015 below. It is still a won......read full review
Baconsthorpe Meadows Campsite, Holt, Norfolk
Stayed April 2016 for 4 nights Party type: Family with young children
Our second stay here - see review from July 2015 - and it has got even better. There's now......read full review
Swiss Farm Touring And Camping, Henley On Thames, Oxfordshire
Stayed March 2016 for 2 nights Party type: Family with young children
We stayed here for two nights, mainly to check over our kit before the Easter holidays, bu......read full review
Southdown Way Caravan & Camping Park, Hassocks, West Sussex
Stayed January 2016 for 2 nights Party type: Family with young children
My 7yo daughter wanted to go camping for February half term. When that was thwarted by a f......read full review

2015

The Secret Garden Certificated Site, Wisbech, Cambridgeshire
Stayed October 2015 for 2 nights Party type: Family with young children
Despite arriving after 8pm we had a really warm welcome from Lesley, who walked us to our ......read full review
Budle Bay Campsite, Belford, Northumberland
Stayed August 2015 for 14 nights Party type: Family with young children
We spent a very enjoyable fortnight at Budle Bay campsite, having booked with some trepida......read full review
Baconsthorpe Meadows Campsite, Holt, Norfolk
Stayed July 2015 for 2 nights Party type: Family with young children
This site is superb. The ground is perfect for tents: flat pitches on very gently sloping ......read full review
Sunnyside Farm, Canterbury, Kent
Stayed May 2015 for 2 nights Party type: Family with young children
This is an amazingly peaceful spot with spectacularly beautiful views across the valley to......read full review
Sparkhayes Camping Site, Minehead, Somerset
Stayed March 2015 for 14 nights Party type: Family with young children
I spent two weeks of the Easter holidays here with my 6yo daughter; it was our second visi......read full review

2014

Bodiam Boating Station, Rye, East Sussex
Stayed September 2014 for 2 nights Party type: Family with young children
This is a wonderful site. It's evidently really important to the owners that you have a de......read full review


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