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Reviews of Holmsley Camping In The New Forest
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Holmsley Camping In The New Forest
New Forest, Forest Road
Thorney Hill
Bransgore
Christchurch
Dorset (Browse area)
BH23 7EQ
Tel: 01425 674502
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Pitches: 600
Open: 07/04/2024 to 31/10/2024
07/04/2025 to 31/10/2025
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| Who's it for |
 Families Welcome |
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| Facilities |
 Toilet Facilities |
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 No Bathroom |
 No Baby Changing |
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| Activities |
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 No TV Room |
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 No Evening Ents |
 No Fishing |
 No Wild Swimming |
 No Indoor Pool |
 No Outdoor Pool |
 Horse Riding <5 miles |
 No Cycle Hire |
 No Golf |
 No Tennis |
 Beach <10 miles |
 No Watersports |
 No Boat Launch |
| Other Features |
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| Date of Visit: August 2008 |
Unit: Tent |
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| Reviewer: Jamrol |
1 review from this member |
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 Just got back last week, had a great time, the toilet/showers are very clean, the shop got very busy, serving great snacks etc. The playground for the kids was also great, the only negative was about 11pm a load of people turned up with their tents (about 12) and played football, drinking, laughing/joking, until 2.30am, just yards from out tent. I let them know what I thought the next morning, they were quiet the next night. I guess we were just unlucky that night. 
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| Date of Visit: August 2008 |
Unit: Tent |
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| Reviewer: Dizzy WO4 |
4 reviews from this member |
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Our very first time camping as a family at Holmsley. I had camped as a little girl but never as a Mum of two before! We were greeted by the friendly staff who very helpfully told us where the site was quietest and so where to pitch. The ground was a little hard to our heavy duty tent pegs came in handy.
Yes, people that arrived after us pitched their tents closer than they should have but they were friendly folk and I think thats what camping is all about.
The showers and toilets were always clean and not too hot at all even for my kids. The shop staff were very friendly but it was over priced and did not sell any alcohol, so we had to miss out on our evening bottle of wine.
I have always stayed in static caravans before and looking at the miserable faces of people in the pouring rain always put a downer on things, I was so delighted to see that despite the torrential rain my fellow campers, like me, just put on their waterproofs and still played games with the kids and went for walks with friendly smiles on their faces, maybe it's down to the beautiful surroundings at Holmsley.
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| Date of Visit: August 2008 |
Unit: Tent |
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| Reviewer: Norwichdanny |
1 review from this member |
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We have just returned from a week at the new forest, staying at Holmsley. The area is great with loads to do and has some really stunning scenery. The site is right in the middle of everything which is perfect.
The site is huge and for most things is really good, although we do have a few moans, which, I have to say are mostly to do with other people and not the site itself.
The first thing that you notice on the site is the amount of concrete. This is due to the site being an old airfield and after a day or so you just get used to it. On arrival you can drive around and find your own pitch which is great but, be warned, there are pitches to avoid. We saw people desperate to get close to the play area, but after 9 o clock ish the play area was taken over each night by noisy teenagers. There is also a nice area just behind the shop but the drinking water tap is at the top of a hill next to this. It only takes one person (out of 2000 or so) to leave the tap running and this area quickly turns into a mudbath.
We did like this site but it does seem to suffer from the fact that it is so big. We were constantly annoyed and shocked that, despite the fact thre were so many kiddies (including ours) playing all over the site, people still blatantly ignored the 5mph rule. There were cars driving past our tent at 30-40mph and then swerving to avoid kids. Perhaps this is due it being a bit of a race to get a good pitch. There is also quite a bit of noise at night, including groups of teenagers wandering around, sometimes drunk and shouting at each other.
All in all we had a fantastic holiday in the New forest and would definitely come again. Although I would be happy to stay at holmsley again, I would probably try and find a smaller more family friendly site first. Holmsley is a great site but could be much better with a few more, rigidly enforced rules. As I said before, the moans we have are about the people and not the site itself.
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| Date of Visit: August 2008 |
Unit: Tent |
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| Reviewer: Nevada m |
4 reviews from this member |
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Arrived for a 2 night stay on a Thursday, 2 adults & 3 children. Check in very quick, left to find own pitch. First impressions very good. Nice playground and shop, not overpriced. By Friday afternoon the site was completely full, very busy, queues for showers, dish washing etc, no matter what time of day, people pitching anywhere much to close to each other. Not enough toilet/shower blocks for 700 pitches, they only seemed to be cleaned once a day, in the evenings it was chaos, people washing up in the toilets basins.
The site in is a lovely location, great for walks and bike riding, Mudeford, Bournemouth, Christchurch etc short drive away.
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| Date of Visit: August 2008 |
Unit: Tent |
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| Reviewer: CurlyLisa |
1 review from this member |
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This was our first camping trip and we thoroughly enjoyed it. The staff were friendly on arrival and explained everything. You are left to find your own pitch but must be 6m from anyone else. We found a nice area near a stream which our boys loved playing in. The toilets, showers and dishwashing facilities were great. There was always plenty of really hot water and they were kept clean. There's an on site shop which as you would expect was relatively expensive but stocked pretty much everything you could need. There was also a Costa Coffee there (fantastic for that morning cappuccino!). The New Forest animals surround the site which our boys thought was fantastic. There's a Sainsburys about 10 minutes away towards Christchurch. The kids play area isn't bad - though our boys spent most of the time playing in the stream and up and down the slight slope we were on on their bikes/scooter. It's a great area to take bikes to. There's so many places to visit around the site in the New Forest and also Christchurch. Bournemouth and Portsmouth are both not too far away either. All in all we really enjoyed our stay here and would definitely visit again.
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| Date of Visit: July 2008 |
Unit: Tent |
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| Reviewer: Sjc31 |
3 reviews from this member |
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This was our first time camping with our 1 year old daughter in our tent. I had booked in for us, and my husbands family as this was a long weekend get together for us all (2 tents, 1 Caravan and a motorhome).
We arrived and the site was pretty empty at this point.
To be honest, we arrived and I am thankful it wasn't busy at this point as the people in the office hadn't really got any idea which members of my family were at the site already, and even if they had paid their part of the bill! Thank god I had the reservation letter with me!
It seemed to be quite confusing, mainly as they had us all booked in under the same name (mine) when I had specifically booked on the phone, different names with types of pitch. It ended up just faster and less confusing that I pay the whole bill there and sort out with family later. The lady was very nice, just a bit disorganised.
I am soooo glad we got in on the Thursday as on the Friday the place got rammed full!
The site is huge and very well catered for with clean toliets and showers - though as a person with heat sensitive skin, the showers were too hot and suffice to say my showers were short and painful. There is no way I would have taken my daughter or any child into those showers because of the heat of the water. There are plenty of sinks, but none (that I found) that were private so you couldn't have a wash at a sink if you wanted to.
The site was clean, but the 6 metre gap between plots is non exsistant! We had a group of parents and young teenage children set up camp right next to us.
While this wasn't a problem to us, the kids did make a racket on the friday night - ALL night with the mother not helping by shouting at them to shut up (they didn't). Our other family members in their tent didn't get any sleep.
We were protected somewhat by someone elses tent, but we were thankful that they didn't wake our little girl up or there may have been a few cross words said.
All said, the holiday was made by the fact the weather was great and we had lovely family time. The surroundings are wonderful and cycling is easy for even the holiday cyclist (me!)that only ride their bikes once a year.
The shop - was expensive for everything, but the ice cream is lovely!
All in all, the site itself is fine and clean.
Would we go again - probably, but not over a weekend in the school holidays, and we would pick our pitch much more carefully!
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| Date of Visit: August 2008 |
Unit: Tent |
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| Reviewer: Camper 69 |
1 review from this member |
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I last camped at Holmsley as girl with my mum, dad and brother in our caravan. We had several weekends and odd week over 7 years.
Now a mum of 2 we all enjoy camping I wanted my children to experience camping in the New Forest.We booked easily online. When we got to the site and booked in at the office we were given a little information package (with some valuable phone nubers) and staff were friendly.
Not much has changed in 25 years (except loo's and showers have been refurbished).
I liked the fact you could pitch anywhere as long as you leave 6 meteres between tents/caravans and people were very generous with that. As so many sites just try to pack so many in a small area. Night times, most people were very considerate and quietened down by 10.30/11pm. And I think alot of that is down to the fact the gates to the site are locked at 10.30 so cars arn't driving in late. But if you wanted to stay out after 10.30pm you could park your car outside the campsite entrance and walk in, so no problems.
The rangers were friendly, and walked the site in torrential rain and high winds and retrieved 3 tents which blew away and helped people, fork the ground (to help water drain)and bail water, when certain areas got flooded. Our tent luckily had a sewn in ground sheet so even though there was massive puddle we floated!
Lovely walks, lovely wildlife. Out in the sticks but not far from Christchurch, and Bournemouth and all the lovely beaches. As yes we had 3 days of sun!
Right onto the negatives.
The showers were far too HOT and there was NO way of turning them down, I love hot showers but was even a bit warm for me, but my children could hardly bare it and made showering them a nightmare! (But in 7 days, none of us had to queue for a shower (even at peak times)
The shop was expensive an poorly stocked.
Was surprised to find out non of the rangers/staff were first aid qualified as kids come of bikes and slipped over in the mud bumping heads, parents were told all staff could do was call an ambulance.
But these a little niggles, and did not affect our stay, which was very enjoyable and would happily come back again.
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| Date of Visit: August 2008 |
Unit: Tent |
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| Reviewer: Mansemum |
3 reviews from this member |
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A bit of mixed feelings over this site. We came here after a few days in Corfe and it was very different and HUGE! Not the best start when my husband went to pay the balance on arrival and they wanted to charge us for an extra child - we showed them the brochure which stated a family was 2 adults and 3 children and a woman in the office told the man doing the booking to ignore the brochure! It was sorted the next day and the woman was very nice then so maybe she was just hassled.
We found a nice quiet spot by the stream with a few families but had 2 disturbed nights one by a group who were quiet as soon as we asked ( I think they just didn't realise how much we could hear) but another night by a group of teenagers who stayed up until after 3am drinking, crashing in woods etc. Problem was the ranger was so far away on such a huge site that he couldn't hear. They were made to clear up and then told to leave the next morning as soon as we complained though.
The toilets were not the cleanest I've seen and as stated the water was very hot, depending on where you pitch they're a good trek through the forest too! Didn't buy much from the shop as it was expensive - £8 for a meal for two heated up for you from the freezer. After Corfe this site seemed unfriendly and impersonal and not very safe, I was on edge the whole time the noisy group was next to us. However, having said that our 3 children loved the fact that they could go off and play in the forest.
One other thing - Bournemouth, Poole, Christchurch are the closest resorts with summer fireworks etc but as the displays didn't start until 10pm we couldn't stay as they were too far away for us to be back before the gates closed at 10.30pm.
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| Date of Visit: July 2008 |
Unit: Tent |
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| Reviewer: Nehunt |
1 review from this member |
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This was our first-ever family camping holiday - two children (age 6 and 3). We stayed for three nights after reading the positive reviews on UKCampsite.co.uk.
Basically, we had a great time. The weather was great (which helped), and the facilities at the campsite were very good, although the shop was a bit of a let down. If you want bread, you need to be quick as 'once it has gone, it's gone' to quote the woman who served me. And that was at 8.30am. T
here were 3 or 4 toilet/shower blocks and these were really good and cleaned thoroughly once a day. Only one temperature in the shower though - and that's 'Hot'.
The campsite is set in beautiful surroundings, and within a minute you are in to the heart of the New Forest with the ponies and the cows. One thing to be aware of is that there is an 'A' road that skirts the outside of the campsite, and at 2am there still seems to be quite a bit of traffic, so if you're a light sleeper take some good quality ear plugs.
We can heartily recommend The Crown in Bransgore for eating out - it's a five minute drive from Holmsley. All in all, a great campsite - especially if you've never really been camping as a family before.
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| Date of Visit: July 2008 |
Unit: Tent |
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| Reviewer: Gwentvanman |
3 reviews from this member |
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The perfect campsite?
My family thought so!
A great site. We were originally booked for a hook up but my 72 VW camper decided to break her clutch cable the night before leaving! So we borrowed my dads car and camped instead.
I am glad we did. We found a lovely pitch, slightly sloping but under trees so we had some great protection from the blistering sun!
The site is huge and was full when we were there, but at no time did you feel cramped.
The showers and toilets are excellent but as mentioned before a little hot! But as a camper I am not complaining!
The shop is very good and the selection of camping equipment was very well priced. The wife had a couple of smoothies which she said were delicious.
It was very quiet at night which was nice.
The surrounding area is well documented and very beautiful.
My dog loved it and actually tired himself out so much he took himself off to a shady tree to have a kip!
Score out of 10.9.5
An excellent site.
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