Where to Camp?

[Vim_Fuego]

Right curteousy of Mad Collie and quite a few people off Ebay I'm in the camping game...

Now all I need is somewhere to go now...A great many campsites seem to big themselves up online so I'm after practical reccomendations...either you've stayed there or someone you trust has and told you all about it...

I want to somewhere with nice ablutions, that will take a largish tent, have power hook-up and a shop nearby as the basics...

Icing on the cake would be something outside of annoying me for my two boys (3 and 7) to do...something like a pool would be ideal but am open to ideas...pub nearby nice but not essential...I'm in Lincs and for run of the mill weekend camping don't want to drive to the other end of the country but for half terms etc will go greater distances...I like Cornwall for instance and the nearer the sea the better...

Any gen much appreciated.

[Stevienics]

Cornwalls a bit of a trek, but one place I recall from the MR days, which was one of the few acceptable places we would camp, was Hill end in the Gower peninsula (for the climbing - yeah sure).

http://www.totaltravel.co.uk/travel/wales/south-wales-valleys/swansea/accommodation/caravan/10887863

Beaches are good, quite the place for the surfing community and the pubs and cafes are jumping in the good weather with people who you don't associate with camping - i.e., the sane. Always seems to be warm as well.

Great memories (sigh).

[DrunkenMonki]

I go to Great Langdale in the Lakes:

http://www.nationaltrust.org.uk/main/w-global/w-localtoyou/w-northwest/w-lakedistrict-feature/w-northwest-lakedistrict_camping/w-northwest-lakedistrict_camping-langdale.htm

2 Good pubs 10 mins walk away, showers and straight up into the hills, or valley walking if you go the other way. Prob 3.5 hours from Lincoln give or take. Takes me 3hours at a push from Mansfield.

[MingMong]

This campsite has everything you could ask for, except the electrical hook-up (but if you need electricity then you're not really camping).

http://www.youthblog.org/archives/glastoswamp_01.jpg

[pie sandwich]

I was just about to suggest Great Langdale, I ve stayed there loads of time's.
There is another camp site in Pencelli, Brecon Beacons ( HERE (http://www.pencelli-castle.com/) ) It has a small petting farm and a canal for fishing and walking to the pub, the town has 3 pubs from what I remember, and the ablutions are very nice.

[RAF Bird]

Vim, stop being a tight arse... your on pop star wages! Get on first choice.com and book your self a nice holiday abroad in a hotel. :PDT_Xtremez_42:

[Vim_Fuego]

Vim, stop being a tight arse... your on pop star wages! Get on first choice.com and book your self a nice holiday abroad in a hotel. :PDT_Xtremez_42:

I'm bored of the highlife...Over 2 decades of top hotels and circling the globe has lead me to want to rough it in a field covered in sh1t whilst listening to the rain on the flysheet!

[Dave-exfairy]

If you're ever around N Wales and in particular the Llyn Penninsula, try Bolmynydd Camping (http://www.bolmynydd.co.uk/) very highly recommended, all families or couples, no single sex parties allowed, pub and shops within walking distance, as is the sea, the view is over Cardigan Bay and best of all, the showers are fantastic, they're not on a timer or anything, toilets are spotless. I always stay here when I go camping over Abersoch way.

[FOMz]

Vim,

If you fancy a summer trip across the channel to Normandy... try here (http://www.labucaille.com/) mate...

Close to the D-Day beaches etc.... and he's an blue suiter (rigger though, so you have to give him some leeway though). I also hear he has got his own cider orchard as well ;)

[wgaf]

Try Toms Field in Langton Matravers Vim. Not overly sophisticated but well run by friendly people and there's loads to do in the locale!

[Vim_Fuego]

Try Toms Field in Langton Matravers Vim. Not overly sophisticated but well run by friendly people and there's loads to do in the locale!

That does look good and might be a place for the forthcoming half term experimental trip...

[pie sandwich]

Vim,

If you fancy a summer trip across the channel to Normandy... try here (http://www.labucaille.com/) mate...

Close to the D-Day beaches etc.... and he's an blue suiter (rigger though, so you have to give him some leeway though). I also hear he has got his own cider orchard as well ;)

Off Topic

Is that the bloke who works in Eng ops and commutes each shift from France?

[Vim_Fuego]

Off Topic

Is that the bloke who works in Eng ops and commutes each shift from France?

Went to France last year with Eurocamp and although a nice part of the world (Vendee) it was the cost of everything that put a damper on things...It wasn't just expensive it was restrictively expensive...That is the point where I lose patience with the frog standing in front of me asking for 6 euros for a stella or 12 euros for a small cooked chicken in the supermarket...blatant profiteering on those people on holiday...not even us brits would rip off people to that extent and I speak from experience having grown up in the lakes and lived in Newquay for many years...

[mad_collie]

This (http://www.hartsholmecountrypark.com/default.html) place is pretty good. Plenty of woods, lakes etc and has electricity hookups. There is a town nearby that has most facilities.

[FOMz]

Off Topic

Is that the bloke who works in Eng ops and commutes each shift from France?

Yup!!!!!!!!!!!

[millie]

Ringwood has a lovely site New Forest is great, it's near Poole with some lovely beaches. Dri Ski Slope, and when I went last you could watch banger racing too. Has its own pool, hook up, shop. bar type place, superb ablutions, Sainsburys nearby for BBQ supplies etc.

www.shambaholidays.co.uk

[Rigga]

Go anywhere you'd like - but take Cycles and/or fishing gear.

Cycles are to travel to places easily and are in keeping with the camping ethos (and are easy to push back from pubs if you need to)

and the fishing gear...



is to throw it all into any lake/canal/river/hole and prevent those idiots from using it!

[Vim_Fuego]

This (http://www.hartsholmecountrypark.com/default.html) place is pretty good. Plenty of woods, lakes etc and has electricity hookups. There is a town nearby that has most facilities.

Mrs F suggested we go here to try all the kit out! I poo-poo'd the idea as I may as well put it up in the front garden and run an extention lead out of the front room window...

And talking of all the kit I picked up some roof bars from Beverley and a mahooosive roof top box from near Gainsborough yesterday...The box had to go in the back of the 'van' as there was no fixings on it to fit to the bars...Halfords want £20 for what look like thruppence haypenny's worth of u-bolts...

Does anyone have any of these things that they will just give me...I'm as tight as a ducks ar$e...tighter than S2 to be fair.

[Talk Wrench]

I stayed at this place a few years ago. If you fancy a small drive from Lincs to the Peak District, then this place is ideal.

http://www.fieldhead-campsite.co.uk/location.html


And there are 2 pubs that are just a small staggering distance from the site.


TW

[mad_collie]

Mrs F suggested we go here to try all the kit out! I poo-poo'd the idea as I may as well put it up in the front garden and run an extention lead out of the front room window...

And talking of all the kit I picked up some roof bars from Beverley and a mahooosive roof top box from near Gainsborough yesterday...The box had to go in the back of the 'van' as there was no fixings on it to fit to the bars...Halfords want £20 for what look like thruppence haypenny's worth of u-bolts...

Does anyone have any of these things that they will just give me...I'm as tight as a ducks ar$e...tighter than S2 to be fair.

It's worth it to know if you have all the kit to go solo. It can be an expensive overlook with some things.

WRT the bolt fixings, sounds like you need to visit your friendly GSE section. Or post the dimensions then someone might be able to help . . .

[gemarriott]

Right curteousy of Mad Collie and quite a few people off Ebay I'm in the camping game...

Now all I need is somewhere to go now...A great many campsites seem to big themselves up online so I'm after practical reccomendations...either you've stayed there or someone you trust has and told you all about it...

I want to somewhere with nice ablutions, that will take a largish tent, have power hook-up and a shop nearby as the basics...

Icing on the cake would be something outside of annoying me for my two boys (3 and 7) to do...something like a pool would be ideal but am open to ideas...pub nearby nice but not essential...I'm in Lincs and for run of the mill weekend camping don't want to drive to the other end of the country but for half terms etc will go greater distances...I like Cornwall for instance and the nearer the sea the better...

Any gen much appreciated.

Why do you want to put your tent up in the bogs?

[suewilldo]

West Bay Holiday Park in Dorset – Parkdean Holidays UK
Awesome site with Clubhouse,bar,pool and 10 mins walk to the beach (everyone cateed for)

[Dilbert]

A variety of camp sites here, Whitby and Scar'boro relatively close. Good pubs in the village and you won't notice the hill (dependant on which campsite you choose) after you've been up and down it a few times...:PDT_Xtremez_42:

Personally, we stayed at Hooks House Farm. Well worth it for the view alone.

Very big beach at low tide and very small beach at high tide.

Should only be a couple of hours max from Lincoln.

http://www.robin-hoods-bay.co.uk/

[busby1971]

It's near Holt, so not too far to travel, but it's well away from roads and has a nice atmosphere.

Kelling Heath (http://www.kellingheath.co.uk/)

[Scaley brat]

I'm bored of the highlife...Over 2 decades of top hotels and circling the globe has lead me to want to rough it in a field covered in sh1t whilst listening to the rain on the flysheet!
Anyone that WANTS to live under canvas is a pikey and no mistake!
Fortunately my site is caravans only so I won't have to put up with a pikey Fuego begging for beer or crying to use my toilet. I do have electric hook up though :PDT_Xtremez_14:,

[rest have risen above me]

Right curteousy of Mad Collie and quite a few people off Ebay I'm in the camping game...

Now all I need is somewhere to go now...
Any gen much appreciated.


mmm I've just been talking to some lads from a Lincolnshire based mess. And they're saying "Why's he asking? That mincer's been camping it up round this mess for years."

[Fat2at]

A variety of camp sites here, Whitby and Scar'boro relatively close. Good pubs in the village and you won't notice the hill (dependant on which campsite you choose) after you've been up and down it a few times...:PDT_Xtremez_42:

Personally, we stayed at Hooks House Farm. Well worth it for the view alone.

Very big beach at low tide and very small beach at high tide.

Should only be a couple of hours max from Lincoln.

http://www.robin-hoods-bay.co.uk/

Middlewood Farm Robin Hood's Bay.

http://www.middlewoodfarm.com/

Fantastic site. On the hill above the bay it's a 15 min walk with kids through a David Bellamy Nature Trail that brings you out at the sea. Graet for fossils and rockpools etc. The site itself is a working dairy farm but the ablutions block is spotless - showers, sinks, hair dryers etc (there's another one next to the farm house itself). They have a burger van (open 3 times a day) by the entrance and can provide electric hook ups. Back down the road there is a nice ford, a pub, shop that sells all you'll need and a pizza place. The best thing about the site is that you can catch the bus into Whitby, spend the day pottering about before walking back over the cliff tops (about 6 or 7 miles) back to the site - even with kids it's do-able so long as they're not in a buggy (Have some tinnies/wine in a cool box ready - you'll need one after).

[Vim_Fuego]

We went here back in June and it was bloody brilliant...Right on the lake shore, pitch where you want, kids went ferrel for the weekend only returning to the tent for food and a rub down with a damp cloth...Coniston village 15 mins walk down a path where the pubs sell Hawkshead brewery ales such as Bluebird...weather was redders so it was the perfect camping weekend...

http://www.ukcampsite.co.uk/sites/details.asp?revid=1693

Off to Sleningford Mill campsite this weekend which is next to Ligh****er Valley park...another site not too heavy on the rules aslong as you go without hook ups...

http://www.ukcampsite.co.uk/sites/details.asp?revid=3038

This website I am using to show you these campsites is really good...you just input what you want out of a campsite it whittles them all down for you...very useful!

[Scaley brat]

the perfect camping weekend...



Try "The Orchards" (http://www.orchards-holiday-park.co.uk/) on the Isle of Wight mate, a quiet site near a few towns for beer and food, caters to Touring vans, tents or offers mobile homes for rent. Lovely pub a short car trip away called the Blacksmiths arms, recommended by a fellow Goater. Excellent food, friendly staff and a fantastic view of the Solent :PDT_Xtremez_14:

[Welove31]

For one local to Lincoln try Jubilee park at Woodhall Spa...Nice outdoor heated pool and plenty of pubs nearby!

[Inevertouchedit]

Camping - ((((shudder)))))

Sorry, spent too long on Harriers to fall for that malarkey again. When you've had to thaw out your toothpaste on Ex' Hard Frost at Sennelager in February........No thanks

[Harry B'Stard]

Off to Sleningford Mill campsite this weekend which is next to Ligh****er Valley park...another site not too heavy on the rules aslong as you go without hook ups...

Vim...

as a Mod, you should be ashamed using language like that in the public forum!:PDT_Xtremez_30:

HTB

[Vim_Fuego]

Vim...

as a Mod, you should be ashamed using language like that in the public forum!:PDT_Xtremez_30:

HTB

I starred it out myself!

[flintwich]

Tinneys farm, Cornwall, pool, fishing and pub.
Drummohr, nr Edinburgh, v clean and easy access to the toon.

[Vim_Fuego]

The Fuego fun bus is nearly loaded up again for the next foray into the wilderness...and its the one I'm least looking forward to...Flamingo Land! Nothing makes me smile more than being surrounded by chavs paying £8 for a packet of chips whilst queueing 45 mins for a ride that lasts 34 seconds...I'm doing it for the kids apparently!

4th trip of the summer though so I'm chuffed with the usage we've had of the gear...probably be the last of this year unless we get a shock Indian summer.

Anyone else been getting any?