Campsite in Whitstable?

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Any recommendations for a campsite in Whitstable, walking distrance to town / harbour / beach if poss, needs to have basic facilities (toilets and showers) But we don't need entertainment, pool or spa!

Bump!

Fio is near Herne Bay and she has a back garden, I'm sure she wouldn't mind.

Sorry I meant Fio is near Whitstable!

She is, isn't she!!
I'm hoping I can pick her brains on the area - and we have a long outstanding date to compare sparkly Piedro boots!

Choices seem to beSeaView hol park, Swalecliffe, Golden Hill (nr Tesco), Whitstable, or Westbeach / Seasalter....

Well, I htink i'm going to Seaview at Swalecliffe unless anyone tells me not to!

Looks quite nice from the description online. When are you coming?

Thank you, Fio and Rickman...we're on our way!
We're arriving as early as we can make it Saturday morning and just staying until teatime Sunday - just DS and I...Fio, I wonder if I still have your e mail...

Lovely!
I love seafronts like Tankerton, huts at Swalecliffe etc - but the dratted campsite are demolishing the old chalets to make way for hideous dark brown crammed-together 'holiday homes'. There was a lovely traditional chalet for sale on the sea, you can stay in it during the summer, and I phoned DP to seee if we could buy it - but then found out they are being demolished.

I realised it's the English Seaside that makes me feel I know where I belong - and have been having an existential crisis about it ever since!

Didn't make it into Herne Bay, but we might come back in a couple of weeks, anyway.

We went swimming noth days from Whitstable -very warm sea. DS had a fab time, i managed the tent on my own.

Campsite was fine, good facilities, but very hectic with enormous family gatherings of jet-ski enthusiasts putting up commercial sized bouncy-castles and vast trampolines. And teenagers playing football til 1.30 am round the tents!

I am more of a quiet rural style of camper than the 'lets create a lively holiday village in front of our tent' style which is so popular.

Fio, we can sit in the shelter together at Tankerton, with rugs over our knees and having an inc-cream in a wafer, reminiscing about our MN days...but of course if more young people went, it wouldn't BE a retirement place!

We went to pne of the Whitstable Biennale exhibits - a container on the beach with a video inside - DS loved it, butit made me claustrophobic, travel sick and vertigo-ridden, all at the same time (and I never normally suffer from any of those!). I like the Pizzas from the hut next to the Royal Oyster Stores - but the Fish and Chips form the main Rd in Whitstable have to be the worst I have had anywhere!

Down with jet-skiers - and those horrible ugly hovver things that went on the mud and on the sea in Whitstable - deafening and scaring small children!

Yes - actually the festival was brilliant - I should have come for a fortnight and said it was reserch fpor my work. That will be my trick when it happens again in two years time. Some artists DP is involved with were part of it.

Fio - I really like the look of Reculver - good news about the plan to re-allow tents - i'll eb there!

GrumpyFrumpy - thanks - was there anywhere on that link you would specifically recommend? Which direction tends to be quieter?

I love Whitstable - would love to swan around it a bit without DS in tow -he was my insurance against spending too much money - and we were too scruffy and muddy to go into anywhere smart, anyway.

I'm only just getting to know the area - we went to Broadstairs when DS was 2.5 weeks old, and I loved that too. Want to try Minnis Bay, Herne Bay (my grand-dad was born there) and dp is talking about us moving to Herne Bay and him commuting to work