Who is off camping this weekend?

[nikki1978]

We are heading off with a group of 16 friends on Sunday to the same place we have been for the last 3 years www.wellington-country-park.co.uk/camping-and-caravanning/.

Bit boring of us but the kids love it there! We will be staying for 4 nights and tend to spend all our time in the country park as their is so much to do.

Praying for good weather but not expecting much as it always bloody rains when we go camping!

Anyone else?

I loved Eweleaze, just didn't love the compost lavs.

I don't mind composting loos at all. So long as there's plenty of sawdust to hand.

dd2 finds everyone elses poo endlessly fascinating, so they provide good holiday entertainment here.

We will be up the road from Eweleaze at Whitehorse Farm. Meeting up with friends just for the weekend.

Car is mostly packed. Wine box, bacon and milk are in the freezer. Sticky gingerbread and lemon drizzle cakes are made.

Anyone seen the forecast?

We are back from our trip :) Was fantastic. Sunshine all week and lots of fun. So pleased to be clean and about to sleep in my own bed again though!

Weather looks a bit grim - rain tomorrow from midday, storms on sat, nice Sunday, rain Monday, etc etc

Nearly packed here, tiroler cake made, soup, milk and butter frozen, forgot to get box of wine, but have some bottles....getting very excited now!

We had a great time too and the kids want to go back again next year. I love Hughie the train driver.

OP, my guess was that you were with the group who had the paddling pool

Yes Hughie is so lovely :)

You are correct Thumbwitch - how could you tell? Were you the people with the bunting behind us?

I hope we weren't too annoying!

Argh sorry thumbcat! Seen the other name recently and it stuck in my head.

No, I refrained from bunting but did admire it. My guess was only based on your group seeming the largest :)

We were tucked away around the corner on the non-electric pitches.

Just realised I promised to come back with a review of Starry Skies and I forgot….

We went with 3 other families and had a great time.

• Plenty of space to camp - didn't feel too squashed
• Really excellent shower/toilet blocks. Regularly maintained, proper flushing loos, no queues (there were sometimes short shower queues in the morning but we just showered when there weren't queues later in the day).
• Lots of activities for the kids, which they really enjoyed. A variety between outdoor stuff like forest school, outdoor games etc and craft-type activities
• Small enough that they could be pretty independent - my 5 and 6 year old both went off and did things with their friends.
• Good amounts of shaded activities - it was really hot those few days. Enormous fully shaded sandpit was a godsend for entertaining small people out of the sun.
• Lovely area….really nice and quiet. I went for a lovely bike ride and a couple of runs in the surrounding area when I could sneak off for a bit
• Some lovely thoughtful touches like baby baths with a harp player every evening
• Really helpful and lovely staff

Downsides:

• Some activities were pretty busy…hopefully they'll hold extra sessions next year
• The camp shop was really good initially but v low on stock by late on….just at the time when everyone's ice had melted and they were short of stuff too.
• The cafe did some very nice food and not stupid prices, but they were pretty inefficient at serving, resulting in some very long waits for food there.

All in all we had a great time. Will we go back next year? It will depend on what else we end up planning holiday-wise but will definitely consider going back. My kids are still saying it is the best bit of the holidays so far.

Late to thread, but us this weekend. In car on way and v excited as first trip of the season for some reason.