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Visited with a tent and stayed in field three with an electric hook up. Found the campsite which is quite large to be clean and comfortable with helpful staff and good facilities.
Is is a steep hill down to the beach. And no phone reception other than maybe one network.
Great views and would recommend a stay here for both tents and tourers. Toilets clean as we're showers. Beware though if it windy you could be very exposed sitting on top of the hill. Price you pay for views.
I have been to Bank Farm, Gower many times. First went as a backpacker and have built up to a six man tent in the past ten years. Always found the staff very friendly and helpful.
The site is well maintained and clean. There are good facilities and amenities on site. The club house, and village shop, are decently priced. The clubhouse offers a varied menu from take aways to sitting meals. If you prefer home cooking, or being more self reliant, the village shops at Scurlage and Knelston are close by. Scurlage also has a Doctors surgery and pharmacy; a great comfort to those campers with children!
The toilet and shower block is above average standard. I noticed one reviewer stated that there were only 4 male and 8 female toilets. Can't swear to the female facilities but, there are two male and two female areas in the block; A total of 8 and 16, so queuing is very rare. As for the floors being dirty, its a grass site; what do you expect during wet weather?
The children's' playground has a lot more to offer than the usual rusty slide and tyre on a rope. Besides this play area, there are plenty of open spaces for football, cricket and kite flying, and Horton Bay is a ten minute walk away. The beach is never crowded, and with its' mixture of sand, pebbles, rock pools and dunes is a child's paradise. Admittedly, the walk back is steep, but short. If you don't fancy the walk, take the car to Horton Bay or Porteynon car park, buy a moderately priced all day ticket and come and go at your leisure!
Sorry to finish on a negative note but, Bank farm is a good family site that caters for families. However, at times, some of these families can be more 'revellers' than campers and have no respect for fellow campers. If you find this to be the case, simply go to the 24 hour site office! Believe me, they are more than willing to help and appreciate your comments.
All in all, a big thumbs up for Bank Farm. Already booked in for four more visits this in 2013. Why am I going again? Because, since 2011, after seeing where I camped, my wife now accompanies me. One look at the site and surrounding area turned her into a camper. Of course, I'm more 'glamping' than camping, but in her words, she feels 'safe'.
P. S. It was her that booked us in for2013. Nuff said!
We spent 5 days here on a tent pitch with electric hook up. The Staff were very helpful and friendly and we were shown to our pitch by a man on a golf buggy on arrival. The field we were located on was on a slope, but this didn't cause too many problems for us.
We did find the electric hook up point to be a large distance from our pitch and out cable wasn't long enough, but thankfully Reception lent us one (we just had to leave a £40 returnable deposit). There was a mixture of tents, tourers and caravans on our field.
The toilet/shower/washing up block was a very short distance from us and well lit at night. There were a good number of showers and toilet cubicles and they were kept clean, however I did find the shower water very hot, so not suitable for washing my young Daughter.
The washing up area was outdoors but under a canopy and had large sinks with draining boards, but the water pressure wasn't good when lots of people were washing up at the same time.
We felt that the spacing of the pitches was good, not overcrowded and there was lots of space for our toddler Daughter to run about and play. She especially liked the sandpit play area by the Clubhouse! There is also a larger play area, with swings, roundabout, seesaw and slides which is more suited to older children, but she still had fun in there.
The view from our pitch was beautiful, overlooking Horton/Port Eynon Beach, it was lovely to hear the crashing waves during the night. We took a few trips to the beach but didn't use the path, as it was too narrow and rocky for a buggy, instead we used the road, which was a longer route but much smoother.
The beach is sandy, with plenty of rock pools for little ones to explore and it is lifeguard patrolled.
We were pleasantly surprised by the shop prices, which are usually extortionate at most sites! The shop was very well stocked with everything from bacon and eggs, to beach and camping equipment (very handy as we only brought 1 saucepan with us!)
The prices at the on site Cafe were also good and if you needed cash, they offered cashback there and at the Bar when paying by debit card, which was very useful as no cashpoints near by.
The swimming pool was nice and had a toddler pool at one end and despite being advertised as an outdoor pool, it does have a huge glass sliding enclosure that they put up when the weather is poor. The changing rooms were sadly on the small side, so we got dressed back at the tent instead.
Port Eynon is the nearest place for beach shops and food and can be accessed by walking across the beach from Horton, or driving down and parking in the pay and display car park. There are 2 fish and chip shops with cafes right next to each other looking out to sea, a beach shop and ice cream counter, also a couple of pubs nearby.
This is quite a remote part of the Gower, so you do need a car really to access other beaches and attractions.
We started our holiday on a Wednesday and our first couple of nights at Bank Farm were enjoyable, sadly on the Friday, a caravan turned up nearby and was holding noisy parties with friends that had come over from other pitches til 2am, keeping us awake in our tent. The staff do patrol at night and told them off, but they kept cranking the music back up after they had left and resumed their shouting and swearing.
This is advertised as a family friendly site, with a noise restriction from 11pm, but sadly it seems impossible for the staff to enforce. As a result of these inconsiderate campers, we decided to cut our holiday short by 3 nights as we couldn't face any more lack of sleep with a toddler to run around after.
We voiced our concerns to Reception staff, who were very apologetic and offered us the option of relocating to another pitch, but we declined as the hassle of taking down our very large tent and then re-erecting it somewhere else didn't seem worth it.
It is a shame as this was a lovely site with beautiful views that we would have liked to have stayed longer at.
The owners of this site were friendly and helpful. The toilet and shower facilities were well lit and showers clean with hot water.
Good play area that kept my 5 year old amused for quite a long period of time. The swimming pool was clean and well maintained. We ate at the clubhouse and the food was well cooked and reasonably priced.
The on site shop was not over priced and stocked everything we needed. There is a path leading to local beach which is a nice 10-20min walk but would advise driving down if you have a pram as it is quite rocky and steep on the walk back up.
The site was clean and well maintained but my only complaint was that there seemed to be a lot of teenagers hanging around during the night (10pm - 12pm) who all seemed to know each other so I assume their parents are caravan owners who come most weekends during summer holidays. At one point I did see the owners coming and telling them to go back to their vans so it is dealt with promptly but it has put me off using this site agin as I have small children and it was noisy during 10pm and 11. 30pm.
Stayed here for 2 weeks end of July into August. We had chosen to have a fully serviced hard standing pitch. On arrival was surprised to find hard standing was concrete with slabs beside for awning! so we had to pitch the awning on grass as we had not brought a hammer drill and nails that appeared to be the norm for the hard standing pitches which nearly all seasonal.
I tried to connect the water using aquaroll mains but the mains tap needed some weird contraption the likes of which I have never seen before. I was told I needed an adaptor which the shop would sell me. Off I went with a fiver in hand but had to return for another as I was charged almost £10 for a cheap piece of plastic. Not happy! I needed an extra male pushfit tap connector, but bizarrely the shop did not have one so I went to reception to be told I needed an aquasource water connector at £45 from the shop. Don't think so! after a 7 hour drive was not feeling amused so beware!
We were pitched in with 75% seasonal pitches and it was obvious that all the kids and grown ups knew each other well and were not interested in being social. Our kids 6 and 11 usually make friends within minutes, but here struggled to find anyone to play with.
The noise from people returning from the bar in large rowdy groups was a nightly annoyance which lasted for about 90 minutes every night and woke us regularly.
On a positive note the location is amazing with views out over the beautiful bay and so many amazing beaches all within a few minutes drive. Other reviews have commented on the remote location which is a plus however the nearest large supermarket is a 3 hour round trip if you include the shopping time.
Would we go again probably not, but if we did, not in with the seasonal pitches who made us feel unwelcome.
Rang in the morning to enquire if a pitch with ehu was available receptionist was polite and welcoming. We arrived early afternoon (just one warning the campsite web page highlights the necessity of staying on the A4118 and we would highly recommend you do, some of the roads on the Gower are really narrow).
The welcome was great and we were shown to our pitch which had an amazing view one of the best we have seen. There was plenty of room for the children to play and a play park by reception.
Food and drinks in the bar are relatively cheap as is the shop. The pool is warm and has a retractable roof. Showers were fairly clean. We were there in June the day after the heaviest rain in Wales for years. Other sites were washed out but the ground was fairly dry. No mud.
The staff were great, helpful and polite. I would certainly recommend the site.
My one reservation was that the site was quiet when we were there but it is huge and the facilities may be a little small. But we will certainly go again.
We did not like anything much about Bank Farm. It was very dirty, you could hardly see the bottom of the pool. When we arrived, the staff were surly and uncommunicative. We did not enjoy any of the food, and we did not think it was a professional boundary to have staff propping up the bar, especially as the bar staff chatted to them, and prioritised them when serving.
The shop was mostly useful, but I was charged £7.50 for an electrical extension which I know would have cost me £2 in ASDA. What was really awful was the fact that in spite of having money in my bank account I was told off two machines that the bank had declined my card. The staff member mumbled something about the phone line. We walked two miles to a non existent ATM until two locals driving, took pity on us and drove us to a nearby shop where we got money from their ATM with no trouble.
The Wifi is also non existent, even in the bar my Android simply failed to pick up any wifi service for more than about 30 seconds.
We weren't very happy about the amount of dogs on the site, actually, we would not have visited Bank had we known there were dogs. A lot of the people also visiting were badly behaved, a couple next to us rowed for the whole time we were there, and people in the common areas like the bar and cafe were loud, pushy and ill mannered. Maybe you are attracting a 'chavvy' type of person there because the site is too cheap? This is all very well but we noticed non 'chavvy' people did not eat in the pub or drink there.
The small toilet near the cafe was dirty and the floor was wet and slippery.
It might have been helpful to mention in marketing material that the beach is accessible via a steep slope, we are older people and although not disabled, struggled to get back up the slope.
We won't be returning or recommending Bank Farm, our visit was not relaxing, but stressful and disappointing.
Went there with friends! two tourer caravan and parked next each other. Went on 24th to 27th May, prefect time, very hot weather !
So beautiful there, we parked on pitch by field 3 and lovely seaview every morning.
Price is good. Shower is good and clean, also toilet too.
There shop in village, price is good.
Kids been playing by caravan and very safe!
Havn't been in pub yet, too busying outside with very hot weather, beach is so lovely. Only few mile away.
Went to swimming pool, there is small shallow pool for baby and other pool for older. We love it. We mess around jump in water and dive lots. There is guard to watch. Pool is clean and lovely cold water in hot weather.
On the plus side this site is in a fantastic location. The surrounding area of gower is beautiful and this site looks over onto Port Eynon bay which is a lovely spot.
Friendly staff and a great pitch with views right across the bay. On the negative, however, there were lots of groups of families who were there to party. Car boots open with stereos blaring, lying around drinking all afternoon - evening - night. Loud, bad language. So relieved we were in a motorhome and not a tent as don't think we would have had a wink of sleep otherwise.
You can walk from the site down a twisting path/lane to the beach but this seems to be used as a rubbish dump by the site owners.
As we left on the Sunday we drove across the site over a small pile of empty beer cans - this summed up the site for me.
This is the third time we've stayed at Bank Farm as it is only around 25 miles from home and great for a short notice stay. we booked a hard standing pitch with a sea view and got exactly as described, the hard standing area of the pitch is a little on the small side (especially if you have a large unit) but there is plenty of well maintained grass for an awning.
The EHU points are a fair distance from the pitches that we were on and require a long 'Hook Up' lead if we were on the furthest of the three pitches in the field we would have needed a 30m lead! as the site was quiet we picked the centre pitch to be closer to the EHU point.
The clubhouse is nicely appointed with fantastic views from the front and the drinks are quite reasonably priced although the food and ice-cream was on the expensive side.
This site can get very busy at peak times so if you're after a quiet site this isn't really the place, but it's great for the kids as it has a play area, swimming pool and is not too far from the beach.
The toilets and showers are adequate but they can get quite dirty with the large usage in the peak times. There are also a lot of seasonally pitched vans on this site but these have fields of their own. When we visited last summer there were some noisy groups on our field but the site security soon arrived to sort the problem out. This is a nice family site with a great location so well worth a visit.
Booked for 20Th August for 2 nights, when we arrived we were taken to field 6 where there were already a few camps set up. The field was on a bit of a slope but could still set up tables and chairs OK.
The weather was great and the children 7 & 12 was always playing on the site park and in the club house.
As the weather was so good we arranged to have a BBQ so went down the site shop where we found everything we need needed even the utensils! The shop was very reasonably priced so would not take as much with us next time because of this.
The facilities have 4 showers in the men's and 8 in the women's, and a washing area to do the dishes outside. The showers were Luke warm at peak times but early and late in night were warmer. These were kept fairly clean surprising the size of the site.
We arranged to stay an extra day where we went to the site pool which was packed, clean with a bit of dirt on the surrounding footpath which could of been cleaned to make it more appealing.
We then went for food in the clubhouse which was very nice and well priced as well as the drinks, We also went here the following day to have dinner before we returned home.
On the way home my family wanted to turn back they were sad leaving the place so will defo return. Mind you this was only our 2nd camping trip ever.
We visited twice, once at the beginning of August 2011 and again at the end of August. The first time we were on a field near to the club house. It had a bit of a slope but was no problem. There was plenty of room for pitches, room for the kids to play around the tents and it was peaceful at night.
The toilet / showers were close by and perfectly ok for a camp site. There is a shop next to the club house which is reasonably priced and a swimming pool. The pool can get busy but that is to be expected in the summer! The beach was a fair walk down the cliffs but worth it and there is a large car park there if you couldn’t face walking.
The second time we stayed at the end of August it was bank holiday and very full. We were put in one of the top fields and it was a different experience altogether. We were a long way from the toilets and even further form the club house / shop. There was a large group behind us who were shouting and swearing until 2am, about 10ft from our tent. I spoke to reception the next day and they said they would ‘monitor’ the group the next night. The next night the kids from the large group went around pulling out tent pegs from random pitches, ours included. This resulted in us and a family opposite having a shouting match with them at midnight. Really unpleasant and has put me off going back. Security turned up eventually, after we rang them.
The club house was also full the second time. There was football on the TV and wasn’t at all child friendly. The soft play was full of older kids fighting and the bar full of adults swearing.
Just returned from a weekend at this site. Friendly welcome, which included an escort to the pitch by following a golf cart.
The site was fully booked so we were on field 12! Busy but as the site is so large you couldn't notice. Also nice and quiet at night as the sound hardly travelled.
Being in field 12 we had a five minute walk to the facilities. They could do with another toilet block! Loos were nice and clean, as were the showers and washing up area.
Lots of hot water for the latter, but showers became cold after 5pm. The kids in our party loved the pool and play area. It kept them occupied for hours.
Good on site clubhouse with good reasonably priced food. Shop was well stocked and was reasonably priced. Opening hours were displayed clearly (unlike many others).
Bit of a trek to the beach - better take the car, made up for by the site itself.
It was our first time camping and this site was close to home and had all the facilities we were looking for. In whole it was a great experience and we had a good few days. The views were great and the pitch was large.
The beach was a short walk downhill but uphill all the way back to the site which can get you a bit hot and sweaty. The kids could find it hard. The Reception area was under renovation but you could see that it will be fabulous when finished.
The on site shop was very cluttered but seemed to have everything that you may need. The launderette was clean and tidy but at £2. 50 a wash then 20p for 5 mins in the dryer it could end up costing a bit to clean your clothes.
The showers and toilets were satisfactory they could have been a bit cleaner and they could really do with updating but they were usable and there was plenty of hot water, (just beware your clothes and towel could get wet even if you hang them on the door).
The food in the clubhouse was a reasonable price and in the cafe it was about average but I have to say that be careful when ordering steaks ours was very undercooked. One more thing on the food I would personally avoid the prawns on garlic bread with cheese, it must be an acquired taste it was very odd to say the least.
The pool area was reasonable, but the pool was only just heated, there is not much space in the changing area and the shower was freezing but you could use the pool even when raining due to a pull over cover that kept the rain off you.
Overall I would go to this site again and stay a weekend but I think that would be it as it does seem more of a local haunt than a visitor campsite.
It was Monday 31 may at 4 pm that we thought about going away for a few days so I surfed the web and I came across this site ( kcampsite.Co Uk ) and then Bank Farm so I phoned them to see if they had any room with elec hook up. They said no electric at that time but did have room for us to stay for a few days so I said we would be there at 1 pm on 1st of June ( ie the next day ) We turned up to a man at the reception with a nice smile and a happy to help attitude and we asked if there was any cancellations with hook up. No was the reply but he did in fact find a pitch with hook up and showed us to our pitch. We went to the bar as soon as we had set up camp to find the prices of drink food was great. The club house was great and the staff so helpful. The on site shop is stocked with all the things you need and more - I had to fix my cooker as the pipe was cut and they had it in the shop. Very good prices ie 4 pints of milk 99 pence 6 eggs £1.10. Toilets and shower room are clean and tidy. The whole site was very very good and their in the middle of making a new reception and laundry. We will be going back, thank you to the owners and staff for a very enjoyable stay.
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Visited with a tent and stayed in field three with an electric hook up. Found the campsite which is quite large to be clean and comfortable with helpful staff and good facilities. 
