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We stayed at Roundhill site at the end of June / early July. It was quiet when we were there, being outside of school holidays and so there was a lot of space.
We found no problem in bagging ourselves a lovely spot partially under a tree and well away from other campers. This is a large site, but clearly in the main season it would probably be busier and there would be less privacy.
The toilets, showers and wash up near our tent were closed while we were there, as it wasn't busy, which meant a 6-7 minute walk to the nearest facilities (more like 10-12 minutes with a dawdling 2 year old!) We didn't mind and even took the car over a couple of times when the pile of washing up made carrying it all, along with the aforementioned 2 year old was going to be a bit much!
We loved the ponies and cows that came visiting, we were warned on arrival to keep all our food in the car as apparently some of the wildlife will raid your tent in search of food, which we did and had no problems.
The toilets, showers and wash up were all clean and tidy every time we used them which was appreciated. We didn't find there was a huge amount to do in the area with such a young child, but I think we'll take our bikes next time and explore some of the trails around the area. The weather was a bit changeable when we were there, but it looked like there were some good walks direct from the site as well. We found the staff there both friendly and informative, they seemed happy to help with any strange question or request we had!
All in all, we had a great stay and will definitely return. We also visited Holmsley (another Forest Holidays site) this year, which we also loved but found the 2 places very different. Roundhill feels quite remote and simple, whereas Holmsley is much more sanitised. Very different experiences, but we loved them both.
We arrived on a very hot last Saturday of the schools' half term and the site was full (we'd booked in for 5 nights). The staff on reception were very laid back and genuinely nice helpful people.
The only rules that they were keen to emphasise were that there were no fires aloud, that barbecues had to be off the ground with only charcoal fires and that there should be a 6 meter space between tents.
It took a few minutes to find a pitch, but once the tent was up we noticed the sense of space. There was some queuing for the showers that afternoon and the following morning, but then the site emptied out.
The next few days were blissful. The site is huge and has pitches in both open field area and beneath trees. The three shower blocks each had 4 showers all of which were clean and had plenty of hot water. There were never any queues. They offer an ice pack exchange service (£1 deposit and 50p for the exchange), but I would have preferred freezers so that our own ice packs could be used (my only minor grip).
There's loads to do in the New Forest, but with grotty weather Exbury Gardens, Beaulieu and Sammy Miller's brilliant motorcycle museum at New Milton all provided entertainment on different days. Lymington is also lovely and has a good Waitrose.
This is the best of campsites and the worst of campsites. Fabulous location and the ponies are a delight but I felt the sheer size of the campsite meant it was too hard to manage.
It would greatly benefit from one more toilet block as at peak times we were queuing for 30mins for showers. They also needed more frequent cleaning as they were not up to the usual caravan & camping club standards.
As for noise we had 2 quiet nights followed by 2 extremely noisy nights.
Hurst Castle is well worth a visit, it is a lovely 2. 5 mile walk from the village of Keyhaven & you will be rewarded with stunning views of The Isle of Wight.
There is also a friendly & good value taxi boat service to the castle & back. Also The New Forest Visitor Centre at Lyndhurst is a small but interesting place to find out more about the area.
Just back from a lovely half term break at Roundhill and can highly recommend it!
The site is very large and feels very spacious.
There is a great mix of open land, small copses, shrubs, and very easy to pick a spot which feels fairly private, even during the school holidays.
The wardens are visible, and very strict about the 6m rule (fire risks), and helpful, about local pony trekking/bike hire etc.
The 'quiet after 10.30/11' rule was adhered to by everyone within earshot, and after 11 it was silent, apart from the owls - really lovely.
Apart from a short queue at peak times, the was lots of access to the spotlessly clean toilet/shower/washing up areas, and beautifully hot water all the time!
There were also a lot of well placed drinking water taps throughout the site.
No formal recreation facilities, but cycle hire locally will deliver to the campsite, and local village including lovely tea shops, Chinese takeaway and chippy, as well as tesco express within 5min drive.But all uphill on the way back.Suggest avoid grocery shopping by bike!
Our children (10,7,3) spent most of the days on their bikes, making dens, climbing trees and enjoying the wildlife in a very Enid Blyton sort of way.Perfect childhood holiday! We spent a happy few days drinking lots of tea and rescuing the 3 year old from trees he had been shoved up by the other two!
Would definitely return again and again and again.
A lovely open site where you can choose your pitch - so get there early! There are numerous rules to observe but this is to ensure safety so didn't feel it was a problem.
Horses wander freely on the site and will visit your tent if you inadvertently leave food around.
Great walks and cycle rides from the site.
There is no shop on site or children's play area so if you want these type of facilities this campsite is not for you.
My only complaint relates to the toilet blocks. They are badly designed (Toilet doors open virtually on to each other and I got hit a couple of times by people coming out) and they were VERY dirty. They are only cleaned once a day and at peak period (bank holidays/school holidays - the time we went) this is not enough.
There was mud on the shower floors, toilet paper on the floor and the area around the sinks got waterlogged. If they would clean more regularly it would be a great campsite.
We were a large party and received a warm welcome as we entered the site. We paid on arrival. The site adds extra on if paying by credit card.
We were allowed to pitch our tents where we liked. The campsite requests that guests do not pitch tents after 10pm. Unfortunately a couple within our group were delayed in traffic and didn't arrive until 9:45pm. They were subsequently still pitching their tent at 10:30. We received no complaints.
The ground is a little undulating (even for a campsite). We had to choose carefully where to go. There are lots of ponies around and the campsite therefore requests that windbreakers are not attached to tents, that tents are a minimum of 6ft apart and that there are no more than 6 panes to a windbreaker. This is all to ensure that ponies sustain no injuries from getting trapped. We followed these rules carefully and were pleased to have done so, as were visited by ponies the following morning at breakfast!
The campsite also asks that all food is kept within containers. We saw several ponies take advantage of the free food when people had not followed this rule.
The facilities were relatively clean. There were long queues at times and the facilities were a little muddy.
There was plenty of space for children to run around. Plenty to do in the area. BBQs are allowed, as long as they are raised off the ground. No wood or BBQ logs were allowed. They also allowed us to have a visitor, although I think they are quite tight on this normally.
Just returned from a 5 night stay over the Bank Holiday weekend. Had a brilliant time wished we could have stayed longer.
Glad we arrived on Thursday evening, much easier to find a good spot, it was very busy by Friday evening. Wardens on hand to keep the 6m rule.
Toilet blocks busy but always clean, showers busy at peak periods, usually clean, but other campers need to learn how to use the mop provided and leave the showers how they would wish to find them! Pot wash busy at peak times but site was full and Bank Holiday weekend. Water always hot.
Take a windbreak, you will need it.
Bike and walking trails all start on site or very close.
Brockenhurst close for daily essentials, shops, pubs etc.
Ponies and cows roam the site. Keep all food hidden, the ponies will go inside your tent! Our neighbours were sitting in their doorway and the pony pushed in and stole a bag of apples, caused great amusement, but they are wild animals and can get aggresive.
The site was full, yet at 11.00pm all you could hear were the owls.
Overall very good, would return, could probably be made even better by a children's playground, but that's only our opinion with 7 & 9 yr olds.
Stayed here as part of a bike ride. I think they usually prefer longer stayers but seemed happy enough to take us at short notice.
Reasonably priced, great location, feels like the middle of nowhere and you can pitch up wherever you like in the woods, so its not like a lot of the larger commercial sites with rows of tents everywhere. Not too far away from the next village either.
Would recommend to anyone looking for a peaceful getaway.
We stayed at this site for 4 days, 3 nights and it was fantastic. The staff couldn't have been more helpful and the facilities were good. There are only 4 showers so we did have to queue when the site was really busy at the weekend, but this wasn't a problem.
The site was stunning, it was so peaceful with just the birds, cows and horses. An ideal campsite for families as children could just run around to their hearts content.
I would definitely go back to this campsite again and would recommend this to anyone.
First time campers. Just my son and me in a 3 man tent. Didn't want anything complicated and planned to eat out rather than self cater for this first adventure. Arrived Friday evening. Left Sunday morning.
Roundhill is easy to find. Both from the Lyndhurst road before getting to Brockenhurst and also when in Brockenhurst it is signposted so if you overshoot one you get a second chance.
The 'meet and greet' on the entrance was welcoming. You are given a small map of the site which looks confusing but after a tour round in the car and a short familiarisation walk it all makes sense even to a novice like me. There are 3 toilet / shower / pot washing blocks which are fairly basic but functional and, when I was there, clean. One of them will be within a couple of minutes walk wherever you are on site. Waste and recycling areas are also at hand. Potable water on tap.
We set up within 20 yards of a couple of rabbits and were visited by horses and cattle over the weekend. Other crawling and flying creatures abounded in the scrub and woodland around so naturalists would be happy. Watch out for the cowpats and other large droppings.
The campsite is only 90 minutes from home so bugging out was a calculated option. Completely unnecessary as it turned out - we had a blast.
After a hot shower at site we went into Brockenhurst on Saturday morning and found the bakery did a meal deal - baguette (large), cake (large) and can of drink/bottle of water all for £2.20. Breakfast sorted. Venue was Mudeford beach which is less then 30 minutes away (don't go via Lymington) where we parked in the car park and spent a very warm day strolling along the LONG sandy beach and pushing one another towards the water. After overdoing the sun we went into Brockenhurst and ate at Palio 2, a very nice Italian next to the station. I had been there before with my wife so was wise enough to book earlier that day. Food excellent.
Great campsite. Lovely area. Will return to explore more and possibly for longer. Don't feel such a novice now.
Stayed here once on the last weekend of the season and it was great! It's a large site and has a mix of heathland and forest. It's located adjacent to Beaulieu Heath and encompasses some of the old RAF Beaulieu Heath airfield.
The facilities were very good and well maintained - although to be fair it was at the end of the season and wasn't busy at all. We'd stay here again for sure but think we'd avoid the school holidays, I'd imagine it's a very popular site and as such probably noisy and the facilities might struggle to cope with demand.
Wildlife freely roams the site and we saw donkeys, cattle, horses and ponies. No traffic noise and lots of birds. The site is picturesque and with direct access to the forest many walks can be had. The staff were polite and very informative.
This is my favourite Forestry Commission New Forest campsite to date but as said earlier it's probably very different at peak times.
Simply stunning. The site is hidden in the trees of the New Forest but easily accessible and close to Brockenhurst village and excellent rail network. There are no dedicated pitches and you simply are spoilt for choice of where to pitch- loads of lovely spots and enclaves behind shrubs and trees. The site is massive so never feels crowded. You are joined by the wild ponies of the forest and the herds of cows simply wandering around the sites- it is after all their grazing field. However the ground is rock hard so no problems with muddy fields. The toilets and showers are ok- hot and plentiful. No hook-ups but you can see why. This is organised camping at it's best- chilled staff, minimum rules and great outdoors.
Having to part with our camper van due to parking restrictions. We where keen to get back to camping, our only option was to borrow a 2 man tent from our daughter ( not the best for OAP`s as we were to find out ) and return to the New Forest, a part of the country we love.
We had never been to Roundhill before.
A very large site, with lots of walks into the forest, and Warden accompanied wildlife walks during the day and evening. Staff are friendly and helpful.
Toilet/shower blocks were the best we have ever seen on any site,took a few days getting used to the fact that the nearest one to you will be closed for cleaning for two hours, but many more blocks open a little further on the site.
Security during day and night is excellent with night time patrols.
A excellent site for all ages, loads of paths for riding bikes around the site for the young and older ones,
In all a great site, we will be going back this year with a bigger tent and trailer.
We spent 6 nights here 3 of them over the bank holiday and although the site was full it didn't feel that way. Lots of space with loads of little hiding places.
Our boys 7 & 10 loved it for riding their bikes and hide and seek. They made loads of friends and for a change didn't want to go home! Toilets are cleaned daily and where ever you park there is a block not to far away with good hot showers.
We were expecting the worse as it poured down rain when we arrived and didn't stop till the early hours, so the place was swamped, but it dried out really quickly over the next few days.
The main thing we liked was you could explore the new forest by bike straight from the campsite. Loads of routes nearby and the village of Brokenhurst is a easy cycle even for our youngest. The 4 hour drive to get there was well worth the effort.
Roundhill is a large campsite. But don't let that put you off. It is on the site of the old Beaulieu airfield. Just outside the village of Brockenhurst in the middle of the New Forest. Very easy to find.
Having booked in and collected stickers for the tent and car, we were left to our own devices to find a spot. We spent about 30 minutes driving round the site (very slowly) to get out barings for the site, and to find our preferred pitching spot.
We were on a 9 night stay, so we wanted to get the right spot. There was plenty of places to choose from, and we ended up back at the first spot we identified. We are a family of 4 with a 5 year old and 3 year old with a Outwell Montana 6 tent with front extension.
We had booked a standard plot. Although the ground is a little bumpy in places we found a pretty flat spot with excellent drainage, as we were to find later in our holiday.
The junior fishing lake (pond!) was closed due to low levels of water. But if you pop down to the waters edge with some very small pieces of bread you will see some pretty large fish coming up to the surface.
During our stay we didn't see any New Forest ponies, but saw plenty of horses, cattle, rabbits, deer and donkeys. Be wary of the horses. We left our boot open (with no food in it), but we found a horse with his nose on the boot of our car, rummaging through our coats until it picked up the packet of baby wipes! Very funny for all those watching! including our boys.
There are lots of children riding around on their bikes, although most had helmets on, there was lots without, and even more riding without any kind of lights as dusk fell. So just be careful when driving around the site late at night.
We found the toilet blocks more than adequate and cleaned on a daily basis, and there was a mop and bucket left out for use if the floor in your shower block got particularly muddy - which it did during my stay, due to a big storm.
The showers were big enough for me an d1 of my children to comfortably shower. But it is a tight squeeze for an adult and 2 children as I found when I had to sort both of them. There was also plenty of toilet roll to be found in each of the toilet cubicles. The wardens were very friendly (I was bit wary of them based on some previous reviews I had read), but they were ensuring everyone's safety by making sure everyone is a safe distance apart, and for the welfare of the animals around the site.
On the night of the storm, the wardens drove round at 4am to ensure that everyone was okay. In the early evening an ice cream van came around the site, which seemed very popular, unfortunately for us it usually came just as we were about to eat.
There were lots of families on the site, but we had no problems with noise, I would say that the site was pretty quiet by 10pm, and didn't get lively again until about 8am. There are loads of things to do nearby. Beaulieu motor museum, Portsmouth docks, crabbing at keyhaven, fishing in a stream (nets, buckets and crablines boudht in Lyndhurst) which the kids could paddle in at Balmer Lawn.
Nearest laundrette 15 mins away in Lymington. Ferry to Isle of Wight in Lymington. Nearest big supermarket we found was Waitrose in Lymington (better choice than the Tesco Express in Brockenhurst). The traffic around lyndhurst was always busy.
When packing up to leave we found that we weren't pushed to get out of the site, we ended up leaving just after 12:30. We will hopefully be going to this campsite again, our boys loved it, and we could have left our tent toys at home.
They just played football, tennis, and splashed in puddles for the entire 9 days. On their first camping trip. And we loved it because they were happy.
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Tent Pitches 
Caravan Pitches 
Motorhome Pitches 
Small Campervans 
Glamping Units 
No Statics for Hire 
No Statics for Sale 
Seasonal Pitches 
No Electric Hookups 
No Hardstandings 
No Fully Serviced Pitches 
Families Welcome 
Not Members Only 
Rallies Welcome 
Not Naturist Site 
Dogs Welcome 
No Dogs Allowed 
Groups Welcome 
Motorbikers Welcome 
Toilet Facilities 
Hot Showers 
Washing Up 
No Bathroom 
No Baby Changing 
No Laundry 
Drinking Water 
Disabled Friendly 
Chemical Disposal 
No Battery Charging 
No Gas Exchange 
Recycling Facilities 
No Kitchen Facilities 
No Freezer / Fridge 
Motorhome Point 
No Wifi Access 
Shop <5 miles 
Bar <5 miles 
Restaurant or Cafe or Takeaway <5 miles 
No Playground 
No TV Room 
No Games Room 
No Evening Ents 
Fishing On Site 
No Wild Swimming 
No Indoor Pool 
No Outdoor Pool 
No Horse Riding 
Cycle Hire <5 miles 
Golf <5 miles 
No Tennis 
Beach <10 miles 
Watersports <5 miles 
Boat Launch / Mooring <10 miles 
No Sea Views 
Not Working Farm 
No Campfires Allowed 
No Waterside Pitches 
Public Transport <5 miles
Offroad Dog Walk On Site or Direct Access 
We stayed at Roundhill site at the end of June / early July. It was quiet when we were there, being outside of school holidays and so there was a lot of space. 
