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I stayed at the site in Easter and have to say, what a beautiful place! I have never stayed at a site so naturally, aesthetically beautiful.
Okay, so its fair to say that the sites toilets are not the most modern, the bar isn't the cheapest, etc. But isn't that why we go camping? to get away from luxuries!
The fishing lake is brilliant for beginners, the pool is great for kids, we played tennis, all sorts of other sports and in total, had an absolutely brilliant time at Beacon Hill.
Its secluded and away from the road in a brilliant location, there are dog walks, and something for everyone.
Not to mention, the staff at Beacon hill are the most competent and by far the most friendly that I have ever met in camping. The pitch guide was happy to help us with any problems very quickly, the receptionists were smiley and the manager was very warm and welcoming.
I will definitely be returning to Beacon Hill, a beautiful family place. I could stay forever and never get bored!
We stayed at this site over the bank holiday and really had a great time the site was lovely. The toilets were clean and the showers were hot it was very busy. The fishing lake was great for the kids they caught over 100 fish in in two days. The parks were good will use again.
We had a lovely time at Beacon Hill, loved the fact that the campsite had an 'at one with nature feel' so no marked pitches and lots of trees so it felt like camping in a forest
Washrooms were basic and not cleaned as regularly as I would have liked. But hey that's what you get when you're camping. You have to accept that you're going to rough it for a bit
Shop stocked the basics
Fantastic little play park and big slide-which all blended in with the surrounding as it was all made from wood
Nice little lake on site for the fishermen/women
Pool was a real bonus and great sun trap
Visited Alum Chine whilst there, beautiful beach and unspoilt, no tatt shops to be seen thankfully
Definitely would go again purely for the laid back feel of the site
After reading the reviews we were put off this site. But temptation of the fishing lake took over and we went for a weekend. It was the best time as it was quiet and we could pitch anywhere we liked. Which of course was right next to the lake. Hubby caught 15 carp in one day. On the downside no we wouldn't use the toilet blocks they were awful. My nephew had a hard job finding a loo that wasn't broken. Bins never emptied. Luckily for us we have our own bathroom in our caravan so used that.
The play ground are cool for the kids. If the owners did spend some cash on modernising the toilet blocks etc. This could be a gem of a park.
There's so much to do near by. Not far from beaches, town centre, shops / takeaways etc. Lovely walks and our dog loved the freedom of the dog walk. It's how camping should be. Pitch and enjoy.
We will go back. Our daughter enjoyed the space for riding her bike around. It's well worth a visit off peak I'd say. £21 in sept for caravan awning 2 adults 2 children and 1 dog. We think that's not a bad price at all. Yes there are cheaper sites around. All we can say is try them all first and make your own minds up. That's what we do.
Oh dear! They started the year so well - see our earlier review (May)
When the going gets tough, it would seem they just cant cope. The toilet blocks seemed to get worse over the season, people in tents need these facilities so if they are broken, they need to be fixed. The games room should be open all day, not just at night when the bar is open - especially when the weather is bad.
This site has so much to offer. The site needs more staff and better organisation or people will not come back however laid back they are!
Set in 15 acres of breathtaking countryside,right next door to the Jurassic Coast in Dorset, this site offers stunning views of the Chesil Bank, Fleet Lagoon, and Lyme Bay. Welcoming tents, motorhomes and caravans, this family friendly site offers spacious grass pitches with or without electric. For kids there's an outdoor heated swimming pool, 3 acre playing area including slides, swings and more.
Facilities include toilets, showers, washing up, launderette, and WifI. There is an onsite shop and off-licence. The Bar in the Barn at the site serves a delicious food and offers a variety of entertainment, including live music. As well as the attractions of Weymouth's beach and harbour, this is a great base to explore family attractions throughout South and West Dorset. Find out more here
Stayed at this site during August this year and was very disappointed. On arrival the site looked to be in a nice setting with different types of pitch available. I was allocated a pitch with electric hookup in the Woodland area (Birchwood field I think it was called) and this was unsuitable for tents. The pitches were very muddy with no grass and were very uneven due to tree roots all over the place and this could cause serious damage to groundsheets.
The facilities on site were badly maintained with the shower and toilet blocks constantly dirty and with lights not working.
The games room was poor with very few machines working and the bar area was small for the size of the site. The outdoor play areas were good but needed the weather to use them
The shop was not well stocked as advertised and it did not sell essentials such as gas and newspapers. What they did have was very expensive. There was no alternative nearby.
The site was very noisy with the sound of traffic on the nearby main road and from cars etc coming onto site at all hours. There seemed to be no time limit for driving around.
Pool was very cold and was not heated as far as I could tell. There were no changing facilities near it and no showers. Lots of leaves etc floating on top.
The cafe / take away was open all morning but shut at lunch time, reopening at 5.30pm. The food however was ok.
Just returned from a week at Beacon Hill. We arrived on the Sunday during the bank holiday weekend and expected it to be busy.And it was!
We were shown to a choice of 2 pitches so we chose the one in the middle of the field away from the trees and were lucky enough to have enough room to get our 2 cars in and out with ease.
We had a pitch with electric, but lost our supply on Sunday night. In total darkness-2 women and 2 children with no men or an electrician in our bags, we assumed our hook up was faulty as it hadn't tripped inside the tent and went to bed. The next day we found a local shop and bought a new one for £70. When we got back to site - this didn't work! After going to reception they told me that it had probably tripped at the plug in point and they'd come and re-set it. It had tripped at the box!I wish they'd given us an information leaflet in case this happened.
£70 lighter and annoyed that I didn't know enough about these things to sort it myself we carried on with our holiday.
A lot of people left on the Monday which was great. We had more room, but with the bad weather the previous week the ground was wet, brown and very muddy. Bins weren't emptied until Tuesday and were overflowing with rubbish.
The shower/toilet blocks were adequate, but shower cubicles were often blocked and standing in a strangers shower water isn't very nice.
The shop stocked essentials - but not plasters. Only critisism is that nothing was labelled with prices so you didn't know what you were going to pay until you got to the till.
I personally didn't like the way you could pitch anywhere. We returned from a day trip on Thursday to find that our car exit was blocked by a group of new arrivals who even pitched up 2 feet away from the front door of our tent! I do prefer sites with marked pitch areas as you are then sure of excactly what is your space and can be sure that you and your vehicles can get in and out easily.
Overall the site was ok but could be cleaner.
Didn't really see anyone in authority on site. The staff seemed to be based in the shop and were very young - and I'm sure very capable - but I just didn't see anyone who appeared to be a 'Manager'.
More lighting would be an advantage as it is a wooded area and quite scary to be walking to the toilet block at night.
Location was great and the site easy to find.
I think the site would be great in the quieter times of the year when not so busy.
We had booked and paid for electric hook-up but none could be found spare, then they suggested a splitter but no one could find one of those either. After waiting around for over an hour, we were finally found a pitch right next to the tennis court and swimming pool! Handy you would think?? Alas no. We had to stretch our electric lead across and round a camper van, only to be told that it was already being used by another tent on the lower field (which looked like Glastonbury) filled with youngsters apparently on a stag night! As there was a £50 bond payable for large camping party's we really did not think there would be any noisy campers who would risk losing this. There was a generator for the pool-very noisy and electric cables above the tennis court that buzzed all night. Not that we slept anyway, the stag night went on until 4am with loud music, singing and swearing. My husband complained to the manager 3 times that evening, we were wrecked by the morning.
The toilets were dirty, the hand driers never worked, the showers so powerful that they pinned you to the other wall and made your skin red, but at least mine were hot, the male showers were all cold for a whole morning! The shop had hardly any supplies, we didn't try out any of the other facilities as we were so disappointed, this was our holiday in a beautiful part of the country ruined. The manager did agree to give us one nights refund (£25.50) but took over two weeks and about 5 phonecalls to the campsite before we got it.
Have just returned from this site. Tried to ignore all the negative reviews and be positive. Pitches are on top of one another, site is one of the most expensive ones we have been to so far and is not value for money. Noise is a problem at night, there were several large groups all having fun which is great but tended to go on late at night. The rubbish skips were left overflowing and unemptied. The shower/toilet,dishwashing, shop facilities were inadequate for the size of the site, always had to queue to wash up and shower. There are only 2 blocks and every morning the one nearest to our pitch was closed for cleaning when we tried to use them at around 8am which seemed crazy as this is the time most campers are getting up! The toilets and showers were dated and generally dirty, toilet paper being a rare find most evenings. It rained quite a bit during our stay and the site is poorly drained,some pitches were just mud piles. It is a real shame that this site is not updated, if the owners spent some of the large income this site generates on improving it, it really could be a lovely place to camp as the setting is fabulous
This site could be excellent for tents but for several things. The most important of these is maintenance :- Lights not working in the gents toilet block, playroom machines not working although it was equipped with two pool tables, heated pool was heated to the temperature of the day( whatever that means 18 c when we checked ). Management were not available when we asked 17th-22nd.
The shop was not very well stocked and six rashers of bacon costs £2.49. No gas on sale and no newspapers.Regularly not open at 8.30. No shops in easy walking distance.
Directions to places printed on slips of paper were not accurate on distance.
Snack shop not open at lunch time ( breakfast up to 11.30 and evening only ) although chips were very good, not skinny fries. Bar was small for site.
The fishing was excellent for children as fish almost hooked themselves.
Two adventure playgrounds in good positions one for older and one for younger children.
Due to the wet season not very much grass on pitches.
Set in 15 acres of breathtaking countryside,right next door to the Jurassic Coast in Dorset, this site offers stunning views of the Chesil Bank, Fleet Lagoon, and Lyme Bay. Welcoming tents, motorhomes and caravans, this family friendly site offers spacious grass pitches with or without electric. For kids there's an outdoor heated swimming pool, 3 acre playing area including slides, swings and more.
Facilities include toilets, showers, washing up, launderette, and WifI. There is an onsite shop and off-licence. The Bar in the Barn at the site serves a delicious food and offers a variety of entertainment, including live music. As well as the attractions of Weymouth's beach and harbour, this is a great base to explore family attractions throughout South and West Dorset. Find out more here
Just arrived back from Beacon Hill Touring Park, booked an 11 day holiday which we cut short to 9 due to a number of issues with this site. Electric pitch area was of a very poor standard with no grass around our caravan at all. The site was far to full for the facilities available. Cramped conditions for tents and caravans leaving less than 2ft space between pitches. The toilet block was unclean most of the times no toilet paper in the ladies cubicles each time I visited. Shower drain always blocked with hair etc not allowing water to drain away while using the shower. I was assured by the management the block was cleaned 3 times a day which I find hard to believe we only every saw it cleaned at 11am each day, both blocks were closed at the same time so between 11am and 12noon there were no toilet facilities in use on site. A common-sense approach would of been to clean 1 block at a time.
The swimming pool we never used due to the lack of a shower to wash in before entering. Seeing as we had a few rainy days the pool was mainly dirty through mud being brought into the pool area and no were to clean it off.
The fishing ponds were again in a poor state, one pond full of weed and in my husbands view unusable. The main pond had lots of children unsupervised which created a noisy atmosphere in which to fish. As an experienced angler my husband was appalled by the condition of the fish within the pond. Several fish he caught had no top lip through inexperienced handling. Seeing as this is a conservation camp site more supervision is needed by the site team. If you enjoy fishing while on holiday this is not the site for you.
Our comments to the staff fell on deaf ears. We would not recommend this site at all.
Poole area it self was full of lots of things to do, great places to eat. The beach at Sandbanks was very clean and worth a visit.
Just returned from visit to Beacon Hill, one day early, not only because of the weather and flooded pitch but the disappointing aspects of the site.
Whilst some pitches on higher ground seemed OK our area suffered badly from water retention which pooled into very muddy areas.
Toilet blocks were unclean with no hot water in one for two days.
The 'well stocked shop' was understocked and expensive, short on milk & bread etc.
Take away was limited in range of foods on offer compared with other sites.
Electrics kept tripping out, at one point the site fitted a triple socket outlet to one of the electric outlets on the post.
Pitches were very cramped, returned from visit to Poole to find large double tent had been pitched only two feet from our caravan, with the guy ropes placed inbetween our aquaroll and waste container. Complaints about this were made to the management, which was not responded too. The main worrying aspect of this was that had we been using our water heater in the gas operated mode, the vent was two feet away from the tents sleeping accommodation.
With the sites superb location, this could be a fantastic holiday park
We have stayed at this site once though have visited friends who have stayed several times. The weather on our visit was ok though was prone to some rather heavy but short downpours.
The most important part of a site next to pitching is the toilet block. This is a large purpose built unit and had many sinks and showers. The block is well maintained though because the site is busy it didn't take long for it to be messy again. Hot water diminished due to the high demand for this time of year. I was an early bird and had the shower to myself. The water pressure was fierce though other campers later on said the pressure diminished with more people using them. There are two sinks for washing up cooking utensils. The block is well designed as there is a washing room although we didn't explore this.
The shop is part of the same complex and had the usual camping supplies and ice creams etc. We asked about exchanging our cooking gas and were told we would have to go to a caravan shop a few miles away.
There is a bar and take away though we didn't use these and cannot comment on them.
The site is massive and caters for caravans and motor homes as well as tents. There is electric hook up available and most of the pitches are flat and sheltered by the many trees around the site.
The kids are fairly well catered for with the outside swimming pool (not heated), tennis court (with dodgy net) and fort for the younger ones.
Poole is a ten minute drive away with all the facilities that the town has to offer. I do recommend a walk along the quay. During the summer many events occur on a weekly basis including bike nights, specialist cars and sometime fireworks.
The site is quite busy so expect the usual kids running loose and hanging around the shop area. The staff are friendly though occasionally a little abrupt.
I imagine this site being ideal during the quieter months. The woodland setting is great.
Staff are very welcoming.
As expected, with it being the school summer holidays we were packed in.
Our pitch was, unfortunately for us, located right by the children's slide. Noisy during the early hours of the morning with kids keen to get a pre-breakfast slide in, as well as the slightly tipsy youths having a few goes during the later hours of the night!
One annoyance was a dog, off his lead for the first day, continuously barking through the night. By the second night there must have been words, as he was on his lead for most of the day and not a peep from him during the night!
Facilities are adequate.
Small amount of queueing for dishwashing, but again, to be expected given the time of year.
Shower drains could do with a clear out - standing in a pool other people's shower water wasn't too pleasant :-S
The private changing rooms (plus sink) are a good idea.
I would be happy to return but would avoid the holiday seasons.
We stayed at Beacon Hill for a weekend at the beginning of the school holidays. We chose the site due to its advertised woodland setting and its proximity to Poole and the surrounding area.
The reception staff were very helpful and polite both on booking and arrival and we were quickly shown to our pitch.
We had been allocated a motorhome pitch which was quite small and unfortunately did not have the services you may expect on such a pitch. We were unable to fill our water tank with our hose as the water was too far away.
The site was indeed in a woodland but appeared to be a little uncared for with some quite scruffy pitches and quite a lot of litter. It was also very noisy at night with groups of teenagers wandering around and shouting until the early hours of the morning. There also appeared to be no restriction of car movement overnight which also caused disturbance as we had a road running either side of our unit.
The shop was well stocked but does not sell gas as advertised. We were directed to a caravan shop about five miles away by the site staff which had a very well stocked shop with both camping and caravan spares.
There were ample toilets and showers that were a little dated but adequate with plenty of hot water. We were unable to find mops to mop out the showers after use which would have kept them in better order during the day.
The take away and bar appeared popular although we did not use them.
With a bit of care and attention Beacon Hill could be a fabulous site due to its setting. As it stands we would not return.
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No Tents 
No Caravans 
No Motorhomes 
No Campervans 
No Glamping Units 
No Statics for Hire 
No Statics for Sale 
No Seasonal Pitches 
No Electric Hookups 
No Hardstandings 
No Fully Serviced Pitches 
Families Welcome 
Not Members Only 
No Rallies 
Not Naturist Site 
Dogs Welcome 
No Dogs Allowed 
Groups Welcome 
No Toilets 
No Showers 
No Washing Up Area 
No Bathroom 
No Baby Changing 
No Laundry 
No Drinking Water 
Disabled Friendly 
No Chemical Disposal 
No Battery Charging 
No Gas Exchange 
No Recycling Facilities 
No Kitchen Facilities 
No Freezer / Fridge 
No Motorhome Point 
No Wifi Access 
No Shop 
No Bar 
No Restaurant 
No Playground 
No TV Room 
No Games Room 
No Evening Ents 
No Fishing 
No Wild Swimming 
No Indoor Pool 
No Outdoor Pool 
No Horse Riding 
No Cycle Hire 
No Golf 
No Tennis 
No Beach 
No Watersports 
No Boat Launch 
No Sea Views 
Not Working Farm 
No Campfires Allowed 
No Waterside Pitches 
Public Transport 
No Dog Walk 
I stayed at the site in Easter and have to say, what a beautiful place! I have never stayed at a site so naturally, aesthetically beautiful. 
