Back of Beyond Touring, Camping and Glamping Park

Liked Our 2nd year staying at Back of Beyond, in Emma's Glade, wild camping. Another great long weekend away with our sister & brother in law.
Site is perfect for an adult only short break. The facilities are superb & so clean: Showers, toilets, washing up sinks.
Has great bar - Monty's Bar fantastic staff with great selection of drinks. Loads of board games to use. Every afternoon & evening pop up food vans, our visit was fish & chips & gourmet burgers, both very reasonably priced. The shop has selection of food and daily fresh bread, pastries etc
Beautiful walks around site.
Plenty to do locally or with 30 minutes drive.

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Liked The site was well laid out with some excellent points of interest. We especially enjoyed following the nature trails around the 'lakes' and wooded area. Having a 'pitch and put' golf course was a lovely touch. Facilities were ample and clean. Staff were friendly and helpful. Situated with easy access to external supermarkets and pubs. We adventured along the local river walk, into Hurn forest and the Avon Heath Country park (some lovely snacks and drinks were enjoyed at the cafe here too). The site is situated in an ideal place for wider exploration into Dorset and Hampshire, especially useful for journeys into Bournemouth or Poole.

Disliked The road into the camp was narrow; this isn't the campsite's fault but a small minority of drivers thought they owned it making it uncomfortable for other road users.

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From the manager: Hi Phillip.
Thank you for the review and recommendation. Do come again soon.

Liked Location

Disliked Noisey, loud, dogs roaming free

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From the manager: Thank you for your feedback. I'm so sorry to hear you that you found our park noisy. We are a popular park and do get busy, however, we do have a policy of quiet time from 10.30pm and ask all our guests to be respectful of this. In your welcome pack there was an out of hours telephone number and our warden's would have been happy to come out and deal with the noise issue. All dog owners are asked to keep their dogs on a lead when on the park and if our staff see any dogs not on a lead the owners are reminded of this. We sincerely apologise that these issues spoilt your stay, however, had they been reported we may have been able to prevent it becoming a problem for you. We do get a lot of returning customers but understand that it's not for everyone.

Liked Quiet site great dog walk in woods easy access could have a fire pit

Disliked Nothing

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Liked Everything

Disliked Nothing

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From the manager: Thank you Keith.
We hope to see you again.

Liked When we arrived we were welcomed by a lovely lady who explained everything to us...our plot was large flat and nice an private...people around us very friendly also facilities beautiful an clean ...can't fault the place
Julie hadley

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From the manager: Thank you Julie. Good to hear you enjoyed your stay and we hope to see you again soon.

Liked Attention to detail very friendly and caring staff who went above and beyond to ensure our stay was perfect. Extremely dog friendly was very welcomed by us and our Frenchie Mabel. The rules around being quiet after 10,30pm and adult only site meant that we slept the best we have ever slept in our tent on any campsite. Highly recommend happy hour at Monty's bar as well as the catering vans. Definitely booking again very soon!

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From the manager: Thank you Rob for your lovely review. It was lovely to meet you both and lovely Mabel and we hope to see you again soon.

Liked Great place.

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From the manager: Thank you for the review and the recommendation.
Do come and stay again.

Liked Absolutely loved this place, the glade we stayed in was so pretty, loved the little lakes, really nice spot. Facilities were very clean, would definitely recommend this campsite.

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From the manager: So pleased to hear you will be back Mia. Come and stay again with us soon.

Liked This was by far the loveliest campsite I have ever stayed at. No noisy children disturbing the peace and from the second we arrived, staff were welcoming and helpful and because we had decided not to bring the dog they offered us the choice of a different pitch which honestly made our stay, as was much cooler than the dog friendly area with plenty of trees for shade and within a few metres of a small lake. The place has a lovely woodland walk where dogs can be off lead. The showers, toilets, laundry and dishwashing areas were spotless. There is always somebody about to help and nothing is too much trouble. There is a little shop for snacks and forgotten essentials but our favourite bit was Monty's Bar which is so much more than the "pop up" bar described on the 'Pitch Up' website. Unfortunately the namesake cat, Monty died 3 months ago so we did not get to meet him. The bar has plenty of seating under cover and outside, nice decor and friendly bar team. There's even a happy hour between 4 and 5pm. If you do not fancy cooking, there are different food vans each evening including Thai, jacket potatoes, fish and chips and pizza. A bakery delivers each morning to reception if you pre order the day before. We had intended going exploring but it was so relaxing and pretty on site, we didn't leave and we're very sad to have only booked 2 nights. We will definitely be back. Thank you for a wonderful mini break!

Disliked Disliked having to get our tent pegs into hard ground after weeks of no rain. Haha. Seriously, there is nothing to dislike. It's perfect!

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From the manager: Thank you so much for your lovely review. We're so pleased to hear that you enjoyed everything this park has to offer and we hope to see you again soon.