Thames View Camping

Positiv Peaceful location, well-spaced out pitches, access to footpaths from the back of the site

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Positiv Great level of facilities, with good pitch layout and ease of access with minimal fuss. Perfect level of info.

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Positiv We did a one night stay here while visiting friends in the area and really enjoyed the site so will definitely return for a longer stay in the future. Excellent pitches with tables and firepits provided, well spaced out from each other. The facilities were more than adequate for our needs but the main thing was that it was peaceful, with no traffic noise at night.
It's an ideal base if you want to go exploring the local area.

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Positiv This is our second trip, we love it here. Spacious site, is nice to be able to walk to the coalhouse fort. Quiet and clean facilities.

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Positiv Simple, quiet and no frills just how we like it. Loved the fire pit and that it had a bench. Dog liked it - nice walks.

Negativ We found it hard to see on the camp info how pitches were allocated. It’s just first come first serve as far as I can tell. Maybe that can be clear either in the info or the text message u receive before you come.

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Positiv Nice quite place with good walks, each pitch has its own wooden bench seat and fire pit.
Compost toilets might not be to everyone's liking but were clean and tidy and even with the hot temperatures did not smell.

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Positiv Beautiful spots, great walks, good hot showers.

Negativ Toilets could have been cleaned a bit more frequently, specially in 35 degree heat

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Positiv We’ve visited this campsite before and it was a favourite of ours until this visit.

It’s a nice camp site, you get your own section of cut grass to set up your tent, 4 double toilet blocks (unplumbed but that’s normal) close to the Thames and a lovely walk along the river, nice sunny field. Lovely family vibe when everyone’s being considerate. I recommend the tent/grass pitches but unfortunately not the bell tents.

Negativ Unfortunately we wouldn’t stay at this campsite again, I hate to leave a poor review but I can’t be dishonest about our stay as we spent £220 to stay in the bell tent for the weekend and regretted it from the first evening.

There seems to be some regulars that stay/live at the camp site next to the bell tents, (the other pitches have a bit more distance between but the bell tents are pretty much on top of eachother) a woman in a caravan and a man in a van, and they’re not ideal neighbours to have when camping, as most go camping to get peace a quiet - which we didn’t get most the weekend. They were friendly enough and seemed like nice people but unfortunately as the evening progressed they got pretty drunk on the first night and decided to have a very loud debate until 1:30am!! about the Israel and Gaza war, Brexit, illegal immigrants etc and were shouting as we were trying to sleep, as mentioned they are very close to our bell tent but we hoped it was a one off!

Next day they had a friend and her kids over for the night until about 11:30pm when they drove off, this afternoon/evening is where we lost patience, as the toddler of the friend was screaming most the afternoon and evening, running through our pitch, over our blankets and picnic, he was also running into everyone else’s pitches in the area, stealing their children’s toys, multiple times, I could see everyone else at other pitches was becoming annoyed as he didn’t seem to be getting parented by the adults and only the two other children were sent to retrieve him, but he’d scream every time he was brought back until he could run off again, he was running unaccompanied through the car park, showers, people pitches and even attempted to enter people’s tents.

We ended up letting the kids borrow our ball to attempt to distract them, which then got kicked into a ditch of stinging nettles and left for us to retrieve. 🙄 not to mention our neighbour in the caravan had a Pomeranian that barked non stop, even at midnight, throughout the day.

Our neighbours in the bell tent next to us who arrived on the Saturday were visibly getting frustrated as the child kept running into their child’s toys, taking them, attempting to get in their paddling pool etc and when they asked the mother of the child to return the toy she said ‘I will in a bit’ and didn’t return it for an hour as apparently that would ‘upset her child if she tried to take it’.

We decided to go into our tent early in the hopes that they would take the hint and go to sleep also, or atleast stop being so loud, and as we were settling down we hear the new couple in the bell tent next to us pack up all their stuff and leave! They didn’t even stay one night! The couple with their children in the grass pitch opposite us stayed out staring at the caravan group hoping to quiet them down to no avail. Everyone within a 40 metre radius was visibly frustrated and the next day most made comments as we walked past about the day befores antics.

We ended up leaving a day early as it wasn’t the relaxing break we wanted.

The owners/workers don’t seem to be around often otherwise potentially this could’ve been spotted and stopped.

As mentioned I don’t like leaving a poor review but £220 for 3 nights is not cheap! And I wouldn’t want anyone else to experience the weekend we did - and also didn’t want Thames View Camping to lose customers!

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Vom Platzbetreiber: So sorry to read this. If you had made us aware we would have dealt with it straight away, we are available 24 7 via the phone but only visit the pitches a few times a day. Please call me if I can be of further help. We will discount a future stay for you.
Sorry again, All the best, Vince.

Positiv Spacious pitches, each with picnic bench and fire bowl. On this, my second visit, we thoroughly enjoyed sitting round a fire on this quiet campsite, listening to and watching the birds. Other campers were considerate of the noise and movement rules. Proximity to two ports was not a problem, but worth bringing earplugs just in case of night-time noise. Easy access to the coast path and Coalhouse Fort.

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Positiv Nice location for a quick getaway, love the round pitches! Nice walk to the fort and pub

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