The Hop Farm

A aimé Area, nearby river, all facilities, great location

Réponse du gestionnaire : Thank you for choosing to stay with us this last weekend 11th and 12th July and that you enjoyed yourselves.
We look forward to your next visit.

A aimé Location tranquility river

Réponse du gestionnaire : Thank you for choosing to stay with us and sharing your photo of your stay this weekend, I am glad you were not in the same field as the large group who gave us a score of 1/10 and you managed to find a different part of the river to get access to.
We hope to see you again soon.

A aimé Loved the amount of free space - we stayed in one of the fields with no electric and this was fine for us . Ample fields and spaces to chose - we literally pitched our tent in a corner where the shade moved round - we had access to the river and the kids loved the swings . Took our paddle boards with us .

N'a pas aimé Na

Réponse du gestionnaire : Thank you for choosing to stay with us this last weekend 11th and 12th July and that you enjoyed yourselves.
We look forward to your next visit.

A aimé Good facilities, lovely walk along the River. Great for kayaking and paddle
boards. Plenty of space to play. Pub round the corner and we even got to go to the boot fair that was on the ground.

N'a pas aimé Our electric hook up plot was not very big. Would have struggled if we had our kids with us too.

Réponse du gestionnaire : Thank you for choosing to stay with us this last weekend 11th and 12th July and that you enjoyed yourselves.
The Electric pitches are quite small 7m x 7m and close together. Many guests choose non-electric and bring either foldable solar panels or battery packs for electric, they also bring toilet tents if they want to stay further away from the facilities.
We look forward to seeing you again soon.

A aimé We absolutely love coming to stay here. It is such a huge area that you are never on top of anyone else. There is so much freedom for our children to play. We love taking a walk down alongside the water and looking for the canoes and waving to passers by.
The toilets and showers are always available in both blocks, you rarely have to queue up and wait. They’re cleaned regularly so that’s never an issue for us.
We love the weekend boot fairs too, breaks up the stay for us. Overall it’s a 10/10. We have been staying for five years and will continue to come back again.

N'a pas aimé The only things we dislike is that they don’t offer WiFi but we can understand that with how big the site is. We’d also like to see something like a fridge/freezer area for us to re-freeze our ice blocks on the non electric pitches. We really like the look of the other field but it’s too far to the shower and toilet blocks to walk, we’d like if there was another block available in the other field. And we’d also love if they offered a storage solution to store our camping equipment there. We camp there nearly every weekend in the summer and struggle to fit everything in the car. We’d happily pay to store things there ☺️

Réponse du gestionnaire : Thank you for your loyalty in choosing to stay with us especially this last stay of the weekend of the 11th and 12th July.
Unfortunately the office is too small to provide a fridge/freezer, we have a small ice box guests are welcome to use and sell ice.
Many guests bring toilet tents for evening/night time use so they can be in the fields further away. It would be lovely if there was some storage area here as there are quite a few people who would take advantage of this, I will pass this on to the manager.
We look forward to welcoming you again.

A aimé Ignore the previous 1 Star Review by the Absolute morons that camped at hop farm, let’s get straight to the facts as we had to witness everything.

- They did not have any respect or care in the world for anyone on the site.

- They were making sexual Comments towards my partner.

- They were so drunk and disorderly they attacked the members of staff so the police had to be called to which they are now banned from the site and the police stated they wanted to arrest all of them but there was too many of them. 30+ people.

- They were told before they even setup camp they cannot block any public pathways yet they still decided to try and have there own pathway and corner etc using cars and vans to block the corner off.

- They had not been to the campsite for 7 years before they decided to turn up and terrorise the public and staff.

- They were asked at 10pm to turn off the music to which they did until the staff had left and then it came straight back on again going on past midnight screaming and shouting so quite rightly the staff came back and told them that as per the rules they would need to confiscate the sound system until 9am the next morning as they didn’t listen to which they all got extremely aggressive throwing punches at the staff and even men strangling the poor female staff member.

We have been camping here for almost every weekend now for the last 2 months and it’s an amazing place to go, it’s just some people love to come down ruin everyone’s fun and then proceed to moan, lie and complain about it on the reviews so take no notice of them, there are so many fields you can camp on so if there are any big groups it so easy to camp well clear of them, the staff are very friendly and respectful even offered us a complimentary stay for the drama we had to witness

N'a pas aimé Nothing this place is amazing, DO NOT let the bad people who leave bad reviews discourage you from this place.

Réponse du gestionnaire : Thank you for your loyalty in choosing to stay with us and for setting the story told on the 1/10 review.
I am sorry you had such a spoilt stay this time but will not let this deter you from coming again.
We look forward to welcoming you again.

A aimé This place is nice and local for us, decent in all the many years we’ve been coming. Would return if was managed by different people.

N'a pas aimé If you're thinking of camping here for a joyful experience I would seriously consider somewhere else. What a hell hole of a place hop farm is.
A group of us, family members, camped here over the weekend, have been coming back year after year never had a problem.

When we turned up we were told the usual rules, where are you staying? Non electric..pick anywhere you like….

Once we were all set up and settled, we were rudely told we had to take our tents down and move, because it was a public pathway to the river (there is no signs or any railings up to corner this part off so would never know if was a pathway) and we were never told we couldn’t set up there.
We left plenty of room around our area for everyone to enjoy the river and people were coming and going no problem at all! This was the first of many problems.

On Saturday we enjoyed a day of playing games, even a big game of rounders! We're a mixed group, kids, mums, dads, uncles, aunts, nans, grandads, all ages!

Decided to have a bit of music for one of the family members birthdays and a bbq on Saturday evening, was having a great time enjoying ourselves. Turned the music down to be caring of the others around us, (even though there were disrespectful people blasting music until 2.30am the night before, chopping down wood, being drunk and disorderly) it was around 10.30pm and the lady who 'mans' the site came storming into our set up no warning at all, yanked the speaker up shouting 'turn this off I'm confiscating this speaker, I'm taking it away. Im taking it with me!’ shouting and grabbing at our family members 'how do I turn this off'.
She then attacked a 16 year old girl, grabbed her round the throat and broke her necklace, assaulted a grown women, tried to break someone's property and wouldn't leave us alone (this obviously got everyone worried, children were crying and horrified! Family members even left for fear of their own safety).
We were trying to get her and her husband to leave and the police were called.
This is when we realised how DRUNK they were.

So this man and lady are supposed to be in charge of hundreds of people camping on this site, but they are allowed to be completely drunk and wasted driving around in vehicles, then assaulting members of the public because we had our music on. (No other members of staff were seen the whole weekend we were there. Just this couple)

Such a lack of professionalism, they had it gunning from us the minute we got there. Not a warm welcome, rules not explained properly and just plain rude!

If anyone knows us, they know we don't cause problems, we are just family members trying to have a nice time together and make memories.

Police took statements, other campers around us as witnesses heard everything. Attempted theft and assault on more than two people! The reviews speak for themselves. What a disgrace.

These people should not be in charge of this site, they are rude, have no people skills, no communication skills, no management skills whatsoever, drink on the job! Imagine if something horrific happened and your life is left in the hands of these two people, pissed on the job!.

I don’t know who thinks it’s acceptable to act like that in the first place let alone a place where there are babies and children! And to assault a young 16 year old girl who didn’t do anything wrong!

These people need to be shared far and wide, remember their faces because they are unpleasant and uncaring of their actions and certainly should not be in charge of a place like this.

Réponse du gestionnaire : The review above and others who stayed this weekend 11th and 12th July have given good reviews. Unfortunately Pitch-up lets people who I have blocked from coming again write these reviews,and as they had several bookings expect more reviews like this one.
When doing our checks at 10pm we kindly remind campers that it has gone 10pm and could they turn their music off but to still sit outside and enjoy themselves respecting other campers privacy or sleep, they are more than happy to do this. There had been three occasions last year where I did confiscate music systems to lock in the office until 9am the next morning, each time the owners came into the office to collect and very apologetic.
I as a 64 year old woman and my partner 65 (with limited mobility) and we were on this occasion assaulted by this large group (3 men grabbed hold of me and then let go to punch my partner in the side of the face) I was then grabbed hold of by 3 or 4 of the women, when I managed to get free of them and walked away I phoned the police but could hardly be heard for 2 women right in my face shouting.
The police arrived to deal with the situation (one of the men who had grabbed me refused for several minutes to give his name, address and date of birth to the police saying he could not remember it, until he was read his rights). The police ascertained that none of the group including the16 year old girl had been assaulted by us and when they left they said it was not possible to arrest them all but if they were called back they would bring a large van to be able to do this.
This was their first visit in 7 years and hopefully they will not return by using different names. This is a family campsite with a few basic rules to adhere to, we want everyone to enjoy themselves and feel safe and secure whilst here.

A aimé Love everything about hop farm have been lots of times now with and without the choldren and dog but always with the kayaks. So much space that even when busy you feel like it isn’t, nice and chilled vibes owners arent in your face at all, logs and ice and other camping essentials all readily available, toilet block could be a touch cleaner but to be honest given the amount of people around it could be much worse, never a queue to wash up, easy access to the river from multiple areas. Our favourite place to stay

N'a pas aimé Not much to dislike of youre good with basic down to earth camping, ehu spots are quite close to others when bust but having got a solar panel power point we’re exploring more of the open fields

Réponse du gestionnaire : Thank you for choosing to stay with us and sharing your photos of this last weekend 11th and 12th July, I see you chose to stay away from the field next to the river which was a wise choice this time.
We look forward to welcoming you again.

A aimé very nice places

Réponse du gestionnaire : Thank you for choosing to stay with us for 1 night on your travels through the UK.
Enjoy the rest of your travels.

A aimé Facilities nice and clean, we were able to find a nice quiet pitch. Friendly staff.

N'a pas aimé Very busy in main areas.

Réponse du gestionnaire : Thank you for choosing to stay with us and leaving a lovely review.
The field next to the river is very popular and fills up quickly, however there are plenty of quieter fields which you managed to find and enjoy.
We look forward to your next visit.