The Shottisham Campsite

A aimé : The campsite is split in to three areas with lots of space for each pitch.
The facilities were always immaculately clean and well lit in the evenings and throughout the night.
The campsite is within walking distance to a pub that serves food and is very welcoming to campers.
Wi-Fi was useful given the local signal was not great in the village.
We will definitely be back for another visit and there were families who we spoke to who make this there go to site on an annual basis.
We heard that the pizzas on Fridays are great but this was not open during our visit.

N'a pas aimé: We really couldn’t fault this place. A great find!

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Réponse du gestionnaire : Hi, I'm so pleased you had a good time and also really happy that you will come back for another visit. Lots of people do come back every year and it is so nice to see people again and catch up with their adventures.

Thank you also for leaving such a lovely review, it is appreciated.

The local pub is great and they always welcome people from the campsite. They often have music and quiz nights too.

I am hoping to start serving pizzas again later this year - and the cafe will hopefully re-open too
take care and see you again
Claire

A aimé : A great site, the facilities were super clean & the showers very hot.
A good location for Woodbridge.
The owner was very helpful too.
We will definitely go back.

N'a pas aimé: Nothing

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Réponse du gestionnaire : Thank you so much for your lovely review. I am so please you had a great stay and I look forward to seeing you again. We try hard to keep the facilities clean as everyone likes clean bathrooms.
take care
Claire

A aimé : Site was easily accessible despite its remote location and the information provided in the welcome pack was useful. Plenty of nice walks for the dogs and only an hours stroll from the Ramsholt Arms. Toilet and shower areas were clean and well presented. Water points were easily located and the two facility blocks seemed sufficient, with the site reasonably busy for the Bank Holiday weekend.

N'a pas aimé: Whilst we expected mobile phone signal to be poor, we were advised that WiFi was available across the site. Sadly we found this not to be the case. Whilst the network was found on each of our 3 devices, none of them were able to make a connection and thus we were not able to 'stay in touch' etc.
We found that the hot water was a bit hit and miss, often washing hands in luke warm water. A couple of washing up trips were unsuccessful due to the lack of warm water. The showers we had were nice, however.
Lack of rainfall meant the ground was incredibly hard, although hardly the operators fault. Finally, the quiet hours were not generally observed or enforced... plenty of children running around screaming at 6:30 am on a Sunday morning (again, hard to blame the operator for this).
We did not however deem it necessary to contact the operator for any of these issues and decided to embrace nature and the camping life!

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Réponse du gestionnaire : Hi, I'm pleased you enjoyed walking with the dogs around the campsite. We are in a remote but beautiful area with really good walking. Unfortunately the remoteness, while lovely, does make some things difficult such as phone reception and wifi. I'm really sorry you had problems connecting to the wifi. Some people did mention this. I tried troubleshooting the system over the weekend and managed to get connectivity. Unfortunately, there is only so much data available. When I had the system installed I decided to try and offer free wifi and pay for a specific phone line and monthly package but the data is limited which means if lots of people are streaming films or tv shows etc it can be hard for everyone to join. I am thinking that maybe I need to just get a third party to install and run wifi provision which unfortunately means people would have to pay to log on, but it might be better i terms of reliability. When I first installed the system because of our remote location and lack of phone coverage no other companies wanted to provide a service so we went with what there was. I will get in touch with the person who installed the system to ask if there is anything else I can do to improve matters in the meantime.

Glad the showers were good - sometimes at peak times of the day the hot water can run out - we have a boiler system and it takes time to reheat when being used a lot. I am hoping to get more solar panels and maybe also will try and get some more boilers as well - again being remote makes it quite hard providing services as we have limited electrical supply and no gas so can't have on demand heating for water.

I try and run a quiet campsite and if you text me I will always politely ask people not to make a lot of noise at unsocial times such as 6.30am.
take care
Claire

A aimé : Everything! Great, clean toilets and showers, level pitches and in beautiful surroundings. Claire made us feel very welcome and communication was very good.
We ate in the local pub on the first evening and would highly recommend this too.

N'a pas aimé: Nothing

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Réponse du gestionnaire : Thank you for your lovely review. I am so pleased you had a good time. Our local pub the Sorrel Horse is great. Hope to see you again soon
take care
Claire

A aimé : Lovely level grass pitches, clean toilets and showers. In a wonderful location with great walks in the countryside and along the river. Good to see chickens roaming freely around the site, goats and alpacas the other side of the fence. Nice pub 5 minutes walk away, we didn’t eat there but the food looked good.

N'a pas aimé: The only negative was the Wi-Fi not working at all when the site was quite full. Once most of the other campers had left it was fine.

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Réponse du gestionnaire : So pleased you had a lovely time at the campsite and enjoyed seeing all my lovely animals. I understand about the wifi. I pay for a separate phone line and wifi package but I know that when the campsite is very busy and lots of people try and stream films etc then it can be hard to access. I wanted the wifi to be free, but in the future I could consider getting more bandwidth, but then I would probably have to get a third party to organise it and charge for the service. I will definitely have athink about it though.
Hope to see you again soon
take care
Claire

A aimé : Lovely clean toilets and showers, flat pitches with lots of space, beautiful surroundings, feeding the farm animals, all the info we needed before arrival (including allocated pitch number).

Martha the Alpaca and the farm dog deserve a special mention too.

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Réponse du gestionnaire : Farm dog Cem would like to say how happy he is that he got a mention - thank you. You have made his day (and mine). I'm so happy you enjoyed your stay and feeding the animals - Martha was being especially cute. Hope to see you again soon take care
Claire

A aimé : The size of the pitch. The site was very attractive and facilities were clean and well presented.
Communication was great and we enjoyed our stay.

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Réponse du gestionnaire : Thank you for the lovely review. I'm pleased you had a good time staying at my campsite. Hope to see you again in the future
take care
Claire

A aimé : Beautiful site in a beautiful location, which is clearly loved and cared. Thank you for a wonderful stay - we would have stayed longer if we hadn't had to travel on!

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Réponse du gestionnaire : So pleased to heard you had a good stay, hope to see you again when you are next in the area
take care
Claire

A aimé : Quiet, peaceful environment. Lots of walks for the dog

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Réponse du gestionnaire : Thank you for visiting. We have lots of lovely walks around the area. So pleased that you and your dog had a good time. Hoipe to see you again soon
take care Claire

A aimé : Lot of hot water, fridge and freezer available, llamas, chickens and goats, friendly owner, big flat pitches, goldfinches galore!⁸

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Réponse du gestionnaire : Thank you for visiting, really glad you had a good time. Hope to see you again soon
take care
Claire