Camp Dartington

Freezer, facilities

Noise from ceilidh and cricketers early and late, without prior warning ( lots of alarming screams!)

A lovely spacious (and flat) campsite with clean facilities and convenient for Dartington Arts School study.

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I liked the place. Tiolets and showers were good. All facilities were clean and well prepared.

Price of breakfast. Rip off. Clearer sign posts to the campsite.

Nice, open, easily accessible field in the heart of Dartington Estate. Good camp if you have young ones and don't want to have an actual wilderness experience. Quite near civilisation! Nonetheless we enjoyed the stars, the pitch, the location.

The organisation of how campers were placed was not brilliant. We booked 1 night in advance for one night's stay and were given a pitch number. When we arrived, there were very few campers (6 groups on a 85+ place campsite) all aligned to the back edge, place very close together in a row. Squashed tight in the corner of a very spacious field.

When we found our site number, someone else had already had the same site and was staying another few days. We resolved it easily with a friendly manager at the Dartington visitor's office, but it should have been much better organised given how few campers were registered!

For what it is, its getting on for perfect

Suggestions: create a dedicated mobile charging space ie a mid-height large shelf with an edge (so phones can't fall off) and multiple USB ports a bit further away from the sinks to avoid the possibility of water splash.

You could also improve your offer of tourist information and information about local facilities (where can I eat at 8pm) and local footpaths the estate.

Could you create a better footpath to the river ? The offer of a river swim was a draw to the site but the path to the river (when we found it) was longer than hoped.

Good location, decent sized pitches.

Being allocated a pitch right next to other campers, despite most of the pitches being empty. The attractions like the river, shops and kids play areas are nothing like nearby, much further than the publicity makes them sound.

Really beautiful campsite, well maintained. The facilities have everything you need, nice warm showers, washing up area, a freezer and electric point for charging. There are a few lovely pubs within a 10min walk and a petrol station for supplies. A really good base for exploring Devon and 40mm walk in to Totnes via a woodland path.

It didn’t affect us but there is no staff on site and as we were leaving there was some confusion with people being camped on pitches that someone else had been allocated.

Lovely camp ground and location

Shame there was no one on reception and lights weren’t working on way back so it was very dark

I felt safe. It was good to have the manor house with the cafe and bar close by. Excellent walking on the Dartingon grounds--woodlands, river and deer park. Staff at the welcome centre were friendly and helpful.

I would have preferred some trees rather than the open grassland. You could hear people in the next tent snoring, talking, playing music. NB there was no staff at the site itself, so I had to stow my luggage in a random shed between breaking camp and leaving the site.

Pitch sizes

Not being able to drive to pitch to drop off stuff, wheel barrow was provided but still a long walk with multiple journey's. River swimming a lot further than described. Not enough electrical power points for charging and constantly full up. Lots of swearing from the local football field opposite. Over priced for basic facilities.