Camp Cleavel

Burnbake’s a handy spot to get high among the trees on the ropes and zipwires. Down on the ground, try trekking the heathlands on horseback from the Studland Trekking Centre, 20 minutes away, or set course for Brenscome Outdoor Centre in Wareham for all manner of high energy stuff from powerboating to raft-building, paddleboarding and archery (20 minutes). For good times by the briny, it’s a 20-minute drive to Studland’s beaches, which are wide and sandy surrounded by nature-filled dunes and heaths. For wilder stretches and rockpooling, try Kimmeridge, half an hour away or go wilder still at Winspit beach, so cut off you can only reach it on foot from Worth Matravers (also half an hour away). You can walk for miles along the South West Coast Path and join it 20 minutes away on Studland beach; if you’re not up for all 630 miles then a stroll up to Shell Bay and a ferry-ride across to Sandbanks makes a gentle half-day diversion. Three-quarters of an hour away, Poole's your place for slides, chutes and screeches at the Splashdown waterpark as well as harbour cruises, dolphin-spotting and sea-fishing trips while inland, the residents of Monkey World and the hardware in the Tank Museum, both half an hour away, should keep most monkeys out of mischief.