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Anon
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sick of small minded campsite managers!

Ashurst Campsite - New Forest Experience!

we were at our usual new forest camp site with Denise and her gazebo...something we have always used as we cant use anything that attaches. Been there about 8 or 9 times in the past...
we had had a lovely day playing with our new 50p shuttlecocks and had just started eating our BBQ when the manager comes over, almost accuses us of trying to have one over on the cap site and "getting away" with the fact that we should pay for the gazebo as it was a free standing structure(we had told the nice lady when we booked in that we had one!) I could not believe the way he spoke to us, no hello or anything!

this guy had no manners, no idea how to make regular card carrying customers feel welcome. I went absolutely mad in the office when i payed the extra 5 per night and we were asked to leave the next day... we were going to leave anyway and WE ARE SO GLAD WE DID!

we bought a one day pass to the Isle of Wight and have fallen in love with England again!! We found places to wild camp, spoke to a wild camper living in a gorgeous layby over looking the sea and found places to fill up with drinking water and fab shops with locally grown food!

Our september trip is in the pipe line and although I know all camp sites are not the same, we wont be going to the corporate sites with idiots who dont realise that camping is supposed to be a relaxing experience! A nice local small site run by someone who cares may be the answer but I think Denise wants to be a self sufficient wild camper and we will spend our money more wisely in future! xx

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Anon
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PS as you will read in one of my previous posts, Ashurst had always been such a welcoming site...unfortunately the management has changed and when I spoke to the new guy about the last manager he said that "he wasnt doing his job properly!"

amazing how loosing customers is doing your job properly!
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Anon
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Hi Caro

I'd stick to wild camping! Been away most weekends over the last year and not done one campsite - in the past there seemed to be too many "jobsworths"


All the Best

DaveS
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Anon
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I am another who agrees with you both.

Just because I don't have a 40 grand motorhome that won't fit down half the rounds in my neck of the woods, and because I want to sit outside with a beer in the evenings instead of sitting inside watching TV, people view me with far too much suspicion when I am on the organised sites
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The wife also likes going on laybys there are some that are tucked behind trees & it's nice to set off late at night & only do half a journey ...plus she's *loody tight
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My campsites for the most part are managed by bears.
To be in a campsite managed by a human like the one Caro run into would be depressing. I would of told him to stick his gazebo where the sun dont shine.

I have been in situations where I,ve had to stop in at the "organizsd sites" and such as Ed-Don I feel like I,m looked at as being a suspicious charactor when all I,m doing is sitting on my chair with a beer. God help you if you or your dog get noticed peeing on a tree.
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Avoid Hertford Caravan site in Hertfordshire if you dislike officious stewards/rangers. When we booked we asked for a quiet pitch, explaining that we like a bit of peace occasionally being London dwellers - and also have a large (friendly) dog that is not to everyone's liking. We were forced to drive right round the site by the steward, past lots of inviting looking and vacant pitches. We only realised later that he'd put us right next to the only road that borders the site, just the other side of a thick hedge. We were kept awake by speeding cars all night long. Worse was to follow. Next morning another van arrived with a family including a tiny toddler and in spite of there being at least 10 vacant pitches close by, this bloke got them to park right next to us and uncomfortably close. So much so, we had to keep our dog on an even shorter leash and could not relax for a moment. Three more largish motorhomes arrived during the day and they were parked all around us so we were completely hemmed in - with the 10 vacant pitches still available. Our views of quite a pleasant open site were replaced with the backs of vans ! It was a weekend treat for my two teenaged daughters so I did not want to have it out with the management - but needless to say I've never been back to Hertford camp site !
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we only live 30 miles from Ashurst C.S and we had friends that live on there all summer and i can concur that they are small minded idiots .i got barred for 2 weeks for being drunk and i was only visiting lol. Setthones round the corner is the same just so as you know ....wild camping for me .

just a quick point for anyone coming down to the new forest next year now that its a national park they have gates on nearly all the car parks an they come and close them when its dark agggggggggg i will do a bit of camping out there and intend camping in one of these car parks to see what happens and ill let you know lol

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