Dorset Nectar Orchard Campsite

A aimé : The staff were very friendly and welcoming. Beautiful surroundings: camping in an orchard surrounded by rolling countryside. Very peaceful and quiet. It was amazing to get an entire row to yourself. Toilets were very clean and modern. Wel supplied with water. Great range of ciders!

N'a pas aimé: The showers were warm but could be cleaner. Felt a bit exposed by the missing glass in the door of one shower. No hot water in washing up taps but managed to wash up.

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A aimé : What a wonderful last minute camping weekend, Oliver and Penny the owners were simply wonderful.
From relaxing live music and fab homemade Burgers on the Saturday as well as sampling their delicious ciders. What a peaceful and beautiful campsite amongst the apple orchards. Campfires, Braais, moonlit skies and hooting owls
Don't miss out when their bookings open for next summer as they will be making further upgrades to their already fabulous facilities this winter.

Go Support them or just pop in and book a tour around the farm, cider brewery and bottling facility.
Great farm shop with excellent local honey, sauces and chutneys.....not to mention the fabulous cider again.

All the best Oliver with your harvest and bottling over the winter.
From Ryan & Gaylyn
Great to meet wonderful new Saffas that really made our camping trip very memorable
Everything was just Lekker!!

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Réponse du gestionnaire : So pleased that you enjoyed your stay. Hope to see you again next year.

Best Wishes

Penny and Oliver and family

A aimé : Great adult-only spot. Extensive pitch, very peaceful, on a cider farm! Excellent rates and good facilities. Easy check-in, check-out. Not a cashless business.

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A aimé : Great little campsite in the orchard trees! Cider tasting / tour was good and the tap house in the evening is fun! Would recommend.

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A aimé : Beautiful scenery camping within the orchard. Bar serving delicious cider and beer. Live music on the Saturday. Very clean toilets and shower. Fire pits and grills available for free, just need to buy wood from the front desk.

N'a pas aimé: Cue for the shower in the morning could get quite long.

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A aimé : Great place, very quiet, cider excellent

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A aimé : Very friendly hosts and delightful site amongst the orchard apple trees. Plenty of space.

Washing and shower facilities are good but more needed for number of campers. I believe a new block is planned for next year.

It would be useful if the 11pm curfew was heeded to and upheld by owners as it was 2:30 am before rowdy campers settled down for the night! However, we will return!

N'a pas aimé: Noisy campers up till 2:30 am!

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A aimé : The setting for camping is so pretty between the trees with a whole row to yourself.

The cider and bar on site are a real plus and the location is great with pub in walking distance.

There was live music on the Saturday and the band were really good.

N'a pas aimé: This is our second time visiting and sadly the facilities have not been addressed from 2 years ago. Two showers and two toilets for the amount of pitches is not enough.

Added to the fact the bank holiday they allowed nearly half the site to be group bookings it was just too many people for so few (there are 2 additional portaloos but with no water / sanitary bins these aren't really a great alternative unless desperate). We stayed 4 nights and on none of the nights was the 11pm quiet respected.

Its a great site in many ways but the over booking and lack of facilities means we most likely will not visit again.

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Réponse du gestionnaire : Hello there

I`m really glad you enjoyed the large orchard pitches, close walking distance to the Wonderful Hare and Hounds pub and the very special location in which we are here in Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty of West Dorset. We work really hard to make it a very unique and special place for everyone to stay at when they visit. Each of the Pitches are extra large and 16 feet wide 250 feet long to really allow people to spread out if they wish and not be near anyone else if they so wish.

We have had great responses for our live music "Cider Saturdays" where we have a local live band play and serve a changing menu from "Olivers Kitchen"

I`d correct you there, you say we had only 2 bathrooms, in actual fact we have 5 at present with an additional 5 being built this winter.

Thanks for asking us about the bathrooms, we were in the midst of getting planning permission over a year ago when our planning consultant sadly had a Stroke at which point we had to start from scratch with a new consultant for a new additional bathroom block. We received permission for these additional 2x mens bathrooms, 2x mens showers, 2x womens, 2x womens showers and 1x Disabled bathroom closer to the orchard pitches this Spring in April, since they we have not had a chance to build them but have bought the 2 dozen pallets of bricks and lumber already to build it this winter.

The last two weeks we have had a booking error where certain booking systems had not synched with ours so more bookings were made than usual, this combined with the busiest weekend of the entire season, THE AUGUST BANK HOLIDAY meant there were a number of campers enjoying their time here more than normal, we did our best to accommodate and cleaned the facilities over twice the normal amount that we usually do per day.

We tell each and every person we book in that we have strict 11pm onwards quiet time, as in turn your music off etc. I`m sorry you experienced some noise past that time, we were not told about this at the time, if we had we would have spoken to the people and asked them to stop. There is a number of you can call us on, on the Leaflet with a map etc given out on arrival and checking in.

I`m glad you have stayed with us twice now and enjoyed your stay beside the points I addressed above. I`m sure you`ll see how we are addressing that to make sure our site remains a special place for many people to enjoy.
Thanks
Best
Ryan and the Cider Farm Orchard Camping team

A aimé : The farm is beautiful, the cider is incredibly good, the band on Saturday night was amazing, the owners are super nice and useful.
We loved it so much, we highly recommend it and we want to come back!

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A aimé : Was a perfect peaceful night away . Escape from the real busy world in an amazing location..

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