Where to go camping for the weekend?

[snotrag]

Need some suggestions. Me and girlfriend want to go on a little trip away for my birthday at the end of August. Neither of us have a lot of money, but luckily shes not the type of girl who will have palpitations at the though of no hair straighteners for 72hrs, (keeper, for sure!), so we're gonna go camping. I do loads of camping so have all the gear, and shes keen. But where to go?

Lake District? Dales? North Wales? Will be travelling from Leeds, so Cornwall/Scotland is a bit far really.

Would be nice to be near some water aswell, because I might borrow my Dads Kayaks if I can work out how to get them on the car. Not too remote, good pubs for dinner, some nice touristy towns would be good.

Can anyone reccomend any particularly nice campsites? I think the Lake District is gonna be top choice, its too long since I've been and I miss it.

[Xenocide]

Anywhere in Wales is nice really. Brecon etc.

[The Ben]

The Gower.... S. Wales

[Ordinary Bloke]

Did you see the weather forecast for South Wales and North Devon?

I'd suggest Turkey...

[snotrag]

Are you paying!?

[The Black Flash]

Lakes is good, (well it wasn't this weekend up in borrowdale, it rained A LOT ). In my experience, stay away from the ones just outside the towns which can get very crowded with eeejits in the summer. Get a few miles out and they'll be quieter, and so will the other campers.

[PhillT]

Just been to North Wales over the weekend. Was lovely, save for one night of atrocious weather which destroyed my tent entirely. But lovely place, and attempting to climb Snowdon, giving up and just running about like a five year old on a random peak was great fun. I recommend it. Caernarfon Castle's worth a visit too.

[adove]

If you get your Kayak loaded, make your way to Lake Bala in Wales - lakeside campsite, reasonable town, and you'll have a great drive there & back & all round north wales taking her to those touristy towns like Betswy Coed, Llandudno, Llangollen, and the other place, high up over the pass, where the train up snowdon goes from, you know...


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Llanberis. What did we do before googlemaps?

[Riggernut]

Just got back from North Wales, Betws-y-coed, stayed at Hendre Farm £7 each per night, toilets and shower block. 5 mins walk from centre. In perfect location for completing the EVO triangle A543, B4501, A5. Also the road to Ruthin (B5105) is a belter. Snowdon not far away.

[Planet Claire]

I was over in the Brecon Beacons a couple of weekends ago and even though we were hoping to do some wild camping the weather was horrendous so we ended up going to a campsite instead in Pencelli, a few miles south of Brecon. Pencelli Castle Campsite, oh, and they've even got their own website http://www.pencelli-castle.com. Very nice it was too.

[Einion Yrth]

Scotland a bit far? From Leeds? You can be in Dumfries and Galloway in 2 and a half hours FFS - and it's a nice county where hardly anyone goes.

[Mr POD]

snotrag said:

Need some suggestions. Me and girlfriend want to go on a little trip away for my birthday at the end of August. Neither of us have a lot of money, but luckily shes not the type of girl who will have palpitations at the though of no hair straighteners for 72hrs, (keeper, for sure!), so we're gonna go camping. I do loads of camping so have all the gear, and shes keen. But where to go?

Lake District? Dales? North Wales? Will be travelling from Leeds, so Cornwall/Scotland is a bit far really.

Would be nice to be near some water aswell, because I might borrow my Dads Kayaks if I can work out how to get them on the car. Not too remote, good pubs for dinner, some nice touristy towns would be good.

Can anyone reccomend any particularly nice campsites? I think the Lake District is gonna be top choice, its too long since I've been and I miss it.

Just outside malham is a place called Janets Foss, there is a very basic site there. Gordale scar ?

Anyway, you can walk to the pub in Malham, and on the way back skinny dip in Janets Foss

[anonymous-user]

Here?

[woodnut67]

You could try here snotty http://www.lakedistrictcamping.co.uk/northwest.htm we're thinking of going but on second thoughts we don't want to encounter a motor laden with tied on kayaks doing a fine impression of an Exocet guided missile carrier!!