Burnbake Campsite Reviews
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Burnbake Campsite is a relaxed and dog friendly site, with Studland Beach only a 15 minute drive and Corfe Castle just ten minutes away. There are grass pitches both with and without electric hook ups, all of which are suitable for tents and small touring units, as well as electric hardstanding pitches, suitable for campervans and motorhomes, and luxury lodges. If you're after that authentic camping vibe, fire pits are welcome.
4.67 /5
69 reviews
94%
would recommend
Bluetit weekend
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Lesley P
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Remote woodland location, excellent facilities and shop.
Site's response
Thank you for taking the time to leave us a review. We're pleased to hear you enjoyed our campsite.
Super duper fabulous
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Michele W
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A fabulous place, so much to do around the area for day trips. It was clean, tidy, with beautiful surroundings. It would be nice if the electric hook up pitches were weatherised to cope with rain, and not turn to mud. Thank you so much, will be back.
Site's response
Thank you for taking the time to leave us a review, we're pleased to hear you enjoyed your stay and the surrounding areas!
Fantastic stay at Burnbake
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Natalie D
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Loved our stay at Burnbake! Quiet and at nature, nestled under the trees. The fire was raised off the ground, which makes for a perfect camp. It was in riding distance on the bikes to Knoll beach. The staff were friendly and the facilities were clean. Will definitely be returning!
Site's response
Thank you for a wonderful review. We are pleased to hear you enjoyed your stay with us, the bike ride to Knoll beach is beautiful. We look forward to welcoming you back soon.
Short stay
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Adrian W
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A great campsite. Rural and well appointed.
Site's response
Thanks for a great review, we are pleased to hear you enjoyed your stay with us.
Fantastic place to stay
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Marion P
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Lovely place and friendly staff. There was a great atmosphere too. Sadly, we had to admit defeat and go home early as we had torrential rain and our tent was leaking in 6 different places. Look forward to returning with a new tent! Marion.
Site's response
Thanks for a great review, we are so pleased you managed to have a lovely stay even with a leaking tent. We look forward to welcoming you back soon with a new tent and hopefully some sunshine!
Excellent, all boxes ticked
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David C
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Have visited this place over the past 30 years, things don't change much, and hope it doesn't. Safe place for children, everyone looks out for others. We remember this place when it was wilder, before iPads and iPhones. Thank you. Will be visiting again very soon.
Site's response
Thanks for a great review and it's lovely to hear when a guest has been visiting us for years. Here's to many more years at Burnbake.
Lovely campsite!
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Charlotte T
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Stayed with friends and it was perfect! Kids had an absolute blast being outside in the country side!
Site's response
Thanks for your lovely review and it's great to read what a great time your kids had.
Great stay at this lovely, family-friendly site
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Kenny R
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We had a great stay. Easy check in, very relaxed attitude. Found a good pitch to set up our tent. Everyone seems to be around the edge of the site, which gave a very roomy feel. One thing they need to enforce is the distance between tents. Vehicle should be 3 meter from any tents and tents 6 meters from each other. We had someone park within 2 meters from our tent in his lovely, shining California VW. They were not able to read the clear black letters on the rules board outside the office. Arrived late and set up their vehicle at 10:30pm 😤 Apart from that, very nice place but always room for improvement. Water flow on taps and showers very weak at the time. Fresh water fill up area was very dirty and muddy. I feel it needs a hardstanding, not mud. Two taps would be helpful as people were waiting around for others to finish toping up their vans. Great amount of portaloos. I would suggest some screening around them, like the bin stores have, for privacy as it is slightly embarrassing coming out after a long stay 😳 There's a play ground area for the kids, but this is very disappointing as I feel it needs to be 4 times the size for the amount of kids that stay. What I will say, all the points are just improvement suggestions and does not distract the lovely staff and stay. Great pizzas by the way👍 Hope to go there again soon.
Site's response
Thank you for taking the time to leave us a review, we are sorry we try and inform everyone in the check-in process, but if someone came after hours we wouldn't have had a chance to tell them! We are aware of the slow showers when its all being used at once its something we will look at over this Winter! Thank you for the feedback on the water taps - we will look at that. The Playground, fingers crossed, we are updating this for the 2025 season as we know it no longer services what our guests need. We are pleased overall you had a great stay enjoyed the pizzas and the friendly service we offer. Thank you, Burnbake Team.
Lovely Campsite!
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Talya K
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Went with a small group and two dogs. Clean facilities, helpful staff and great area.
Site's response
Thanks for a great review and I'm pleased to hear you enjoyed your stay with us.
Great campsite
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Adele M
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Had a fabulous long weekend. We're an adult couple and although this is a family campsite, we had a great and peaceful few days. Facilities are great and the walks around are beautiful.
Site's response
Thanks for your kind review, and it's great to hear you enjoyed the site and the local area.
All round good family campsite
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Joseph L
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Everything was all round pretty good. Staff were friendly, it was easy to find and close to (within 15-30 minutes car drive) beaches and local towns. Busy yet quiet, friendly and family friendly. I would recommend this campsite to others and will most likely revisit again.
Site's response
Thank you for such a great review, and we'll hopefully see you at Burnbake again.
Nice family friendly site
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Seth F
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A great campsite with a variety of pitches. Onsite shop and cafe and decent sized wash up facilities. We had a really good stay. My only negative would be that the showers were a bit lacking, the outdoor ones were significantly better than the ones in the toilet block. (Unisex and mens, can't speak for the ladies facilities) but the cubicles were designed in a way that made it nearly impossible to hang a towel/dry clothes/put your shoes somewhere and not get them completely soaked by spray either from your own shower, or the next cubicle over, I have young twins and it basically meant I had to shower with each kid I washed, whether I wanted to or not - and I couldn't really have them both in there at the same time without one of them being freezing cold. That said, a huge positive from me having the unisex facilities, it made managing the kids showers and bathroom breaks much easier! Staff were friendly and helpful and the location was fantastic. Really close to everything we wanted.
Site's response
Thanks for a great review and thank you for your feedback, which we will take on board. Hopefully we'll see you at Burnbake in the future.
Perfect stay
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Ollie B
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Amazing campsite, one of our favourites so far! Facilities are clean and modern, the setting is lovely with spacious fields and woods surrounding. We were able to walk down to Studland Bay. Lovely cafe for breakfast and a decent shop too.
Site's response
Thank you for such a great review. It's lovely to read you enjoyed our site and the surrounding area.
Really good staff and nice places
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Luke B
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Nice place to stay, clean and nice bike rides.
Site's response
Thank you for your kind review and I'm pleased to read you enjoyed your stay with us.
Stunning and well kept campsite
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Sarah D
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Amazing friendly staff and a well kept site. The facilities were very clean, the showers were a bit old, but still work and are clean. We will definitely be coming to use this pitch again. My 9 year old girl, 6 year boy and myself absolutely loved it.
Site's response
What a great review, thank you so much. I'm so pleased to hear you and your kids had a great time with us.
Beautiful place
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Stacey N
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A beautiful campsite with friendly, helpful staff in all departments. The shop stocked lots of lovely items and I love that you can hire a fire pit. The only downside was that I booked this campsite as it has a dogs on leads rule at all times but unfortunately three different campers ignored this and having dogs charge at you did made it uncomfortable at times. Having said that, the staff member I spoke to was friendly and understanding and was proactive about the issue. I would like to stay again one day, maybe in the lodges next time.
Site's response
Thank you for taking the time to leave us a review and i'm pleased to hear you enjoyed your stay with us. My colleague made me aware of the situation with the dog, and I'm pleased to hear our staff were proactive in trying to resolve it. We have a strict dogs on leads rule and 99% of our guests are respectful of this. We'd love to have you back in the future, either on the campsite or in one of our lodges. Burnbake Team.
Lovely family site
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Deborah K
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I camped alone and felt very safe as the other occupants were mainly families with young children. The facilities are very good and well maintained.
Site's response
Thank you for a great review, and hopefully we'll see you back here again soon.
Great campsite
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Nina F
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Great campsite, great position, and a good stay. My only complaint is that by allowing and encouraging (metal) fire pits by campers, the small wooded camping area was so smoky at times in the evening, that the smoke made us cough badly.
Site's response
Thank you for taking the time to review us and I'm pleased to hear you enjoyed the site and the location.
Great location
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Michelle T
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Perfect location. Curfew from 11pm, which some guests chose to ignore. The Snack Shack is fantastic - salt and pepper squid last night, which was fantastic. A good choice of decent food and freshly prepared!
Site's response
Thank you for your kind review and I'm pleased to hear you enjoyed your stay with us.
Nice site
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Carol R
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Beautiful site. Showers good. Shop onsite but I didn't use it. Food onsite, but again I didn't use it. Met some nice helpful campers.
Site's response
Thank you for your kind review and I'm delighted to hear you enjoyed your stay with us.
Wonderful
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Susannah R
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Amazing location, we could see nightjars flying over our heads in the evening, which was very special! Amazing veggie breakfast bap!
Site's response
Thank you so much for leaving us a review, we are pleased you saw the nightjars and enjoyed the third party café on site! We hope to welcome you back soon - Burnbake Team.
Average campsite
Sarah G
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A very large campsite, which would get very busy during the summer months. However, there are only a few blocks of showers and one toilet block, can't imagine this would be good in the busier periods. The large group fields have porta loos but no showers so you need to walk to the main block for a shower. Only 10 electrical hook-up pitches. Good location for beach - walking - cycling.
Site's response
Thank you for leaving us a review, we are pleased you enjoyed our location. We do get busy in the summer months, we provide a extra shower pod of the Campfield and porta loos to keep pressure of the main blocks. Due to our rural location, we are limited to how many electric hook ups we can provide. Thank you, Burnbake team.
Basic but okay
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Jonathan T
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This campsite clearly gets busy, which in-turn creates a few issues. Firstly, for me, there aren't enough facilities for the numbers using the site. Additionally, the hot water in the showers operate on a push button system, which would be more acceptable if after each push the hot water lasted longer than less than a minute! On the plus side, the facilities were kept clean. With large numbers of campers comes noise and this site got quite noisy between 9.00pm and what seemed like midnight on Friday and Saturday. Finally, there was lots of space, but no getting away from loud campers in family groups.
Site's response
Thanks you for taking the time to leave us a review and I'm sorry to hear you had some issues with your stay. We do get busy at weekends, and we put a lot of additional toilets in the fields to help deal with the demand. I'm pleased to read that you found our facilities to be clean as our team work tirelessly on them. We have wardens patrolling the site until 11pm and have a 10:30pm noise rule which we enforce across the site. Thanks again for leaving us a review and if you ever get the chance to visit us again, then we are very quiet during midweek periods outside of summer holidays. Thanks, Burnbake Team.
Really really nice
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Michael F
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100% recommend. Had a lovely 2 night stay. Check in was nice and easy! Amazing that they have a little café. Very clean, very tidy and extremely well looked after. They even placed temporary showers closer to the busy fields so people didn't have to walk too far in their shower outfits. The only tiny tiny negative I could say is that the temp showers heads could do with adjusting. Bit of a blast in the face and everything in the chamber gets wet, but I would take that every day to stay again! Will 100% be going back. Nothing better than having a little camp fire with the dog next to us.
Site's response
Thank you so much for taking the time to leave us a review, we are pleased to hear you had amazing stay with us. Thanks for the feedback on the showers we will take a look. Hope to see you again, Burnbake Team.
Unforgettable trip!
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Brandon C
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Brilliant location, very affordable and overall, an unforgettable trip! After finishing our A-Levels me and my friends decided to go on a camping trip and I stumbled across Burnbake. After looking at pictures, I thought it was a lovely location to go to but after arriving it turned out to be better than anything we could've expected, the views around were absolutely beautiful and the facilities were amazing. The location of the place was perfect as we had plenty to do, keeping us occupied over our stay. As well, the facilities were top notch with excellent staff who were always helpful and friendly, I would definitely recommend a stay at Burnbake - my friends and I could not think of a single complaint!
Site's response
What a lovely review, and I'm so pleased to hear you enjoyed your stay with us. I hope you all got what you needed in your A-levels and hopefully we'll see you at Burnbake again soon.