Back of Beyond Touring Park Reviews
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Back of Beyond is adult only, set on 30 acres of countryside, offering large, fully serviced pitches, glamping and more near the edge of the New Forest. You'll be just a stone's throw from the South Coast and at the gateway to spectacular Dorset. Rated 5 Pennant Platinum by the AA, the park is a haven for wildlife. There's extensive woodland onsite, where dogs can roam free, plus wildlife lakes and a river!
4.74 /5
128 reviews
94%
would recommend
Lovely campsite with excellent facilities
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Claire S
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A very comfortable site with excellent facilities. The pitch was spacious and well kept. Clean showers and toilets and at least one block always open. A nice bar area. Good food options with the visiting food vans. Fantastic woodland area for walking dogs off lead directly from the campsite. Would definitely visit again.
Site's response
Thank you for the review and recommendation. Hope to see you again soon.
Will be back!
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Susan L
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First visit and will be back. Lovely staff and clean site. Lovely walks around the lake and the woods.
Site's response
Thank you Sue and Kevin. We hope to see you here many times.
Couldn’t ask for better
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Jackie M
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Wonderful atmosphere. Lovely meeting on arrival, excellent space for caravan, awning and car. So peaceful. Lovely surroundings. Excellent showers and toilet blocks. So clean all the time. Brilliant wooded area to walk the dog. We will definitely be back.
Site's response
Thank you for your wonderful review, we will look forward to you visiting the park again.
Dog friendly and adult only campsite
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Dean E
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We were looking for a dog-friendly and adult-only campsite and Back of Beyond was only 40 mins from our home. It was nice and quiet, and just what we were looking for.
Site's response
Thank you for your review, we hope to see you at the park again soon.
Lovely stay at Back of Beyond
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Anthony G
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Lovely site just off A31 but far enough away to be free of road noise, maybe the odd motorbike in the distance. Wonderful dog secure woods as part of the site. Will definitely return and have already recommended.
Site's response
Thank you so much and do come again.
Easter weekend break!
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David C
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Very welcoming site, the staff are friendly, and the site facilities are clean. I highly recommend this to all!
Site's response
Thank you for your recommendation, we hope to see you at the park again soon.
Back of Beyond but Beautiful!
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David L
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A very well thought out campsite. We felt welcomed from the time of booking until we left this morning. The location is perfect for visiting the South Coast, or in our case overnighting before catching the car ferry to Jersey today. We enjoyed Montys Bar for a drink and the fish and chip van is a great idea. The amenities block was very clean, warm and well-appointed. The setting for all the various pitches and the shepherd's huts and yurts is well thought out and carefully landscaped. The wilded areas are lovely for a walk. The bird life all around the campsite is lovely. The whole place is clean tidy and quiet. Great that this is an adult-only, dog-friendly site. We will definitely visit again.
Site's response
What a lovely review. We are so delighted that you enjoyed your stay and we look forward to seeing you back again soon.
Great place
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Brian D
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We stayed for two nights. The facilities are exceptional, very clean and well maintained. All the staff are very friendly and helpful.
Site's response
Thank you for your review, do visit us again soon.
Great site
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Paula M
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Great site with lovely facilities. Really friendly and helpful staff. The open air bar was an additional bonus, as were the visiting food vans. We will definitely recommend the site to friends.
Site's response
Thank you so much and do come again soon.
New Forest Hoilday
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Andy C
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Very nice site and staff, but for us, we would look for sites closer to villages/ towns.
Site's response
We are glad that you enjoyed your stay. We are 'Back of Beyond' so we are a bit tucked away from the world.
Perfect base for exploring and relaxing
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Anna P
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We stayed in Magpie Pod and it was very warm and cosy. The cooking facilities were really good, with two high-powered gas stoves, and the pod was equipped with a kettle, tea, coffee etc. The grounds are lovely and quiet, with surrounding woodland and fields. (Some very, very low-level noise from the road) otherwise, the park itself is nice and quiet. The shop is well stocked, as is Monty's bar! The showers and wash-up facilities are so clean and modern, one of the best we have experienced. The location is close to the main road, which takes you out to the nearby towns/villages. Approximately 15mins from the New Forest, so it's a great base to explore from. We would definitely stay again!
Site's response
Thank you Anna for the lovely review and your recommendation. We are so glad you will be returning and we will look forward to seeing you here in the near future.
1st time motorhome user
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Maureen L
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We spent 5 days touring around the country in our motorhome, so stayed in 5 different camp sites. This camp site was by far the best we stayed. Very well kept, lovely and clean, and the staff were lovely and friendly, Would recommend.
Site's response
Thank you for your lovely review, Maureen. We hope to see you at the park again very soon.
Beautiful site with friendly staff
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Wendy B
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Beautiful site, so peaceful. Staff lovely and friendly - nothing is too much trouble. Will definitely stay again.
Site's response
Thank you for your lovely comments. We are so pleased that you enjoyed your stay at the park and hope to see you again soon.
The best camping site!!
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Sonya F
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We have just done a 6 night stay here for the first time. And before we left, we booked again for next year! Top class campsite- the pitches, the facilities, the people - everything was perfect! Great shop and a sociable bar area. Lovely woodland walk for the dogs - right on site!
Site's response
Thank you so much Sonya. That is so nice of you to say. Do come again soon.
Our best couple of days away this year!
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Lynn N
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Best site ever! No complaints, we will be back.
Site's response
Thank you Lynn. So pleased you had such a great stay and thank you for the top score. Do come again soon.
Back to nature
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Tracey M
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Loved it here, clean, peaceful- just what we needed to get back to nature and relax.
Site's response
Thank you Tracey. That is very kind of you to give us such a lovely review. Do come again soon.
Camping in New Forest
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Ian O
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First time visiting and really impressed.
Site's response
Thank you. We will hope that you will come back soon.
Quiet and peaceful, wish we were there for longer!
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Sara M
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Perfect location for us as we were visiting the Airshow at Bournemouth. Very quiet and peaceful, couldn't find fault with anything. Shower and toilet block was spotlessly clean. We will be back!!! Would recommend.
Site's response
Thank you for the top score and we will see you again soon.
Nice park, a little too secluded
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Gemma L
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Lovely caravan park just off the A31. We had a nice gravel pitch with some grass - absolutely huge pitch which was great. Facilities were good, good amount of showers and toilets, generally well cleaned. Good washing up facilities and great that they had a big ice block freezer. Little shop there very handy, but expensive as you'd expect. Loved the fact that different food vans came each night, we tried a few of these. We only had our van and no car, the camp site was about half a mile from the road and then to walk anywhere was a walk along the busy A31 (path) which with a dog, wasn't the best. That was the only big downside we had with the park really, the lack of nice paths to places, we don't mind walking but not along the main roads too much. We ended up taking the van out a couple of times to go to the supermarket etc as didn't want to do the main road to walk. We loved the private camp woodland area to walk the dog. The lake (more like big pond haha) was a sweet area but only went once as no dogs were allowed. Overall this is a lovely campsite if you don't want to head off the site much, or if you're happy to walk along the main road.
Site's response
Thank you Gemma for the review and your recommendation. We are pleased to see you will come back. The shop is a campsite shop for essentials and also for gifts. We won't compete with Lidl, but only a small increase does mean you don't need to drive off the park for a pint of milk and some bread rolls. Did you not go to Hurn Forest opposite the park that isn't along the A31? There are free maps at reception taking you on 3 walks that don't go on the main road. We are also having a bridge reinstated soon that will take you straight onto the Castleman walkway from the park woodlands. I hope this will tick all your boxes then.
Fabulous place
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Michael W
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A fabulous place, will go and book up again.
Site's response
Thank you so much and do come again soon.
Don't think, just book, it's amazing!
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Siobhan T
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This site was honestly the best site we've ever stayed in. It was so clean, the staff were super and genuinely friendly, and the pitches were well laid out as were the showers and toilets. The food vans and bar were fabulous. Everything was accessible and well manicured. It was our first holiday in 2 years and I honestly can't wait to go back. I will recommend it to everyone even though part of me doesn't want to as I'd like to keep it a secret! It was truly one of the best places I've been to apart from Mauritius and that's saying something, they deserve any award going.
Site's response
Thank you so much. To be mentioned in the same review as Mauritius is certainly a first. Do come again soon.
Amazing campsite
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Heather H
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We just got back from the Back of Beyond campsite. What a fabulous place. Tranquil, clean, great staff and facilities. Visiting caterers most nights, bar area clean, comfortable with good atmosphere and service. Toilets & showers are clean and modern. Laundry room with washing, drying and ironing facilities. A nice shop on site that's plentiful & reasonably priced. The pitches are well equipped and spacious. The site is quiet, but atmospheric, it's very clean and safe. It's really close to some lovely places to visit. You are near the New Forest, Poole & Bournemouth. We'd definitely return. Thanks
Site's response
Thank you for your wonderful review Heather, we are so glad that you enjoyed your stay at BOB. We will look forward to you visiting the park again.
Lovely, quiet, tranquil park
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Heidi A
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Lovely, quiet, tranquil park to stay at. Ideal location for visiting Bournemouth and the surrounding areas. Nice dog walk area behind the site where the dogs can run free. A lovely welcome when we first pulled on site. Showers and toilets were excellent as well.
Site's response
Thank you Heidi for the 5/5 review. Do visit us again soon.
Nice set up
John r
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Nice relaxed atmosphere but disappointed there is no golf course and that you can't fish in the lake.
Site's response
Thank you for the review. We are obviously very disappointed in the low score, especially 1/5 for facilities, where we are on average scoring 4.5 out of 5. We have a 9 hole pitch and putt course on the park. This is a charity course for fun and raised a few thousand for charity each year. We would have been happy to help you find it. The lakes are wildlife lakes. Not fishing lakes. They have otters, swans and water vowels in them. We don't advertise them as fishing lakes. There are however 4 fishing lakes all within a 10 minute drive from us as advertised on our website. I am sorry that you didn't like the park facilities and I hope you find a more suitable place in the future.
Amazing campsite
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Sarah C
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The main reason we chose this site was due to it being over 18s only, and I'm glad we did! As a teacher and a previous bad experience of young families on a site, this was an appeal! The site was so quiet and clean, the staff so welcoming. There's a bar on site, visiting caterers, you can order afternoon teas and pastries, it's everything you'd want. The pitch was a good size and it made such a difference having Astro turf; not something we had experienced before as a camper but was nice to have a soft and flat ground. Local town was within cycling distance or a short drive, and convenient for Bournemouth and Poole. The only thing I didn't like was the showers in the main block, as the seating area was often left wet by others so struggled to keep clothes and bits dry, but I tended to use the individual showers by reception which gave me the room and ability to keep things dry. I would 100% recommend the site and would return again in the future. Thank you, Back of Beyond!
Site's response
Thank you for the top score, we really appreciate it. We appreciate your comments. In the main large shower blocks there are multiple hooks behind each shower door and screen for your clothes so you don't need to use the seating area, especially if wet. I am glad you will come back.