East Fleet Farm Touring Park - Long Weekend in Dorset

We had just got back from the Campers & Coffee event on Sunday and with the weather forecast leaning heavily towards "climate change disaster", i.e. sunny and temperatures around 20°C, so I booked a longish weekend away.

I had a look on several sites to see what was available.  A few of the sites we like and that are independents, were fully booked. With overnight costs at two of them almost £50 a night, I wasn't that sad they were full. Good for them, but that's a lot of money.

Another we like is a Premier Parks site at East Fleet Farm near Weymouth. I actually booked through Pitchup.com and overall it was £37 a night. THis is for a pitch with EHU and fresh water on the pitch, hardstanding, full facilities and on top of that they have a bar/restaurant and a well stocked shop, not nly food but lots of camping essentials.  It was £6 cheaper than the Caravan Club site at Wyatt's Covert a few weeks before, and that had metered electricity! Wyatt's Covert has no shop and no bar/restaurant.

We arrived around 3pm on Thursday. And once we located the motorhome service area and it was filled with water (we didn't know the pitch had water!) and set up it was getting on for 4pm. Time to have a walk and then "snack time"! Snack time usually means crisps or something like that and cider!  We had the awning mat out and the chairs, and for a while we had the Dometic wind-out awning deployed. It was quite windy and so it went away!

What else did we do. Not a lot. The idea was to get away. And do nothing.  I was still recovering from my illness and was still getting tired easily.  Thankfully, that's beginning to wear off....

Friday and Saturday we loafed about.  Frequent walks with Reggie, who was also feeling his age and the heat!

On Sunday we packed up as we had to be off the site at 1030am.  It was an early start for us!!!

With a minute to spare we exited through the barrier!  We had been held up by a German couple that we got behind when we came to dump our grey waste. They were doing the cassette (I had done that elsewhere) and then wanted to fill up with fresh water.  Their hose was about 3m long and their filler cap was way further than that away. It's in the same place as ours on the rear right of the van.

So I had to reverse so they could back the van across the roadway to get their ppe to the filler!  Time is ticking on.  Eventually they were off and we could get on the grey dump.

As with the way down we had a relatively easy drive home. The only really hold up was on the M25 where they have been working on the A3 junction for what seems like a lifetime.  But once finished in 2026 (!) it will streamline journeys and save a few seconds!

I set Camper Max for Stonehenge.  It's not quite on the direct way back but eventually it rejoins the M3 that we came down on.  

We parked in the coach area as there were cars and an ice cream van in the posted Motorhome and Caravan parking area.  No one bothered us and there was plenty of parking for the coaches that seemed to come and go every five minutes.

We had a coffee and a sausage roll.  This time the sausage rolls were pork, but hog roast pork.  Superb.

There was a short holdup exiting the parking for Stonehenge as for some reason the A303 passes the Stones in a single carriageway road. At either end are dual-carriageways and roundabouts!   So everyone crawls past the Stones as they are easily visible from the road, especially eastbound, the way we were going.

I gave Claire my Sony pocket camera to take some photos.. When in Rome.... except it had a problem saving to the Sony Memory Stick.  I usually have an adapter and use a micro-sd card!   Only one photo was usable plus others had a dirty smudge on the lens!

Once through there we had a second stop at the Clacket Lane Services for Reggie to have a walk about and a McCoffee for us.  We were home around 4pm. Unloading the van is always a chore when you get back from a trip!

Where next?