THE ORCHARD CAMPSITE
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Spring Lane
Wickham Market
Suffolk
IP13 0SJ
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01728 746170
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"Real campfires, cook over real logs! Enjoy the evening and night, and the stars. No curfews. Site features large pitches set amidst meadows and mature trees. Featuring electric hook ups but also has a number of remote "out of the way" pitches too Pricing is easy and fair. You pay for the pitch only (each tent or van) everything else apart from the laundry facilities are included Awnings, pup tents, cars, visitors, children, SHOWERS, battery charging - ALL ARE INCLUDED in the pitch fee Electric pitch £10 per night Standard £8 per night. Barbeques encouraged - group bookings and young adults welcome Clubhouse - kitchen with hot water, fridge / freezer - a minimum of 3 wcs and 2 showers with hot water - mirrors, shaving points, hairdryer point - all FREE. Washing Machine(on trust - pay at end of stay). Club room with TV, CD and sitting area. Marquee for hire with sound and light - ideal for parties"
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www.orchardcampsite.co.uk
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2007-03-24
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Sarah 2007-08-13
Alas no piccies (cant find them after a recent computer meltdown), but a thoroughly enjoyable weekend on an absolutely spotless, beautiful and delightfully rural site. The night we were there the owners family organised a "glo-stick grab" party for the young stock and the games went on for hours, as did our campfire! Shame the marshmallows didnt last so long! Most excellent shower block and facilities and great tolerance shown to our Labrador who got away from us and helped himself to the site owners BBQ!! Ooops! Cant recommend The Orchard highly enough, it has a tick in all boxes!! Sarah.
Jo Hemming 2007-10-18
This campsite is just fabulous! Our family group of 5 adults and 3 kids had a fantastic time. We set up our badminton net in the large open area in the middle and burnt off enough calories to justify the 6 bottles of wine we drank around the campfire that evening! We will be returning with our cricket kit next time and maybe 8 bottles of wine!!
Adam T burton 2007-10-18
Just got back from two nights at this site, really relaxed atmosphere, great campfires, friendly people, good facilities, I highly recommend it.
Smeeth 2008-06-25
Fantastic Suffolk Site.

Simple quiet campsite with plenty of room to play camp games! Close to A12 for easy access to rest of Suffolk. Rendlesham forest worth a visit.

Ellie 2008-07-13
we had just finished our GCSE's and myself and my friends wanted to go away on a camping trip and celebrate. we chose to go to the orchard campsite because they allowed 16 year olds to camp without adult supervision, something a large amount of other sites didn't. the facilities are basic but perfectly adequate and you can borrow bbq's for free or even make your own campfire, which is great fun.i am so pleased that we decided to persuade our parents to taxi us to suffolk instead of anywhere else as i can't recommend the place highly enough. everyone is extremly friendly and helpful and you feel really welcome in the relaxed atmosphere. love ellie and the camping gang xxx
nandr 2008-08-18
This campsite is wonderful! Lovely setting and atmosphere, friendly people....the glowstick grab and sausages cooked on the open fire were two highlights of many, as well as seeing our 2 year old following big cousins and assorted other children around the campsite feeling very independent. (see pic for Indiana Jones moment) If you are a family with small children you might want to ask who will be pitched nearby, as the site has a 'welcome all' policy - we started out next to a large, v. young and v. loud group and ended up moving for sleep and sanity's sake.
bobob 2009-07-28
It's always worth contacting these popular sites at the last minute as we discovered last week... emailed on the Thursday evening not expecting to get in but returned to work the next day to a 'no problem' email from the lovely Mr H.

Left London Friday 7pm and arrived 9.15pm to a warm welcome and a bustling campsite. The weather had been pretty wet the days before so the woodland area was more like an amazon swamp than a beautiful glade so, we opted for higher ground and found a nice pitch overlooking the wood rather than in it.

We bought a barrow load of wood, kindling and marshmallows which although great, was a tad overpriced at £20! The barrow load lasted nearly two nights, you are buying into the atmosphere so you take the hit on the chin.

Saturday saw 30+ children scrambling for glo-sticks that the site owner threw into the air... the parents secretly liked it too... remember those glo-stick days, ay, ay?

All in all a lovely site with good facilities (they have a microwave too so we could sterlise the nippers bottles!), the showers were a little dirty but hey... you're camping and what's wrong with a bit of dirt! :-)

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