Your Camping Trips

[TrishE]

Now that's good to know. I wouldn't have thought about trying a Youth Hostel. Do you have to be a member to camp there?

Yes as they put the prices on the hostel website and then YHA members get 10% off. Membership is under £20 for a year. Grasmere is my favourite hostel but I've camped at Windermere, Coniston Holly how and Borrowdale. For three days away I only take Bonnie's food as they serve meals too. Really friendly and nice to chat to folk, lots of cycle campers one guy from Belgium was retired and visiting every country in Europe taking years on different trips🙂

 

[wiggydiggy]

I'll have to to try the YHA option, it sounds very good.

Do you get full access to the kitchen and washing facilitues? Charging for eBikes?

 

[TrishE]

I'll have to to try the YHA option, it sounds very good.

Do you get full access to the kitchen and washing facilitues? Charging for eBikes?

Yes all the facilities, at Windermere the campers kitchen etc is in a bungalow type building and there's sockets there was someone charging their ebike one time🙂 can use the main hostel kitchen too. Just be aware a couple of years ago someone stole my food from the fridge, they provide stickers and pens. I don't stay there as often as it's busy.

 

[wiggydiggy]

Yes all the facilities, at Windermere the campers kitchen etc is in a bungalow type building and there's sockets there was someone charging their ebike one time🙂 can use the main hostel kitchen too. Just be aware a couple of years ago someone stole my food from the fridge, they provide stickers and pens. I don't stay there as often as it's busy.

That's a shame about the food, I've stayed in a few hostels and luckily have never had that. I wouldn't stay Windermere either to be honest, Borrowdale looked good when I went past it (I was camping in Seatoller).

I'm definitely looking into it, I can get 50% discount off membership with Cycling UK.
Had a look online and there are 22 hostels with camping UK wide, good choice.

 

[matticus]

Borrowdale

Family connection here: that was the YHA where sister had her first proper* job!

*We don't count the boring government clerk jobs she had

 

[wiggydiggy]

The most nicest and memorable Hostel I've stayed in was in Winchester, spanned the river and was incredibly well kept.

The worst was one above an 'Irish Pub' in Amsterdam, just some bunkbeds above the pub and no kitchen facilities. Bleugh!

 

[fossyant]

Set up for the night.

 

[fossyant]

Good trip if tiring. Arrived in Prestatyn around 1pm so did some shopping (birthday present for daughter) then checked in to the site. Set up the awning and managed a sit down for a while (very hot). Off to coast for MrsF and daughter to swim with friends (from when we had a static in the area). Chippy for tea, and back to site for 7:30. Chilled out with a fire.

Noticed next but one plot couldn't start car, and plot next to us was about to push it. I ran to my boot and produced a battery jump starter. Got the car going immediately. First time camper who had been charging their phone and had doors open.

Went to bed about 11ish. Crash bang whallop at around 1:30am, as next door's gazebo took off and crashed into my van.

Brand new gazebo, ruined immediately - I'd jumped out, pulled it off the van and was pulling it down, before the lady next door got out of bed. The stupid idiot hadn't even tied it down. Scratched my van, but I'll polish that out.

Then to Llyn Padarn for Kayak and paddleboarding. Got soaked in the end as the rain came in, so everything was dripping going back into the van.

Tired now but fitted a lot into about 30 hours.