This is a slightly new format – life has been a little hectic lately -in that the entire trip will be summarised in a couple of blog posts. The original plan was to spend the entire trip at the New Forest Caravan Club Centenary site but it seemed likely that we would need to curtail the visit so in order to obtain the appropriate refund we issued the 72 hours notice and received our refund on the outstanding portion of the stay.

In the end, we arrived on Wednesday 24th August 2016 and departed on Friday 2nd September 2016.

We arrived on site close to the 12:00 opening time and had reserved a fully serviced pitch. There aren’t many pitches which are fully serviced and we had the choice of one on arrival. A perfectly acceptable hard-standing location but not positioned to catch the afternoon / evening sunshine. And for once, there was an abundance of fine weather though the entirety of our stay.

The site itself was completely full. In fact there were even semi-temporary grass pitches squeezed in at various locations.

The site, as one would expect of a Club site, was very well maintained and the shower / toilet block facilities were kept nice and clean.