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Family fun, dog friendly & beautiful beaches at Southland
Situated on the outskirts of the small village of Newchurch in the beautiful Arreton Valley, Southland Club Campsite is a great location to enjoy your holiday. Half the island is a designated Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty and there are over 120 attractions and places of interest for you and your family to visit including the Needles, Carisbrooke Castle and Osborne House.
Southland Club Campsite is a great choice for an Isle of Wight campsite. It has flat, level, well drained meadowland pitches as well as a large playground and play areas. Trees and shrubs punctuate the site layout, giving a peaceful feeling of privacy. The campsite is convenient for all parts of the island, and within easy reach of some of the finest beaches.
The island has an excellent bus transport system and you can catch buses from the Isle of Wight Zoo which frequently run into Sandown and Newport. Sandown and Shanklin are only 3 miles by road and both of these towns share the same sheltered bay with its sandy beaches and safe bathing, perfect for families. Newchurch village with its charming Norman church is five minutes on foot and there you will also find a pleasant country inn serving fresh, hearty food.
The garlic farm, a short distance from the site, is said to make the best coffee on the island. Slightly further afield there are loads of fun activities available including sea and freshwater fishing, golf, tennis, squash, swimming, horse riding, windsurfing, sailing and more. The information room at the site offers plenty more ideas for getting out and about in the local area.
Ferries to the Isle of Wight
The ferry from Portsmouth to Fishbourne takes as little as 35 minutes, with crossings from Lymington and Southampton also on offer. To book any of these crossings, visit camc.com/crossings or call us on 01342 316101.
Members can save 6% off selected saver fares with Red Funnel, 20% off economy caravan rates/up to 50% discount off economy motorhome rates on Wightlink ferry crossings. To find out more visit camc.com/ferryoffers.
Great news - Fast check-in at Southlands Club campsite is now here to stay. Five days prior to your arrival, you will receive instructions by Text on how to use fast check-in and to confirm your vehicle registration. For more information visit camc.com/fastcheckin.
Please note: Portsmouth City has a Clean Air Zone. Whilst Southland Club Campsite is not within this zone, the Wightlink Ferry Terminal in Portsmouth is. We advise members to review Portsmouth's Clean Air Zone and check at Gov. UK Clean Air Zone if charges may apply for your vehicle to drive into the city or pass through the zone on your journey to site.
Additional ways to stay:
Storage pitches - available here. Visit camc.com/storage.
Seasonal pitches - rent one of our pitches on a long term basis. Visit camc.com/seasonals.
Glamping - book a glamping holiday on this site by visiting experiencefreedom.co.uk.
Cottages - Cockerwell Cottage, a 5 bedroom cottage sleeping up to 10 people, is available to rent on this site. Visit camc.com/southlandholidaycottage.
To contact the campsite directly, please call 01983 865385.
Nearest alternative campsites: Rookesbury Park Club Campsite, Black Knowl Club Campsite, New Forest Centenary Club Campsite and Rowan Park Club Campsite.
*Book any pitch, at any UK Club campsite for any date and duration with only a £5 fully refundable deposit plus FREE cancellations and FREE amendments up to 21 days before arrival. Applies to any non-promotional booking.
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Battle Abbey (English Heritage)
Battle Abbey is a great value day out for the whole family.
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Carisbrooke Castle (English Heritage)
Enjoy a visit to Carisbrooke Castle, an artillery fortress, king's prison and a royal summer residence.
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Dimbola Museum & Galleries
Exhibitions of contemporary and historic photography and displays about the Isle of Wight Music Festival.
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Directions
From East Cowes on the A3021: in 3 miles at the roundabout turn left onto the A3054 (Ryde); in 1 mile at The Cedars Inn turn right at traffic lights; at first mini roundabout turn left (Robin Hill); at the traffic lights (Hare and Hounds public house) do not follow sat nav; instead continue straight down the hill to Arreton. At the T-junction turn left onto the A3056 towards Sandown. Turn third left past Fighting Cocks Roadhouse. From Fishbourne: continue to traffic lights and turn right (Newport); turn left at next traffic lights (Cedar Inn); then as above. From Yarmouth: on A3054 leave Newport onto A3020, then A3056 (Sandown); in 5.5 miles turn third left past Fighting Cocks (signposted Newchurch).
Sites key:
- Postcode:
- PO36 0LZ
- GPS:
- Lat 50.65951 / Lon -1.213506
- Plan a route to this site
- OS field ref:
- SZ556847
- OS map ref:
- 196
- Handbook map ref:
- J2
Transport links
- Bus stop within 1 mile
- Buses go to: Sandown, Ryde and Newport
- Car hire on site
- Daily public Transport within 1 mile
- Nearest port: {0}
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Fantastic, Peaceful Stay
Southland Club Campsite
Centrally located within the Isle of Wight, the site is within easy reach of everything the island has to offer. It is also just a simple and straightforward drive from the East Cowes car ferry, taking only approx. 25mins.
The site has very well spaced apart pitches and is very peaceful. The Pointer Inn, Newchurch, which is just a 10min drive from the site is a must. It offers great food and has a very nice atmosphere. Highly recommended, but needs booking.
However, you need to watch your caravan length on some pitches as those over approx. 7.5m may find issues. It's worth making sure when you arrive as to which ones are suitable, as driving around could be a pain.
Also, I'm glad that we went while the school kids were back at school. I would imagine that it could be a bit loud otherwise. Would definitely go back an use again.
Nice site, Watch your van length
Southland Club CampsiteThis is a large site but is laid out in several copses with hedgeing and no-mow areas. Its nice to look at but many pitches have restrictive lengths and my 7.5 metre long van had to pitch on a "7 metre pitch" with the hitchhead fouling the site road and a cone in front of it. I also had agressive birds and there was noise from the country lane behind the site at night, there are some houses on this lane and the residents don't care how loud they are! The facilities block was clean with plenty of hot water available. The wifi was poor and my mobile reception was also patchy on occasions. although my iphone and ipad would pick up the wifi and sign in, they often wouldn't be usable, however my old andriod phone with bt wifi app worked well and my laptop connected easily and worked well. My holiday was a combined ferry and site booking and the interaction with the ferry company was fine. Finally all the site staff I encountered were pleasant and they run a small shop on site which i and others found very useful. Overall verdict was that I enjoyed my stay and i would return to the site but I might book a hardstanding pitch because for the longer van they are better.
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Might be better off-season
Southland Club Campsite
Very friendly team running the site and kept spotlessly clean.
But (and bear in mind this was August), I found the site noisy even for a family site.
We’ve got kids and people need to enjoy their holidays, but music outside of vans well past 11pm, kids racing around on scooters until similar time (constantly round and around for hours every night!) but no management of it whatsoever.
I’ve never experienced this level and scale of noise at a Caravan Club site before and I think it would make me look elsewhere next time I’m on the IOW, especially in high season.
Great Club Site
Southland Club Campsite
We had a lovely 4 night stay here for what was my first trip to the IoW. Staff were friendly and helpful, the site was well maintained and the facilities were clean and well appointed. Wi-Fi not good on hard standing pitches...had to head near reception to get online.
Toilet and shower facilities were always clean and never busy...no queuing for loo or shower! We did see some queuing to do washing up but we just avoided the busy time and never had to wait. The only time I saw any part of the site which needed cleaning was the washing up area where other campers hadn't bothered to clean up after themselves, which seems to be the only situation in which people are not considerate of their fellow campers, which is a shame.
We will definitely return to the island for another visit and will stay at Southland again for sure.
Ferry booked via CAMC from Southampton rather than Portsmouth saving us over £100!!
Mixed Feelings
Southland Club Campsite
This was our first visit to the Isle of Wight. We knew that like most sites that we wouldn't be able to check in until after 12 noon and had registered for the "fast check in" which is being trialed at this site.
We arrived at around 1130hrs and parked up. The site has a massive forecourt which was literally empty. We used the facilities as we'd had a long journey and had quick look at pitch availability. As we made our way back to our van at approximately 1145hrs we were confronted by a female staff member asking whether one of the now two vehicles on the forecourt was ours. We said yes and would she like us to move, expecting her to say no, to which she said yes as they were "expecting 20 arrivals" and couldn't have a queue out onto the road! She also asked the motorhome behind us to move and when told it was too big to turn around she replied that she would open the gates and he could turn around in the site!! Feeling a bit put out we travelled 5 mins down to the road to Goddard's brewery, had a quick look round, came back and then on the dot of 1201hrs we entered the site! The large van was still there so not sure whether he did move and there was one other car. We set up and then walked to the brewery passing reception where there was now NO ONE waiting to check in which remained the case for the 4 days we were there. Although 20 arrivals may have been anticipated (although I'm not sure this was accurate given the site was pretty full) the likelihood of them all arriving on the dot on 1200hrs is very small.
We have been to other CAMC sites where we have arrived a few minutes early and have been allowed to wait and not effectively told to "get lost".
We understand there are rules but we have never been made to feel so unwelcome at a CAMC site. As a result we didn't interact with any of the staff members for fear of breaching yet another rule (CAMC seem to love a rule) and incurring another telling off.
No queue for showers (water was hot) or toilets but we had to queue on a couple of occasions for washing up facilities and the water was lukewarm.
Location of the site is good if you want to explore via bus or as we did by bike on the Red Squirrel trail. If you plan to eat at the pub down the road then book in advance as inside tables are limited.
We'd like to say we'd go back but given the shoddy "welcome" we probably won't which is a shame.
Site contact details
- Telephone:
- 01983 865385
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