New pitch your own tent glampsite

[BagpussSeesAllThings]

See all you Holt Farmers there tomorrow, look out for the guy with a giraffe on his head 🦒

[Toilet Duck]

4 hours ago, JB IN TD said:

We are also Holt Farm Thursday arrivals, look forward to hearing from the Wednesday crew that it as good as it seems! Pleased they have now allowed a second lead booker, makes the checking in for split arrivals much easier too. The comms from them has been v good

Oh, 2nd lead booker is dead handy. How do you do that? Saves me having to hang around for the stragglers!

[BagpussSeesAllThings]

5 minutes ago, Toilet Duck said:

Oh, 2nd lead booker is dead handy. How do you do that? Saves me having to hang around for the stragglers!

We have the same issue. I tried emailing them but got this auto reply

[Toilet Duck]

16 minutes ago, BagpussSeesAllThings said:

We have the same issue. I tried emailing them but got this auto reply

I might just see if I can talk my way into it when I check in! 

[august1]

Bit odd no social media presence for 11 days 

 

No map as promised 

[JB IN TD]

If you email live@holtfarm.co.uk you can name a second lead booker for sure. They emailed me back v quickly. It's in the updated website FAQs. 

[JB IN TD]

9 hours ago, Toilet Duck said:

I might just see if I can talk my way into it when I check in! 

If you email live@holtfarm.co.uk you can name a second lead booker for sure. They emailed me back v quickly. It's in the updated website FAQs.

[JB IN TD]

Sorry if this comes through a third time but previous posts "hidden" and I've no idea what that means! Poss something to do with including an email address?

 

Anyway if you email live at holtfarm co uk you can name a second lead booker, they replied v quickly to me yesterday. 

 

Cheers all, here we go!

Edited Wednesday at 06:27 AM by JB IN TD
Typo

[Toilet Duck]

3 hours ago, JB IN TD said:

If you email live@holtfarm.co.uk you can name a second lead booker for sure. They emailed me back v quickly. It's in the updated website FAQs.

Thanks, did that and yep, replied in no time saying they had sorted as requested! Excellent!! 
 

 

[Essex_George]

anyone in Holt Farm yet?

[cb4747]

31 minutes ago, Essex_George said:

anyone in Holt Farm yet?

Patiently waiting for pics or details on the campsite. They've just posted to insta and I won't lie it does look fancy! 

[stuart_wright444]

I’m in, this place is great

[cb4747]

9 minutes ago, stuart_wright444 said:

I’m in, this place is great

Any pics of the camping areas? 

[august1]

Is there two car parks? We got sent into first entrance but the tent is far side 

[cb4747]

4 minutes ago, august1 said:

Is there two car parks? We got sent into first entrance but the tent is far side 

How far was the walk? 

[august1]

8 minutes ago, cb4747 said:

How far was the walk? 

Only 10-15 mins. But seems there's another car park 2 mins away.  Seems a bit odd to not allocate spaces near your tent

[stuart_wright444]

35 minutes ago, cb4747 said:

How far was the walk? 

I’m in the far corner, it was 5% of the usual struggle. A trolley is still needed.

[stuart_wright444]

45 minutes ago, cb4747 said:

Any pics of the camping areas? 

[cb4747]

1 minute ago, stuart_wright444 said:

Great! Look how yellow it is. 
I've got a outwell starhill 5a air tent, dimensions are 460 x 320 so cutting it fine, lucky the ropes don't need to go far. 
So excited!

Overall, what do you think of Holt Farm so far? 

[DTichborne]

If the reports come back good from this, I'm definitely doing it if we get tickets next year. We last went in 2022 and the long treks with our gear left us wrecks for two days.

[Toilet Duck]

Trek from car to entrance was as below…pitch was a mere 30 second walk further…seamless entry, if none of the other things that were listed come to pass, I would have paid it to essentially park beside the tent!

 

Edited Wednesday at 05:43 PM by Toilet Duck

[DTichborne]

Just read that it's the same people who do the nice camping at Latitude, which we very much enjoyed. And it's pretty near to where we've always camped so it wouldn't feel much different in a lot of ways. Just much less hassle and some nice facilities to use in the morning and late evening. I'm very up for this if we get tickets again. 

[tarw]

I would bet that it will be a lot dearer next year. 
I’ve got a feeling that this year it was done in a rush because they couldn’t agree terms with GEFL for using it for parking. Which is why Sticklinch didn’t have enough parking spaces 

[DTichborne]

Next question: are there enough showers and nice loos for everyone this morning? Say yes and it's an absolute definite for me next year* if it wasn't already. 

 

* Subject to, you know. 

[Old_Johno]

21 minutes ago, DTichborne said:

Next question: are there enough showers and nice loos for everyone this morning? Say yes and it's an absolute definite for me next year* if it wasn't already. 

 

* Subject to, you know. 

I would 100% book this even without the glamping bits.

If we got two tents on it maybe £50 a person. I’d pay to be able to go for a walk and not come back to someone having pulled all the pegs and lines out of half our tent to shove an extra tent in on Thursday afternoon. 
 

You can skip the queuing overnight nonsense, and arrive whenever you like so you avoid the traffic. You could even arrive Thursday and not have to stress about finding a camping spot, if you’re self employed you’re making a saving there by working an extra day. 
 

Shorter walk from the car instead of 45-60 minutes. Presume less car park stress on Mondays? I think if anything they’ve undervalued it.