We were at a camping site nestled just behind the infamous Chesil Beach near Weymouth. East Fleet Touring Park is immaculate with easy-going friendly staff and wonderful sea and fleet views (although you could not actually see the sea from our pitch.)
Arrival
We arrived mid-afternoon – the usual two hours later than we had planned. The approach to the site is down a narrow lane with speed bumps that are not obvious until you hit them! Although narrow – there are plenty of parking places for caravans and motorhomes to pass each other. It is at this point that you notice the sheer beauty of the location with the sun shining on a field of hay leading to the lagoon, Chesil Beach, and beyond. We immediately knew we were going to like camping at this Weymouth site.
There is a large bay for new Weymouth camping arrivals to wait and looks like it could accommodate the biggest of outfits. As is usual when checking into sites these days, the reception comes to you. We were directed to the Stable Field which was what we requested as the pitches were advertised as larger and level. We were allocated pitch 399 but drove around a few times due to a lack of signposting or pitch numbers although we did have a map. We then realised that the pitch numbers were sunk into the floor. As promised, the pitch was huge with electricity and water on a bollard hidden in a hedge right next to our pitch.
East Fleet is affiliated to the Caravan and Motorhome Club of which we are members and the facilities matched or even surpassed the high standards of the club sites. There is a bar on site which we didn’t use but looked bustling. The toilets were always immaculate with several family rooms with toilet, sink and shower. There were plenty of washing-up places and an elsan together with a motorhome service point. These were the facilities just for our field and there were larger facilities in other parts of the site.
There are three food vans on site – Portland Pizza, a fish & chip van and something serving breakfasts. It was pizza night when we arrived and food needed to be ordered via an app that had to be downloaded. The food vans are very handy when you cannot be bothered to cook but we took advantage of a nearby Papa John’s Pizza who deliver to the site and were better value – however stonebaked pizzas cooked in front of you at the site on a warm summer’s evening did have great appeal.
There is a bus at the top of the lane (a long hard walk in a heatwave) which cost us £8 for a single into Weymouth for two adults and two kids. After that, we used taxis which were also £8, and picked us up at the site and delivered us to our favorite part of Weymouth’s award-winning beach.
There are plenty of things to do in Weymouth but by far the most enjoyable was the Weymouth Bay Blast where we all sat on a very fast RIB boat and that was really the first time that we used our GoPro Hero 9 camera to film an action video which can be found at the foot of the page. Check out our other videos on our YouTube channel: 2twinsters
The camping facility that our twin boys were most impressed with was the playground which was timber built with a massive choice of challenges. One thing that it lacked was a few benches for the parents.
All in all a great site but we were lucky to have been there on the hottest week of the year so far. If Weymouth had been better for parking we would have taken the campervan more. However, we did drive to Bowlease Cove which was good and has a good restaurant looking over the sea which in that week looked like the Med.
We would definitely return to East Fleet.
