Chilled meet on the Gower (due to Play Cancellation) 23rd-27th July

Ok, so sadly the Play Festival has had to be cancelled due to a flooded/muddy site. So that people don't feel like they booked holiday, bus/train/plane tickets or bought tents all in vain, I decided to try and arrange a bit of a chilled meet up down on the south coast of Wales on the Gower. We had a bit of a chat and picked Llangennith as the spot to go to as it has a lovely large beach where the water is relatively safe to swim in and people surf there a lot. There are also quite a lot of campsites around that area so we should be able to get quite a few people spaces at such short notice. We may not all end up in the same campsite, but that's not so bad as we can meet up on the beach.

I have found a campsite that has space and told me as long as you don't need electric hook ups they see no problem with taking a group of us. I said it would be about 12 of us (as I didn't want to freak them out with a number like 30-40)... and his reply was "mid week is no problem, we only get fully booked on weekends, so if you phone up and book for the Wed/Thursday through to the Sunday on you will get a pitch". It's not the campsite on the beach at Llangennith but that site doesn't like people to book in advance and I thought some people that were coming from a long way or with children would prefer to have a booked pitch before they arrived.

The site is Kennexstone Camping and touring Park. PLEASE DO NOT MENTION FIRE SPINNING WHEN BOOKING. We obviously cannot spin fire on the site and it would only put the owners off allowing you to camp if they thought you might. I ask any of you before booking to read the rules of their park and be sure you feel you can stick to them before you book. If you don't think you can, please don't book. One person annoying them and getting thrown out could get the rest of us thrown out too. Thanks

You can of course take your chance of their being space free at Hillend Campsite and just turn up on the day. The site is lovely and right next to the beach that I would recommend we all meet up at. I think Jon and I will probably be trying to camp here, just because it's a stones throw from the beach.

For those not wishing to camp, there is a Youth Hostel too

I'm not sure this place is available for the weekend as no one answered the phone when I rung,but if 14 of you got together you could hire this place

And for the rich biatches amongst us how about here

For those that will be travelling by public transport you can get to Swansea by train/bus and then catch a bus from Swansea to Llangennith. If there are enough people coming by car we could arrange pick ups on route from swansea too.


For general travel info to the Gower
Train travel
Buses

You will all need to make your own camping arrangements as I don't have the funds to pre book sites for people. Sorry. If you are having travelling problems let us know and we will see what we can work out.

Hey brilliant idea! Llangennith is awesome, Hillend campsite is definately the best place to camp, a great atmosphere on the site and right next to the beach. Like you say it fills up quickly and doesn't take bookings but I reckon if you get there thurs, or even friday morning or you'll be ok.

Could well be a plan... I try and go to hill end at least twice a year camping and its always been great. The beach is about 4 miles of sand - great for spinning, surfing, kite boarding. We usually hike across the tops to the Wyrms Head Inn and then race the tide to the end of the Wyrm and back.

http://i.pbase.com/v3/97/457497/2/46302853.gowwerfromtop.jpg

- view from the tops, pub on the left, wyrm on the right (the peninsula)

...and the dunes are great for parties as you can blast all the music into the Irish channel and nobody gives a monkeys!

Guys who run the campsite can get a bit arsey though and its expensive for a campsite!

Cheers Skully! You're a legend!

No can do unfortunately - its a lot further away for us, and as we're getting a lift from a mates dad a 5hr each way journey just for him to drop us off then do the same thing again on sunday is a bit unfair.

Also, as we're all in small 1 person tents we'd be paying £17-20 EACH a night at that campsite! That'd be over £60 each!

Looks like I'm gonna be stuck in Yorkshire on my days off

Sorry we couldn't help Will. I hope you find something fun to do with your holiday

Anyone looked into the Secret Garden Party? I hear that's a nice festival, and PLAY was the only thing stopping me from going.

Yeah, SGP is looking like the win, assuming they give me free entry for some spinniness. Can't get onto my hotmail until I get home but I'll contact them and let you know the deal in the SGP thread

Hows about this one! Not any further than the Hilltops site, and very reasonable, looks like the Gwithian site!

http://www.pittoncross.co.uk/

There's some others too, looks good n friendly...

God Save Google!

Actually, looks full... I'll ring around

Thanks for all the info and hard work you've put into this skully.

The Hillend site looks lovely and just noticed this in the terms and conditions; "We do not take advance bookings at Hillend. We can however guarantee that we will take all new arrivals between Sunday to Thursday inclusive." so anyone turning up wed or thurs should get a pitch easily enough.

Not sure if I can afford all this at such short notice though

thanks for the hard work guys but it will probably be too much for me . still i could always put it on my credit card will have to think about it

Bump!

Will think about it - there'll be the extra expense of pitches but we thankfully didn't have travel tickets to book and it's not like we're doing anything else, so we may see you there

I'll buy a hat and hoop off you in any case Skuls

Unfortunately I don't think we'll be able to make this any more. It's worked out cheaper to hire a car for the weekend and head to Norwich than to get to Wales and camp......sucks!

But we is off to meet Spiral at a beer festival - so that should be fun.

Cool Chelly! Have a fun time!!

Will do. Oooh, and I meant to ask - what colour/size hoops have you made up?

Only I've been meaning to buy one from your site for a while now, and never seem to get round to it. Might be able to take one off your hands....

Ooooh that is very interesting indeed! My grandparents own a little bungalow in the Gower holiday village so I may even be able to make use of that, which'd be pretty sweet! I shall have to make further enquiries, but I'll definitely be watching this thread!

Hi Skully thanks for all the hard work and effort.
This sounds Fun so count me in.
And Photonix if your comming i hope that offer of tea still stands.

I'm sure tea can be made for whoever wants some. Look forward to seeing everyone that comes along. If we make a list of people probably coming, towards the middle of next week, I'm sure for all the people needing to travel on public transport most of the way we can work out lifts from Swansea to Llangennith once you have arrived.