Five Wyches Camping Site

tanya20071984

The owners of this campsite are unfriendly, outright rude, and the most unwelcoming people you will ever meet. Right from the offset of our arrival, just getting the code for the padlock to get on site, you get an unwelcome feeling. Like you are intruding on them. We witnessed them being very rude to another set of campers about their friend popping by to visit at 3pm in the afternoon.!! We then also had a run in with both the owners on our one night stay. ||If by some unknown means you even accidentally break one of their many rules, they are on you like wasps from a nest and instantly ban you from returning ever!! Their body language and manners are very threatening and intimidating . Never have we been treated in this way camping or any other place. I believe in treating people how you wish to be treated. Intimidating and bullying like behaviour should never have to be tolerated by anyone. The owners of this campsite need to have a good inward look at themselves and their approach to the people who have paid to camp. With the attitude they currently have, they should not be in a setting where the public is involved. ||As the owners appear to live on site in their caravan, they watch and scrutinise everything campers do. One of the owners just sits in his chair all day watching the campers !! No smiling, no chat just projecting his miserable attitude of YOU ARE NOT WELCOME!!. It's very off-putting !! Why even have a campsite if you don't like campers? ||As I have been to this campsite before and had a lovely time ( before the owners moved onto the site !!) It never occurred to me to check the reviews . I SOOOO wish I had. ||Worst camping experience of my life, and we camped approximately 10-12 times a year all over the country. ||Also, they cancelled our booking on pitch up so we couldn't put a review on their booking page. Which I have reported them for, as this doesn't allow for the true picture of what it is really like now to be on their site now.

Stephen M

What should be a brilliant campsite is marred by aggressive & intimidating hosts. We were a group of six out for my birthday, yes we may have been louder than others, but we're adults (in an adult only campsite) ask us to keep it down and we will oblige. What they did was storm over, swipe a load of items off the table while shouting at us to stop taking "that drugs" (I assume she meant the citronella). Then tell us we had to leave now (11.30pm) and they were calling the police. The husband joined her and shone torches directly in our faces while still yelling at us! It was all a bit interrogation technique. ||Clearly we left the next morning, at which point the violent shouty lady was conspicuously absent while the husband followed us to the gate (walking alongside one car) taking photos.||Lastly, at midnight they removed our booking from pitchup.com meaning we can't leave a review. They forgot about the rest of the internet. ||Violent, aggressive, intimidating. They live on site in a tent so you can't miss them.||Avoid this like the plague!!

Amanda H

Pros - The most quiet site we've been on. Nice site. You can pitch on grass or in a woodland section. The loos looked cute, with flowers and nicely decorated. The shower is hot and nice (but has an issue) Lots of recycling areas. The stars!!! Amazing stars. Cons - The compost loos. I am unsure what's going on with them. The smell was horrendous. It burnt my eyes lol. I've encountered loads of composting loos, and none have ever smelled like this. Something is wrong somewhere. Also with the loo. You can see better at night when the solar light comes on. But they are dark in the daytime. Maybe change the roof to a clear one. I didn't like the showers. As a woman i felt quite vulnerable as there is no door. Its a kind of U shape and you just turn the slate sign to vacant or occupied. All the ladies in our group took somebody else with them so they felt safe. There is a no driving rule after 9. So i arranged prior, when we went out for a meal, to come back later. Its a bit annoying that rule. It means that you can't go to the pub or a long day out as you please. I've never seen that rule applied so early. I stayed at 1 site once, where it was 11pm. We all really liked this site despite my seemingly long cons list, they are fairly small things that could be changed without huge hassle. I will definitely be back though at some point. We will also recommend this site.

Robert S

Aggressive and unstable hosts!||We booked three pitches for 6 adults in total. we were enjoying the fire pit and sitting chatting laughing and having a good time. at about 11pm the female host ran over to us screaming, shining torches in our faces, shouting "that drugs" pointing at the citronella incense, all this after she's swiped half of our table of things with her arm, knocking drinks and food everywhere.||A simple "can you quieten down" would have been enough, but it's possible their judgement may have been off based on how drunk they both seemed..||At 4 minutes passed midnight she cancelled our booking on pitch.up so we couldn't leave a review, pointless really as we've contacted pitch.up directly.||AVOID AT ALL COSTS!

Bridget C

Ebbie P

From my 30 years plus camping, never have I come across campsite warden so rude and aggressive. We had a guest visit us for an evening BBQ, by doing so we broke one of their unwritten rules that we did not know about-, to ask permissions for visitors and sharing the gate code with our trusted visitor. Unfortunately our visitor struggled to lock the gate and when she explained this to the female warden the reply was "I don't give a f***". The body language from was aggressive and extremely confrontational from the moment we arrived.We were astonished by their attitude They should not be working in a front facing service and seriously need some customer service training. We were then told we were banned as they had enough of us. Apart from this, great location and well maintained site. I would never recommend a stay here.

Ferrari gill

Rustic site with both electric and non electric pitches. Outdoor shower and two eco toilets. Small shop onsite for wood. Bonfires allowed. Adults only and dogs welcome. Great dog walking field. Location spot on and literally a stone’s throw from Dartmoor National Park. We camped here for 2 nights on an electric pitch. Peaceful site. Will definitely come back again once we are completely off-grid for non-electric pitch which offer complete privacy but enjoyed our short trip and fellow campers were very pleasant, hook up was easily accessible, bonfires supplied. Owners were really nice people and stayed on site. Everything was kept clean and tidy. Highly recommend.

Harry D