Brick Kiln Farm

A wonderful place!

It was the first camping trip of the year for my two children and me.  And it was a perfect place to be. The kids loved all the facilities - especially the trampoline.  Tina has created a campsite which makes you feel so at home - the flat ground everywhere on the site meant that there were no preferred best spots - the blissfully hot showers meant you had no excuse to go home unwashed! And there were wonderful finishing touches where ever you looked.  A communal kitchen area provided a table to eat at, cooking facilities, utensils, crockery and pots and pans. There were games, an honesty shop, and even a table tennis room.  There's a fully fitted Wendy house for the little ones, and for the older ones you can plug in your laptop in the communal area and update your travel blog!.  We cooked our meals on open fires, and there's plenty of wood available in the store.  Tina was thoroughly charming and made us feel completely at home.

We has a relaxing, fun, comfortable, and welcoming stay at Brick Kiln Farm and I would recommend it to anyone who desires the simple charms of camping.  I can't think of a single fault.

I stayed at the campsite for two nights with a friend and our three children. I'm not that keen on camping but from my experience at Brick Kiln Farm has changed that a bit. A lovely small site, very clean with showers, toilets, kitchen with fridge and freezer to use as well as points to charge your phone and iPad at no extra cost. The children loved the trampoline, swing boat and swing and also making new friends. The noise from children of all ages playing and having fun was a joy.

The fires were a great hit and most tents lit a fire in the evening. Children curfew on play equipment was adhered to by all so children going to bed was nit disrupted by noisy children.

The owners were very polite. We accidentally pitched up on wrong pitch and the owners were brilliant in sorting it out and we did not have to move. 

Lovely area to explore.

Will definitely going back next year. Perfect for a short break and exploring and just off the A12 with signposts to the campsite.

Thank you.

We have just returned from Brick kiln farm and absolutely loved it!! Everything is just perfect and Tina and Sophie obviously care a lot about their campers and campsite which reflected in amazing attention to detail. Had to drag my little boy away today but loved it so much have already re-booked for next week!! It is a perfect haven for a bit of R & R which is also great for kids cant wait for next week now :-)

I really want to give a shockingly bad review so that Brick Kiln Farm will always be able to fit me in!!!

But I just can't!!!

I travel 5 hours from Cheshire to visit this site and have been twice and it just gets better and better!!

Nothing is too much trouble, a warm welcome is guaranteed, the attention to detail is quite frankly ridiculous!!! Plates cutlery,wine glasses, pans, lanterns,board games to borrow!!!! The barn has a comfy sofa, a radio ,table and chairs ,said board games, crayons, paper,books, an honesty shop, a calor gas stove(!!!) and most importantly bunting!! It's a bunting kind of a place if you know what I mean??

A trampoline for the children ,swings, a Shetland pony (yes) and a toddler den clear the field for lads dads ( and brave mums and gals) to have a whole camp football match without any tents getting banged...the play space is incredible!!

There is a greenhouse in the orchard where you can sit peacefully and cosily at a table and read a book or newspaper out of the wind ( see what I mean about attention to detail??)

Fires!! Yay!!

The toilet facilities are amazing, clean pleasant and a power point for those who need straighteners,dryers etc...the dressing table ( yes I know!!!) even has cotton wool, ear buds, tissues!! There is a massive family shower room that means parents can hose off, dry,redress,toilet and nappy change the whole family !! Three single showers also for those who don't wash our children.

There is NO CHARGE for re freezing blocks or chilling your beer, showers, charging phones etc but don't tell Sophie and Tina other places do ha ha!!

I camp at least 6/7 times a year and this is my absolute favourite!! I urge you to go... but leave a space for me!!!

Originally we came to this site 4 years ago when I was looking for a place that did campfires, where someone wouldn't mind having a 21st birthday group and was reasonably priced. Tina was very welcoming and was happy to give us a space (we had 4 or 5 tents I believe).

Since then we have been back every year, the facilities have improved immensely since our first visit with a new shower and toilet block and
the barn area is a great place to sit in for a while and play some games if you don't want to unload your car in the rain. It's within easy driving distance of some lovely beaches and seaside towns and we received a leaflet saying what was
on nearby last time we were there and ended up in a nearby village which was hosting a farmers market.

There a loads of little things provided to make you feel at home, marshmallows are even available on site in case you forgot to bring some.

We have just made another booking for July and we are all really looking forward to going back. 

We stayed last August 2013 with our 3 children aged 2, 5 & 7. When we arrived we were impress  with it's beautiful location, we found our welcome as we had been told. 

We pitched up and had 3 of the best nights camping ever. So much so we have told anyone who will listen that they HAVE to go there. 

Perfectly located  for exploring Suffolk, long walks and quite nights round the camp fire.

It is very well equipped, we bought the wrong gas for our cooker and fortunately the communal shabby chic barn had 2 stoves set up and free to use.  There was also an honesty shop for the odd things you might need, which we used for fire wood and marshmallows, oh and tea lights. Fab idea. Very quaint indeed. 

The swings and trampoline kept our kids occupied for hours and so did the gorgeous little pony Snudge. 

All in all we can't say how fabulous Brick Kiln is and we are raring to return. 

The owners who work as well as let people stay on their beautiful farm were lovely. Very welcoming and very helpful. 

Give it a go, you will not regret it!!

Emma, Simon, Harrison, Emerson and Maisie xxx

I have nothing but praise for Brick Kiln campsite.  We are avid campers and have been all over the country but for our long weekends we choose to go to Brick Kiln (which is only 3 miles from where we live!).  We have camped here about four times now and are set to return this weekend!  It is a safe, easygoing campsite with spacious pitches and great facilities.  A big bonus is the fact you can have campfires!  My kids love it here, they spend hours at the communal trampoline making new friends and we are reassured that they are playing in a safe and secure environment!  Tina and Sophie are very helpful and friendly.  I am really looking forward to our stay this weekend with friends!

I wanted to write a positive review of Brick Kiln Farm. I wanted to...

We stayed over the recent Easter holidays in our bell tent and old VW campervan and for the first two nights, the site was idyllic. Lovely flat pitches, a homely honesty shop, beautiful views, hot showers, plenty for our young children to do and campfires allowed. I would have overlooked the fact that once the site got busy on Good Friday, the showers no longer worked. That is often to be expected at busy times at many sites. Besides, we were having a great time and had met some lovely fellow campers.

 However, on our fourth day (we were booked in for five days, four nights) we came back to the site early afternoon having spent the day in Southwold and were rather taken aback to find that the campsite owner, Tina, had given half our pitch away and in the place where our campervan chocks were sited next to our bell tent (where they'd been all week and were clearly visible), another tent had been pitched, meaning we could no longer park our van on our pitch.

We found Tina to ask what had happened, presuming it was a mistake, but she explained another tent and small caravan had pitched two pitches away from us the night before and had been late departing so she told the new campers to pitch across half of our pitch, ignoring our chocks. Our children (6 and 9) sleep in our campervan and we sleep in the bell tent so having them side-by-side is an imperative most families will understand and appreciate. Not so Tina and Brick Kiln it seems. We were told another family the other side of us were leaving that night so we could park our van the other side (opposite the tent opening). We explained this wasn't secure enough for the children as we could neither see or hear them that way but were met with shrugged shoulders and an 'it's not my fault' reply.

To cut a long story short, we talked to the new campers next to us who were less than friendly and unwilling to move, so we decided our only option was to end our holiday a day early and pack up and leave that evening. It took just over an hour to pack up the bell tent and campervan, during which time we repeatedly tried to find Tina to tell her we had decided to go and to settle up, but she was nowhere to be found. We drove home tired and very disappointed.

A few days after returning home I received an invoice for the final balance of our stay, charging us for the full 4 nights. I emailed back to explain the situation and to pay for 3 nights as I was sure Tina and Sophie (who handles bookings) would recall the situation and be understanding. However, I was told in no uncertain terms that their cancellation policy is 48 hours notice and they would not budge. Sophie refused to acknowledge that they were responsible for giving away half of our pitch and instead said in hindsight, we should have booked two pitches to accommodate our tent and campervan - an unusual stance as our van was parked next to our tent in the same way as every other camper on the site parked their car. Sadly, Brick Kiln didn't feel the need to give us an apology, they did however say that it was Bank Holiday, the site was busy, it was 'just one of those things' and that 'there were no other issues of that kind over the weekend'. Way to make us feel like it was our fault hey?

We've stayed a lots of campsites over the years and this is the first time we've encountered a situation like this. Of course sites get busy over long bank holiday weekends but as a paying visitor, you expect the campsite owners to have a plan for that, to only take bookings for the number of pitches they have, and to enforce their departure times on campers who occupy pitches long after their entitlement, to precisely avoid situations like the one they put us in. Failing all that, you expect that the campsite owner will do everything within their power to put the situation right when things go wrong, not shrug their shoulders and say it's 'just one of those things'.

I'm afraid therefore that I have to only give Brick Kiln Farm 1 star. It's a good site in a beautiful location but sadly, Tina and Sophie need to work a bit harder on their pitch management and customer care. The situation they put us in wasn't our fault and if we had had even a hint of an apology or a resolution to restore our pitch, we'd have gladly given the site 4 stars. A real shame. We won't be going back I don't think.