Old Barn Touring Park

From £16.80 For 1 night, 4 adults 8.7 125 reviews
Pitches by the pond (added by manager 05 Aug 2022)
Tent on the pitch (added by manager 01 oct 2015)
Grass pitches (added by manager 05 aug 2022)
Old barns campsite june 2022 (added by visitor 27 jun 2022)

  • Family-run park with spacious pitching areas
  • A couple of miles from Sandown Bay and Shanklin
  • Reduced ferry price for customers
Old Barn Touring Park is named after its Grade II-listed thatched barn at the park entrance, now used as a games room for rainy days or lazy hours. It’s a family-run park with pitches all set in a number of small areas secluded by hedges and with only a handful of pitches per spot. A communal patio has free wifi. Once heading off site, there’s a bus running from Newport to Ryde within five minutes’ walk of the park, and the sandy beaches of Sandown Bay and Shanklin are within a couple of miles. Elsewhere on site there’s a tiled amenities block with spacious showers, an outdoor play area for the under-eights, a big family bathroom and a reception area with info on things to do on the Isle of Wight. There’s no food shop, but the site sells camping and Calor gas and has ice pack freezing, and two supermarkets are just down the road. The Old Barn team (a friendly and helpful gang made up of Terry, Emma and Gary) can arrange ferries for guests at a reduced price: let them know using the 'special requests' when you book.

Site type

Tent pitches 15
Motorhome pitches 15
Touring caravan pitches 15
Lodges, cabins, pods or huts 4
Caravans for hire 2
Open now
Please note
  • The site does not accept breeds/crossbreeds listed in the Dangerous Dogs Act (i.e. Pit Bull Terrier, Japanese Tosa, Dogo Argentino, and Fila Brasileiro).
  • No hen/stag parties permitted via Pitchup.com.
  • A charge of £0.20 applies for the use of the shower.
  • Reception is unmanned after 5 p.m.. Please inform the site while on your way there should you expect to arrive after this time, so that the team can provide information about your unit/pitch.
  • Dogs must only be exercised off-site.

Languages spoken

English

Open from Fri, 1 Mar to

Gold David Bellamy Conservation Award

Pitch types & availability

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would recommend this site to a friend

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Only showing reviews for the last 30 months.

Nice flat site. Weather not great, could do with extra hard standings.

Overall 6/10
Location 8
Value for money 8
Accommodation 6
Facilities / Activities 6
Customer service 10
Child friendliness No rating
Cleanliness 10
Wifi 10
Anonymous The reviewer booked through Pitchup.com

Electric grass pitch

Liked: Emma and her partner were amazing. Couldn't do enough to make our stay great.

Disliked: Clean but basic site. Can only improve with these lovely people running it.

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From the manager: Thank you for taking the time to leave us a review, unfortunately the weather has been against us and we will be looking as making improvements to the site as time goes on.

Small basic site

Overall 4/10
Location 8
Value for money 2
Accommodation 2
Facilities / Activities 4
Customer service 2
Child friendliness No rating
Cleanliness 6
Wifi 8
Anonymous The reviewer booked through Pitchup.com

Electric grass pitch

Liked: Central location for getting around

Disliked: We arrived at 5.30pm as stipulated when we booked, so we had to call a number. The gentleman that came to check us in welcomed us with the comment “another VW camper, exactly what I didn’t want to see” despite the fact we made the booking as such. As he continue to speak, it transpired it was due to the heavy rain and flooding, and previous customers ripping up his campground as it was so wet. We had tried to contact them earlier in the day by email and phone to check the latest situation. Had the rain been such a problem, perhaps they should have called their customers and cancelled their bookings rather than make us feel uncomfortable and unwelcome. Site is right on the road side, a lot of noise from traffic. There are 2 showers each, and they are 20p for roughly 4 mins. They are clean enough, but in need of a refurb. They had painted their tiles, and paint was flaking everywhere. We stayed two nights and by the second day only one of the four toilets had loo roll in the ladies.

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From the manager: We are sorry to hear that you did not enjoy your stay. Unfortunately we can not do anything about complaints once you have left the site. If you had spoken to us while you were here we could have rectified the situation at the time. We hope this doesn't put you off visiting the Island again as it is truly a special place.

Great location!

Overall 10/10
Location 10
Value for money 10
Accommodation 10
Facilities / Activities 10
Customer service 10
Child friendliness No rating
Cleanliness 10
Wifi 10
Wendy S. The reviewer booked through Pitchup.com

Electric grass pitch

Liked: In a good location, near to Shanklin and other attractions. Supermarkets were local too, which is a must for motorhoming!. Friendly and efficient service from the owners. A great discount on ferry tickets, too!

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From the manager: Thank you for your lovely review, we are so happy to hear you enjoyed your stay and look forward to seeing you again.

Site was quiet and private just what we were looking for with…

Overall 10/10
Location 10
Value for money 10
Accommodation 10
Facilities / Activities 10
Customer service 10
Child friendliness No rating
Cleanliness 10
Wifi 10
Donna M. The reviewer booked through Pitchup.com

Non-electric grass tent pitch

Liked: Site was quiet and private just what we were looking for with our Dog who loved all the friends he made on the site! We would definitely return to the site as its position was perfect for local amenities and some lovely walks.

Disliked: nothing

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From the manager: Thank you for your lovely review, we are so pleased to hear you enjoyed your stay and look forward to seeing you again in the future.

Adequate…

Overall 8/10
Location 8
Value for money 8
Accommodation 8
Facilities / Activities 6
Customer service 6
Child friendliness 6
Cleanliness 6
Wifi 8
Anonymous The reviewer booked through Pitchup.com

Electric grass pitch

Liked: Adequate

Disliked: Additional payment to shower

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From the manager: We are sorry to hear you wouldn't visit us again. We do advertise the 20p charge for showers to make sure it doesn't come as a surprise to anyone visiting us.

Basic campsite, tent pitches tightly packed.

Overall 6/10
Location 10
Value for money 6
Accommodation 6
Facilities / Activities 4
Customer service 8
Child friendliness No rating
Cleanliness No rating
Wifi No rating
Anonymous The reviewer booked through Pitchup.com

Non-electric grass tent pitch

Liked: Cheap, no frills campsite.

Disliked: Pitches for camping are tightly packed, paying for the shower with no option to reduce temperature & a waste of water when finished as can't switch the water off, pitch had a drain smell, clean water tap in a corner with overgrown bushes so lots of mosquito's.

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From the manager: Thank you for taking the time to leave us a review. We don't feel that our pitches are tightly packed together, our smallest pitches are around 10 meters by 10 meters and that should allow more than enough space between campers. Unfortunately if you pitch yourself directly on top of the edge of the pitch you will be closer to other campers. If you were unhappy with the pitch you were given you would have been more than welcome to move to another pitch but as you didn't ask we would have assumed you were happy with the pitch you were given. We also don't feel that 20p is a huge amount of money to spend on a shower. We do have them set at 38 degrees which is a comfortable temperature. I can't comment on a drain smell as I haven't smelt anything anywhere around the park. The water points are surrounded by bushes but I wouldn't say they are over grown and at this time of year there are a lot of flying insects in general and you normally only get mosquito's around standing water which there is not around the water taps.

Facilities are functional but a little tired.

Overall 6/10
Location 8
Value for money 8
Accommodation 6
Facilities / Activities 4
Customer service No rating
Child friendliness No rating
Cleanliness 6
Wifi No rating
Anonymous The reviewer booked through Pitchup.com

The Freshwater 2 bedroom static caravan

Liked: Good location, good pitch sizes.

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From the manager: Thank you for taking the time to leave a review for us, we are sorry that you would not like to stay with us again but are glad that you enjoyed the island.

Excellent site ,really friendly and helpful owners 😁😎 Camping and touring areas…

Overall 10/10
Location 10
Value for money 10
Accommodation 10
Facilities / Activities 10
Customer service 10
Child friendliness 10
Cleanliness 10
Wifi 10
Michael C. The reviewer booked through Pitchup.com

Electric grass pitch

Liked: Excellent site ,really friendly and helpful owners 😁😎 Camping and touring areas very well maintained Toilets and showers kept very clean 😎 all together a very well maintained and set out site 😁 We will definitely be returning to this one 😎

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From the manager: Thank you for your lovely review, we are so pleased to hear that you enjoyed staying with us and we look forward to having you stay with us again in the future.

Good site but we are unlikely to use it again

Overall 8/10
Location 6
Value for money 8
Accommodation 8
Facilities / Activities 8
Customer service 8
Child friendliness 4
Cleanliness 10
Wifi 8
Anonymous The reviewer booked through Pitchup.com

Electric grass pitch

Liked: Good size pitch Easy hookup Water and bins close Decent length of shower for 20p

Disliked: Having to source 20p coins! Shower and toilet block very tired. Disabled/family bathroom out of order which meant I had to squeeze myself and my 9 month old into the cubicle - the shower spray didn’t have any temp or direction control. Add on trying to lay her on the small changing bench to try and dry/dress her and myself when she is almost able to roll off the bench is a negative too.

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From the manager: Thank you for taking the time to leave us a review. I'm sorry that you seemed to have trouble finding 20p's we keep a stock of them in the reception that you can change up when you arrive or anytime during your stay (during office open hours) so that our customers don't struggle with this and I'm not sure who told you the disabled/family room was out of order because to my knowledge it is working fine and I clean it every day and nothing looks to be broken or not working. The shower in there runs on tokens (which are 20p) and can again be collected from reception this allows it to only be used by those who need to use it. There is a rather large sign on the wall that says that too. It's a shame that you didn't speak to us while you where here as I'm sure that it would have improved your experience. As for the toilet and shower block being tired it is only a matter of repainting and this is done yearly once we are closed. Unfortunately we have had some problems with unsupervised children causing damage in the toilet block over the summer period and we can not address this while we are open.

Had a lovely stay with my wife and son in our camper.…

Overall 10/10
Location 10
Value for money 10
Accommodation 10
Facilities / Activities 10
Customer service 10
Child friendliness No rating
Cleanliness 10
Wifi 10
frank p. The reviewer booked through Pitchup.com

Electric grass pitch

Liked: Had a lovely stay with my wife and son in our camper. A large hook up pitch surrounded by trees and hedges, so alot of birdsong.. The owner was very friendly and welcomed people when they arrived which I like personally.. Would stay again if and when we visit the Island

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From the manager: Thank you for your lovely review, we are so pleased that you enjoyed your stay and hope that you come back to visit our beautiful island. Don't forget we can help with the ferry crossings too.


Features

Leisure on site

Bar or club house

Cycle hire

Evening entertainment

Fishing

Fitness centre

Games room

Indoor swimming pool

Kids' club

On-site restaurant/cafe

Outdoor swimming pool

Play area

TV room

Take away

Tennis

Watersports

Amenities on site

Bath available

Car parking by pitch/unit

Composting toilet

Disabled facilities

Dog park

Drying room

Food shop

Free wifi

Ice pack freezing

Internet access

Launderette

Parent & baby washroom

Pick-up from public transport

Portable toilet

Pub toilets

Public telephone

Shower available

Toilet block

Washing-up area

Wifi

Groups welcome

D. of E. welcome

Family friendly

Motorcycle friendly

Rallies welcome

Single-sex groups welcome

Student groups welcome

Rules

Barbecue provided

Barbecues allowed

Campfires allowed

Commercial vehicles allowed

Dogs allowed

Dogs allowed all year

Themes

Spectacular scenery

Walkers' paradise

Utilities

Charging facilities

Chemical disposal

Electric car charging point(s)

Gas cylinders available

Recycling available

Renewable energy

Nearby amenities

Bar nearby

Dog walk nearby

Public transport nearby

Shop nearby

Type

Medium (26-50 pitches)

Nearby leisure

Canoeing/kayaking nearby

Cycle hire nearby

Cycling nearby

Fishing nearby

Golf nearby

Indoor pool nearby

Leisure/theme park nearby

Mountain biking nearby

Restaurant nearby

Sailing nearby

Surf school nearby

Watersports nearby

Touring and motorhomes

Motorhome service point

Seasonal pitches

Location

Old Barn Touring Park

Cheverton Farm

Newport Road

Sandown

Isle Of Wight

England

PO36 9PJ

Directions

Timezone

Europe/London GMT (GMT+00:00)

GPS

50.64682°N
-1.19577°W

Route directions

The what3words address for this site is: wriggle.ounce.denim

Nearest transport

Coach
10.5 mi Clarence Pier
11.1 mi The Hard Interchange
11.5 mi City Centre South
Rail
1.1 mi Shanklin Rail Station
1.3 mi Lake (Isle of Wight) Rail Station
1.6 mi Sandown Rail Station
Ferry
6 mi Fishbourne IOW Ferry Terminal
6.2 mi Ryde Hoverport
6.6 mi Ryde Pier Head Ferry Terminal
Airport
22.2 mi Southampton Airport
29.3 mi Bournemouth International Airport

Please note: All distances on this page are calculated "as the crow flies" - please check actual distance depending on your mode of travel using the Get directions button above.

Local attractions

The Isle of Wight has history, nature, dinosaurs, museums, award-winning beaches, theme parks and more to explore: start off at nearby Sandown Bay for amusements on the pier and to begin a lope around the 67-mile long Isle of Wight Coast Path to Shanklin and from there to Ventnor. Blackgang Chine, six miles from Ventnor, is now an eccentric amusement park with rides, lifesized plastic dinosaurs and rollercoasters in its Victorian garden setting. Blackgang Chine’s sister site, Robin Hill theme park, just outside Newport, has more rides, a wooden maze, toboggan run and an adventure playground; less excitable types can go to the park’s Combley Roman villa, flutter around the butterfly garden or spot squirrels on the Red Squirrel Safari. Animal enthusiasts have loads to pick from: tigers and other big cats at the Isle of Wight Zoo, over 200 rare and exotic species at Amazon World Zoo Park and the biggest wildlife park on the island, Seaview Wildlife Encounter. For history, the seaside palace of Osborne House was the island hideaway of Queen Victoria and has her own private beach – and bathing machine – now open to the public. There’s also Carisbrooke Castle, where Charles I fled to after escaping captivity at Hampton Court and where he was banged up again by Colonel Hammond: dress up in Civil War clothes here or have a game of bowls on the same green used by the unpopular king.

Water quality at nearby bathing waters

Name Distance Type 2020 2019 2018 2017
Shanklin 1.7 mi Sea N/A Excellent Excellent Good
Sandown 2.1 mi Sea N/A Excellent Excellent Excellent
Yaverland 2.9 mi Sea N/A Excellent Excellent Good
Ventnor 3.8 mi Sea N/A Excellent Excellent Excellent
Whitecliff Bay 4.8 mi Sea N/A Excellent Excellent Excellent

Data source: European Environment Agency

Must see

Dinosaur Isle 2.4 mi

Isle of Wight Steam Railway 4.1 mi

Ventnor Botanic Gardens 5.7 mi

Carisbrooke Castle 5.9 mi

Blackgang Chine 6.5 mi

National Trust

Bembridge Windmill 5.1 mi

Brighstone Shop and Museum 8.8 mi

Mottistone Manor Garden 9.8 mi

Newtown Old Town Hall 10.2 mi

The Needles Old Battery and New Battery 16.7 mi

Cycle routes

Find local routes on the National Cycle Network - over 12,000 miles of cycling routes.

Other

APPULDURCOMBE 2.7 mi

Bembridge - Whitecliff 2.8 mi

The Godshill Valley and Plains 2.9 mi

NUNWELL 3.1 mi

Bonchurch Hills and Undercliff Walk 3.2 mi

Local events

  • Isle of Wight Walking Festival (Saturday 11 May 2024 – Saturday 11 May 2024)

    Newport, Isle Of Wight 5.6 mi

  • Isle of Wight Festival (Thursday 20 June 2024 – Thursday 20 June 2024)

    Newport, Isle Of Wight 5.6 mi

  • Wickham Festival (Thursday 1 August 2024 – Thursday 1 August 2024)

    Fareham, Hampshire 17.7 mi

  • New Forest and Hampshire County Show (Tuesday 30 July 2024 – Tuesday 30 July 2024)

    Brockenhurst, Hampshire 21.5 mi

  • Goodwood Festival of Speed (Thursday 11 July 2024 – Thursday 11 July 2024)

    Chichester, West Sussex 25.3 mi

Please note: All distances on this page are calculated "as the crow flies" - please check actual distance depending on your mode of travel using the Get directions button above.

Offers

Tent pitch
Non-electric grass tent pitch
  • 20% off Spring Spectacular
  • 20% off Back to School Breaks
Tent pitchTouring caravan pitchesMotorhome or campervan pitch
Electric grass pitch
  • 20% off Spring Spectacular
  • 20% off Back to School Breaks

Conditions apply - see pitch type section for details

Want to know more about camping in Isle Of Wight?

  • Does Old Barn Touring Park have a swimming pool? No View all features
  • Is Old Barn Touring Park dog friendly? Yes View all features
  • What attractions are near Old Barn Touring Park? The Isle of Wight has history, nature, dinosaurs, museums, award-winning beaches, theme parks and more to explore: start off at nearby Sandown Bay for amusements on the pier and to begin a … Read more
  • When can I check in and check out of Old Barn Touring Park?
    Camping and touring
    Arrive:  12 p.m. –  7 p.m.
    Depart by:  11 a.m.
    On-site accommodation
    Arrive:  12 p.m. –  7 p.m.
    Depart by:  10 a.m.
    Read more
  • How much does it cost to stay at Old Barn Touring Park? From £16.80 (for 1 night, 2 adults) - prices may change depending on your dates and party.