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We have just come back from our 4th visit to Southlands and have booked up for next year too, the site is very spacious, clean and tidy and cannot be faulted. They have the cleanest toilets and washrooms (for washing-up too)you have seen. The site is in a fab location and great for families, our children love the freedom of the site and the friendliness of the staff and they love the children! There are rules to the site and as long as you obey them your holiday will be really great, the evenings are peaceful and a welcome break from the busy day! Thanks too the management for helping with a surprise for my husbands birthday and joining in with the celebration. A most wonderful site for any age.

Southlands in our opinion is the best site on the IOW ,we have had two holidays there this year a week in May and two weeks July and August. This a lovely very well maintained site, the shower and toilet block are very new and kept spotlessly clean at all times, there are family rooms, and a bathroom for babies and toddlers .The chemical toilet emptying has its own wash basin and soap, so you can wash your hands after emptying, there is a lovely play area. There are two washing up rooms a laundry, and an area to peg your washing out, there is a disabled bathroom as well. The pitches are very generous. A truly wonderful gem of a site - before we left in August we booked for 2008 as quite a few other people did.

Probably our 10th ish visit to Southlands. Still brilliant, peaceful and quiet even in peak times. Children are welcome but not allowed to run riot unlike on other sites, there is a little park area for them to play in. There is a zero tolerance on noise after 11pm which is great for people in tents as really you may as well be living outside! If you love the countryside come here, I hope it never changes at Southlands.

Have been going to this site for the last 8/9 years and had booked for 2009, however my pitch that I had chosen would not now be allocated to me, as it's on a first come, first served basis. This means that I could literally be put anywhere on the site, at their choosing, and the caravan club won't honour my pitch booking 'as that isn't how we work' was what I was told. The previous owners, Viv and Vanessa, were so obliging and helpful, but I feel that the personal touch has gone and have been told that I can have my deposit back. My question is, what happened for Viv and Vanessa to pack it all in? It was Viv's idea to expand the park, as land next door had been purchased and was being developed for future use. Anyone with any ideas or information, I'd like to know as my family treated the owners as friends.

I was looking to book a camping pitch for 2009 as I spent a week at Southlands in September 08. Sadly found out that they will become a Caravan Club site from now on. Its a great shame as it was the best camp site on the IOW, I went with just me and my dog, staff and fellow campers were very friendly. But I'm not yet willing to give up my tent to tow a box on wheels around the countryside.