Venue Description

THE UK’S ORIGINAL AND MOST SUCCESSFUL FAMILY FESTIVAL. Designed by families especially for families, Camp Bestival combines all the fun of a fantastic family camping holiday with everything you’d expect from an idyllic and action-packed festival adventure.

Accessibility

Camp Bestival Dorset takes place in the grounds of Lulworth Castle. There are some hard standing gravel pathways in the main arena, and the main stage viewing platform is accessed from a hard standing pathway. Most of the festival activity takes place outdoors in fields. The site is on farmland with undulating ground, some walkways are uneven, and the site is hilly in places; the steepest inclines are in the general car parking and general camping fields. There are some hilly areas in the main arena (Magic Meadow and Wild Tribe), and some areas where pathways are on softer ground (Dingly Dell). The ground conditions are weather dependent, in very dry conditions the ground may be dusty and compacted, after heavy rainfall it may become muddy in places. There are some areas of site where trackway or wood chipping can be laid if the ground becomes soft or slippery after heavy rain. The dedicated walking route from the Accessible Campsite to the main arena leads from the campsite through a paved car park and onto a flat, tarmacked road, across an area of short grass with an incline and then through the paved Castle Courtyard. There is a shuttle bus from the access campsite to the main arena, which stops at the taxi pick up point by Castle Courtyard and runs throughout arena opening hours.

Accessibility Guide

Accessibility Guide Link: https://dorset.campbestival.net/info/accessible/

Awards List

Camp Bestival is a member of the Live Events Access Charter, and gained a Silver award from Attitude Is Everything in 2023. In its first year Camp Bestival was awarded Best New Festival at the UK Festival Awards and has since won the awards’ Best Family Festival accolade six more times, in 2009, 2010, 2013, 2014, 2017, and most recently in 2019. Camp Bestival also won Best Family Festival at the Family Traveller Awards in 2015 & 2017, and won their Pure Fun award in 2019, taking home the special Kids Vote, too, as voted for by a panel of children.

Toilets

Accessible toilets throughout the arena will have a coded lock. Please complete an application form to request the code, which will be sent via email before the festival. There is a changing places unit on the Accessible Campsite and in the main arena.

Staff

Information about the staff has not been added for this venue.

Assistance dog facilities

Assistance dog exercise facilities

Camp Bestival welcomes Assistance Dogs and ESA’s. We require all customers who plan to bring an Assistance Dog or ESA to the festival to complete an Accessible Facilities Application form by the required deadline and upload relevant evidence to support the application. To ensure that Assistance Dogs and ESAs are able to fulfil their role, we request that all Assistance Dogs and ESAs at the festival wear a jacket or harness that clearly identifies them as a service animal or support animal, even if they would not usually do so.