Me and my husband have just visited Swanage from the Midlands. It was recommended to us by a friend so we took a gamble, not knowing much about the area and bowled off down there for a 5 day camping break. To get there from the midlands was fairly straight forward with iphones and a road map in tow. The only sticky part of the journey was through Bath, I'm not sure if you can avoid this but there seemed to be a heavy flo of traffic as soon as we hit Bath but luckily once you are out of Bath the traffic seemed to disperse quickly. It took us about 4 hours to get there in total, which I didn't think was too awful. We stopped on a camp site owned by a ...  Read the complete review

Swanage is a small town in Dorset and is ideal for an afternoon stroll if you live within a short driving distance. It is a seaside town with, not so much a beautiful beach, but an attractive beach, nonetheless with great scenery along the coastline. Getting to Swanage by car involves three main routes - From the east you can either drive the long way round or queue up at Sandbanks to get on the ferry - this is NOT recommended in the summer, as you WILL sit in long queues for long times - it is often quicker to drive the long route towards Wareham. In the winter the ferry is the quicker option, and Swanage is a great place for a ...  Read the complete review

Swanage is a small Dorset seaside town with a big heart. It's sandwiched between the mightier Bournemouth/Poole (15 miles by road to the East) and Weymouth (15 miles to the West). It's out on a bit of a limb, near the foot of the Purbeck peninsular, but well worth a special effort to get there. By car, you're restricted to the A351 via (or around) the town of Wareham and onwards through the village of Corfe Castle (amongst others). Other options include the car ferry from Sandbanks to Studland and then driving a few miles into Swanage or picking up a Swanage Railway train from Norden (a private railway with a regular diesel, sometimes steam, train service running the 6 .  Read the complete review

Swanage is a holiday town with views over Swanage Bay, great scenery from Durlston Head south of the town, & a good beach at Studland to the north, though you have to pay money to get on it in the summer as it’s the National Trust land. The town is on the Isle Of Purbeck, isn’t an island just where the land juts out into the English Channel, with Corfe Castle close by. Swanage often called “Gem of the Dorset coast”, is a popular seaside resort with many things to do. Every year they have a fireworks show off the pier which is really good, there are also lots of bands playing, & The new Forest Harley Davison Motor Group always arrive to park along the seafront. ...  Read the complete review

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