As anyone who has picked up a newspaper or seen a news report recently will know, this summer is shaping up to be absolutely huge for Dorset. The Olympic sailing events taking place in Weymouth Bay will be one of the biggest things to happen to the county in living memory, so we’re expecting an unprecedented influx of visitors from the UK and around the world coming to experience the Games in August. Our dorset holiday park is just a half an hour drive or bus ride away from Weymouth, with ...

In recent years our Dorset caravan park has become a favourite with university geology departments looking for accommodation for field trips to the Jurassic Coast. We recently put up a great bunch of students from Birmingham Uni, and we thought we’d share a few photos with you here. The pics were taken at Blue Lias near Charmouth, and over in Lulworth.

We were really excited to hear about the plans for a top-end American cruise ship to visit Lyme Regis this May – a first for the town!  100 American tourists will arrive on 20th May on the Silver Explorer and spend a day in and around Lyme discovering our rich history and literary heritage, as well as learning about the Jurassic Coast. The idea is to give the passengers of this first ever Lyme Regis cruise ship visitors an extra special welcome, with a party of ‘Lyme ambassadors’ planning ...

The Grizzly Run is always a highlight of the early part of the season for us, and every March it brings in a flood of new guests who are taking on the grueling 20 mile challenge. For those who don’t know, the Grizzly Run is a hotly contested race that takes place every year on the Jurassic Coast, and is the UK’s third most popular long distance event after the London Marathon and the Great North Run. But unlike those two, the Grizzly Run covers not just paved roads but also pebble ...

There’s only one possible topic for the blog this week – the arrival of the Spirit of Corinth rowers at their finish line in Barbados, after a month and a half rowing day and night across the Atlantic Ocean. Six weeks ago Tony, Eliot, Brian and Christopher , the team of four rowers from Lyme Regis, set out from La Gomera in the Canary Islands to take part in the world famous Talisker Whisky Atlantic Challenge, a gruelling 2500 mile rowing race across the Atlantic. On Sunday, the four ...