Where is Fistral on the park?

Down in the camping field on the valley floor, on level ground, with Polzeath alongside it. It’s the closest part of the park to the facilities.

Is there a hill to walk up?

No. Fistral is on the flat, which is the main reason people choose it over the hillside bell tents. The walk from the car to the deck is short and even.

Can we cook at the tent?

Yes — there’s a gas cooker right outside on your own deck, so breakfast doesn’t mean walking anywhere. There’s no cooking inside the canvas itself. The cook deck at the facilities is there if you want more space, and BBQs and firepits are fine outside as long as they’re raised off the grass or the decking on a stand or bricks.

Do I need to bring camping kit?

No. The beds are made up with bedding, towels are provided, and there’s a chiminea out on the deck. Bring food and you’re set — it’s the canvas without the faff.

Is Fistral good with young children?

It’s the easiest bell tent on the park to reach with small children: level ground, a flat walk to the shower block, and the football goals and swings in the same fields.

What’s the difference between Fistral and Polzeath?

Very little — same deck, same gas cooker and chiminea, same beds made up for four. They stand side by side in the same field. Book whichever is free for your dates.

Can we bring the dog?

Yes. Dogs are welcome in every stay at Willow Valley. Keep them on a lead no longer than two metres around the park, use the dog exercise area, and please don’t leave them unattended in the tent.

Bell tent in the camping field

Fistral

A bell tent on level ground in the camping field, with a gas cooker and chiminea on its own timber deck and a flat walk to the shower block.

Sleeps up to 4A double bed and two single bedsDogs welcome

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A closer look

Fistral in pictures

Bell tent · Camping area

About Fistral

Fistral is one of the two bell tents pitched down in the camping field, and it borrows its name from the surf beach at Newquay. Inside there’s matting underfoot, a double bed and two singles, all made up with bedding and towels before you arrive. Out on the deck there’s a gas cooker and a chiminea, with logs for your first night. Bring food; the rest is already standing.

What separates Fistral from the hillside tents is the ground it stands on. It is flat. The deck sits level with the field, the carry from the car is short and even, and the facilities are a straight walk away with nothing to climb. If you’re arriving with a toddler, a travel cot and a cool box, this is the easier end of the park by some margin.

It’s the sociable end too. The football goals and the swings are in these fields, children tend to have found each other by the second morning, and August is lively down here. If quiet matters more to you than convenience, the hillside tents sit further from the fields. The bell tents run from April to September.

Where it sits: Down in the camping field on flat ground, one of the pair of bell tents on the valley floor — no hill between the car and the deck.

See Fistral on the park map

Showers, toilets & cooking

Showers and toilets are in the shared block, open 24 hours and a flat walk from the deck. There’s no cooking inside the canvas, but the deck has a gas cooker of its own — and there’s a covered cook deck at the facilities if you want more room.

Showers: Shared shower block
Toilets: Shared shower block
Cooking: Gas cooker on your deck

What you get

Gas cooker on your own deck
Chiminea on the deck, with logs for your first night
Double bed plus two single beds — sleeps up to 4
Beds made up with bedding and towels before you arrive
Matting underfoot
Its own private timber deck
Level ground — a flat walk to every facility on the park
Shared shower and toilet block, open 24 hours
Cook deck for glampers at the facilities
Free WiFi over the park
Dogs welcome

Good to know before you book

There’s no cooking inside the canvas, but your deck has a gas cooker of its own. The cook deck at the facilities is there too, shared with everyone on the park.
Showers and toilets are in the shared block, open 24 hours, with baby changing in both the male and female toilets. From Fistral it’s flat the whole way — no steps, no hill.
Bedding and towels are provided and the beds are made up. Bring your own food.
There’s a chiminea on the deck outside, with logs for your first night — for the late-night marshmallows.
Four in a bell tent is still plenty spacious: one round canvas room with a double and two singles in it.
The camping fields are the busiest part of the park in high season, so if you’re here with children or camping alongside family, this tent is ideal for being in the thick of it all. That’s the trade for being closest to everything.
BBQs and firepits are welcome — please raise them off the grass or the decking on a stand or bricks.
The bell tents run from April to September. Outside those months the lodges, the school bus and the Airstream stay open, and camping pitches run in their own seasons.
Dogs are welcome. Please keep them on a lead no longer than two metres, exercise them in the area provided, and don’t leave them unattended. We can’t accept Rottweilers, Dobermans, Bull Mastiffs, Pit Bull Terriers or their crosses.
Arrive from 3pm, leave by 10am.

Fistral: questions & answers

: Down in the camping field on the valley floor, on level ground, with Polzeath alongside it. It’s the closest part of the park to the facilities.
: No. Fistral is on the flat, which is the main reason people choose it over the hillside bell tents. The walk from the car to the deck is short and even.
: Yes — there’s a gas cooker right outside on your own deck, so breakfast doesn’t mean walking anywhere. There’s no cooking inside the canvas itself. The cook deck at the facilities is there if you want more space, and BBQs and firepits are fine outside as long as they’re raised off the grass or the decking on a stand or bricks.
: No. The beds are made up with bedding, towels are provided, and there’s a chiminea out on the deck. Bring food and you’re set — it’s the canvas without the faff.
: It’s the easiest bell tent on the park to reach with small children: level ground, a flat walk to the shower block, and the football goals and swings in the same fields.
: Very little — same deck, same gas cooker and chiminea, same beds made up for four. They stand side by side in the same field. Book whichever is free for your dates.
: Yes. Dogs are welcome in every stay at Willow Valley. Keep them on a lead no longer than two metres around the park, use the dog exercise area, and please don’t leave them unattended in the tent.

Other ways to stay

Bell tent · Camping area
Polzeath
Fistral’s neighbour on the flat, with a gas cooker and chiminea on its own deck, and the dog wash, the river walk and the shower block all a level stroll away.
Sleeps up to 4Live prices
Glamping · Bell tents
Bell tents — camping area
Two spacious bell tents on level ground in the camping fields, each with a gas cooker and chiminea on its deck, and the shower block a short flat walk away.
Sleeps up to 4Live prices
Glamping · School bus
Bluebird
A 1970 American school bus for four — log burner, proper beds, and a deck out front looking down the valley.
Sleeps up to 4Live prices

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Recognition

AA 5-Star Gold Caravan & Camping

The AA’s mark of top-class quality and facilities, awarded for 2026/27.

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