You can have such items freighted across as palletised freight. Please contact the Isles of Scilly Steamship group to book this in separately, please also let us know as we will have to organise a separate collection to meet the freight boat and transport your freight to the campsite, we charge the same as we do for camping trailers (£40.00 return).
St Martin's Quay to campsite
There are two quays on St Martin's:
Lowertown Quay (at Karma St Martin's Hotel) is very close to the campsite, being only some 400m along the road and an easy 5 minute walk.
Highertown Quay is rather more distant at about 1,500m with a fairly steep hill as soon as you leave the quay. The view from the top of the hill is, however, spectacular!
Luggage transport to/from quay to campsiteIf you have pre-booked luggage transport, Ben and Caroline will meet you upon arrival at the quay with a tractor and trailer.
This Luggage transport service is for your camping luggage only.
Our luggage transport is to coincide with the St.Marys Boatmen's Association scheduled boats;
Arrivals at approx 12.30 or the arrival of the Scillonian, to St. Martin's.
Departures at approx 10.30 to St.Mary's.
After you have helped to load your luggage we will transport it all to the campsite. No room for passengers, so the final leg of your journey will be on foot. The campsite is well signposted on the south side of the road.
If you have recreational equipment, eg. Kayaks, boards Bikes etc. or gas cylinders You will need to book these in with the Steamship company and so they will come over on a separate boat, (Freight Launch). Please contact us if you would like us to arrange collection from the quay for you at £40 return, or you are very welcome to collect them yourselves. Do remember to arrange the return journey with the Steamship co.
Departures: To coincide with the Association boats and shipping containers, all camping luggage and campers need to travel on the 10.35 to St.Marys.
If you are Island hopping you may well travel in the morning on a different islands boating company rather than our scheduled St.Mary's Boatmen's Association boats, this is not a problem, if you want your luggage transported please let us know the time and quay you will be arriving at; you may need to leave your luggage for an hour or so (it will be quite safe) and we will collect it when we meet the scheduled arrivals boat.
If you require luggage transport at other times we will do our best to help, but as it is just the two of us running the campsite we cannot guarantee when we will be able to manage it, there will also be an additional fee of £20 on top of our standard transport fee. (in case we need to employ a separate contractor to help us).
Don't Panic!!
We realise for anyone visiting the islands for the first time, getting here with all your camping gear seems to be very complicated!
Do not worry it really isn't. We have hundreds of campers each year, with all sorts of luggage (Yes, even a kitchen sink, once) and it all works very easily and successfully - it must, as so many keep coming back year after year.
