Reviews of Campsites in the Netherlands, France & Spain
These are our published reviews of campsites we used on our motorhome and bicycle journey through the Netherlands, Belgium, France, Spain and Portugal in the allotted 90 days from mid-November 2025.
Country: Netherlands
Town: Melderslo
Camping: Kasteelse Bossen
Open All Year
**
The water was turned off to avoid freezing in November, except for one tap inside the heated facilities (the Ladies, used for both genders). As no hosepipe connection was possible, we had to carry water over to the motorhome a bowl at a time. The electricity was metered and the supposedly 6-amp electricity supply (1.5 kW) was tripped twice by our low wattage kettle, so we had to change to 10-amps and were charged 6.9 Euros each night for the electricity we used above 4 kWh. No way of checking this inflated price, charged on leaving. The restaurant was closed but free WiFi worked with a password.
Country: Belgium
Town: Jabbeke
Camping: Klein Strand
Open All Year
*****
In addition to being a very good campsite, with a tap by each pitch and reliable free WiFi, there is a café/bar at the site entrance and a Chinese restaurant along the lane at Reception. It’s a great location for visiting Bruges or Ostend, by bus or by cycling alongside the canal, and there’s an Aldi a mile away in the town.
Country: France
Town: Héric
Camping: La Pindière
Open All Year
****
After almost getting stuck in the mud twice on grass pitches, we did find one firm location on a side track at the back of the site. WiFi only works at the bar, which was closed, but a positive feature is the low off-season price including electricity. The well-equipped laundry also had outdoor washing lines for a fine day. The friendly owner speaks fluent English and she presented us with a big bag of sweets from the local Christmas Fair. There is a large Super-U supermarket nearby, with fuel and plenty of parking space. An excellent stopover site between Nantes and Rennes.
Country: France
Town: Capbreton
Camping: La Civelle
Open All Year
****
The good points are the low off-season price including electricity, good facilities and reliable free WiFi. The restaurant has evening meals and takeaway pizza, but we chose a bargain lunch: a galette (substantial pancake) stuffed with cheese, ham, mushrooms and a fried egg, served with salad, bread and water, for 5 Euros each! There is a gate to a cycle path which runs alongside the site to the coast. One negative: it’s a long way to the motorhome service point for a fill of water, the tap being on the way out just before the exit.
Country: Spain
Town: Olite
Camping: Olite
Open All Year
****
The campsite consists of a large open field at the back of an area of permanent holiday homes. You get a key to one of the four individual toilet/shower huts in the field, shared with any other campers, but we preferred to use the main facilities among the holiday homes. There is no WiFi but the 16-amp electricity is included. At the site entrance there is a bar and a separate restaurant with a splendid all-you-can-eat buffet lunch for 16.5 Euros each, including desserts and a drink. A rough foot/cycle path runs from the site for 4 km to the village of Olite with its impressive medieval church and royal residence.
Country: Spain
Town: Zaragoza
Camping: Ciudad de Zaragoza
Open All Year
***
This is a large and busy municipal site based around an anticlockwise road. Pitches vary in size and we had to negotiate a better one than that allocated. The facilities are good but the WiFi functions only in the common room near the reception and the restaurant is beyond our price range. Cycling into town would have required the patience and risk-taking that wisely we did not have (even though we have cycled round the world!) Others caught a bus.
Country: Spain
Town: Navajas
Camping: Alto Mira
Open All Year
***
The campsite is laid out on terraces up a steep zig-zagging road, although our pitch near the top was big enough and on level hardstanding. Each pitch has its own tap and sink and the 10-amp electricity supply was not metered. The facilities above us were very good but the free WiFi came and went. Sadly the excellent restaurant (we had been before) was closed for 2 weeks until Christmas Day. The nearby cycle path (a former railway line, now a greenway) was only accessed by climbing a very steep gravelly hill, so we rode into Navajas village and along to its impressive waterfall.
Country: Spain
Town: Crevillente
Camping: Alannia Costa Blanca
Open All Year
****
This is an enormous site where it’s easy to get lost on the long walk to and from the reception; you could walk up to a kilometre to get to the crowded noisy restaurant and back! WiFi has to be paid for, but there are excellent facilities and a site shop with food specially brought in for English campers: baked beans, ambrosia creamed rice pudding, Aunt Bessie’s apple pies, chips, fish fingers, etc. All good for long-termers, along with the free DVD and book swaps available! Although listed under Crevillente/Alicante it is some 10 miles from the coast in an area of parched empty farmland.
Country: Spain
Town: Mojacar
Camping: Los Gallardos
Open All Year
****
WiFi has to be paid for and unmetered electricity is 5 Euros/day extra (it’s not an ACSI-Card site). The facilities are old but functional, with a good laundry and book swap, though the washing up sinks have to share a single hot tap (bring your own bowl)! There is a very good onsite supermarket with food for English appetites, including Huntley & Palmers mince pies and tubs of Roses chocolates. This is complemented by the restaurant, where we enjoyed chicken or scampi with chips and a side salad. However, the allocated ‘comfort pitch’ we’d booked was too small and we had to change to one a little larger, though it was good to have our own tap. We cycled almost 10 miles to the coast at Garrucha, taking the main road there and finding the return ‘cycle route’ muddy enough to jam the wheels!
Country: Spain
Town: Beas de Granada
Camping: Alto de Vinuelas
*****
What a wonderful position at 1111 metres (3,670 ft) above sea level with magnificent views of the snowy Sierra Nevada across the southern horizon. The WiFi was free and worked well, 10-amp electric was included, but there was only one service point where we could fill with water. The restaurant was closed and for sale and the quiet campsite was about to close for a few days over Christmas and New Year. We cycled into the nearby villages of Beas Granada and Huetor-Santillan, looking in vain for a post office and a coffee, but we did enjoy the hills! The local bus to Granada stops by the campsite gate both ways, taking about 30 minutes and costing less than 2 Euros each way (in cash, on the bus). The campsite reception provides a local map and a bus timetable. Above all, the air was crisp and clear and free of noise!
Country: Spain
Town: Manilva
Camping: La Bella Vista
Open All Year
***
This site, along with many others, is mainly for long-term overwintering visitors. Travellers such as ourselves can expect to pay 37 Euros a night for a short stay (it’s not an ACSI-Card site). This includes good WiFi and the excellent new underground facilities (access by ramp or lift) – the very best of any on our trip. The restaurant served fish & chips on Fridays and a Sunday roast dinner with Yorkshire pudding and gravy, although the vegetables were served in the Spanish way – that is, without being cooked! We had our own water tap on the pitch, although toilet dumping was some distance away by the site entrance at the back of a car park with a height barrier – not at the modern underground facilities. Similarly, the washing-up areas were scattered around the site in the cold open air rather than in the new facility. There is a locked gate with a pass-code leading straight onto the promenade and beach for cycling or walking to (or past) the nearby marina, which is surrounded by cafes, Irish pubs, etc where you can happily pay more than double the usual rate for a coffee!
Country: Spain
Town: Conil de la Frontera
Camping: Rosaleda
Open All Year
****
This was yet another long-stay site like many another strewn along the Costas. However, in this case the ACSI price for passers-by was only 21 Euros including 4 kWh of electricity plus a very modest cost for more. The WiFi was good at first, until it stopped working altogether after Christmas. The facilities are old but functional, with a good laundry and book swap, though the washing up sinks have to share a single hot tap (bring your own bowl)! Locks on the toilet and shower doorknobs were loose and ill-fitting, leading to one of us being locked in for a while. There was only one place to fill a motorhome with water and that was at the very top of the site next to the car wash. The steep hillside and unlevelled terraces meant that everybody needed ramps, airbags or jacks. Pitches are generally too small and often overhung by trees – so much so that we had to change the allocated pitch and find our own, as many others were doing. The expensive a la carte restaurant actually closed over Christmas. There was very good cycling with separate cycle paths starting just outside the gate: left for Conil, Cape Trafalgar and beyond to Canos de Meca, as well as riding the other way past Conil lighthouse to Chiclana. Conil de la Frontera itself is nice town with the impressive Cathedral Santa Catalina (Saint Catherine of the Wheel), part of a 1567 Franciscan monastery whose cloisters now house the town hall.
Country: Spain
Town: Caceres
Camping: Caceres
Open All Year
*****
A very warm welcome from the young man in the reception with its blazing log fire. He was full of information, with a leaflet giving the restaurant menu, bus timetable and map of Caceres centre, and keen to give us a quiet place in this 129-pich campsite. What a good price of 21 Euros with ACSI - and the fourth night free! This includes reliable WiFi and 16-amp electricity to keep us warm. Each pitch has an outside tap, hookup and light, as well as a washbasin, hot shower, toilet and toilet rolls all in your own adjacent private hut. Even a table and two chairs are provided to sit outside. Unbelievable but true! The restaurant offered a ‘Camper Menu’ – a choice from each of three courses plus bread and a drink for 20 Euros. We also tried their take-away pizza. Beautiful Azure-winged Magpies live in the trees and on the ground around our motorhome! Resident in and unique to southern Spain and Portugal, they have distant relatives only in the far east of Asia. There is a regular bus into Caceres or, as we did, you can ride the excellent new cycle path into town once you have crossed the dual carriageway outside the campsite. Although part of the 10650 km (6,656 mile) European Atlantic Coast cycle route (EuroVelo1), the route is not signposted at all. Sadly we found it hard to find the way into the impressive medieval centre of Caceres, which is UNESCO listed and founded on extensive earlier Roman occupation.
Town: Melderslo
Camping: Kasteelse Bossen
Open All Year
**
The water was turned off to avoid freezing in November, except for one tap inside the heated facilities (the Ladies, used for both genders). As no hosepipe connection was possible, we had to carry water over to the motorhome a bowl at a time. The electricity was metered and the supposedly 6-amp electricity supply (1.5 kW) was tripped twice by our low wattage kettle, so we had to change to 10-amps and were charged 6.9 Euros each night for the electricity we used above 4 kWh. No way of checking this inflated price, charged on leaving. The restaurant was closed but free WiFi worked with a password.
Country: Belgium
Town: Jabbeke
Camping: Klein Strand
Open All Year
*****
In addition to being a very good campsite, with a tap by each pitch and reliable free WiFi, there is a café/bar at the site entrance and a Chinese restaurant along the lane at Reception. It’s a great location for visiting Bruges or Ostend, by bus or by cycling alongside the canal, and there’s an Aldi a mile away in the town.
Country: France
Town: Héric
Camping: La Pindière
Open All Year
****
After almost getting stuck in the mud twice on grass pitches, we did find one firm location on a side track at the back of the site. WiFi only works at the bar, which was closed, but a positive feature is the low off-season price including electricity. The well-equipped laundry also had outdoor washing lines for a fine day. The friendly owner speaks fluent English and she presented us with a big bag of sweets from the local Christmas Fair. There is a large Super-U supermarket nearby, with fuel and plenty of parking space. An excellent stopover site between Nantes and Rennes.
Country: France
Town: Capbreton
Camping: La Civelle
Open All Year
****
The good points are the low off-season price including electricity, good facilities and reliable free WiFi. The restaurant has evening meals and takeaway pizza, but we chose a bargain lunch: a galette (substantial pancake) stuffed with cheese, ham, mushrooms and a fried egg, served with salad, bread and water, for 5 Euros each! There is a gate to a cycle path which runs alongside the site to the coast. One negative: it’s a long way to the motorhome service point for a fill of water, the tap being on the way out just before the exit.
Country: Spain
Town: Olite
Camping: Olite
Open All Year
****
The campsite consists of a large open field at the back of an area of permanent holiday homes. You get a key to one of the four individual toilet/shower huts in the field, shared with any other campers, but we preferred to use the main facilities among the holiday homes. There is no WiFi but the 16-amp electricity is included. At the site entrance there is a bar and a separate restaurant with a splendid all-you-can-eat buffet lunch for 16.5 Euros each, including desserts and a drink. A rough foot/cycle path runs from the site for 4 km to the village of Olite with its impressive medieval church and royal residence.
Country: Spain
Town: Zaragoza
Camping: Ciudad de Zaragoza
Open All Year
***
This is a large and busy municipal site based around an anticlockwise road. Pitches vary in size and we had to negotiate a better one than that allocated. The facilities are good but the WiFi functions only in the common room near the reception and the restaurant is beyond our price range. Cycling into town would have required the patience and risk-taking that wisely we did not have (even though we have cycled round the world!) Others caught a bus.
Country: Spain
Town: Navajas
Camping: Alto Mira
Open All Year
***
The campsite is laid out on terraces up a steep zig-zagging road, although our pitch near the top was big enough and on level hardstanding. Each pitch has its own tap and sink and the 10-amp electricity supply was not metered. The facilities above us were very good but the free WiFi came and went. Sadly the excellent restaurant (we had been before) was closed for 2 weeks until Christmas Day. The nearby cycle path (a former railway line, now a greenway) was only accessed by climbing a very steep gravelly hill, so we rode into Navajas village and along to its impressive waterfall.
Country: Spain
Town: Crevillente
Camping: Alannia Costa Blanca
Open All Year
****
This is an enormous site where it’s easy to get lost on the long walk to and from the reception; you could walk up to a kilometre to get to the crowded noisy restaurant and back! WiFi has to be paid for, but there are excellent facilities and a site shop with food specially brought in for English campers: baked beans, ambrosia creamed rice pudding, Aunt Bessie’s apple pies, chips, fish fingers, etc. All good for long-termers, along with the free DVD and book swaps available! Although listed under Crevillente/Alicante it is some 10 miles from the coast in an area of parched empty farmland.
Country: Spain
Town: Mojacar
Camping: Los Gallardos
Open All Year
****
WiFi has to be paid for and unmetered electricity is 5 Euros/day extra (it’s not an ACSI-Card site). The facilities are old but functional, with a good laundry and book swap, though the washing up sinks have to share a single hot tap (bring your own bowl)! There is a very good onsite supermarket with food for English appetites, including Huntley & Palmers mince pies and tubs of Roses chocolates. This is complemented by the restaurant, where we enjoyed chicken or scampi with chips and a side salad. However, the allocated ‘comfort pitch’ we’d booked was too small and we had to change to one a little larger, though it was good to have our own tap. We cycled almost 10 miles to the coast at Garrucha, taking the main road there and finding the return ‘cycle route’ muddy enough to jam the wheels!
Country: Spain
Town: Beas de Granada
Camping: Alto de Vinuelas
*****
What a wonderful position at 1111 metres (3,670 ft) above sea level with magnificent views of the snowy Sierra Nevada across the southern horizon. The WiFi was free and worked well, 10-amp electric was included, but there was only one service point where we could fill with water. The restaurant was closed and for sale and the quiet campsite was about to close for a few days over Christmas and New Year. We cycled into the nearby villages of Beas Granada and Huetor-Santillan, looking in vain for a post office and a coffee, but we did enjoy the hills! The local bus to Granada stops by the campsite gate both ways, taking about 30 minutes and costing less than 2 Euros each way (in cash, on the bus). The campsite reception provides a local map and a bus timetable. Above all, the air was crisp and clear and free of noise!
Country: Spain
Town: Manilva
Camping: La Bella Vista
Open All Year
***
This site, along with many others, is mainly for long-term overwintering visitors. Travellers such as ourselves can expect to pay 37 Euros a night for a short stay (it’s not an ACSI-Card site). This includes good WiFi and the excellent new underground facilities (access by ramp or lift) – the very best of any on our trip. The restaurant served fish & chips on Fridays and a Sunday roast dinner with Yorkshire pudding and gravy, although the vegetables were served in the Spanish way – that is, without being cooked! We had our own water tap on the pitch, although toilet dumping was some distance away by the site entrance at the back of a car park with a height barrier – not at the modern underground facilities. Similarly, the washing-up areas were scattered around the site in the cold open air rather than in the new facility. There is a locked gate with a pass-code leading straight onto the promenade and beach for cycling or walking to (or past) the nearby marina, which is surrounded by cafes, Irish pubs, etc where you can happily pay more than double the usual rate for a coffee!
Country: Spain
Town: Conil de la Frontera
Camping: Rosaleda
Open All Year
****
This was yet another long-stay site like many another strewn along the Costas. However, in this case the ACSI price for passers-by was only 21 Euros including 4 kWh of electricity plus a very modest cost for more. The WiFi was good at first, until it stopped working altogether after Christmas. The facilities are old but functional, with a good laundry and book swap, though the washing up sinks have to share a single hot tap (bring your own bowl)! Locks on the toilet and shower doorknobs were loose and ill-fitting, leading to one of us being locked in for a while. There was only one place to fill a motorhome with water and that was at the very top of the site next to the car wash. The steep hillside and unlevelled terraces meant that everybody needed ramps, airbags or jacks. Pitches are generally too small and often overhung by trees – so much so that we had to change the allocated pitch and find our own, as many others were doing. The expensive a la carte restaurant actually closed over Christmas. There was very good cycling with separate cycle paths starting just outside the gate: left for Conil, Cape Trafalgar and beyond to Canos de Meca, as well as riding the other way past Conil lighthouse to Chiclana. Conil de la Frontera itself is nice town with the impressive Cathedral Santa Catalina (Saint Catherine of the Wheel), part of a 1567 Franciscan monastery whose cloisters now house the town hall.
Country: Spain
Town: Caceres
Camping: Caceres
Open All Year
*****
A very warm welcome from the young man in the reception with its blazing log fire. He was full of information, with a leaflet giving the restaurant menu, bus timetable and map of Caceres centre, and keen to give us a quiet place in this 129-pich campsite. What a good price of 21 Euros with ACSI - and the fourth night free! This includes reliable WiFi and 16-amp electricity to keep us warm. Each pitch has an outside tap, hookup and light, as well as a washbasin, hot shower, toilet and toilet rolls all in your own adjacent private hut. Even a table and two chairs are provided to sit outside. Unbelievable but true! The restaurant offered a ‘Camper Menu’ – a choice from each of three courses plus bread and a drink for 20 Euros. We also tried their take-away pizza. Beautiful Azure-winged Magpies live in the trees and on the ground around our motorhome! Resident in and unique to southern Spain and Portugal, they have distant relatives only in the far east of Asia. There is a regular bus into Caceres or, as we did, you can ride the excellent new cycle path into town once you have crossed the dual carriageway outside the campsite. Although part of the 10650 km (6,656 mile) European Atlantic Coast cycle route (EuroVelo1), the route is not signposted at all. Sadly we found it hard to find the way into the impressive medieval centre of Caceres, which is UNESCO listed and founded on extensive earlier Roman occupation.