Eurocamp and other holiday park companies - blog discussion

MSE_Jenny

[FONT=&quot]Don't think muddy canvas, lumpy groundsheets and communal washrooms, these days European holiday park accommodation (such as Eurocamp's) is often well-equipped mobile homes with your own bathroom. What's more, these types of holidays can smash hotels on price.[/FONT]

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richardw

This is a great blog, well thought out with lots of tips. This kind of holiday can be excellent and fantastically money saving.
Researching and doing the maths is well worth the time.
Google maps can also be very useful for finding a camp not to far from the airport where that cheap flight is taking you to.

budgetflyer

3 more companies to try.
Siesta holidays, Lifestyle holidays and Europarcs.

DunnersO

There's a Dutch company called Roan that are also quite good. We stayed in one of their mobile Homes at Bella Italia on Lake Garda a few years back.


These sites are great for families with younger children. Our two kids are now in their grumpy teenager phase, and the thought of being stuck with them both inside a mobile home is not appealing anymore.

zagfles

The savings on the ferry costs are mentioned but the scale of these needs to be highlighted, they are massive and usually much more significant than the savings booking with a foreign Eurocamp website.

I've just booked with Eurocamp for a holiday in August, we have 6 nights on a Eurocamp site and then doing other stuff for a couple of weeks. Via the UK site the campsite was £770. Via the Swiss site the campsite was CHF851, £686 at today's rate. So a saving of £84 using the Swiss site.

But then look at the ferries. Via the Eurocamp UK site, the Hull to Zeebrugge P&O ferry is £95 each way plus £80 for the cabin, total of £350 return.

Booking direct with P&O on their cheapest "saver" fare with no extras, the ferry is £320 plus £98 for the cabin on the way out, and £396 plus £98 coming back. Total of £912 :eek:

So I'm paying £84 more for accomodation using the UK site, but saving £562 on the ferry! £478 cheaper using the UK site!

You can book the ferries for when you like, they don't need to tie in with the accomodation booking so for instance you can have a few days at a Eurocamp and then do other stuff for a week or two and still use Eurocamp for the ferries both ways.