Product Description

Fully updated for 2009, this extensive European camping guide offers information on more than 3,500 sites in Andorra, Austria, Belgium, Croatia, Czech Republic, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovenia, Spain, Switzerland and Turkey. Each country in the guide is divided into regions so that you can easily find the sites in your chosen holiday area. There is essential European motoring information including speed limits, motoring law and required equipment, and fully updated contact information including website and email addresses where available.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #18667 in Books
• Published on: 2009-02-01
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 400 pages

Customer Reviews

More a directory than a helpful guide
This is really just a yellow pages of campsites. I found it hard to navigate a text only book with no guide to where the areas it listed sites really were - a map showing the areas of a country would be helpful. I borrowed Alan Rogers guide to Italy and this was in a different league - I will buy that next time as it has maps, area guides and a sense of someone actually having been there to write a review. My copy of the AA guide will shortly be in the Amazon marketplace!

Could be better
From our experience in France and Spain I can say that unfortunatelly, the guide could be better if it gave more accurate info. No one likes to arrive at a camping site, e.g. somwehere in French Alps, just to find out that it's going to open a month later than what's written in the guide (esp. when there are not that many camping sites around..). I suggest that authors double-check their info before they publish another edition. Apart from that the guide's helpful and gives good directions but should not be treated as the main and only source of info.

Inaccurate information, difficult to use but some useful general info
I bought this guide for a camping trip around Europe and it was useful although not always accurate and quite difficult to use.

Although the information is there if you spend long enough looking for it, the book is very badly organised. The maps showing the campsite locations are not very accurate and are not easy to use, e.g. they show where the different campsites are but don't tell you where in the book you can find the information about each campsite, or even what section of the book.

The book is structured into regions of each country, which is quite confusing as it's not always obvious which region you want. Some campsites seemed to be in the wrong region, e.g. I found a campsite in the region 'South West France' which was actually further east than a campsite in the 'South East France' section! I came across several examples of incorrect information too.

Overall, this is quite a useful guide and lists a large number of campsites, although not all of them. I'd estimate that for every campsite I found from the book, I drove past another 3 that weren't featured. The information about each campsite is minimal, e.g. a sentence describing it very briefly, and the address information is not always good enough to find the campsite on either a map or using the sat nav. The symbols about each campsite are useful to find information about the campsite's facilities, price etc. It's just frustrating that the authors didn't bother making it easier to use.