Product Description

Cool Camping Europe, the biggest Cool Camping book yet, uncovers a stunning range of special places to camp from the tip of the Portuguese Algarve to the shady forests of Slovenia. Highlights include an uninhabited island off the Spanish coast, the highest campsite in Europe and a cliff-top hideaway in Greece. There's an eccentric escape in the very heart of Berlin, cool campsites amongst ancient Greek ruins and comfortable yurts and tipis in Andalucia and the Algarve. With trademark Cool Camping wit and wisdom and stunning photos, this book guides you to 80 of the most magical locations to camp across Europe, providing all the practical info you need to discover the best places to visit, to eat and to drink. Forget the credit crunch for a week or two, and let Cool Camping Europe show you the perfect cut-price continental holiday for the whole family. Countries covered: Portugal, Spain, France, Luxembourg, The Netherlands, Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Italy, Slovenia, Croatia, Greece.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #26293 in Books
• Published on: 2009-03-10
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 320 pages

Customer Reviews

Ok but the campsites aren't all that special
I bought this book for a 3-week camping trip around Europe and thought it would be perfect for finding some extra-special campsites in amazing locations. However, in the end we only ended up staying at one of the campsites in the book because when it came down to it, the campsites in Cool Camping simply aren't that special. I'm sure some of them are, but many of them looked quite average and we easily found several campsites that were just as special and not in the book.

When you read the information about each campsite, although they're all in nice enough locations - and some of them in amazing locations - not all the information is that positive, e.g. it says that the facilities in some sites aren't very good. In a book like this, I would expect to see campsites that are excellent in every way, so was a bit disappointed with this.

Not that cool
Like another reviewer I didn't find this book at all useful on a trip around numerous European countries. There aren't actually very many sites in the book (relative to the simply huge number of campsites in Europe), which means that it isn't actually that useful. Secondly, after visiting a couple of sites in the book (for example their recommendation for Lake Garda) we seriously questioned whether the authors had visited the sites or whether they had simply looked them up on the internet and then hoped the sites were actually cool and the readers not too fussy. The Lake Garda recommendation, for example, was no different to any other campsite in the area, and we found somewhere much nicer using a small amount of initiative. Overall, I wouldn't waste money on these 'lifestyle' camping books and just stick to doing your own research.

Why is information on public transport so insufficient?
I loved this book when I first bought it. Brilliant, I thought, for a 5 week CAMPING trip round Spain and Portugal.

Unfortunatley we did not stay at a single one of these campsites. The main reason being that the information on public transport is too limited.
If you've got a car then it's probably no problem. If not, then you're better off buying a camping guide to Spain and Portugal.

A couple of the campsites that are listed, we actually found nicer ones less than 10 minutes away, so I have to question their research.