It doesn’t matter whether you’re in a camper, mobile home or car and tent – Germany has camping fever. There are almost 3000 campsites nationwide, most of them are almost fully booked, especially in the summer months. According to Statista, there were 40.2 million overnight stays on parking spaces in Germany last year, only 3.9 million of them by foreign guests. This year, experts expect, we will surpass this number again.
If you are planning a camping trip in summer but still have no idea where to go, you are faced with a major challenge. Because it’s not just about finding free parking spaces – ideally, they should also be in a nice place with lots of leisure activities.
The first problem can be easily solved with the help of common camping portals such as “camping.info”, “caravaning.de” or “pincamp.de”. On these portals, users have the opportunity to use appropriate filters to find the available parking spaces for the planned travel period and in the desired region of Germany.
The search for a campsite becomes more difficult when you are looking for something very specific. For example, a particularly sustainable provider. According to an analysis by camping.info, there are now numerous places throughout Europe that attach great importance to environmentally friendly infrastructure. The portal particularly recommends the following campsites in Germany:
In addition to sustainability, there is another trend that is moving nature fans across the country: glamping. The combination of closeness to nature and the luxury of a hotel room is finding more and more fans. No wonder glamping is booming – all over Europe. Based on user ratings, the industry portal “camping.info” has selected the most popular travel destinations that still have available glamping capacities for this summer. So if you want to camp but don’t want to forego comfort, you’re in good hands at these places:
Those who travel in a motorhome sometimes have different needs than those who travel through Europe with a car camper, caravan or tent in the trunk. This starts with the size of the pitch and continues with the access road to the pitch and the infrastructure of the campsite. The Internet portal “stellplatz.info” has therefore shortened the most popular places in Europe for motorhomes on the basis of millions of guest reviews. This is the top ten this year:
1. Camperplaats Kessel, Niederlande
2. Stadtmarina Brandenburg, Brandenburg an der Havel, Germany
3. Motorhome Park Urbachtal, Neukirchen, Germany
4. Camping Pitch Struppen, Germany
5. RV park Nesselwang im Allgäu, Germany
6. Camp Casel, Deutschland
7. Motorhome port Zeulenrodaer Meer, Zeulenroda-Triebes, Germany
8. Peene Camp Wolgast, Germany
9. Camping Demmelhof, Bad Toelz, Germany
10. Panorama
In general, if you are planning a camping trip in the high season, you should get there early to meet all your needs. The campsites in Germany have a total capacity of around 200,000 pitches for campers. However, as more and more people have been choosing to vacation in their own country since the coronavirus pandemic, it can quickly get full.
If you spontaneously decide to go out into nature with the camper instead, you could end up looking pretty stupid. Wild camping is forbidden in Germany. This means that if you are traveling with a mobile home, you should at least stay overnight at a service area. You are allowed to stand there for up to ten hours. But it is better on one of the many campsites. Otherwise there is a fine of up to 80 euros per person.
