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Hi,  Just started to put away a few quid for the hol's and am wondering has any been camping in italy and is it very expensive? We normally drive to France so i can take all the kids favourites and the usual non perishables but have decided to fly this year so im a bit in the dark as to how much will be enough!  we are going to Norcenni Girasole and staying for eleven nights, we have hired a car and paid for that already so its just really spends for food/drinks/ice cream etc, the kids are only eight and five so no big expense there, just really wondering what other familes allocate for their hol spends?

Usually the most expensive thing about camping in Italy is the campsite fees other costs seem very similar to elsewhere. Like with any European country food tastes, especially for children, are different so take the things that might be difficult to find like cereals and squashes otherwise enjoy the difference.

David

Yes I do think its a bit more expensive.  The campsite fees tend to be just pitch & elec then they charge a daily rate for every person (not pitch & 2 people like most sites) - we went to Bella Italia last year and it was 65 euros a night for 4 of us and my son was free!  Food shopping seemed a touch more expensive than France and wine certainly was but you could get a nice bottle of Prosecco for about £3.50.  To be honest we have found the biggest pinch to be the position the Pound has been in for the last couple of years which would obviously be the same Italy or France but as you are from Dublin I guess that doesn't affect you.

We tend to spend around £800 for two weeks  - dunno what we spend it on though as we didn't eat out all that much last year as it was a bit of a bun fight to get a table in the restaurants.

Quote: Originally posted by joecroft2 on 29/1/2011

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eating out is expensive , a pint of beer near St Peters square in Rome was £7.00 the supermarkets werent any dearer than here

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You got a bargain! I've paid that for an espresso opposite St Mark's.

Seriously, you can pay an awful lot of money near the tourist sites, or on the flash beaches. It does pay to search around on back streets &c.. Then again, the same applies in big French towns, probably most countries. In contrast, we always found food and drink on camp-site restaurants very reasonable.