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Thirty five years ago, Yes!  In 1975 and 1976 Thompson Holidays used to offer a 'Wanderer' package, where  for a fourteen night holiday you got fourteen vouchers which were exchangeable for a variety of different accommodation.  We flew to Corfu - taking our own tent and basic equipment with us, and 'camped' at Gouvia, just north of Corfu town.  However, after one night we realised that it was too hot in a tent, the sun rose at about 3.30 am and woke us up, and thereafter we stayed in 'village houses'!  The following year we had a similar holiday in Crete - but this time left the tent at home!

These days you'd be pushed to take all your own equipment with you with the restrictions on baggage allowances and the extra costs for hold luggage.  However, I did noticed that Ryanair are offering 'Camping Holidays' on their website, and the search facility allows you to look at campsites within a reasonable distance of their airpotrts.  Again, though, you'd probably require to hire a car when you arrived as some sites are quite a distance from the airports concerned.

Wouldn't travel by plane but we quite often go by train when we feel that the car journey is too much (Portugal, Greece &c) - it's great and I'd do it every time if it weren't for the cost! Travel in comfort and give the driver a chance to see the world!

we flew to Italy last yr and stayed at a site in Lake Garda, with a ready erected tent

not sure i'd do it taking my own outfit!

We are flying to Pisa in may and staying in a presented tent. The tent is costing £82 not bad for a week on the med.

Warbis 66 - Who's the tent booked with, please?