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Can anyone recommend any good sites between Hook of Holland & Germany / Luxembourg border please ?

We're planning to take our 7-year old in the folding camper for 3 weeks.

Plan is to ferry from Hawrich, on a site in Holland, and then go to Germany to watch the world rally championship in Trier.

Last year we were in Brittaany on the coast - are Dutch coast-line sites comparable ?

Unfortunately, I can't find any sites along our chosen route - maybe I'm looking in the wrong places..there are no Dutch sites in the CampSiteSearch>>Other sites.

Requirements : small to medium site, preferably with swimming pool, no evening entertainment required, in interesting area

Thanks advance of any suggestions

Pete,York

Hi Pete, you need to contact Wlee here on UKCS he is from that part of Europe...

Good Luck

Hi Pete,

I had a look at the ANWB (Dutch AA) site for you & here's a list of 15 top class sites: http://www.anwb.nl/campings/campings_selecteer.jsp If you get your map out again, the town names are in the right hand column.If you click on the campsite name there's a page of details. Where it says "Extra info en foto's" click again, scroll right down and there's a link to the campsite website, right above the adobe stuff. Here's one http://www.marveld.nl/  maybe a bit far north for you.

Here's the list of 3-star campsites: http://www.anwb.nl/campings/campings_zoekresultaat.jsp?batch=0&sort=V7_PLAATS This one looks more like it, it's near Nijmegen, which is more or less en route, isn't it: http://www.hetgroeneeiland.nl/nl/welkom.lp?actief=welkom

Here are the prices: http://www.hetgroeneeiland.nl/nl/prijslijst.lp?actief=prijslijst

There's no swimming pool, but there's swimming in the lake. And a lot else to do from the look of it.

The nice thing about Holland is it's very small and most of it is interesting (and clean, and pretty). As well as the seasides there's the "Dutch Alps"  by Maastricht, and the Veluwe in the centre of the country which are both big tourist areas, but you can drive right across the whole country in a couple of hours, so nothing's far.

I had a look at a couple of sites in Norderwijk (one of my favourite seasides) and the reviews said some dismal things about them being full of Eastern Europeans looking for work, which is a shame.

Now if I was going camping in Holland I'd go to the Frisian Islands (Riddle of the Sands etc etc) We saw scads of wild hares there, just sitting in fields watching the tourists. Also lapwings.

If you know about Usenet groups you could go over to uk.rec.camping & ask there. There's a guy called Martin there who lives in Holland.

I can't recommend a particular campsite because I used to live there in a phase of my life when I didn't do much camping. I can still read Dutch quite well though so come back if you need something translating:-) Mind, if you phone a campsite they'll definitely speak English.

Oh, and I just found a campsite search in English here: http://www.holland.com/uk/index.html?page=http://www.holland.com/uk/deals/accommodation/index.html

hth

Liz

PS: When are you going? SAIL 2005 is on between 17 & 22 August. Tall ships etc. I went to Sail 95 & it was unforgettable.

http://www.sail.nl/web/show/id=41138

Liz

Thank you all for your comprehensive replies, and offers for additional help.

I will be contacting you soon, after I have done some more investigation.

Just proves what an excellent group of people use this forum

Delftse-hout at Delft and Camping Koningshof at Rijnsberg (near to Lieden & Nordwijk-an-Zee, are both 1st class sites, I have used them both and recomend both, if you need adresses jive me a shout.

Tone

hi

try it on this site ......

http://www.eurocampings.co.uk/

regards carole & louis