Alan Rogers Awards – Results 2012
The Alan Rogers Campsite Awards were launched in 2004 and have proved a great success.
Our awards have a broad scope and before committing to our winners, we carefully consider more than 2,000 campsites featured in our guides, taking into account comments from our site assessors, our head office team and, of course, our readers.
Our award winners come from the four corners of Europe, from southern Portugal to Croatia, and this year we are making awards to campsites in 9 different countries.
Needless to say, it’s an extremely difficult task to choose our eventual winners, but we believe that we have identified a number of campsites with truly outstanding characteristics.
In each case, we have selected an outright winner, along with two highly commended runners-up. Listed below are full details of each of our award categories and our winners for 2012.
Progress Award
This award reflects the hard work and commitment undertaken by particular site owners to improve and upgrade their site.
Winner
A popular and efficient, family run park, Cofton is 1.5 miles from a sandy beach at Dawlish Warren. It has space for 450 touring units...
Runners-up
Included in our guides:
2018
A family owned site, Castel Camping le Petit Trianon is situated halfway between Tours and Poitiers. It enjoys a countryside position within the lovely grounds...
Included in our guides:
2020, 2018
Camping Kovacine is located on a peninsula on the beautiful Kvarner island of Cres, just 2 km. from the town of the same name. The...
Welcome Award
This award takes account of sites offering a particularly friendly welcome and maintaining a friendly ambience throughout readers’ holidays.
Winner
Included in our guides:
2023, 2018
A very welcoming, open site that is attractive and well-maintained. The 230 grass pitches are flat and well maintained, with some shade and 10A electricity...
Runners-up
Included in our guides:
2020
This site is unusual in that it is located in the heart of a village, yet is only 250 metres from a sandy cove. The...
Thoughtfully landscaped within a natural wooded coastal environment, the tall pines here give shade, while attractive flowers enhance the setting and paved roads give easy...
Active Holiday Award
This award reflects sites in outstanding locations which are ideally suited for active holidays, notably walking or cycling, but which could extend to include such activities as winter sports or watersports.
Winner
Included in our guides:
2019, 2018
This is a top class, all year round site suitable as a stopover or as a base for a longer stay. Attractively situated by the...
Runners-up
Included in our guides:
2018
Caravan Park Sexten is 1,520 metres above sea level and has 268 pitches, some very large and all with electricity (16A), TV connections and water...
Included in our guides:
2020, 2018
Camping & Appartements Seehof is a family run site and excellent in every respect. It is situated in a marvellous sunny and peaceful location on...
Innovation Award
Our Innovation Award acknowledges campsites with creative and original concepts, possibly with features which are unique, and cannot therefore be found elsewhere. We have identified innovation both in campsite amenities and also in rentable accommodation.
Winner
Included in our guides:
2020, 2019
De Papillon is perhaps one of the best and most enjoyable campsites in the Netherlands. All 245 touring pitches are spacious (120-160 sq.m), all have...
Runners-up
This campsite is now permanently closed.
Included in our guides:
2023, 2019
This picturesque and conservation-minded site is situated in an open, sunny lower valley in Madrid’s only beech forest in the Parque Natural Sierre de Guadarrama...
Small Campsite Award
This award acknowledges excellent small campsites (less than 75 pitches) which offer a friendly welcome and top quality amenities throughout the season to their guests.
Winner
Included in our guides:
2019
This is a tranquil and spacious campsite laid out on a hillside deep in the Parc Naturel Régional du Morvan, with views over their lake...
Runners-up
Tehidy is a rather special small park with an emphasis on the environment so wild flowers abound and a note is kept of all bird...
Included in our guides:
2022
Camping Country is a well cared for and attractively landscaped site close to the historical town of Znojmo. It is a rural location, in a...
Seaside Award
This award is made for sites which we feel are outstandingly suitable for a really excellent seaside holiday.
Winner
Included in our guides:
2018
Camping Village Marina di Venezia is an amazingly large site (2,818 pitches) with every conceivable facility. It has a pleasant feel with cheerful staff and...
Runners-up
Le Pavillon Royal has an excellent situation on raised ground overlooking the sea (100 m. from the beach), with good views along the coast to...
Included in our guides:
2023, 2022, 2021, 2020
Yelloh! Village Turiscampo is an outstanding site run by the friendly Coll family. It's wonderful for children, with very good activities, but also 'snow birds'...
Country Award
This award contrasts with our former award and acknowledges sites which are attractively located in delightful, rural locations.
Winner
Saint Gervais is a pretty spa town in the picturesque Val-Monjoie valley and this site is 2 km. from its centre, with wonderful views of...
Runners-up
The Legg family run this attractive and aptly named family park to very high standards. In a sheltered valley setting between Barnstaple and Ilfracombe, beside...
Camping Waalstrand lies just outside the village of Gendt. It is stretched out along the banks of the River Waal and backed by a dyke...
Family Site Award
Many sites claim to be child friendly but this award acknowledges the sites we feel to be the very best in this respect.
Winner
Included in our guides:
2019, 2018
This amazing site is very large, offering absolutely everything a camper could wish for. It is extremely professionally run and we were impressed with the...
Runners-up
Included in our guides:
2019
This quite large campsite is to be found off the N284 at Bladel in Noord-Brabant. It is an ideal location for cycling and walking and...
Included in our guides:
2022, 2020, 2019, 2018
A pleasant tree-lined approach road gives way to avenues of palms as you arrive at Torre del Sol. This large, well-designed site occupies a good...
Alan Rogers Readers’ Award
We believe our Readers’ Award to be the most important. We simply invite our readers to nominate the site they enjoyed most.
Winner
FR85150 Camping La Yole - France
Winner
Included in our guides:
2018
Camping Resort La Yole is an attractive and well-run site, two kilometres from a sandy beach. It offers 362 pitches, of which 91 mobile homes...
Alan Rogers Special Award
A Special Award is made to campsites which have suffered a very significant setback and have not only returned to their former condition, but can fairly be considered to be even better than before. In 2012 we acknowledge a Spanish campsite which suffered a devastating forest fire and we feel is a worthy recipient of this award.
Winner
Camping L’Albera is a quiet site set among cork and pine trees and surrounded by mountain views. In July 2012, this area of the Costa...