Alan Rogers Awards – Results 2013
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 Denmark to Slovenia, and this year we are making awards to campsites in 13 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 2013.
Welcome Award
This award takes account of sites offering a particularly friendly welcome and maintaining a friendly ambience throughout reader's holidays.
Winner
Included in our guides:
2023, 2020, 2018
A really first-class, family-run campsite, ideal for families with children up to 12 years old, with activities on a grand scale. A short distance south...
Runners-up
Included in our guides:
2023, 2020, 2018
Set in the heart of the château region, Sites et Paysages Camping Les Saules has developed into a popular, friendly campsite run by a local...
Camping Napfény, an exceptionally good site, is designed for families with children of all ages looking for an active holiday, and has a 200 m...
Progress Award
This award reflects the hard work and commitment undertaken by particular site owners to improve and upgrade their site. Candidates for this award may be existing sites which have undergone a far reaching improvement programme, or possibly may be sites which have passed into new ownership and benefited from substantial investment in terms of time and money!
Winner
Included in our guides:
2023, 2022, 2021, 2020
Alannia Costa Blanca (formerly Marjal) is a fully equipped site situated 15 km. inland on the southern Alicante coast, close to the towns of Crevillente...
Runners-up
This site is attractively situated in the foothills of the Alps on land sloping down to a lake with a backdrop of mountains. Together with...
Included in our guides:
2018
This is an excellent, attractive and well maintained site in a secluded hillside setting with views over the sea and close to the centre of...
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, water sports etc.
Winner
Included in our guides:
2018
Südsee-Camp in the Lüneburger Heide is a large, well organised holiday centre where children are especially well catered for. There are 726 touring pitches of...
Runners-up
Included in our guides:
2019, 2018
What an amazing experience awaits you at Seiser Alm! Elisabeth and Erhard Mahlknecht have created a superb site in the magnificent Südtirol region of the...
Included in our guides:
2020, 2019, 2018
Kamp Koren is situated in picturesque valley by the Soča river, 500 m from historical town Kobarid. A unique campsite and sole holder of the...
Innovation Award
This award acknowledges campsites with outstanding creative and original concepts, possibly with features which are unique, and simply cannot be found elsewhere.
Winner
Included in our guides:
2018
An absolutely brilliant, family orientated, resort-style site that we love, especially for its positive value for money approach. The array of top quality on-site activities...
Runners-up
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...
Included in our guides:
2018
Beerze Bulten is a large leisure park with superb indoor and outdoor amenities, so you can enjoy yourself whatever the weather. A large, partly underground...
Small Campsite Award
This new award acknowledges top quality small campsites (less than 75 pitches) which offer a friendly welcome and top quality amenities throughout the season.
Winner
Included in our guides:
2022, 2020, 2018
With panoramic views all around of the Sierra de Valdefuertes mountains, Camping El Mirador de Cabañeros is set in the Cabañeros National Park. This is...
Runners-up
Included in our guides:
2020
Situated on the southwest edge of Dartmoor, this holiday park has been developed in the grounds of the old Langstone Manor house. The touring pitches...
Lazy is a real mini site of ten hectares and only 15 pitches (ten with 4/6A electricity). This means pitches are up to 300 sq.m...
Seaside Award
This award is made for sites which we feel are particularly suitable for a really excellent seaside holiday.
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
Le Petit Rocher has a seaside location (150 m. from the beach) set in a pine forest, with an air of peace and tranquillity. Although...
Included in our guides:
2018
This very attractive and well kept site is situated under tall pines on the edge of the rather select, small resort of São Pedro de...
Country Award
This award contrasts with our former award and acknowledges sites which are attractively located in pleasant, rural locations.
Winner
Included in our guides:
2018
Castel Camp de Florence is an attractive and very well equipped site on the edge of an historic village in pleasantly undulating Gers countryside. The...
Runners-up
Lake Ledro is only 9 km. from Lake Garda, its sparkling waters and breathtaking scenery offering a low key alternative for those who enjoy a...
Included in our guides:
2019
Camping De Pampel has the most congenial atmosphere and caters both for families (great facilities for children) and for those seeking peace and quiet. This...
Family Site Award
Many sites claim to be family friendly but this award acknowledges the sites we feel to be the very best in this respect.
Winner
Included in our guides:
2021, 2020, 2019
Camp du Domaine is located along the coast just outside the town of Bormes and is 3 km. south of Le Lavandou. The same family...
Runners-up
Included in our guides:
2019
This high quality campsite, set in the heart of the Dordogne, has fine views looking up to the fortified town of Belvès. It is a...
Included in our guides:
2023, 2020, 2019, 2018
Situated in the lovely wooded hills of central Luxembourg, this is a top-quality site with fees to match, but it has everything! A large, central...
Alan Rogers Readers Award
Alan Rogers readers are invited to nominate (by means of an on-line poll at www.alanrogers.com and www.alanrogers.nl) their favourite site.
Winner
Beverley Park is an amazing holiday centre catering for every need. It has been developed and run by the Jeavons family for over 50 years...
Alan Rogers Special Award
The Special Award is presented to campsites which we feel have suffered very significant setbacks and have not only returned to their former condition, but can fairly be considered to be better than before.
Winners
Included in our guides:
2023, 2021, 2020, 2019
Camping Grubhof is a beautifully laid out, level and spacious site set in the former riding and hunting park of the 14th-century Schloss Grubhof. The...
Included in our guides:
2018
Although Camping Caravaning Saint-Avit Loisirs is set amidst rolling countryside, far from the hustle and bustle of the main tourist areas of the Dordogne, the...