Alan Rogers Awards – Results 2014
Presented at the Vakantiebeurs, Utrecht on 14th January 2015
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 11 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 2014.
Welcome Award
This award recognises sites offering a particularly warm welcome and maintaining a friendly ambience throughout readers’ holidays.
Winner
Included in our guides:
2018
This site is in one of the most attractive sections of the Dordogne valley, with a riverside location. Owned by Vacanceselect There are 238 pitches...
Runners up
Included in our guides:
2023, 2019, 2018
A friendly and very well-run site, Camping Sandaya Parc la Clusure is highly recommended. Set in a river valley in the lovely wooded uplands of...
Included in our guides:
2022, 2019, 2018
A friendly, popular site for those travelling to and fro the ferry ports of Santander or Bilbao. Set in a delightful position alongside the River...
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 sites which have passed into new ownership and benefited from substantial investment in terms of time and money.
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
Included in our guides:
2021
Camping Ruinen, under new ownership, is a large, spacious site with 202 pitches, 197 for touring set within the woods of Drenthe. All pitches have...
Included in our guides:
2020, 2019, 2018
A large family holiday site with 900 individual pitches, Goolderheide has been owned and operated by the same family for many years and has an...
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 and water sports.
Winner
Included in our guides:
2019, 2018
Castel Camping Domaine de la Bergerie is an excellent site near the Côte d’Azur, which will take you away from all the bustle of the...
Runners up
Austria has some of the finest sites in Europe. In a quiet, rural situation on the edge of the small Reintaler See lake, Seeblick Toni...
Included in our guides:
2019
A family-owned TopCamp holiday site, Hvidbjerg Strand is on the west coast near Blåvands Huk, 43 km. from Esbjerg. It is a high quality, seaside...
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:
2020
Zaton Holiday Resort is a modern family holiday park with a 1.5 kilometre private sandy beach. It is close to the historic town of Nin...
Runners up
Included in our guides:
2023, 2020
This is a marvellous, beach-side site, attractively situated at the foot of the imposing Tamarit Castle at one end of a superb one-kilometre-long beach of...
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...
Country Award
This award acknowledges sites which are attractively located in pleasant, rural settings.
Winner
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...
Runners up
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...
Harfenmühle is a quiet, family run and family orientated site with an excellent restaurant, set in a wooded valley on the Edelsteinstrasse (precious stone route)...
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
Cala Llevado is a beautifully situated and quiet (although popular), cliff-side site, enjoying fine views of the sea and coast below. It is shaped around...
Runners up
Included in our guides:
2018
Camping Château le Verdoyer has been developed in the park of a restored château and is owned by a Dutch family. This 22-hectare estate has...
Included in our guides:
2018
This is a large site, part of which directly borders the River Elbe, with 500 pitches, of which 200 are for touring (all with electricity...
Small Campsite Award
This award acknowledges top quality small campsites (less than 75 pitches) which offer a friendly welcome and first class amenities throughout the season.
Winner
Included in our guides:
2019
A very impressive purpose built campsite beside the River Mole, Riverside is set in 70 acres of meadow and ten acres of woodland. There are...
Runners up
Camping WeidumerHout is a member of the Karaktervolle Groene Campings group, literally ‘characterful green campsites’. It has a superb rural location, close to the historic...
Included in our guides:
2019, 2018
Situated just north of Augsburg, this beautifully run site with its own small lake, is a pleasure to stay on. Gabi Ryssel, the owner, spends...
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:
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:
2023, 2019, 2018
Considered by many to be the best family campsite in Switzerland, Campofelice Camping Village borders Lake Maggiore and the Verzasca estuary, where the site has...
De Molenhof is a pleasant family site which generally caters for children under 12 rather than teenagers. It has 450 well laid out pitches of...
Alan Rogers Special Award
The Special Award is presented to campsites which we feel have suffered very significant setbacks, but have coped admirably in very difficult circumstances.
Winner
Included in our guides:
2022
Sobec is situated in a valley between the Julian Alps and the Karavanke Mountains, in a pine grove between the Sava Dolinka river and a...
Alan Rogers Readers Award
Alan Rogers readers are invited to nominate their favourite campsite.
Winner
Included in our guides:
2023, 2018
Le Paradis is an excellent, well-maintained riverside site, halfway between Les Eyzies and Montignac in the Valley of the Vézère. The site is landscaped with...