Cushy, Cop-Out Camping
Like I said in yesterday’s post we’ve just recently returned from a fabulous trip to Venice, Italy. It’s always lovely. I adore much of Italy, especially Venice. For the last few years we’ve taken European road trips where they were a combination camping/hotel tours. I much prefer the latter but camping also has its charm (sometimes). We’ve experienced the good, the bad and the ugly with camping. Camping Marina di Venezia located beside a golden, sandy beach in Venice, Italy can definitely be categorized under the “good.” We’ve stayed there every year for the past few years.
Perhaps it’s not for everyone though. If you are the type who enjoys really back to basic, getting your nails dirty, roughing it styled camping with few or no amenities, then this is absolutely not the camping ground for you. I like to refer to Marina di Venezia as the crème de la crème of the camping world. (Crème de la crème is French as I recall. I’m not sure how it translates into Italian, perhaps one of the Italian bloggers could help me out). In other words, I guess what I'm trying to say is it’s camping minus the pain.
This four star camping with cabins onsite, laundry, supermarket, entertainment, restaurants, and shoe and souvenir stores, has all the conveniences of home. There is also a swimming pool and like I said before, they have their own beach. In fact, they even have their own makeshift church. It’s a perfect place if you have kids. You can rent a bicycle for about 25 Euros a week. A bus transports tourists directly to a ferry that delivers you directly to the one of a kind, historical City of Venice. For a return ticket it costs about 18 Euros. This camping site is as close as you can possibly get to staying at a hotel.
A pet peeve I have often had with camping sites is A) they can sometimes be too noisy and B) they are occasionally not clean and C) there are long line-ups to the showers and bathrooms. Marina di Venezia has none of these problems. The staff works around the clock to keep the facilities spotless. No noise is allowed after 1 a.m. There are almost never any line-ups to the showers and bathrooms.
There were so many Danes there I thought I was back in Denmark but there were also plenty of Italians, of course and Germans. I didn’t see any British, Americans or Canadians. I’m not sure where they were hiding out. Oh and they don’t take American Express but do take other types of credit cards.
Camping Marina di Venezia,Via Montello, 6 – Punta Sabbioni 30013 – Cavallino Treporti – (VE) Italy
Tel 39 041 5302 511
Fax 39 041 966 036 E-mail: camping@marinadivenezia.it
Cost per night: up to 40 Euros per plot. (Depends on if you have a vehicle, the season etc.) Minimum stay is 7 nights.
P.S. don’t forget mosquito repellent. Ciao.
