Hello, we are going to Spain next winter and this will be our first time in the motorhome. Any advice of where to stay, (we have not chosen the area yet.) it has to be near a golf course for hubby. Prices, what's expected of us etc. thank you in advance.
Don't forget to leave a review of the French and other European campsites you have visited!
Have a browse through this “abroad” forum as you’ve asked a very broad question. Plenty of people go there, so you’ll get some good ideas & advice about getting there in an MH (eg Ferries) etc.
If someone asked the very same question but put UK instead of Spain, I’d certainly struggle to give a helpful reply. Apart from golf, what else are you wanting to see or do?
We've been looking into just this and this is what we've learnt so far:
1. The CAMC run winter rallies on a few sites over the winter. If you book your crossing and a two week stay at one of these rallies, you're effectively booking a holiday with them and they have responsibilities towards you in terms of getting you there.
2. The rallies host a number of social and cultural activities (at extra cost), which you can choose to join.
3. The CAMC rallies fill up REALLY quickly, we missed out on our preferred location this year because we blinked and all of the slots at our preferred time had gone.
4. Outside of the CAMC, sites get booked up very, very quickly too. There are fewer sites open all year but there is a steady requirement for the slots available, many of our northern European neighbours stay for months and will book next years places before they leave this year. Anecdotally, we've heard of sites being booked up 2-3 years in advance. There are more sites open all year the further south you go, we've been looking at the east coast using the ACSI guide as a source, there are few sites between the French border and Barcelona, once you go south of Barcelona the number of available sites steadily increases, more so once you look south of Valencia.
5. Spain has a network of sites similar to French aires, indeed many of these are run by the same company that run many French sites - Camping CarPark. These sites get full really quickly.
Again, anecdotally, we've heard of many aires not run by private companies (with barriers and therefore a fixed amount of pitches), are being overcrowded with people staying for months.
6. Many people are parking off grid, often in residential streets or any free space for months which is causing a lot of antagonism amongst the locals (quite rightly), the police are cracking down on this.
The weather in Spain this winter has not been the best. There has been a lot of storms and the western side of the country has had a lot of rain, the eastern side has had high winds. Portugal, in the west, has suffered from a lot of floods. The high winds we experienced in Alicante were, according to the locals, unusual.
We've arrived back from Alicante yesterday (we flew and stayed in an apartment this time), we were there for 12 nights, we had a couple of rain showers in that time and daytime temperatures were in the region of 18-24°C but, there were quite a few days of high winds (50-70 mph gusts), these windy periods were quite prolonged e.g. a couple of days and resulted in some carnival activites being cancelled/postponed. It was quite busy in spite of it being the so called low-season.
The Wonderful Mrs Wez has been chief researcher and she's linked into a few Facebook groups where a lot of the anecdotal/current situation info comes from and loathe as I am to say it, they're probably worth joining if you're going to do this.
What we've found is that wintering in Spain is really, really popular, it gets booked up really quickly so you need alternative options and need to be flexible.
HTH
Don't forget to leave a review of the French and other European campsites you have visited!
...most of the overcrowding/being full and bad behaviour is found on sites closest to the coast. Sites inland are generally better.
Since I posted my previous I've been in correspondence with a motorhomer on another forum who is currently in Spain. He's booked some sites for next year already.
He also reported at one site he'd been on this year, the larger, premium pitches are booked up 5 years ahead! The site he's currently on has published next year prices for stays of a month or longer but hasn't published prices for shorter stays (which will be more expensive).
Quote: Originally posted by Trishboyce on 19/2/2026
We would like to see a bit of it's history, and love to learn some of there Spanish dishes. Thank you
Go in spring rather than winter. If you want history go inland away from the high rise coastal resorts. And for Spanish meals eat where the locals eat rather than at tourist places.
Don't forget to leave a review of the French and other European campsites you have visited!
Not MH'd or even camped for that matter, but stayed in an apartment in the north (Picos de Europa region), and with friends at their house in the south ('posh' eastern end of the Costas!) near the coast.
Found the food in the north far more traditional Spanish, simply because it was not really catering for the foreign tourists, as so relatively few visiting the region. Even on the north coast, not really a tourist hot spot, but the north more a region that those from Madrid and the like had holiday homes.
Food on the south coast was a bit 'fast food' like in a Spanish way, they were geared up to serve the masses of tourists with a quick turnover rather than fine dining of traditional dishes IMHO. TBF, my friends were happy with 'junk' food, so almost certainly didn't take us anywhere special. My first time to the region and I was more than a little disappointed at how mass tourism, and consequential high rise hotels, fast food etc., had obliterated most signs of anything traditional!
Away from 'tourist' traps will no doubt give you a better food experience, which I think holds true almost everywhere you go in the world. Perhaps more rustic and less menu choices, but closer to 'real' food of the region.
A day of all things motorhome and campervan. The show is held both in the main indoor arena and across the grounds. Catering, hot drinks and food options are available. Easy access to the site and free parking included. Win one of five pairs of day tickets
Topic: Motorhome in spain
via mobile 19/2/2026 at 8:15am
