Camping holiday 2020: Many campsites are already fully booked - so it still works

Camping holidays are in greater demand than ever. Many campsites are already fully booked during the summer holidays. Here are tips for a parking space.

• Camping holidays are experiencing a real boom this year.
• The reason for this is the ongoing corona crisis .
• However, many campsites are  already fully booked for the summer vacation . 

Dortmund - start in three weeks North Rhine-Westphalia , the summer holidays . And vacationers are lucky: From July onwards, it should be allowed to travel throughout the European Union again. Air travel is also possible again, reports RUHR24.de *. But do the Germans want that at all? According to current trends, a completely different form of travel is coming this year: camping .

Camping vacation 2020: Germans send more requests than ever before

As the NDR reports, there would have been more requests than ever before for trips to the coastal regions in Germany * on this year's Pentecost weekend. "It was as violent as it is rare," says Gert Petzold , state chairman of the association for camping and camper tourism , about the situation at the campsites in Schleswig-Holstein . 

Some of the campsite operators received thousands of requests. Most of the approximately 60,000 locations in Schleswig-Holstein were fully booked. 

And it looks no different for the coming summer months . Islands like Sylt or Fehmarn are also almost fully booked. According to Petzold, there would still be something available in July and August , if you want a place, you should be quick and book. 

Summer vacation 2020: Germans no longer want to travel abroad

The situation is similar at Lake Constance. Speakers from the Baden-Württemberg and Bavarian campsite companies told the SWR that the campsites in southern Germany are currently in such high demand as never before. Many campsite operators didn't even answer the phone because they were already booked. 

The reason for the boom is the ongoing corona crisis * and the associated travel restrictions. Although the federal government will lift the worldwide travel warning by June 15, many vacationers have already thrown their travel plans abroad.

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A survey by the opinion research institute Civey for t-online.de recently showed that around 67 percent of those surveyed no longer plan to travel abroad in 2020 . 

Camping holiday 2020: cut back and give up your favorite place

Home leave will be very trendy in 2020. However, this also affects the capacities of the campsites in Germany . If you have not yet booked, you could actually go empty-handed during the summer holidays. 

In any case, it is advisable to act quickly now and to check the availability in southern and northern Germany . The occupancy of the places is reduced due to the coronavirus pandemic.

A spontaneous arrival is not recommended. Instead, you should reserve in advance, insofar as the capacity of the space allows. 

Camping Holidays 2020: Popular campsites have hundreds of requests 

You should also say goodbye to the wish to be able to go on holiday to your favorite campsite this year . It is not uncommon for particularly popular places to have several hundred inquiries. 

For example, the Gohren campsite in Kressbronn, the largest on Lake Constance . As the SWR reports, it is normal for the place to be fully booked during the summer holidays, like every year, but there have never been as many requests as there are currently.  

Many campsites in Germany are already fully booked for the summer vacation.

© dpa / Felix Kästle

Camping holiday 2020: special hygiene regulations for caravans and campers

If you still want to go camping in the summer holidays this year , you should also take a look at more unknown places. Or those that are not in the tourist strongholds (sea or mountains) of the country. 

There is an overview of many campsites in Germany at the ADAC. But be careful: the availabilities can only be viewed on the respective websites of the providers. 

There is also further information on hygiene regulations and distance rules that currently have to be followed on all campsites due to the corona pandemic. For example, campsite operators in Bavaria may only accept caravans and campers with their own sanitary facilities. 

In the district of Rendsburg-Eckernförde, the # Corona protective measures are apparently seen somewhat loosely in isolated cases. For this reason, # camping and motorhome parking spaces are to be checked increasingly in the coming days. https://t.co/5lG5W09Nhs pic.twitter.com/K4wvAVRhFM

Camping holiday 2020: Wild camping in Germany is strictly prohibited

If you should come up with the idea of camping with your caravan or motorhome in the great outdoors because of the limited capacity of the campsites , you should not do this. Spending the night in a mobile home or caravan is permitted, but only in parking lots and only for one night. Prolonged parking can be fined. 

Those who want to switch to the tent instead are no less punishable. Wild camping - i.e. pitching a tent in the wild - is not permitted in Germany or in most European countries. 

Exceptions include the Baltic States and Scandinavia. If you want to be on the safe side, you can read on this page where wild camping is allowed in Europe.

* RUHR24.de is part of the nationwide Ippen-Digital editors network

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