Sweden is the cheapest of the Scandinavian countries: accommodation and excursions in Finland and Norway are much more expensive. However, those who have already visited the Czech Republic, Poland or Hungary, prices, including accommodation, may seem very high. Therefore, tourists who still decided to visit this Sweden, but can not afford to stay in hotels , choose camping sites.
The attractiveness of this type of recreation is not only in a lower price compared to hotels, but also in greater proximity to nature. Most of the campsites are located on the seashore or the shores of other water bodies, in the forests.
Wide choose
Sweden offers its guests more than 500 campsites, which in total means about 100 thousand tent places and 13 thousand houses and cottages. Many camping sites can rent a house on wheels.
If you look for campsites in Sweden on a map, you can see that they are scattered literally throughout the country. The most popular destinations are the south and south-west.
Some campsites work only in the summer season, some from April to the end of September, there are also year-round. In the latter usually in winter, fully equipped cottages are rented.
Features of accommodation
Typically, campsites in Sweden provide an opportunity to stay in the territory in tents or in small houses. In the latter most often there are either 2 or 4 bunk beds and a kitchenette with a set of dishes. The toilet and shower are either in the main building, or booths are located directly on the territory.
Many campsites offer to live in fully equipped cottages. Houses without amenities are often called "capsules" - they are more popular than tent places, because of the capricious Swedish weather.
Infrastructure
Often in the campsite there are:
- the shops;
- a cafe;
- laundry and dryers;
- ironing facilities;
- children's and sports grounds;
- playrooms for children;
- the ability to watch TV and connect to the Internet.
In the campsites, located near the reservoirs, there are usually rental points for boats and canoes. In the year-round campsites in winter you can rent skis, sleds.
In many campsites, payment for services can be done using a Mastercard, Visa, American Express or Dinners card.
How to get to the campsite?
Just so come and settle in a Swedish camping can not. To do this, you must first purchase a valid Camping Card Scandinavia / Svenskt Campingkort - a Scandinavian or directly Swedish camping card that entitles you to accommodation in any of the Swedish campsites. In many of them you can stop and CCI (Camping Card International) - an international camping map.
You can buy Camping Key Europe both online and directly in the keming, even if you do not intend to live in it. The card ordered on the site will come to the e-mail address specified when purchasing. The card costs 150 SEK (slightly more than 17 US dollars), regardless of where it was purchased. The validity of such a card is one year.
It is better to still care about purchasing a card in advance. It does not give discounts for living in camping sites in Sweden - unlike, for example, from Finnish campsites - but it simplifies registration in the camping, all data is simply read from it. In addition, the presence of a card gives a 14-day loan for payment of accommodation. To live in a camping, it is necessary, besides a camping card, to have a passport with you.
The best campsites of the country
One of the most famous camping sites in Sweden is located near the village of Jokmokk; It is called Skabram Turism Gårdsmejeri and is located in a pine forest near the Muddus National Park.
Other popular campsites are:
- Orrefors Camping in the southern part of the country near the town of Orrefors, one of the centers of production of the famous Swedish glass;
- Långsjön Stugor & Camping AB near Ankarsrum;
- Kalmar Camping - Rafshagsudden near the town of Kalmar ;
- Spilhammars Camping near Mariannelund;
- Camping Tiveden near the town of Tived.