wild camping Forums

geoffngill

Hi .
we are new to motorhomes and wondered if anybody had any general information with regard to wild camping in spain .not necessarily locations but more the spanish attitude to it ,and the legality that sort of thing . would appreciate any assistance ,we are leaving for San Pedro Del Pinatar, Murcia on the 26th March.
many thanks in advance.
geoffngill

Boff

Hi geoffngill,

officially wild camping is illegal in Spain. However I know from hearsay that in the low season (and off the coasts even in high season) it seems to be widely tolerated. Provided that you keep a low profile and mind the difference between "wild camping" and "overnight parking".

Best Regards,
Gerhard

geoffngill

Hi Boff,
many thanks for your reply ,not the answer we where hoping for but at least we know the situation ,any more info from anybody on any thing related to wild camping in spain would be useful.
many thanks
Geoff & Gill

C7KEN

Hi Geoff & Gill
We live in Spain and possibly the best advice I can give you is to make sure that you park up with other motorhomers near you, that you get an alarm or alternatively buy some panic alarms from ebay and clip them to the inside of all your doors so if you have an intruder you will wake up, people sleep more soundly than they think they do, we recently foiled a breakin at 3.00 am at a heighbours home and no other neighbour woke up even though we were making a lot of noise, we use our MH for motocross racing and obviously park in the pits at meetings but if we have a long journey usually stop midway, we do exactly as I just said and to date no problems, incidentally there are often articles in the local costa papers usually brits complaining about motorhomers wild camping on the coast whatever you do don,t try to park in a dark corner away from others, park in a high street ( or similar)if on your own, we live just inland from Guardamar

geoffngill

Hi C7KEN,
thanks very much for the further info ,to give you the full story we have bought two properties in San Pedro del Pinatar with the view to renting them out to holiday makers and we bought the motorhome to live in if both the apartments are let .
Thought we might do North africa in the winter ,we used to motorcross ,AMCA or ACU ?
regards
Geoff & Gill

johnsandywhite

Hi geoffngill. We spent 5 years Wild Camping in Spain, mainly on the Costas. The information already given applies. In Winter you may be asked to move on and not return. The trick is to not overstay your welcome. A lot of the places where we used to park have now been turned into Apartment blocks and housing. We have always tried to park by ourselves and apart from having bikes stolen once (we left the Motorhome un-attended), we have had no other problems. Wink

C7KEN

Hi Geoff & Gill
Its son Mark who races a Honda 450f ACU in UK but now trying to get a licence from the Spanish federation, should happen in the next week, sounds like the best thing you can do is park near to your properties but still alarm the doors, we have problems here with low lifes from so security is extremely important, leave no easy way in for them we have not had a problem but we are well alarmed, watchful and tooled up to look after ourselves
Ken

terrysun

Went down to Spain for 2 weeks last September.
Parked always with other campervans or in quiet towns that were well lit and 'felt' safe'
Along the front of a couple of resorts where parking for the night was fine, guess who spoilt it?
Instead of taking up one parking place that was clearly marked out from the kerb, there were motorhomes taking up 3 places parked along the kerb. These were 'in position' for days so that access to the beach was just across the road.
As you can imagine the Spanish holidaymakers that wanted to parked were not amused at all. Nor were the disabled parkers whos spaces were ignored by the parked campers.
As a consequence whereas we had parked for one night at a time in a correct bay we were now too embarrassed to park along with the idiots
By the way, yes you guessed right it was the Brits that had spoilt it all

anacarol

avoid highway areas. Those are the most dangerous of all !
I always exit the highway/motorway and find the tiniest, quieter town I can find. I have never ever had a problem

shawbags

Hello mate,the first thing you need is the right spares and tools.You must take 2 breakdown triangles,a full spare set of bulb,a spare wheel and the tools to change them.Also make sure you display your GB sticker and also take a high isability jacket (like the road workers wear),stick to the speed limits even in the middle of nowhere i swear the police hide in the rabbit holes on the side of the roads.I general its not bad if you stick to there laws,also make sure you have the new european licence(the one with your photo on),all the best Chris!.