Family Camping Holiday in Costa Brava

Rosemary Chawke 16 July 2018
This year our family holiday took us to Castel Montgri campsite in L'Estartit. My kids just love the mobile home style holiday, the freedom, the safety, and eating Alfresco at the mobile!

L'Estartit is a beautiful area of the Costa Brava. It’s just a 40min transfer from Girona airport and a taxi cost approx. €70 each way. You don’t need to have a car as it’s very accessible to all the surrounding areas. The campsite offers a free bus to the centre running from 9am - 6pm daily and there is also a local bus stop right outside the campsite to bring you to all the nearby towns. L'Estartit is only a 12-minute walk from the campsite and here you have the beach, harbour and lots of bars and restaurants. There is a market there every Thursday morning and well worth a visit for all the bargains and souvenirs. The beach is beautiful and never too crowded with lovely beach bars situated along the strand.

The Campsite is very hilly and for that reason only, I would not recommend this site to families with small kids or those with walking difficulties. It is ideal for all other ages even teens as there is much to do for them with clubs, disco in the evening and all very safe. One of the highlights for my kids was that the pools stayed open till midnight and Lifeguards were always on duty. There was a total of 3 pools all very different. The Panorama pool has a diving board and slide and water fountain. At night a lot of the entertainment was around this area and they also showed all the sports here on the big screen and movies during the day. The Ombra pool had a big twisty slide in it and my two kids loved it. The third pool was called La Bassa which was my favourite, it has a real rain forest feel to it. Very tropical!

The campsite ran an excellent entertainment programme with something for everyone. Water aerobics, aerobics in the morning and lots going on for both adults and kids. They also have a mini golf area, tennis courts, soccer pitch, basketball and a mini outdoor gym.

On site there is a supermarket which is very convenient, and Lidl is only a 10minute walk from the campsite.

We stayed in a 3 bed Titania mobile which was very comfortable and spacious with air conditioning, decking and BBQ; we loved barbecuing in the evening time. I would highly recommend the accommodation, service and location on the campsite and the reps of the company we travelled with; they couldn't do enough for us to make our stay a memorable one.

One of the excursions we did was the safari cruise, a 2-hour boat trip costing €20 euro per person. We got to snorkel, dive and they had an inflatable slide in the water, it was great fun and I would highly recommend this trip. Another excursion was to the Aqua Brava Aquatic Park. A great day out for all the family and buses operate from the campsite.

After being to Bela Italia in Lake Garda last year I thought we were going to find it hard to find a campsite as good, but I can certainly say Castel Montgri surpassed all my expectations, we thoroughly enjoyed it and most definitely will return.