Camping Riva Bella Ouistreham

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I agree about off season, but the problem with not booking arises if you are coming off the 2130 arrival at Ouistreham fro  Portsmouth. Riva Bella only admit booked late arrivals as the office is closed. Caveat emptor!

I only live 20 minutes from the Portsmouth ferry so nearly always catch the 0800 hrs arriving 1400 hrs, this gives you time to get to the likes of Tours, Nantes, Rennes for the overnight stay.

There is a club site at Rooksbury Park which is within easy reach of the ferry, would it not be easier to overnight there and then catch the early ferry ??, a little expensive, but arriving in daylight hours and being able to make good progress into France has to be a plus.

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We have just arrived back from France on Sunday 26th June 2022. We used the Riva Bella campsite for five days without prior booking using ACSI at 22 Euros. The site is excellent, very clean with swimming pool and cafe. It was a brilliant location for visiting the D Day landing beaches including the recently opened British Normandy site 17 miles away. A further 5 miles and we were in Arromanches to view the floating Mulberry harbour. Three miles away was the Pegasus Bridge Museum. All in all a lovely five days.

Many caravans and motorhomes turned up for one night only whilst we were there. I could see no evidence of minimum nights booking for any time during the season.

The only downside were a small number of immigrants loitering outside of the entrance but not on the site.

Our caravan was searched twice by customs officers on the way home searching for illegal immigrants.

No searches of our fridge were made on the way out looking for contraband food.

Thanks for the update Brian. As previously posted, the  online three day booking requirement only applies in July and August, so your visit in June would not have picked this up

Hi David, As you will know so far as anything ferry travel related it’s check, check and check again as things can be so different for what appear near identical circumstances.

We use the Plymouth to Roscoff overnight as the advantages suit us very well however, it was almost always the case that this would be considerably more than a day crossing but this year it was the better bet cost wise.

We are also finding that travelling shorter distances, so more overnights, is not as simple as maybe we thought as the setting up, negligible that it is, once added to the time spent getting off your main route to the site, checking in etc feels like it takes up a lot of the time you could have been travelling.

That being the case an additional night on arrival would not appeal but, at the moment, the timings mean we are not having to consider that.

Just been there for 1 night booked through the club. They don't take twin axle vans, although allowed me in as booked through the club. Don't come again, I was told.

Migrants still hanging around at the entrance.