Birkelt Village

We spent 7 nights in early July at this super site in Luxemboug’s Little Switzerland. Super clean shower block with plenty of toilets, basins and shower cubicles. Roomy pitch clearly marked. Some pitches needed the grass/shrubs trimming but ours was great. Site is busy expanding its family cabin accommodation so may feel pretty busy during high season. Appeared to be an active kids club and newly built playground facilities and brilliant new outdoor pool (albeit a bit chilly as unheated), also a small indoor pool. Larochette is a charming small town and only a 10-15 minute (steep) walk away. Pleasantly surprised at Luxembourg, no litter, great places to visit, friendly faces and pretty scenery.

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We prebooked for 3 nights (mid august) for our family of 4 in the campsite but it was very busy, crowded and noisy even after 10.30pm. Provision in the shop and food outlets was limited and expensive as were laundry facilities. Local village pleasant (mostly cafes), good supermarket 11km away and easy by rail from local town to Luxembourg city which was worth a visit. Big site but clean and staff good. Pitches were well worn and showers tired. We left after two nights

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Thank you for your feedback. To give some background, in July 2016 there was a very bad storm in the village of Larochette and our camping pitches really suffered because of this, so this was unfortunately a result of the storm. In reference to the noise levels, we have taken this on board and now have on site a porter who keeps an eye on the campsite at night to ensure that noise is kept to a minimum. We continue to make improvements to the site and its facilities and it has changed a lot over the past couple of years. We are extremely busy in high season, if people prefer more space and quiet then visiting outside of this peak period may provide a more restful experience.

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Having read some negative reports I was apprehensive about our 2 day visit in early July. I need not have worried, this is a delightful site in all respects. Lovely woodland setting above a smashing little town. I can recommend this site for a short or longer stay. N.B. Luxembourg has the cheapest diesel in this part of Europe.

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Thankfully we only booked 1 night at this site as a stop off on our way to France. The good points first, very very clean and good quality toilets and showers. Now the bad, the site is very very crowded! It is full of very small caravans and trailers tents. We were in a 7.2m Bailey Pegasus which is NOT suitable for this site. We were as wide as the access road! The pitch was at the end of an even smaller road which handily turned to thick rutted mud at the start of our pitch. Just to make it extra tricky it seemed to slope in several directions. There was no way on earth I could have reversed the van on even if the sea of trailer tents and feral children had not been there. Thankfully 2 Dutch guys helped us push it on. The pitch was awful, sloping so badly I had to get on my knees in the mud to jack the van up to put the ramps under as I couldn't use the car in the thick mud. The pitches are wrecked by the tents and just turn to mud. My daughter and wife both slipped over. I have never been so pleased to leave a site! The caravan club need to take this out of their brochure. 

Response from the Site:

Thank you for your feedback. To give some background, in July 2016 there was a very bad storm in the village of Larochette and our camping pitches really suffered because of this, so this was unfortunately a result of the storm. We continue to make improvements to the site and its facilities and it has changed a lot over the past couple of years. We are extremely busy in high season, if people prefer more space and quiet then visiting outside of this peak period may provide a more restful experience.

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Only stayed for one night [2 July] this year en route to Austria. Pitch was of good size and convenient for all facilities. Check-in arrangement is much better than most sites. Had a quiet evening with no problems with noisy neighbours.

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