Für uns ein super sauberer Platz, Sanitäranlagen hervorragend, Stellplätze top. Sehr freundliches, hilfsbereiten Personal, sehr gute Preis- Leistungsverhältnis.

This is by far the best campsite I have stayed at in Portugal and Porto Covo itself is the perfect sleepy village for beach lovers.

Hard to believe that this large site (or ‘beach village’) was the ACSI winner of ‘2024 Best Bathrooms in Portugal’ and ‘2025 Best Site in Portugal’. The site itself is hard to access, a long drive from the A2 motorway, through endless road works and along a narrow coastal lane. There is a nice pool and children’s playground (no use in winter) and a small shop but no common room, and the bar/restaurant is closed in January. You can walk about a mile into Porto Covo, a tiny village by a rocky Atlantic cove, but it has very few shops or eateries open in winter. There is a narrow long- distance footpath along the coast but no provision for cycling. The site-wide free WiFi was not working when we arrived (‘due to the rain’) but it did function later the next day.

But let’s look at the luxury toilets! The one and only toilet/shower block (unheated, in a cold wet January) is a long walk from many pitches and is badly signed. Each gender has a long row of toilets facing the shower cubicles, and a separate long row of hand-basins with no privacy and no hooks. Each WC has an open wastepaper basket with no lid. The shower cubicles have fixed overhead water, and there are no self-contained cubicles with their own WC and/or washbasin. There is a separate disabled/children’s shower for each gender, squeezed into a tiny cabinet with no screen or curtain and nowhere to hang clothes inside or outside the cubicle. Totally unsuitable for the disabled, or a parent and child, or anyone else.

The toilet/shower block also has an area of washing-up sinks and a modern laundry, with the large commercial washers and driers, operated with a bank card, that are the norm in Portugal, though there is nowhere to hang washing if the sun should shine. The pairs of double doors into the various parts of the block are made of clear plate glass, with just a tiny No Smoking sticker on one side. And if you avoid walking into that hazard, you can trip over the small marble step at each entry. There is a dump point next to the Ladies (a long walk with your cassette) but if you prefer the motorhome service point it is located down an unsigned cul-de-sac that you will only find if you ask at Reception (forget the useless site map).

One of the two receptionists was extremely helpful, translating a recorded message in Portuguese on my phone and making a call for me.

To summarise, this site is not at all suited to the needs of campers and should continue filling the site with new bungalows for a different clientele, who want an upmarket pool and restaurant and are not seeking chemical WC disposal!

Schöne Lage ca 300 m vom Atlantik. Tolle Sanitäranlagen, beheizt.Freundliches Personal.Super Strandabschnitt in Porto Covo.

A beautiful site in perfect location