Campsites and Secured Motorhome Parking in Tunisia

Our research of campsites and secure motorhome parking areas in Tunisia was helped by lots of fabulous folks offering pointers to new sources of information. It turned up the following list of places. They’re either camp sites, or parking attached to a hotel or port, with some kind of security provided and varying levels of service (and cleanliness!). We’ve not included any wild/free camping locations, as we chose to stay in places with at least some degree of security (there is currently a state of emergency in place).

Camping Les Beaux Reves, Tozeur, Tunisia.

We’ll continue to update this as we travel the country, and welcome any new locations we’ve not included (send them to julieandjason@ourtour.co.uk). Since we’ve only visited a few places, we can’t vouch for the accuracy of any of this info, but hope it acts as a good starting point for your research.

A few notes:

• The ‘Comments’ column lists our impression of the place (completely subjective!) from either a visit (made clear in the preceding column if we’ve been there) or from reading other people’s comments on their source websites. Sometimes these are based on very little information – please treat them with caution.
• What qualifies as a camp site in Tunisia (and Morocco) varies significantly from what qualifies a camp site in Europe. Expect a walled enclosure on packed earth or sand, with an often filthy toilet block and nowhere to drop your grey water (we’ve not seen a single water drain, even in towns), and your expectations will be well set!
• Camping at ports, archaeological sites and hotels is often just a car park, with a night guard. Some have no services, some have electricity, some water.
• The GPS co-ordinates are click-able, so you can see a Google map for the location. They may be inaccurate – apologies if any are wrong.
• Costs vary between about £8 per night and £14 in 2013 (guarded parking should be less). Unlike sites in Morocco, Tunisian sites don’t seem to have a written price list – you just have to ask and agree a price up front. We’re pants at haggling – we usually either pay the price asked, unless it’s something daft (one hotel in Bizerte asked for 50 dinar to stay in the car park overnight).
• We don’t have a 4×4. There are camspites in the desert which need one. As far as I know none of them are included in the list below. Ksar Ghilane requires a bit of driving on a sandy road, but we managed it, with some swearing and sweating but no digging!
• Some of the source sites are not in English – we just used Google Translate to read them.
• They’re in **roughly** alphabetical order!