I would like to share our experience with the Vadaš campsite in Štúrov in the south of Slovakia. Usually we travel wildly by our van, but this is one of the few campsites we have visited due to the great thermal swimming pool ...
My first experience with this camp was good ...
My husband has been going there to his cottages regularly with his family for several years. So we made a stop there on our annual van trip to Europe in 2018. At that time we arrived at the campsite without a reservation and we simply camped right away with our van. It was the beginning of May and it was just getting cold, so there weren't many people in the camp, which we were happy for. The cold weather did not prevent us from swimming in hot water at all, on the contrary, it was all the more pleasant and we did not move out of the water for almost the whole two days ...
For one night in a dormitory for two, we paid about 28 Euros, which came out almost as if we paid the entrance to the swimming pool for two for two days. In addition to accommodation, we included the entrance to the complex for the whole next day even after leaving the complex, so it definitely paid off.
This summer 2020 we went to the camp again and our current experience was quite contradictory.
This time we took my mother on vacation and since we can't fit into our residential van in threes, we have booked accommodation in a cottage.
On the one hand, we enjoyed a great holiday at the large swimming pool in the camp. There are about five pools (not counting the paddling pool) and now they have opened another. Two of them are with hot and cold water and bubbles, we like to go there especially in the evening. There is a swimming pool, various pools with attractions and also a pool with waves.
We've already tried four slides and my husband went to the fifth, to the steepest, where I no longer dared. We love it there and we are happy to return.
I can recommend the swimming pool to all ten, but I can't say the same about the services at the camp reception.
Already during planning I found out that they do not have a reservation system on their website and that reservations must be made only by mail. We waited 5 days for a reply and confirmation email! I couldn't even call there. But be it, it was a week before they opened after the spring restrictions.
They also didn't have prices for camping in a tent or in a dormitory on their website (which they have there before and now). Fortunately, we just exceptionally chose accommodation in a cottage, because there were more of us than would fit in our living room.
We liked it so much that we decided to extend our stay for another week. So we went to the reception to ask if they still have a free cottage next week. The lady at the reception told us to write an e-mail! So at least I asked him to tell us if there was anything left. She said yes. I really am
didn't she understand why she can't extend our reservation directly at the reception and I have to deal with it by e-mail ?!
So I wrote an email. I received an answer to him in an e-mail and had a missed call from the reception. I couldn't call back even three times. So I went straight to the reception to make an appointment and wanted to ask for more information.
I learned that everything is already full, but that one reservation has not been paid yet and may be canceled on Friday, ie one day before our end, so if we want to keep it that way. But that we will have to move to another cottage, even though it was the same type of cottage.
They just don't do room or cottage exchanges, as usual and as I did when I worked as a delegate or receptionist at a hotel, that if someone came earlier, I moved him to an already tidy room of the same type. They assign exact cottages there when booking and they don't move with that anymore, and they have designated shifts there from Saturday to Saturday, ie a fairly simple system for organizing.
In the end, after the nerves at the reception and the uncertainty as to whether something would come loose and that we would still have to move anyway, we decided to stay elsewhere.
We found accommodation with a private individual in a cottage, which is also in the area. The cottage was smaller and located near the playground, so it was busier there, but the services were really incomparable, especially the personal approach, when nothing was a problem.
Summary of your campsite Vadas
I recommend the swimming pool to all ten, but as far as accommodation is concerned, after our experience I do not recommend staying directly under Vadaš, but to find private accommodation directly in the area. There is also a lake with a rope park in the area and there are still many private cottages for rent around the lake.
PS: After this experience, I'm really happy most of the time we travel with a dwelling in a wild way and therefore we don't have to deal with whether they have a place somewhere and we don't even have to move from cottage to cottage somewhere, because we take our house with us everywhere.
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