After more than a year, we continue to live with the COVID-19 virus in Germany. The resulting restrictions affect all areas of life, but vacation planning is particularly affected. No one knows when hotels, vacation apartments or campsites will open in Germany and where we can travel. That leaves only one solution: spontaneity and flexibility, which means travelling with a campervan.
Spontaneous travel with a campervan
A vacation in a campervan is the ideal way to travel throughout Germany despite COVID-19. You can easily book your campervan via campstar. The platform is intuitively designed and allows you to plan your vacation according to your own wishes and preferences.
You can choose from a wide variety of campervans. Depending on your personal space and comfort requirements, you can select the campervan that suits you perfectly. Whether a fully or partly integrated campervan, with or without an alcove, or just a traditional van – your ideal campervan is already waiting for you.
You can also choose the pick-up location of the campervan flexibly. If you want to start your tour at a particular place in Germany, you simply travel by car or train and pick up your campervan at the desired location. Otherwise, you can start at home. At home, you have the advantage that you can load your camper van directly. In addition, the vacation begins with the first driven kilometre of the trip.
A significant advantage of vacationing with a campervan is that you are always spontaneous and flexible. With the campervan, you always have everything you need with you – the living and sleeping area, kitchen, and bathroom are always within reach. You are independent of campgrounds and can travel wherever you want. There is no need for long-term planning, booking campsites or other accommodation. Even last-minute changes due to COVID-19 don’t put a spoke in your wheel. Travelling with a campervan means being self-sufficiently and not being dependent on special campsites or restaurants.
Campstar – innovative commitment to customers
The Corona pandemic has led to great uncertainty. The travel industry has been particularly affected by this. Campstar is committed to providing its customers with as much information as possible and has put together special information pages for the current situation regarding COVID-19 in Germany. These information pages are also available for all other countries where you can travel to and pick up your rented campervan. Of course, these pages are updated regularly, so you are always up to date.
Furthermore, campstar has listed the special cancellation policies of its campervan providers in summary form. The “Book with Confidence” guarantee of the provider Apollo Europe, for example, guarantees the customer in many cases free changes of dates, a 100% refund of the rental price or the issue of a voucher for the rental of a campervan. The guarantee comes into effect if, at the agreed pick-up time, travel restrictions are in place in the country where you would pick up your campervan. Also, other restrictions that result in the collection depot’s closure where the pick-up was to take place will allow you to change the date or receive a refund. The other providers also have similar offers, giving you the most flexibility possible if something does come up and you can’t travel as planned due to COVID-19.
You can easily cancel your booking by emailing campstar customer service and including your booking number if necessary.
Practical information
When you think of a vacation with a campervan in Germany, you probably first have the image of a campsite in your mind. This is usually not a problem. Germany has many and beautiful campsites in countless places that everyone would like to travel to.
But with COVID-19, everything is different: Who knows if the campsite of your choice is open during the vacation weeks? Or are all the campsites already booked up? Many others want to travel within Germany despite COVID-19.
With a campervan, you travel flexible. Because of the self-sufficient construction, you don’t need the infrastructure of a camping site. With water and wastewater tanks, a battery and maybe even a solar panel on the roof, you are independent of external supply for several days. You can also fill up water and dispose of wastewater at smaller RV parks. This service is usually offered independently of the booking of an overnight stay.
Wild camping is not allowed in most places in Germany, but you can stop for a night to sleep almost everywhere. Thus you are very close to nature and experience the country from a completely different side.
On Campstar you will find a list of countries where you can pick up your campervan. For each country, a link takes you directly to the official government websites (in Germany, e.g. the Foreign Office) with travel warnings, travel recommendations, and much more information.
Also, many websites list the different restrictions according to the country of departure and arrival. The website Sherpa is very well constructed and provides an overview of the legislation in each country worldwide.
This way, you can be sure that you always know and follow your vacation country’s official regulations. This is the only way we can work together to ensure that travel remains safe despite COVID-19 and that the pandemic is contained.
Update
- From 1 July 2021, the digital EU Covid passport will be introduced in most European countries. It will standardise vaccination documents in Europe to facilitate tourist travel. It will allow the presentation of the vaccination certificate as well as a negative test result or proof of a Covid infection in the past six months. You can find all the necessary information here.