Bungalow Essential Banya - 4 persons

A really great campground. No need to fight over a lounge chair. We were pleasantly surprised upon arrival—the beds were made, and we were provided with bath towels. Unlike in France, where you have to pay extra for sheets and towels.
The staff was friendly; too bad they don’t speak French.

The Essential Banya bungalows leave a lot to be desired; very expensive for what they offer, very cramped, and above all, noisy—they lack even basic soundproofing, have very thin sliding windows, and at night it’s very hard to sleep because a road runs right behind them and you can hear every car that passes as if you were standing on the sidewalk. Maintenance service is subpar; we reported the broken showerhead on the second day, but they didn’t bother to replace it—in 30 days, they didn’t even find the time to come by and fix it.
The pool is just that—a pool, nothing more. If you’re traveling with kids, there’s no water slide or anything like that.
The best part, without a doubt, is the café and the restaurant—affordable prices and delicious, hearty meals.

We booked two nights at this campground, but we're leaving early because of all the mosquitoes. They start showing up in the afternoon, and by nighttime it's just awful.
It's a shame because the campground is really nice, but this issue means we can't recommend it to anyone.

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I wouldn't go back.
We went there on vacation less than a week ago. And while the weather (the heat wave isn’t their fault), the dirtiness of the campsites (they aren’t cleaned at all between guests…), and the cleanliness of the common areas left a lot to be desired (or perhaps, given the number of people, more frequent cleaning was needed), the lack of supervision in common areas where teenagers spent all day with their speakers listening to music (even in the bathrooms and showers, despite signs saying it wasn’t allowed)... All of this meant that something that started off very well gradually deteriorated to the point where I’d say, “I won’t be back.”
I believe that 6 toilets + 6 men’s showers and 6 toilets (2 of which were out of order) + 6 women’s showers, for 74 campsites, was more than inadequate; there were constant lines during the typical early morning and late evening hours, accompanied by nonstop music blaring from the teenagers’ speakers.
The laundry area with 3 machines and two sinks for 74 campsites… seemed like a bad joke.
The kids’ activities, led by María at the start, seemed fine… But then we began to notice that even though she was doing all the work, the other two were slacking off. Miguel did something, but half-heartedly; as for the other girl (I think her name was Marta, but I’m not 100% sure), she was a total slacker—no activities took place because she didn’t want to do them, and the other two refused to do everything (understandably). And the icing on the cake was “Chocolatito” (that’s what he calls himself) by promising all the kids ice cream if they came to the mini-disco, and when the mini-disco ended, he told them, “Well, have your parents buy it for you—I’ve got a mortgage to pay.” The ice cream is the least of it, but if you promise something and 20 kids show up at the mini-disco for the ice cream—and you didn’t want to give it to them in the first place—then just don’t promise anything, period. Let the 6 to 8 kids who went to the mini-disco every day be the ones to come. My daughter was very upset and even thought they weren’t getting ice cream because they’d danced badly… You could just not say anything, or if you do promise something, grab a pack of “polines” and cut them in half—that way, for €2 or less, you’ll keep the kids happy when you make a promise.
Several activities weren’t held or were changed on the fly—a total lack of organization that they only announced over the PA system a short while beforehand.
In short, a campground that, for the first two days, had me thinking “I’ll be back,” but ended up making me say, “I’m sorry, but don’t count on me anymore.”