Glamping in Spain: 17 Wild Stays from Barcelona to Málaga
Michal Grupa
Campervan Whisperer
Camping has always been the honest way to see a country. You sleep close to the ground, you wake with the light, and you notice things you would drive straight past otherwise. Glamping keeps all of that and quietly hands you back a proper bed, hot water and somewhere to put your bag.
Glamping in Spain has grown fast over the last decade, and it has grown in the right direction. Bell tents in oak woodland. Safari tents looking over olive groves. Mongolian yurts a few kilometres from the Atlantic. Cabins on a headland above the Bay of Biscay. Most of the best ones are small, family-run and built with more care than money, which is exactly the kind of place we like.
At Siesta Campers we have spent nearly thirty years learning the roads of Iberia, and our Spanish bases in Barcelona and Málaga put you within reach of most of what follows. This guide covers the best glamping spots in Spain, grouped by region, weighted towards Catalonia and Andalusia where our vans live, with a handful in the green north for anyone heading that way.
Best glamping spots near Barcelona
Most people arriving in Catalonia head straight for the coast, which is understandable, but the best glamping sits inland. Within two hours of the city you have the Pre-Pyrenees, the Garrotxa volcanic park, the Montsec dark-sky reserve and the wooded valleys behind Girona. The sites there are smaller, cheaper and considerably quieter than anything on the Costa Brava in August.
1. Forest Days, Catalan Pre-Pyrenees
Ninety minutes north of Barcelona the motorway gives way to old farm tracks, pine, limestone and rivers. Forest Days sits in five hectares of meadow and unspoilt woodland near the medieval town of Solsona, and it is the closest thing to wild glamping near Barcelona that we know of.
There are only five Explorer Camps, each tucked into its own corner of the forest, well out of sight of the others. You get a big cotton bell tent with a super-king bed, hammocks and loungers, a long outdoor table and your own bathroom shed. There is a bar, organic barbecue packs you can order ahead, and river swimming close by. It is the sort of place where you arrive with a list and leave without one.
Good to know
- Where: Naves, near Solsona, Lleida province
- Drive from Barcelona: around 90 minutes
- Best for: couples and small groups who want quiet over facilities
- Map: Forest Days location
2. Can Bora Lodges, Girona
Can Bora Lodges sits in a wooded valley near Bonmatí, about half an hour from Girona and an hour from both Barcelona and the Costa Brava coves. Eleven lodges, no more, spread across the site so nobody is looking into anybody else's terrace.
The lodges run from a compact Adventure Lodge to two-bedroom builds with a full kitchen, dishwasher, proper bathroom and a terrace you will end up eating every meal on. Linen and towels are provided. There is an outdoor pool, a bar and massages on request. Judith and Joost run it themselves and it shows. Around you there is kayaking on the Ter, waterfall swimming, canyoning, and the old narrow-gauge railway route from Olot to Girona, which makes a beautiful and almost entirely flat cycle.
Good to know
- Where: Constantins, Bonmatí, Girona province
- Drive from Barcelona: around 1 hour
- Best for: families and groups who want comfort without a resort
- Map: Camping Can Bora Lodges location
3. Siesta Campers, glamping on wheels
Every other stay on this list asks you to pick one view and stay with it. A campervan asks you to pick a direction instead.
Many of our vans are built by hand at our workshop in the Algarve using timber from FSC-certified forests, and they come with everything a good glampsite gives you. A real bed, a kitchen you can actually cook in, storage that makes sense, and a door that opens onto somewhere different every morning. Coast one day, mountains the next. The choice is yours.
Pick up in Barcelona and you can be in the Pyrenees by lunch or on the Costa Brava by mid-afternoon. Pick up in Málaga and the whitewashed villages of the Axarquía, the gorge at El Chorro and the beaches of Cádiz all sit within an easy day's drive. Plenty of the sites in this guide keep pitches for campervans too, so you can mix the two and have somebody else's hot showers when you want them.
We also plant trees for every rental, run our HQ on solar and look after 4.2 hectares of protected forest we are slowly bringing back to life. Slow travel should cost the place you are travelling through as little as possible.
Good to know
- Where: pick up in Barcelona or Málaga
- Sleeps: 2 to 4 depending on the van
- Best for: travellers who would rather wander than settle
- Map: Siesta Campers Barcelona and Siesta Campers Málaga on Google Maps
4. Terra del Congost, Montsec
Up on the border between Lleida and Huesca, a few kilometres from the cliffs and walkways of the Congost de Mont-rebei, Terra del Congost is an eco-camping built by the people who run it. Century-old stone houses, yurts, wooden cabins and glamping tents are spread over terraces at different levels, so almost every pitch has its own view and its own privacy.
The real reason to come is the sky. Montsec is a UNESCO-recognised Starlight destination, one of the least light-polluted corners of Europe, and on a clear night you can read the Milky Way from your porch. There are natural pools for swimming, gorges to walk, and vultures riding the thermals overhead most afternoons. They also keep natural pitches for tents and campervans if you are arriving in one.
Good to know
- Where: Castissent, near Tremp, Lleida province
- Nearby: Congost de Mont-rebei, Montfalcó walkways
- Best for: stargazers, hikers and anyone chasing quiet
- Map: Terra del Congost location
5. Wecamp Santa Cristina, Costa Brava
If you do want the coast, Wecamp Santa Cristina is a good way to have it. The site sits in forest about ten minutes from the beach at Sant Feliu de Guíxols and two kilometres from Santa Cristina d'Aro, surrounded by pine and quiet coves rather than high-rise.
Accommodation runs from glamping tents to wooden bungalows and mobile homes, so you can dial the comfort up or down. The Camí de Ronda coastal path is the reason to be here. It threads along the cliffs between coves, and you can walk a section in the morning, swim at the end of it and be back for lunch.
Good to know
- Where: Santa Cristina d'Aro, Girona province
- Drive from Barcelona: around 1 hour 15 minutes
- Best for: beach days with a forest to come back to
- Map: wecamp Santa Cristina location
6. Kampaoh Costa Brava, Camping Playa Brava
Kampaoh Costa Brava takes the simplest possible approach. The tent is already up when you arrive, made up with beds, bedding, towels, lighting, kitchenware, a table and chairs and a beach fridge. You bring a bag. That is the whole system.
This glamp puts you on the Girona coast with a seasonal pool on site and the city of Girona close enough for a day trip. It is a straightforward family option rather than a hideaway, and it does that job well.
Good to know
- Where: Girona province, Costa Brava
- Sleeps: 2 to 5 depending on tent
- Best for: families who want zero setup
- Map: Kampaoh Costa Brava location
Best glamping spots around Málaga
Málaga province splits neatly in two. There is the coast, which is easy, warm and well served, and there is everything behind it, which is where the landscape gets interesting. The Guadalhorce valley, the gorge at El Chorro, the Axarquía hills and the road up to Ronda all sit within an hour or so of the airport, and that inland half is where glamping in Málaga is genuinely underrated.
7. Kampaoh Estepona, Costa del Sol
If you want glamping in Málaga province with sand underfoot, this is the easy answer. Kampaoh Estepona sits inside Camping Parque Tropical, a green pocket of the Costa del Sol a short walk from the beach.
Fully equipped tents, a campsite that brings the pool, the shop and the shade, and a genuinely good beach base between Marbella and Gibraltar. It is not remote and it does not pretend to be. Estepona old town and the Sierra Bermeja trails are both close.
Good to know
- Where: Estepona, Málaga province
- Drive from Málaga: around 1 hour
- Best for: beach days with zero setup
- Map: Camping Parque Tropical location
8. Cortijo Dos Santos, Valle de Abdalajís
Inland Málaga is all limestone ridges, almond terraces and villages that go quiet at three in the afternoon. Cortijo Dos Santos sits in the middle of it, within reach of the Caminito del Rey walkway.
The safari-style tents are large and properly finished, with air conditioning, a terrace looking onto the garden, a kitchen with a fridge and hob, a private bathroom with a shower, and a lounge and dining area. There is an outdoor pool, breakfast if you want it, and dogs are welcome. After a morning on the walkway pinned to the side of the Gaitanes gorge, coming back to this is a good feeling.
Good to know
- Where: Valle de Abdalajís, Málaga province
- Nearby: Caminito del Rey, El Chorro, Antequera
- Best for: walkers and climbers
- Map: Cortijo Dos Santos location
9. Hidden Valley Andalucía, Guadalhorce valley
Ten kilometres from the El Chorro reservoirs, Hidden Valley Andalucía is set in a ten-hectare olive grove with long views across the Guadalhorce valley. It is a small, calm, adults-focused site, the kind of place where the loudest thing all day is wind in the trees.
Accommodation runs to bell tents and cabins with a shared covered kitchen and dining area, a pool, and meals available on request. The Costa del Sol beaches are around three quarters of an hour away, which makes it a good middle point if you want a bit of both.
Good to know
- Where: near Álora, Málaga province
- Nearby: Caminito del Rey, El Chorro lakes
- Best for: slow days, olive groves and mountain air
- Map: Hidden Valley location
10. Casa el Chorro, El Chorro
Right in the village at the mouth of the gorge, Casa el Chorro is an adults-only spot run by hosts who clearly enjoy having people there. Alongside the rooms there are yurts, each with a private bathroom, and a garden, bar and terrace to fall into afterwards.
El Chorro is Spain's best-known sport climbing area as well as the start of the Caminito, so the crowd here skews towards people who have been outside all day. Breakfast gets consistently good reviews, which matters more than it sounds at seven in the morning before a route.
Good to know
- Where: El Chorro, Málaga province
- Nearby: Caminito del Rey, climbing crags, El Chorro lakes
- Best for: climbers, walkers, adults-only quiet
- Map: Casa el Chorro location
Best glamping spots on the Costa de la Luz and Cádiz
Three hours west of Málaga the Mediterranean gives up and the Atlantic takes over. The Costa de la Luz is windier, wilder and far less built up, with dune-backed beaches that run for kilometres and white villages sitting up on the hills behind them. It is our favourite stretch of the southern coast.
11. Kampaoh Punta Paloma, Tarifa
Kampaoh Punta Paloma sits under the pines at Camping Paloma, between the Alcornocales natural park and the Parque Natural del Estrecho, roughly 400 metres from Valdevaqueros and Punta Paloma beaches.
This is the wind coast, and Tarifa is one of the best kitesurf spots in Europe because of it. Fully equipped tents, white sand within a short walk, Bolonia and Zahara de los Atunes down the road, and Africa sitting on the horizon on a clear day. If you have read our guide to kitesurfing in Spain, you will know why this stretch keeps coming up.
Good to know
- Where: Punta Paloma, Tarifa, Cádiz province
- Drive from Málaga: around 2 hours
- Best for: kitesurfers, windsurfers and beach walkers
- Map: Camping Paloma location
12. Tulpa, near Medina-Sidonia
Tulpa is a small, quiet place on the land below Medina-Sidonia, with a yurt and a vintage caravan, a well stocked shared kitchen and clean shared showers. Gloria and Julián run it, and the care they put in is the thing every review ends up mentioning. Comfort and low impact sitting in the same place, which is more or less the whole argument for glamping.
The position is the clever part. You are a short hop from the empty beaches at Conil, El Palmar, Bolonia and Barbate, close to the Alcornocales natural park, and right underneath the white villages of Vejer de la Frontera, Medina Sidonia and Alcalá de los Gazules. Flamenco, long sunsets and very good food in every direction.
Good to know
- Where: near Medina-Sidonia, Cádiz province
- Nearby: Vejer de la Frontera, Conil, El Palmar, Bolonia
- Best for: couples who want one base and a car
- Map: Tulpa location
13. Eco Glamping La Veleta, San Ambrosio
Four Mongolian yurts, handmade in Mongolia and set on raised platforms, in the rural hamlet of San Ambrosio between Barbate and Vejer. La Veleta sits below the town and next to the La Breña natural park, three kilometres from the beaches at Caños de Meca and El Palmar.
The whole place runs on solar, which means no hairdryers and no sandwich makers, and the yurts have a central roof window so you can watch the sky from bed. There are gardens, shared spaces and workshops on health and sustainability if that appeals. Expect cows, donkeys and possibly a neighbouring peacock. The approach is on foot, which is part of the charm.
Good to know
- Where: San Ambrosio, between Barbate and Vejer, Cádiz province
- Nearby: Caños de Meca, El Palmar, Parque Natural de La Breña
- Best for: solar-powered simplicity near very good beaches
- Map: La Veleta location
Best glamping spots around Granada and the Alpujarras
Granada gives you two landscapes in one day. The Alhambra and the Albaicín in the morning, then mountains up to 3,479 metres behind the city, and the Alpujarra valleys on the far side dropping towards the sea. Very few places in Europe pack that much into an hour's driving.
14. Kampaoh Sierra Nevada, Güéjar Sierra
Kampaoh Sierra Nevada sits in the village of Güéjar Sierra, about sixteen kilometres from the Alhambra and half an hour from central Granada, with the ski station roughly forty minutes further up.
Equipped tents with linen and towels, a seasonal pool, a restaurant, a minimarket and a picnic area. Not a wilderness retreat, but a genuinely useful base. You can spend the morning in the Nasrid palaces and the afternoon walking the old railway path along the Genil river, then eat in the village where everything costs half what it does in the city.
Good to know
- Where: Güéjar Sierra, Granada province
- Nearby: Alhambra, Sierra Nevada, Vereda de la Estrella
- Best for: pairing a city and a mountain range
- Map: Kampaoh Sierra Nevada location
15. Alora Yurts, Lanjarón
On the southern flank of the Sierra Nevada above Lanjarón, Alora Yurts is a small site of beautifully finished yurts looking out across the valley. Big comfortable beds, bohemian furnishings, and a spring water pool ringed with day beds that is hard to leave once you are in it.
Sara and Darren cook, which is the other reason to come. Dinner is served on site and breakfast arrives at your yurt in the morning. Spring is the time to go, when the whole valley is green and the nightingales carry on most of the night.
Good to know
- Where: Lanjarón, Granada province
- Nearby: Las Alpujarras villages, Sierra Nevada, Granada in under an hour
- Best for: couples, good food and total quiet
- Map: Alora Yurts location
Best glamping spots in northern Spain
The green north is a different country. Cliffs, cider, deep valleys, Atlantic surf and beaches that stay empty well into August. It rains, which is precisely why it is so green, and the food is arguably the best in Spain. If you are picking up a van in Barcelona, the whole northern coast is a very good three-week idea.
16. Wecamp San Sebastián, Basque Country
On Monte Igueldo, about five kilometres from the old town and roughly two hundred metres above the bay, Wecamp San Sebastián looks straight down over one of the most photographed coastlines in Spain. Ten minutes by car from La Concha, surrounded by hills the whole time.
Wooden bungalows, mobile homes or glamping tents depending on how much you want between you and the weather. Days here are simple. Walk down into the city for pintxos in the Parte Vieja, walk or ride back up, watch the light go off the bay from somewhere well above the crowds.
Good to know
- Where: Monte Igueldo, San Sebastián, Gipuzkoa
- Nearby: La Concha, Zurriola surf beach, Parte Vieja
- Best for: food, city and coast in one trip
- Map: wecamp San Sebastián location
17. Wecamp Cudillero, Asturian coast
Wecamp Cudillero puts you on the Asturian coast near one of the prettiest fishing villages on the whole Cantabrian shore, a stack of coloured houses tipping down towards a small harbour.
Bungalows, mobile homes and glamping tents, with surf lessons, bike routes and coastal walking close by. Push a little further east and you are into the Picos de Europa, the Cares gorge and the Covadonga lakes. Push west and the beaches keep getting emptier. Order the cider and let somebody else pour it.
Good to know
- Where: Cudillero, Asturias
- Nearby: Picos de Europa, Cabo Vidio, Costa Verde beaches
- Best for: surfers, hikers and anyone escaping the summer heat
- Map: wecamp Cudillero location
Adventures beyond the glamps
The accommodation is only half of it. Spain's glampsites tend to sit next to something worth getting up for, and most hosts will happily point you at it.
There is stargazing at Montsec, where the sky is protected by law. There is canyoning and waterfall swimming around Girona. There is kitesurfing off Tarifa, climbing at El Chorro, hiking the Cares gorge in the Picos, and the Caminito del Rey bolted to the wall of a gorge outside Álora. Add sea kayaking on the Costa Brava, vulture watching in Grazalema, the Alpujarra villages above Lanjarón, and long slow dinners of whatever the region does best, whether that is pintxos, fabada or fried fish eaten with your feet in the sand.
Sustainability and slow travel
A lot of Spanish glamping came out of a genuine environmental impulse rather than a business plan, and you can tell. Solar power, composting toilets, buildings that work with the site instead of flattening it, food sourced from a few kilometres away. Several of the places above were built by hand by the people who now run them, and at least one will not let you use a hairdryer.
That approach fits how we like to travel. Fewer places, longer stays, less ground covered and more of it actually noticed. You can read more about how we handle our own footprint.
Planning your glamping trip in Spain
Book early for summer, especially anywhere with fewer than twenty pitches, and check what is actually included before you pay, because "glamping" covers everything from a bare bell tent to a cabin with a dishwasher. Some sites provide linen and towels and some do not.
Think about the season as much as the site. Andalusia is at its best from March to June and again from September to November. The north is greenest and most comfortable from June to September. Catalonia works most of the year inland, though the Pyrenees get properly cold in winter.
And if you cannot decide between the coast and the mountains, do not. Take a van, book a few of the sites above for the nights you want a pool and a long shower, and leave the rest of the week open. Our campervans are waiting for you in Barcelona and Málaga.
Glamping in Spain FAQ
What is glamping?
Glamping is camping with the uncomfortable parts removed. You sleep in nature, but in a permanent structure with a real bed, usually with electricity, proper bedding and either a private or a good shared bathroom.
What types of glamps are available in Spain?
Bell tents, safari tents, Mongolian yurts, geodesic domes, bubble tents, wooden cabins, lodges, treehouses and campervans. Coastal sites lean towards tents and bungalows. Inland and mountain sites tend towards cabins, yurts and domes.
Where are the best glamping sites in Spain located?
It depends what you want. Catalonia and the Pre-Pyrenees for forest, mountains and dark skies. Málaga for beaches, gorges and white villages. Cádiz for Atlantic sand and wind. Granada and the Alpujarras for mountains and Moorish history. Asturias, Cantabria and the Basque Country for green coast, surf and food.
How much does glamping in Spain cost?
Roughly 60 to 250 euros a night for two people, depending on region, season and how much is included. Simple tents at coastal campsites sit at the lower end, private lodges, domes and bubbles at the upper.
Is glamping suitable for families?
Very. Most sites have space to run around, a pool, and accommodation that sleeps four or five in one unit. Check whether bunk beds and cots are included, and note that a few of the places above are adults-only.
Is glamping in pet-friendly?
Many sites welcome dogs, including several on this list, but policies vary and some charge a supplement. Always confirm directly before booking.
When is the best time of the year to go glamping in Spain?
Spring and autumn are the sweet spot almost everywhere. Andalusia is lovely from March to June and September to November. Northern Spain is best from June to September. High summer works on the coast if you have shade and water.
Can I combine glamping with a campervan trip?
Yes, and it is one of the better ways to do Spain. A lot of glampsites keep pitches for campervans, so you can park up, use the pool and the showers, then move on when you feel like it.
What should I pack?
Layers, walking shoes, a swimsuit, sun cream, insect repellent, a head torch and a reusable bottle. Check whether linen and towels are provided, because plenty of smaller sites expect you to bring your own. A wetsuit if you are heading north.
Final thoughts
Glamping in Spain works because the country gives you so much to wake up to. A forest in the Pre-Pyrenees. An olive grove above a gorge. Dune grass and Atlantic wind. A cliff over the Bay of Biscay. The tent, yurt or dome is just the frame you look at it through.
Pick one, stay long enough to stop checking your phone, and let the place do the rest. Or book a campervan, and let the view change from one day to the next. Either way, pack light, drive slow and find the good stuff.