Camping Sass Dlacia

We’ve come to this campsite 3 times and I’m always impressed at how well organized they are. The campground is massive but they manage with professional courtesy. It gets dirty with hundreds of people using the facilities, but they keep up. We’ve always been here with a tent, but there are glamping options. We’ve also seen two concerts here by the local group Gota, and I think the campground pays them. It’s a plus because the group singing in Ladin below the peaks is just amazing.

I booked a week at Sass Dlacia campsite as I wanted to spend a week in the Dolomites with my two boys (14 & 7yrs old). It’s a fabulous area for walks, biking, via ferrata, picnics etc etc. Having done my research months ago (as I knew it would be a busy time), Sass Dlacia looked to be slightly less commercial and ‘car-park-like’ than some of the other campsites around. It’s also at 1700m, so that would make it nice and cool at night, with better access to higher-level walks nearby. It IS in an idyllic location (just off quiet back road up to Passo Falzarego), surrounded by forest with lovely walks and a short drive to cable cars (for MTB routes), the facilities are good and mostly clean and there is an excellent restaurant. The problem is that they have very much over-stretched themselves and crammed far too many pitches in for the facilities on offer. Ok… so it was probably the busiest week of the year (2nd week in August) and I was lucky to get a pitch in a quietish corner… but many did not and had absolutely no privacy. Campervans & tents were crammed-in and a lot of the time you had to queue for showers, washing-up and even the loos. Rubbish was taken away, but sometimes not until bins were over-flowing. The pitches are not generous by any standard. Many are not level and the ground is mostly rocky/gravel (not much they can do about that, I know) so take strong tent pegs & a hammer! It was, however, nicely quiet at night and everyone settles by 10ish (often for early mountain starts, which make sense). I’d definitely come back, though it’s bit cheap T over €500 for a week for a pitch with electric hook-up… but not in August and my suggestion to the owners would be to either add more facilities around the site or be less greedy & limit numbers to a sensible level.