Winter sites in Spain and WiFi

Oldgirl and Staffy
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edited February 2012 in Overseas Campsites & Touring #1

For the past 3 years we have spent winter (January to March) in Spain to avoid the worst of the British weather. Can anyone recommend any sites with good free WiFi as we like to keep in touch with the family through the internet and Skype?     We are currently
at Camping La Rosaleda which advertises free WiFi but it is simply not reliable.

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  • peedee
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    edited April 2017 #2

    Found the service at Marjal Costa Blanca to be excellent. Its fibre to the pitch and you rent a WiFi router to plug into it. (25 euros a month, lees for shorter periods)  Your given a password unique to the pitch and anyone on the pitch or nearby can use it if they have the password.

    peedee

  • young thomas
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    edited April 2017 #3

    we have recently stayed at this site (amongst others) and OH used the wifi ok, i used my Vodafone Red deal with free mins texts and 2gb per month of overseas data while we were away for 9 weeks and this was sufficient with excellent spanish recption/signal

  • IanH
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    edited April 2017 #4

    Welcome back to the forum, BB......are you still in Spain?

  • young thomas
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    edited April 2017 #5

    no, been home a week now Ian, getting back into the grind of being here.....goodness, weve done nothing but spent money.....far cheaper to be away and have everything with you.....

  • JimE
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    edited April 2017 #6

    We stayed in Spain from January to March this year and found Camping Imperium, Kikopark and Salata had very good WiFi signal strength and bandwidth.  I even managed to stream live TV (without constant buffering delays) to watch the 6 Nations rugby.

    For general use, I have a Three MiFi unit with 15GB of data allowance per month, although you can only use up to 12GB per month on the "Feel at Home" allowance abroad.  The performance isn't brilliant, but I can browse websites, use Google Maps and receive emails & Whatsapp messages and can even phone other Whatsapp users within the data allowance.  All for a monthly cost of £20 pcm.

  • peedee
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    edited April 2017 #7

    Hi Jim, where did you go after Marjal? Welcome back BB. We had 6 weeks and have now been back 3 weeks.

    peedee

  • JimE
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    edited April 2017 #8

    Hi Peedee, we went up to Kikopark, then Bonterra Park and finally to Salata (Roses) before heading homewards - we were away 75 days in total.  Been back 10 days now and are ready to go again ....  off to the National MH Show at Peterborough after Easter.

    Best wishes,  Jim

  • peedee
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    edited April 2017 #9

    We also went up to Kiko but only for 5 days, wasn't too keen on if for a long stay and would probably use their motorhome aire next time for a short stop over.

    Don't think we will be at Peterborough this year.

    Stay safe.

    peedee

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