Drymades · Dhërmi · Albania

A family table under the olive trees

Tents on the stone terraces, small vans in the shade, and a kitchen that feeds the whole grove — about 150 metres from Drymades Beach.

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Plank picnic tables and benches on gravel under two old olive trees, with the white kitchen block and its timber shutters behind — The tables under the olives, late afternoon

A small campsite, kept by one family

Camping Paradise is an olive grove on the Drymades side of Dhërmi, terraced with dry-stone walls and shaded from one end to the other. There is room for tents and for small campervans, a block of showers and toilets, and a restaurant in the middle of it all where the same family cooks for campers and for anyone who walks in from the beach.

The season runs from mid-May to the start of October. Pitches are not sold online; you call, or you come.

Dome tents scattered among olive trunks beyond a wooden rail fence, a planted bed and a garden chair in the foreground — The grove from the garden

The restaurant garden after dark, string lights hung between olive trees over empty tables and a gravel floor — The garden after dark

Two campervans parked deep in the olive grove, seen from a wooden stair rail — Vans parked deeper in the grove

The table

What comes out of the kitchen

Home cooking, Albanian and Greek: village salad and tzatziki, sardines and anchovies, squid grilled, fried or stuffed, sea bream and sea bass off the grill, moussaka and stuffed peppers. A few lines from the printed card:

The whole card

Staying

Two ways to sleep in the grove

A row of blue and white dome tents pitched on a raised terrace behind a dry-stone wall, olive trees overhead

With a tent

Along the stone terraces

Tents go up on the terraces behind the dry-stone walls, on soft bark and gravel, with the olive canopy closing over them by midday.

A pop-top campervan parked on dry ground in olive shade beside a low stone wall, a folding table set up next to it

With a van

On the gravel under the trees

Campervans park on the gravel between the trunks, in shade for most of the day. The lanes and the gate suit small vans; motorhomes over about seven metres will not get in.

On site

Toilets
Showers
Electricity for pitches
Wi-Fi
The restaurant
Olive shade

150 m

to Drymades Beach, two minutes on foot

May – Oct

from mid-May to the start of October; closed in winter

7 m

about the longest van the gate will take

Guests on Google score it 4.6 out of 5, and diners on Tripadvisor 4.7. What they come back for is the shade, the cooking and the walk to the sea.

Read the reviews on Google · on Tripadvisor

Finding it

Below the coast road, above the beach

Afer Morines, Drymades, Dhërmi. The gate is narrow and easy to drive past, so navigate to the pin, not to the beach.