# Pine Side Camp

> A summer tent camp on a pine-covered limestone headland on the seaward side of the SH8, about ten
> minutes' walk south of Himarë town centre on the Albanian Riviera. There is no beach: the rock runs
> to the water and a steel ladder drops off the ledge into deep, clear sea.

## Facts

- Type: campground. Booking.com lists the property type as "luxury tent"; the photographs show standard dome tents on prepared pitches
- Location: SH8 seafront, Himarë 9425, Vlorë County, Albania
- Coordinates: 40.099033 N, 19.7397259 E
- Phone: +355 69 733 4011
- Season: summer only (Booking lists it as seasonal; no month range is published)
- Booking.com score: 9.3 (Wonderful). Google's own panel reads 4.7.
- Booking: https://www.booking.com/hotel/al/pine-side.html
- Google Maps: https://www.google.com/maps/place/Pine+Side+Camp/@40.099033,19.7397259,17z/data=!4m2!3m1!1s0x135b2f77e3e3428d:0xde2c902a9a82fda6

## On site

- Tent pitches under mature Aleppo pines, most of them shaded
- Shared bathroom facilities
- Bar
- Free parking
- Swimming ladder into deep water off the limestone ledge
- A concrete dome bunker, of the kind built across Albania under Hoxha, stands among the pitches

## Worth knowing

- No sand beach — the shoreline is limestone
- Cash only
- Closed outside the summer season