First Camp Grenen Strand – Skagen — Hotel in Frederikshavn Municipality

Incredibly expensive campsite made worse by rude and unhelpful staff. On our visit they refused to book us a normal tent camping site as they repeatedly and mysteriously claimed our tent (a compact mountaineering tent) would be too large for an allotted space. Why they believed this so strongly was very unclear, as they made this claim without asking how large our tent was and refused to explain what the maximum size was or why it was important. After much back and forth in several languages we gave in and paid for a very expensive RV spot in order to have a place to stay for the evening - we have small kids and had traveled a long way.

Upon entering the campsite we noticed other tents in the tent-camping area were several times the size of ours, and returned to the reception to get an explanation. Staff continued to insist our tent was too large (again, where this idea came from continued to be a mystery) for several minutes before finally conceding this was false and they should have allowed us to stay in the far cheaper (but still overpriced) tent camping. Without apologizing staff then informed us it was a moot point because "we can't make any refunds or changes because our headquarters is in Sweden."

The next dayI saw another staff member double-charge a German couple for two camping places, telling them that their RV was too large for one. They did not understand any language other than German and did not understand either what staff said or what I was saying when I tried to intervene to help them.

Attempts to contact the headquarters to date have been unsuccessful. Dishonest staff, terrible service, highly overpriced.

Edited to add: these issues were brought up at the campsite and we were told to contact the head office in Sweden. We have now been exchanging emails with the head office for a week to no avail, and no, the issue was not that a car needed to be present at the campsite (if it was your staff was incapable of communicating this in repeated conversations). However thank you very much for falsely accusing me of lying in a public forum, and good luck in your...

We are a retired professional couple who have just travelled 8 weeks in Europe in a small campervan from Norway to Portugal and back. This site distinguished itself by being the least helpful and most unfriendly of them all. We had emailed the site, paid in advance for the two nights we needed, and warned them that we were arriving on the ferry from Norway and might not arrive before the barrier was shut at 2215. And that's what happened. Not to worry, we thought, we've paid so we'll park in the guest car park, throw our electric cable over the fence to connect to a nearby unused outlet post and walk in to use the sanitary facilities. The next morning we walked across to reception to check in properly to be met with an angry tirade about how we had broken in to the property and stolen electricity! And the fact that everything was prepaid made no difference at all, this was breaking and entering. It was only on sufferance that we were allowed to check in at 9am, because check in was not allowed before 2pm - quite regardless of the fact that we were really checking in for the night before. So, despite the good location and reasonable facilities I cannot recommend the site. If you prefer to feel welcome when you stay somewhere, then choose one of several other camp sites...

Grenen Beach is the north most point of Denmark just a couple kilometers beyond the city of Skagen. Is it at this location where the Baltic Sea and the North Sea meet. The opposing oceans and their movements change the shape of this Beach landscape continuously.

Graffiti Art, layers over military history at Grenen Beach. Most of these structures are in ruins and have washed out to sea, but at one point they formed an incredibly important defense in WWll and the beachhead was an important defensive position in the years prior. Denmark, Sweden and Norway have a rich history full of conflict and compromise.

If you're ever in Northern Denmark, the town of Skagen and Grenen Beach just beyond the city, are definitely worth the visit. There are a couple of bike rental shops in town, which is very popular way to get out to...