Campland on the Bay
2211 Pacific Beach Dr, San Diego, CA 92109-5699
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#1 of 7 campgrounds in San Diego
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Campland on the Bay is San Diego's most beloved campground. Dig your toes in the sand on our secluded beach. Catch some sun and fun on a sailboat from our marina. Enjoy the dozens of activities and amenities for kids and adults that make Campland everyone's favorite campground. You'll find hookups for RVs, spaces for tent camping, and luxury amenities. With so much to do and enjoy, you may never want to leave.
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Free High Speed Internet (WiFi)
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2211 Pacific Beach Dr, San Diego, CA 92109-5699
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Not family friendly Not relaxing Complete $hit show Underage drinking and driving Public intoxication Probably the most detailed review you will get and the most insightful. Let’s start with our background. We are RV campers. We have traveled all over the U.S. and live in San Diego. This is not the first visit we have had to Campland but certainly the last. Reservations: We made reservations for our spot a last Labor Day weekend for this year. We picked our spot mainly because of availability. We ended up in one of the worst/best spots available depending on how you look at it. The best because we got great neighbors. The worst because there is literally no space and we happened to be right on the main entrance driveway so we had like a million people passing all day. That usually wouldn’t be a problem since we like to people watch but the problem was exactly the type of people this camp pulls in now. Trashy to say the least. A few years ago it was a very family friendly place with plenty of kids activities. Now it caters to drunks, pot smokers, underage drinking and driving and seriously bottom of the barrel crowd. Rentals: This place offers RV rentals. You know the kind that set up everything for you and you go spend a weekend and then leave. That attracts people who regularly could not afford to be campers, unfortunately a lot of those people are rude, disrespectful, binge drinkers who think it’s cool to let their kids ride all day on their bikes without helmets and with no regard to cars, property or even people crossing the street. We almost ran over 3 kids on our first day. We were sober and going way slower than the speed limit. Underage drinking and driving: This is something you will read a lot about on here. I think it is a real security concern but I saw plenty of 14-15 year olds drunk to the point of vomiting and driving rental golf carts while blasting music full of profanity. I don’t scare easily but I am being detailed so you get the full picture of our stay. The camp sites: 1 word - horrible! Besides the fact that Campland has the beautiful views of San Diego Mission Bay that is the only thing they have going! They allow multiple vehicles to be parked at each campsite. If you walked around, Campland looks like a junkyard. More cars than anything else. No room for much on our site, that’s for sure. We did notice some sites had a little more room but still not worth the hassle. Security: definitely worthless. We had security escort us to find a parking spot for our guest parking which was just my other vehicle. The following day we passed by to see it being hit by another car that had shimmied in between my car and another car. They decided just to leave it parked that way. When we called security, they said they went to the persons campsite and that they said that the car belonged to no one from that site, even though every vehicle that goes into Campland has to be checked in. They just chose to do nothing about it. We had to call the SDPD to come write a report for us. Afterwards, the security was told by SDPD to give us a parking spot on an empty site because of the hassle, the security refused. Thankfully the SDPD pressured them to give us a parking spot. The following night our RV window was broken by teens lighting of fireworks next to our campsite, we didn’t even bother to report it as by the way they handled the parking situation, nothing was going to be done. Quiet Hours: It’s a joke. No one respects quiet hours. I am usually all for longer hours on the weekends. I was happy to see 11pm was quiet time however when at 2am you are hearing teens driving around drunk, blasting music, and zipping by the campsites super fast, it gets annoying fast. Public Intoxication: Trashy people left and right. We had to report a man passed out in the bushes that some teens were recording and were asking if he was alive. He had to be picked up off the bushes by a few security guards. Dog Poop: We have two dogs that stayed with us. We love dogs. We hate people who leave their dog poop all over the place. We actually called someone out on it and they just kept walking. 0 stars if your a real camper.…
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Date of stay: September 2023Trip type: Traveled with family
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I don’t know where to start. If you haven’t been here recently I would spend time reading all the bad reviews because they are incredibly accurate. This place is where you drop off horny teenagers, to drink underage, and ride their e-bikes without helmets at full speed. We’re talking hundreds of teenagers running in packs of 10-20. This place is out of control. The rangers and staff don’t care. They only care when they can capitalize on the issue. Like charging $25 per day to bring your own golf cart! Be prepared to get hit by at least one golf cart or e-bike. This place is also overrun by tent campers, like 15 people deep in one tent site. We had trash from the tent sites blowing into our camp site. If I could summarize the crowd this draws it be would if Pismo beach and Glamis had a baby it would be called Campland Rv, except you are squeezed together in tiny spots and it costs $250 per night. Save your money and run. You won’t get a spot at the beach. They let campers leave their popup canopy’s over night because they can’t capitalize on it. So good luck squeezing in. Regret, is how I would summarize my overall experience. Regret that I spent so much to stay here. It ruined our family vacation. I’d ask for my money back if I knew I had a chance to recoup it.…
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Date of stay: July 2023Trip type: Traveled with family
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Worst trip ever was there only one day planned on enjoying three nights. Had trailer dropped off on Friday morning check in. My senior mom and her grandson stayed there until we arrived late Sunday night and slept. Spoke to a security guard that night when we arrived on a golf cart the other space next to us had all their tables, pop up, table awnings up over our spot because the trailer was not parked correctly when dropped off but I told him no big deal it was late we would move over correctly tomorrow. Went to the public restroom two young girls using Cocaine in the men’s restroom and washing their feet under the sink. Returned later before going to bed to use the restroom again and the two girls were in a shower stall with two other boys taking shots and recorded them on sink and in shower stall talking about using cocaine and friends they looked like they were locals and saw them later walking in and out of the exit. With nothing being said by security. Next morning saw the two girls walking around in same dirty clothes. It was disgusting. Sweat pants filthy etc. I was approached by our neighbor who said they received a notice to move belongings I told them it was not a big deal we were moving sites next to friends since an opportunity opened up next to them. The only reason why the open spot to move to was because the family that was there was feed up with the environment. We also left early too because Ranger Dave and security have no control over this place it’s a free for all with young teenagers riding golf carts ect…. believe me it’s not a family environment save your money. I have been going there for years and finally to return after years it’s changed. Not a family environment. And I’m not the only one who thinks this way other people within the sites said the same thing who we didn’t know but gave me there information and will also probably post.…
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Date of stay: July 2023Trip type: Traveled with family
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First of all, we paid 200$, for an awful noisy parking space! It was a Premium site, they said…. We went during the Father’s Day weekend. I knew it was very pricey, but a campground located in San Diego, on the beach, I thought let’s take it! What a mistake! The pics on the internet site don’t show that this campground is in fact a huge PARKING LOT! No grass, but a black paved lot with white lines not much larger than in a Walmart lot. Just a little space for an awning open and a picnic table underneath. The premium site was the same, with a tiny little grass spot, full of weeds, on the canal side. But our van was in a parking space… San Diego was a nice 4 day stop for our 2 month road trip adventure. Unfortunately, every time we got back from some sightseeing tour in the city, we got so tense in the campground. The noise is awful, the music so loud at night, even after the quiet hours. The bands invited or the DJs stop at around 9 pm, but the campers play loud music on their sites, or bicycle riders SHARE their music with you, carrying beatbox players, lights and so many people aboard…It’s like a freak show. It’s not even secure to walk, there are so many bikes with kids and teenagers at night. The e-bikes even go as fast as 20 km, and the riders aren’t careful at all. And the security does nothing about it. A place to avoid. Never experienced something like this before. …
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Date of stay: June 2023Trip type: Traveled as a couple
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Response from Dave Mack, General Manager at Campland on the Bay
Responded Jun 26, 2023
Hi, thank you for your review. We always describe Campland as "urban" camping since it is not traditional back-to-nature camping! However, you are on beautiful Mission Bay and have all of the water and beach activities at your fingertips! We do apologize if you visited us on a particularly busy weekend and hope that you contacted the Rangers when you were disturbed. They are there to make your visit as comfortable as possible and remind people of "quiet times." Please contact me if you would like to discuss further at davem@campland.com and again, thank you for taking the time to comment.
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We were able to ride out bikes all around Mission Bay, to Mission Beach, to grocery stores and to Old Town San Diego. Easy bus service to downtown. Didn't move our camper van for the whole week. Lots of washrooms, no more than a few steps from almost all campsites. Good wifi. Sites are a little close together but we didn't have anyone next to us as it was early in the year so not very full. This was our second trip and we would definitely go again.
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Date of stay: February 2023
Room Tip: The sites by the water are great but more expensive. We backed onto the field beside the pool -...
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Response from Dave Mack, General Manager at Campland on the Bay
Responded Jun 26, 2023
Thank you so much for your review!
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Had a great experience here! The amount of activities for families is a huge plus. Every day we could find a different activity that my kids wanted to participate in. The pool is phenomenal. We rented a cabana one day and thoroughly enjoyed the shade but the other days just found chairs by the pool and it was great. Be aware, the weekends will have the chairs fill up quickly so you will want to get there early if you want chairs together. The ad would have to be the fact that the campers are literally parked right on top of one another. There isn't much vegetation to separate the sites and you can look directly into your neighbors rig. We didn't have a problem with it since our neighbors were respectful but I can definitely see it turning into a real problem if you had rowdy neighbors! All in all, we had a great time and are already planning our next trip!…
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Date of stay: July 2022
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Room Tip: Grab pool chairs early and definitely bring bikes for the whole family!
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Response from Dave Mack, General Manager at Campland on the Bay
Responded Nov 12, 2022
Thank you so much for your great review. We will look forward to seeing you again soon.
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Campland is great to stay over the winter. The 1 star reviews were all written after staying in the summer months. Yes, it is crazy busy in the summer. Dogs do not get stolen (none that I have heard of). Yes there are kids. If there is loud music after 11 pm, you call the Rangers and they will go to the site to tell the people to be quiet. There are two swimming pools and 2 hot tubs. Great to ride your bikes around the park and the bay. There is bay frontage with a beach as well. It is definitely best in off seasons and times.
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Date of stay: October 2022
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Room Tip: This is a campground. You can rent a trailer and a space, have your own RV, or tent camp.
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Response from Dave Mack, General Manager at Campland on the Bay
Responded Nov 23, 2022
Thank you so much for your amazing review!
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This place is not as family friendly & safe like i thought it would be. It is only if you want to party all night, every night, hear every ones loud music, and hear all there drama, fights, problems & bs. Rules say 5-7 people per camp sight, uh more like 8-15! And they bring all there junk from home & spread it out like they own the street. Kids are by the dozens on the streets with no supervision. There is no room at the beach to even sit with a chair. You are like an ant getting stepped on. And the kids driving the rental carts & bikes are by the hundreds as you get ran over left & right. And someone disconnected our power when my dog was in the RV (in the middle of summer!) Not cool. The night life activities are fun, but its just a whole different kind of crazy with the crowds there. Nobody has respect for there neighbors. Not for us. I was so disappointed, especially for how much i had to pay to stay for my sleepless 2 nights.…
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Date of stay: July 2022
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Response from Dave Mack, General Manager at Campland on the Bay
Responded Nov 23, 2022
Hi, We appreciate your input - both good and not so good! We always describe Campland as "urban" camping since it is not traditional back-to-nature camping! However, you are on beautiful Mission Bay and have all of the water and beach activities at your fingertips! We do apologize if you visited us on a particularly busy weekend and hope that you contacted the Rangers when you were disturbed. They are there to make your visit as comfortable as possible and remind people of "quiet times." just to let you know, if you are able to visit in the off season Oct-Feb it is a more of a mellow experience but we still have the same great weather. Please contact me if you would like to discuss further at davem@campland.com and again, thank you for taking the time to comment. Dave M
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Campland is not safe for dogs. Campland on the Bay was NOT helpful recently to a Utah couple who brought their dog, which was stolen during the middle of the night. Lax nighttime security and unwilling to share the video of the theft from their Campland security cameras. The thief walked right out the front driveway dragging the poor dog along who didn't want to go with him. No security at night, apparently. Shameful behavior on the part of this resort. The family's vacation was ruined and they still don't have their dog. Campland takes the blame in my opinion. They let the family think the dog wandered off for several key days. CBS 8 (channel 8 in San Diego) has an ongoing investigation of this dog theft and Campland, as does the San Diego Police Department.
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Date of stay: August 2022
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Response from CamplandontheBay San Diego, Marketing at Campland on the Bay
Responded Feb 23, 2023
The dog was returned to the owners. In over 50 years, Campland only knows of one dog stolen. Campland did cooperate with the police and shared the videos we had of the theft. Due to everyone's efforts, the dog was returned to the family.
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This is my families 3rd year going and every year our group grows larger and larger. We love it here. Staff is great. It's a good vibe. And so much to do. It's great to be able to enjoy a family experience with out drama lol
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Date of stay: June 2022Trip type: Traveled with family
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Frequently Asked Questions about Campland on the Bay
Which popular attractions are close to Campland on the Bay?
Nearby attractions include Pacific Beach (0.5 miles), Dizzy's (0.7 miles), and San Diego Party Tours (0.7 miles).
What are some of the property amenities at Campland on the Bay?
Some of the more popular amenities offered include free wifi, a pool, and an on-site restaurant.
What food & drink options are available at Campland on the Bay?
Guests can enjoy an on-site restaurant and a lounge during their stay.
What are some restaurants close to Campland on the Bay?
Conveniently located restaurants include Sushi Ota, Lanna Thai Cuisine, and Rubio's.
Are there opportunities to exercise at Campland on the Bay?
Yes, guests have access to a pool and a fitness center during their stay.
Are pets allowed at Campland on the Bay?
Yes, pets are typically allowed, but it's always best to call ahead to confirm.
Are there any historical sites close to Campland on the Bay?
Many travelers enjoy visiting Mt. Soledad National Veterans Memorial (3.3 miles), Mormon Battalion Historic Site (3.3 miles), and Whaley House Museum (3.4 miles).
Is Campland on the Bay accessible?
Yes, it offers wheelchair access. For specific inquiries, we recommend calling ahead to confirm.