This is what a good car park should look like

Hi, there! You are absolutely right about what a parking space should look like! We already have a shower and toilet in the car. But getting rid of grey water, refilling water and emptying the toilet is important for us.
A very central location may cost a few euros more than an industrial site.

As a camper (former camper, perhaps I should say 😉 ), I don't have much to say about this from experience. However, it sounds good with guarded (camera-monitored?) places in big cities. And then of course it may cost more. We had a "break-in" in our tent at a city campsite in Munich. Nothing was stolen (there was nothing interesting to take), but it was definitely an unpleasant feeling that someone had been there rummaging around.

At the end of our camping time, we became more and more comfortable, and had, among other things, a fridge with us (which ran on both car battery while driving and on regular electricity at the campsites) and also a small pillar fan (it gets insanely hot in a tent in southern Spain in the summer...). What I find strange is that in most places there was a fixed fee (expensive!) for the electricity - the same for us as for a large motorhome. They can hardly have noticed our small consumption. Yes we charged some electronic stuff too, but still! Maybe specifically for Spain? Well, it was worth it anyway 😀.

Yes, I know this was about pitches, but I still want to assert the right of the tents 😉.

I imagine it's the same with motorhomes as with caravans sometimes,
that there are times when you need access to what a campsite offers and you are happy to pay for that service,
another time you just want to stay overnight and you don't want to pay a lot of money to stay for x number of sleeping hours when you don't use any services.

Some campsites offer a caravan site outside the campsite type during the night 22 - 7 on a paved "parking lot", it can cost a little different but around 200; - / night which I feel expensive when it costs from 250; - / day inside the campsite with electricity.

Completely agree with you what a pitch should look like. We ourselves belong to the category of free campers 🙂 Imagine getting hold of a nice place by a lake or other watercourse, enjoying rippling water and a setting sun....then no facilities are needed 🙂 Of course, we are happy to pay when the need for a parking space or camping exists....but there are also many nice free places even in cities. 🙂

Pitches in Tapia de Casaergio in Spain where we stayed for two nights.

Currently camping at Porto Sole in Croatia. Nice beach, electricity, shower, great sanitary facilities. Walking distance to the village of Vrsar. Paying 18 Europe per day for two people and dog. Everything is included in the fee, then 150 kr for the pitch seems quite marshy. On the way here and home we usually stay at a campsite in Germany. Often in the centre of small towns, they cost between 0 and 10 Europe depending on the standard. I don't want to pay more than 50 to 100 depending on the standard.

Well summarised. Often you only need a simple parking space and you don't want to pay too much. But emptying and refilling water is a definite plus.

I promise that I would have created a parking space, a little out of the ordinary, for a small fee. The municipality I live in, with officials and politicians, does not understand this. Sad but true.

I've never owned a motorhome or holidayed in a motorhome so I'm a complete novice when it comes to pitches, I must admit, but it sounds like sensible opinions from both you and the readers!:)

A beautiful place or central place if we are in a city. That much more is not needed most of the time. Emptying/filling water and emptying the toilet does not have to be available in all places, but it is good if it is sometimes available. If you need electricity, toilet and shower, there are campsites ...