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Dragsö Camping, Karlskrona, Blekinge

Photographs by Dragsö Camping, used with permission.

Dragsö Camping

Karlskrona, Blekinge

A campsite on its own island in the Blekinge archipelago, a bridge away from Karlskrona.

Why we love it

Dragsö is an island in the Blekinge archipelago, connected by a bridge, and the campsite has the whole of it. Karlskrona — a naval town laid out in the seventeenth century and a UNESCO site for it — is a few minutes away.

The Baltic here is warm by Swedish standards and sheltered by several thousand islands, which makes this the gentlest introduction to Swedish archipelago camping.

Best for: an island without a ferry timetable

Worth knowing

  • Hot water in the service-block showers runs on a card system: 5 SEK buys three minutes.
  • In high and peak season the cabins are booked Saturday to Saturday, apart from the suites, the Örlogsbyn cottages and the rooms.
  • The red-zone pitches, the ones right on the water, cannot be booked in advance at all. You take your chance on arrival and go on a queue list if nothing is free.

The practicalities

Check in
from 15:00; arrivals after 16:30 in low and mid season, or after 20:00 in high and peak season, must be notified
Check out
camping pitches by 13:00; cabins, rooms and boats by 12:00, or 10:00 if you have added the end clean
Wifi
Patchy
Bring
  • A Camping Key Europe card or a free Camping ID — needed for pitches though not for cabins or rooms, and it can be sorted out at check-in
Included
  • Free open wifi over most of the site
  • Electricity on every caravan and motorhome pitch
Extras
  • Hot water in the service-block showers 5 SEK for 3 minutes
  • Final clean 590–990 SEK per unit
  • Booking fee on any advance booking 80 SEK, or 40 SEK booking online
  • Cancellation cover 250 SEK, or 200 SEK booking online
  • Cotton sheet and towel hire in Strandstugan 160 SEK a set

Getting there

Without a car
Possible

The campsite is 3 km from the centre of Karlskrona and the operator points to the town's cycle routes as the easy way in and out. In summer the archipelago boats run several trips a day and many of them call at Dragsö's own jetty; a hop-on hop-off ticket covers the islands. The barrier is shut between 23:00 and 06:00, so anyone arriving after 11pm parks on the visitor car park outside. One car per booked unit is allowed inside the barrier, two for the Världsarvsbyn and Örlogsbyn cottages.

What is around it

Places to eat

  • Restaurang HavsvikenAt the entrance to the campsite, looking over Killingaviken; run as its own business with its own site.

Towns

  • Karlskrona · 1.9 milesThe operator gives it as 3 km from the campsite.

Days out

  • MarinmuseumThe naval museum in Karlskrona, which the operator calls a must on any visit.
  • WämöparkenA park a little outside Karlskrona with a mini-zoo, and a flea market on summer Saturdays.
  • AspöReached by archipelago boat or car ferry; good for cycling, with beaches and the 17th-century Drottningskär citadel.
  • CyberzoneBowling, laser game and an arcade, which the operator puts a stone's throw from Dragsö.

Where it is

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Checked August 2026 · We re-verify prices and opening every quarter.

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