When we are travelling around we usually select campsites based on their location- if it's somewhere we want to visit, we will go there. If I am searching in a more leisurely way I will look at reviews on here (S.T. Thomas has often reviewed the kind of sites we like), but I never look at Trip Adviser. However, it is quoted, particularly on FB, a great deal.
We don't use TA for anything else either, although it seems that we are out of step with much of the world. Is it an age thing?
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I never look at TA, it drives me mad when it pops up as you are looking for a destination. I read the reviews on here, often after our stay.....
And always leave reviews on here too.
I do use TA for hotels as that to me was what it was more intended for. Sometimes with the review of campsites you are not sure if they are reviewing permanent accommodation or real camping? The trouble with overseas sites is that it is sometimes difficult to find reviews so perhaps TA might be better than nothing? There are a lot of Facebook Groups now that share reviews of site, usually with photographs but these reviews are not so easy to find once they have been posted.
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Don't forget to leave a review of the French and other European campsites you have visited!
I would use reviews on UKCS and ACSI camping card site (as it tends to have reviews that are out of season and so are skewed towards that, their eurocampings site isn't as helpful I find) in the first instance. After that I would look at TripAdvisor and if all else fails Google. I usually read the comments carefully on all of them though and not just the rating score - often people mark a site down for the very reason we would like to go there, eg "no facilities for children" is a huge tick for us
Having selected a site I would then use Google maps and click."restaurants" to find decent places to eat nearby.