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Quote: Originally posted by nelmo on 08/9/2012

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Yup, I agree, we just had 2 great weeks in the Black Forest (see my thread a few days ago).

Definitely better than the Vendee, if you can do without the beach (easy for me, hate them).

However, I disagree a little about the language - I was expecting fluent english from everyone we met but definitely not the case, in my experience. It was never a problem but there was a lot more charades than I expected.

Also, make sure you have cash - very few places take credit cards.

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I agree, we went to the Black Forest in August staying in Steinach approx 40miles from Europa park, we had a great time, great pool next door that we could use for free (although it got VERY busy!) We found plenty to do in the region, but not many places accepted credit cards and if they did minimum spend is 20 Euro's, with the exception of supermarkets. We never had a problem with supermarkets and they are very well stocked even for vegans.

We also found not many Germans could speak English or limited, my kids didn't enjoy kids club as the children reps on the campsite couldn't speak English!

As for the beach, yes I missed a beach holiday, but we spent more time at the pool teaching our young children to swim.  We did have a beach fix on the way to the Black Forest as we stayed over at Blaarmeersen in Ghent.  A campsite on a sports complex, the beach is located near the lake.  Our route to the Black Forest was: Dunkirk, Belgium, Luxembourg, France up to Strasbourg then into Germany.

Temperature was mostly in the 30's we had 1 night of thunderstorms during our 10 night stay in the Black Forest.