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Hi Stuart

When do you want to go?  During the school holidays in July/August?  What sort of site do you and your children like?  Some people love just five pitches in an orchard, on a farm site, others want pool complexes and entertainment, plus children's clubs etc. There is something to suit everyone in France, from the smallest to the largest.  Is budget important - the longer crossings are more expensive - and how long do you have.  Do you want to be near to a beach?

It would help everyone to give the best possible answers if we knew just a little more about your requirements.

Stuart you might be better starting a different topic just for your question. 

We've only stayed on a couple of sites in Brittany, one very quiet and not the sort of thing you're looking for - and the other very 'full-on' when we had teenagers.  That was Chateau des Ormes, at Dol de Bretagne, and at the time we couldn't have picked a better site.  It has a huge range of activities for teenagers - and my son and his teenage friend loved it.  The friend's parents caravanned in France for the first time on that holiday, after we'd been trying to persuade them for years, and now, like us, they go twice or more each year - so they must have enjoyed it too.

We got a Portsmouth/Caen ferry which was very convenient for the site - and if you book certain sailings through the Caravan Club (afternoon crossing outwards, and 8.30 am return) then Caravans go Free.  If you buy the Optional Camping Cheques then one recent poster reported that his ferry crossing went down by much more than the extra cost of the Camping Cheques, so it's worth a look on the Caravan Club website to check it out.

Once upon a time we had four twelve year olds - though not all at once and they are all grown up now.

 On the four occasions in four separate years when they happened to be twelve they went to the Med at Cavalaire, mountain walking in the Alps around Briancon, swimming in icy water at Beg Meil in Brittany, and dropping things off the leaning tower of Pisa. But we never particularly chose camp sites - we chose places.