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The problem with asking questions is that you'll get a million suggestions, and a million different reasons why they are good/better/best.  Personally I think the Chartes site is convenient, acceptable, and easy to access from the route south if you're using the Abbeville/Rouen/Evreux/Dreux/Chartes/Orleans route.   

There are other lovely sites around if you don't mind a bit more of a diversion.  If you're going to 'divert' from the route as far as Bonneval, then you might want to look at Huttopia at Senonches - great site with good toilet blocks, huge amounts of space, especially in the 'meadow' area rather than the forest, and it's slightly to the north-west of Chartres.

However, to me all these 'diversions' on to side roads add quite a lot of extra time to a journey and you have to weigh up convenience against perfection sometimes.  If we're on a schedule, with an end destination, then we always try to find sites as near as possible to the route we're using.  If we are 'meandering' then we don't mind diversions.

The site at St Remy sur Avre (Nonancourt) is about as convenient as you'd get, is north of Chartres, and as Berriow says, used by a lot of people on that route. 

The problem is that the more sites you look at the more difficult it is to make a choice.  At the end of the day you'll have to make your own mind up which is best for your requirements, and hope that you get it right 'on the night'!

Nitnat - we've just come back, having stayed at Chartres overnight - and I don't think I would now recommend it.  When we were last there it was OK - but this time we thought everything had deteriorated.  It looked badly neglected, the grass was long everywhere, the roads muddy, and the toilet blocks lacked care and cleanliness.

We were also given a sheet warning of thefts from the site, and suggesting precautions to take - which is a bit off putting.

I'm going to add a review - but I'll definitely cross it off my list of sites to stop-over.

Quote: Originally posted by Val A on 11/6/2013

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Nitnat - we've just come back, having stayed at Chartres overnight - and I don't think I would now recommend it.  When we were last there it was OK - but this time we thought everything had deteriorated.  It looked badly neglected, the grass was long everywhere, the roads muddy, and the toilet blocks lacked care and cleanliness.

We were also given a sheet warning of thefts from the site, and suggesting precautions to take - which is a bit off putting.

I'm going to add a review - but I'll definitely cross it off my list of sites to stop-over.

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Not surprised at what you say Val. Did you read Oliver Day's 2010 review? Yet ACSI approve it ! No wonder the site is having to offer cheap rates these days. It's been poor for some time.

Good idea Berriow - will do now!  And on Zoover as well!

I see both websites give the site 7.6 out of 10 - and I thought my 4 out of 10 was generous and would have been less apart from the location of the site!  Interesting the ACSI website gives a rather odd message - "In order to guarantee the quality of our camp site reviews, reviews will only be shown if there is a minimum number of 5"  - now does that mean there must be 5 reviews of a site before ANY appear ?? or you must score the site at least 5 out of 10 or we won't show your review???

Any guesses.  I'll know when/if mine appears.