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Going to france in motorhome for first time end of month, Anyone recomend good camp site with close aminaties like theme park or water parks. Thanks  

If you want to visit disneyland paris motorhomes can park for 20Euros per night in the car park- there are loos and showers there.

When we wanted to visit attractions we looked at where they were on the map and then worked back from there with finding nearby sites. The campsites review section on here is really useful for that now its been arranged into areas- its well worth a look

Whereabouts in France do you fancy going or have you any particular Theme Parks or Water Parks in mind?  There are so many different areas, that it's difficult to recommend a site.  Some sites in France almost have a water park on site - the pool complexes are so fantastic.  Here's one we stayed at in the Ardeche:  http://www.camping-ranc-davaine.fr/ - if you fancy it, at all, then I can highly recommend it, and best of all you can stay there for only 14 euros per night, for pitch, two people, motorhome, awning, and electricity, after 25th August,  with Camping Cheques http://www.campingcheque.co.uk. 

There are lots of sites around Frejus, and amusement parks and water parks nearby, or there's Parc Asterix north of Paris, where the nearest campsite is Campix. 

If you don't mind going a bit further, and want a fantastic theme park, then Port Aventura is not that far into Spain!  You can stay nearby at Cambrils Park http://www.cambrilspark.es//en/ElNostreCamping/Index.aspx, also for 14 euros with Camping Cheques, from 1st September.

Val what was your opionon of   http://www.camping-ranc-davaine.fr/ ?  Would appreciate your comments as you have stayed there before.  Thanks.

It's a Sunelia site, so everything is of a very high standard.  The pool complex is fantastic, with indoor and outdoor pools, slides (smallish), jacuzzi type bath, whirlpools, etc.  There's an excellent restaurant on site, and a great pizzeria take-away.  It's been very hot when we've been there (38 degrees) and there's a 'misting' system over the outside restaurant tables, which cools you down with a very fine spray.   The food is lovely there but it's not particularly cheap by campsite standards - pizzas are reasonably priced, though - and the take-away offers other things too.

Because it's the south of France the pitches tend to soon become dry and can be dusty (grass just burns off).  There's good shade to all the pitches - which are 'random' under trees (each pitch is numbered - and the boundaries tend to be the small oak trees which border the pitches).  Some are very large, others not so large.  The toilet blocks are clean, modern and well looked after.  We particularly like the part down  by the river - where you can also swim, and where we can use our inflatable canoe.  The only thing I would say is that there are an increasing number of mobile homes on the site now - as there are on many French sites.  The lady in the shop said this was due to large numbers of Motorhomes which stay on the aires in local villages, rather than pay for a site - so sites are not so busy with tourers and fill up their pitches with mobile homes. 

I must say that we've been in the low season, when we really enjoy staying there, but we did stay a couple of days in peak season a year or two ago, when it was much more noisy and busy.  It's a family site in peak season, but a 'couples' site (with very small pre-school children) in low season. 

The whole area is lovely - with the Ardeche gorge 20 minutes away, lovely villages and markets to look around, full of wildlife, birdlife, and wild flowers. 

When are you thinking of going?  The site takes Camping Cheques from 25th August until 16th September when it closes, or from it's opening date (March) until 29th June.  I imagine next year's dates will be approximately the same.  We've been four times up to press - once with my eighteen year old son who was going to work as a Canvas Holidays Courier, and his friend - so we took him down to Argeles where he was going to be working, and stayed there on the way down for a week.  They both enjoyed it too!!

Hi Val Thanks for that i think u convinced us to try it out as its our first time over there so im sure it will be an adventure we are going to enjoy.

     We are leaving here aprox 2pm, 7 hour drive  to dover to get ferry for 11pm and travel through the morning on other side.Cooler and all that  Thanks again.