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please help.

Looking to take the family, 2 adults, 2 kids 2 and 4yrs, to france next year along with our folding camper (if it doesnt cost too much). Any ideas where i can have a great family holiday with half a chance of getting good weather in june. would be grateful of any site reconmendations.

HI there!

We've just returned from the Loire with our folding camper & 3 kids. We stayed at L'Etang de la Breche and had the most fantastic time (see my review). There is a HUGE open area in the centre of the campsite with two seperate childrens play areas that would suit the ages of yours perfectly.

We sailed from Portsmouth to Le Havre with LD lines and it cost £280 return with cabins. The campsite is 200 miles from Le Havre and we left the ferry at 8.30am, stopped an hour for lunch at a motorway service rest area and arrived at our site at 1.30pm - so it's around a 4 hour drive.

You can't predict the weather anywhere other than the very VERY South of France, but in order to be in with a good chance of fairer weather at any time you need to head to the Loire or lower. I would say with two kiddies that age a 4 hr drive would be the max (ours were 14yrs, 12 yrs and 3 yrs). Mind you, we found the dvd's in the back of the car an absolute godsend!

Claire

On a budget the cheapest crossing is usually Dover/Calais - and you can get some really good 'offers' around October for the following year.   P and O have ferries almost every hour, so if you miss one there's another along shortly.  Occasionally there's hot competition for the lowest fares in Autumn for the following year, and even Eurotunnel have been known to make substantial reductions in their normal rate.

Hi all

thanks for your help, i think a 4hr drive would be plenty for our two at the moment, so will look into areas within that time scale.

thanks for the advice