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There is this site in Brittany

http://www.montloue.eu/Caravan%20Site.html

Well for a start the first week of July is quite child unfriendly as they're all still at school. There's bound to be some around but I don't think they'll be in anything like the numbers you might envisage.

martin 

Hi Steve, 

Just to take your blue face away ....

 I can't offer much help except to highlight what you already know,  that camping early July and thus just out of (UK and French) school hols will help you minimise the chance of  landing a 'kids zone' site. How mobile are you? ..  I only ask as when we first camped we didn't book and moved around to follow the weather and to search for the quiter sites and as we'd hired a camper, it was easy to move-on frequently. I wouldn't be put off a site just as there's no review .... it could be that having no review suggests it is off the beaten-track and thus non-busy but not necc. naff.  I was going to suggest avoiding sites where major tour operators have  presence, but again, even slightly out of season, these sites can be fairly kiddie-free. Hope Val comes along soon, she's the lady to ask.

Happy hols.

Try here,no camp fires,prob child free early July

http://www.ukcampsite.co.uk/sites/details.asp?revid=5318  nice site

This site virtually forces you to have campfires, also many of the pitches are so secluded that you'd never even see your neighbours except on trips to the showers - its not in any of the areas you've mentioned and maybe slightly off the beaten track for Cherbourg but you still might want to check it out: http://www.ukcampsite.co.uk/sites/reviews.asp?revid=6017

martin

Perhaps this one might be of interest:  Camping Melusine.  Don't know if they let you take your own tent, as well as stay in one of their own 'pavillions' though - and I haven't been there, so it's not a recommendation, just a suggestion.  Another suggestion is to look on the Camping France website, and find a 'Camping a la Ferme' - exactly what you're looking for - and some with exceptional facilities.  We've stayed on some, years ago, but not in the areas you're looking at.

Personally, we like bigger sites with facilities like a bar, restaurant, and good pools so we always like Camping Cheque sites - and like the prices too!  Out of peak season even the busiest site can be quiet (although the first week in July is getting nearer to peak season). 

As far as a 'campfire' is concerned, we usually find sites which allow barbecues, use an upright portable barbecue for cooking our evening meal on, and then sit around it adding pine cones, twigs, wine bottle corks and anything else that we can forage,  until we go in for the night!  Perfect compromise and any site which allows barbecues can then become a 'campfire' sort of site!   Added later:  However, in July it could be so hot, even in the evening, that you'll long for a cold bath rather than a hot fire!!!

Just added an afterthought, which is the 'Cool Camping' series of books.  My son has one on England, and I'm sure they produce a French version - some lovely sites in the English one, so may be worth looking out for the French one.

Quote: Originally posted by Val A on 15/5/2008

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  Another suggestion is to look on the Camping France website, and find a 'Camping a la Ferme' - exactly what you're looking for - and some with exceptional facilities. 

 

Val - Don't you need your own loo at the Camping a la Ferme? 

 I looked at these ages ago, but didn't bother as would mean taking the porta-potti & space is an issue for us. 

Val - Don't you need your own loo at the Camping a la Ferme? 

 I looked at these ages ago, but didn't bother as would mean taking the porta-potti & space is an issue for us. 

On some, Yes, but others have absolutely fantastic facilities.  We've stayed on one site with a swimming pool for five pitches!  The toilet block had two loos and two showers - and we've been on sites in England where you got that many for fifty pitches! 

Here's another we've stayed on - quite a while ago, but now has added a pool - Rochepierre.   - this one had about twenty pitches and some caravans to rent.  Most sites with 'facilities' have their own website, so it's easy to see what's available.

http://www.ukcampsite.co.uk/sites/reviews.asp?revid=5318

Can highly recommend here!