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Any one been here seen 1 review, looking to go in August.

Any one driven there.

Any advice appreciated,

Many thanks

Thanks, we going from Calais

Bit of a track but sure we will stop off on route as we leaving the night before.

I havn't been for a couple of years but towed a caravan there twice. Great site with great lakeside beach. Last time we were there the lake was warmer than the swimming pool. However I do think that the 'independant' camper, those that take their caravans and tents are the poor relations on the site. The pitches can be difficult, some with trees in the middle of them.

I've never taken a boat but from memory, having spoken to some boat owners whilst there, you should go to the Mairie or similar in Gastes - the nearest town/village - and buy a permit to use a boat on the lake. The permit should be displayed somewhere on the boat. Of course it may have all changed, I am going back a good couple of years but I would check.

we went there in 2007, and it is a lovely site but what a trek, we did dover to calais, and without our sat nav, i dont think we would ever have found it,

we left liverpool at 6pm on the wednesday evening, and travelled down to dover through the night, eventually arrived friday morning 2am in the pitch black and thoroughly exhausted, we didnt think it would be that far, so didnt do an overnight stop

site is nice, but they did attempt to place us and our unit in between two trees, approx 10 ft wide, this however was not their 100m2 pitches as stated in brochure,

so proceeded to look at that time in the morning for a  pitch that would accomodate us and picked a corner pitch not far from the lake,

toilets are quite basic, and both male and female use them,

entertainment was limited, even though end of season was september

we went 2nd and 3rd week in august,

and beware you have to leave your footwear on a rack before you go into the pool

(a lovely pool) however, on returning to pick my husbands summer shoes back up (they were not cheap ones) they had been stolen, notified the site staff who were of no help at all, and proceeded to ask us to drive to the gardam (police) to report the incident,

they are apparantly not held responsible for theft, altho they request that you leave them there,

we found biscarosse beach beautiful if not a little fierce at times, and most of the food/shops closed in the afternoon.

however, if was a nice site, despite all of that, and probably just a little far to go for the inexperienced person towing to france for the first time,

lake is what i would describe as dirty, and would not attempt to swim in it, but there was plenty of people doing so,

elaine