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26/3/2009 at 7:46pm
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Hi, I am thinking of taking the family to northern France in the summer and want to drive about 2 hours inland so that we can visit Paris and possibly Eurodisney by train. Can anyone recommend a decent site for a young family (boys aged 9 & 6), all the sites I've looked at have very mixed reviews or no reviews at all. We will be using a tent and would need good clean facilities, thanks, Mark


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26/3/2009 at 8:44pm
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We stayed at Camping des 4 Vents 5 years ago and thoroughly enjoyed it. Nice large pitches and a quiet atmosphere. 10-15 minutes to Disney by car and you can get the train from there into Paris.


26/3/2009 at 8:54pm
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Thanks Janet, would you say it is just a stop over site ie 2-3 days or do you think we would be ok for a week to 10 days. One of the reviews questions the lack of shop or local supermarket, what can you remember? thanks, Mark



26/3/2009 at 9:10pm
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We stayed for a week. At the time there was a maximum stay of 10 days. I don't know if it's still the same. A van came every morning selling Bread etc. There was a small shop in the nearby village which sold all the basics and a supermarket about 10-15mins drive away. Check the opening times with reception though as from memory it closed lunchtimes.


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26/3/2009 at 9:18pm
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Thanks for the information, will definateley put it in our maybe pile, thanks again, Mark



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27/3/2009 at 12:26am
 Location: Nottingham
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Hi Mark-del

We stayed at la croix du vieux pont last year, this is the link to the web site. http://www.la-croix-du-vieux-pont.com/uk/accueil.php

 

We found it to be a great site for both euro disney and paris, the site has a coach trip to both.

Its also a site you could stay at for one or two weeks.

 



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27/3/2009 at 7:32am
 Location: Essex
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I would recommend La Croix Du Vieux Pont as well. It has excellent facilities for a family holiday and is close enough to Disney for a visit. They even run their own coach to Disney and Paris each week.

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27/3/2009 at 8:22am
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We're staying at Courtilles du Lido near Fontainebleau http://www.ukcampsite.co.uk/sites/details.asp?revid=6405 this year for a few nights. Near Fontainebleau palace, close to the train to Paris, less than an hour from Disney, and looks like a very nice little site.


27/3/2009 at 8:34am
 Location: West - North Yorkshire
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For anyone staying at Les Courtilles de Lido - it's a Touring Cheque site, which last year accepted them all season - from 22nd March until 20th September - so a pitch for two people, car and caravan (or tent), plus electric hook-up, and awning would have cost £11.90 per night!  For children under 10 there is a supplement of 3 euros each, and over 10s are 4 euros each.  This is great value for a site near Paris - but check out the details with Touring Cheque themselves as the website has not yet been updated for 2009.

We've stayed there, some years ago, and found it a nice site with lovely level grass pitches, and clean facilities.  It's near Moiret sur Loing which is a nice little town on the river, with some good restaurants - and you're near enough to Paris for the sites, as well as near the Chateau and Forests of Fontainbleau.  It's really in one of the most scenic areas around Paris and yet still near enough to be accessible.



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27/3/2009 at 9:11am
 Location: Northern Ireland
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Val     Re Les Courtilles de Lido.

Are you sure about the dates?    The website still hasn't been updated!!!  Have you this years brochure?



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27/3/2009 at 9:30am
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Hi Marz - I've edited my post to mention last year - I'd quite forgotten about the website (how could I) - and interestingly, I'm still awaiting my 2009 brochure which I ordered some time ago.  Still, it's worth looking at if it's still in the scheme for this year.



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29/3/2009 at 8:09pm
 Location: Hull East Yorkshire
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Hi

we stayed at this site which i call Berny Rivierie in August 2006, 2 families with 3 chidren (then aged 3,5 and 7)  we chose this site for our first trip to France because it wasn't too far from Calais and it's relatively close proximity to Disneyland Paris.

Basically a lovely site but we had horrendous weather in August which spolit the holiday really so if you have brill weather it will make the holiday, we camped for 10 nights on a large grassy park area near a small river with ducks waddling everywhere, the kids loved that. 

we drove to Disneyland which was about 80 mins away (easy to find and thankfully the sun shone that day so it was great!)

nice bar and restaurant, play area,  lake facilities

not much to see or do in the surrounding area (apart from Disney) so maybe better for a stop over site 

have a great time if you choose this one and pray for sunny weather (it rained for about 7 nights out of 10 for us) even broke our gazebo on the second night from the  amounr of rain

 

 

  

 

 

http://www.la-croix-du-vieux-pont.com/uk/accueil.php



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03/4/2009 at 8:23am
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Just got my Touring Cheques brochure, and Les Courtilles DOES accept Touring Cheques all season - so definitely worth looking at if anyone wants a site in this area.

 



04/4/2009 at 9:49pm
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I stayed here last year Camping Les Etangs Fleuris, it was a really nice site, had a lovely pool, loungers all around & it was a freeform pool with is going for 1cm to 1.5m, so suitale for all ages & swimming abilities. It was very clean, they sold bread etc on site & there was a small village about 5 minutes away which sold everything. Disney was about 20 minutes away, & val de europe was about 15 minutes away, from here you can catch the train to paris & parking is free. There was a playground, big trampoline, mini golf, football pitch/ sports field, table tennis, fishing lake, but it isn't a massive site. I went with a couple of friends to this site, but there was a lot of kids on site.

I stayed at 4 vents the year before, with my sister & a 5 year old. I found even thought there was most of the pitches were taken it was very isolated as the hedges were really high. There was a playground, table tennis, & a volleyball court. There was also a small van selling bread each morning & a snack wagon each evening. Both me & my sister felt the pool was unsuitable for younger children, it was 1.5m deep & freezing cold even in august, there was no loungers so you couldn't have a day at the site around the pool. The showers were automatic, & the only way to get a towel in dry was to throw it over the fence. We also found the showers to be a bit cold no matter what time of day we took a shower & the block was often dirty.

If i went back to one of the sites I'd visit Camping Les Etangs Fleuris, it had a much nicer atmosphere, it was friendly & inviting. The pool was lovely, there was quite a bit to on site but it was all in one place so it was relaxed as well as all the busy stuff was in one place. It was cleaner, the wash block was older but was cleaned more often.


04/4/2009 at 11:05pm
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We stayed at Camping des 4 Vents last year for a week and found it a bit soulless. Lovely looking site and well laid out with gorgeous pitches but there wasn't much communication between pitches and no real community atmosphere. Most folk were just using it as a dormitory site and spent the days out at the big theme parks and Paris, so it was very quiet during the day and the families with small kids were all knackered at night!

The pool area was seriously weird...no seats or loungers at all and you had to walk through the automatic showers to get in so couldn't carry a bag through. The pool itself is circular with a rotating current effect and there was no shallow section, so totally unsuitable for small children or poor swimmers.

The family that ran it was lovely though and it seemed pretty clean to me, but definately just a site to stay on while doing other outside things most of the time rather than a site to spend your days on. Or if you wanted a really quiet holiday sitting reading on your pitch with a few trips out. I wouldn't go back, have to say.

Incidentally my kids (11 and 6) were pretty unimpressed with Disneyland, as were we. On the other hand we had to be practically thrown out of Parc Asterix two days in a row....cheaper (can use Tesco vouchers) , bigger rides and a LOT more of them, shorter queues, better food, far greater variety of things to do and far more fun.



05/4/2009 at 7:27pm
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Quote: Originally posted by jg73 on 26/3/2009
We stayed at Camping des 4 Vents 5 years ago and thoroughly enjoyed it. Nice large pitches and a quiet atmosphere. 10-15 minutes to Disney by car and you can get the train from there into Paris.

Another vote for this site - huge spacious pitches, very friendly people, the only fault was the wasps around the bar area



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