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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

Thanks for the information, will definateley put it in our maybe pile, thanks again, Mark

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.

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.

Val     Re Les Courtilles de Lido.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

Quote: Originally posted by jg73 on 26/3/2009

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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.

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