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Just wanted to get rid of your blue face!

By reading your post, it sounds like you had a bad experience this year. Where were you? I'm sure someone will be along soon to help you with your search. In the meantime, enjoy planning for next year.

oh dear, where did you go? I can highly recommend this site at La Foret in Brittany www.camping-les-saules.com/

and at la Trinite sur mer you cant go wrong with camping de la palage or camping de la baie

In my experience a nice site very near the beach in the vendee dosent exist (avoid St Jean de Monts imho) but I have heard good things about Camping Bel at La Trance sur mer

Camping les dunes is RIGHT next to the beach at Bretignolles.

I didnt go into the campsite and almost booked into there(phoned to do so and had a little difficulty (language barrier)so booked into Pin parasol).

The beach itself is good, lifeguarded and decent waves. Plenty of other beaches near by but alot are rocky(La sauize sp?) superb waves but VERY rocky.

Excellent news Pager33.....just back from Pin Parasol(big thumbs up) and the drive was only 15mins to the beach so I wasnt too bothered about being away from the coast.

Lullabelle, try a municipal campsite?  I've only been to the one at Beaumont sur sarthe so I have nothing to compare it with but if they're generally like that one then it could be the ticket.

Lullabelle, i don't thnk your mad sorting next years holiday! We have already booked our tunnel crossing for April and earmarked the sites we want to use! That is the earliest we have ever booked and it seems such a long time away!

Can't help with sites with access to a beach though.

Taking Viscount Bisquet's statement 'And here we are. But it is called ....progress....' there's a joke on the back of my French Camping Magazine, which is in

cartoon 1: a family having an idyllic holiday on their 'best ever' campsite,

cartoon 2: dad going on a Camping Forum telling the whole world of campers how great the site is,

cartoon 3: arriving on the same site the following year to find it noisy, full of campers, and with loud music playing,

cartoon 4: asking at reception why it is so busy, to be told that 'someone recommended us on UKCS (not actually the forum, but you get my gist) and so we got lots more bookings. 

People tend to keep their own absolute favourites a bit of a secret, to keep them the way they found them.

Oh please don't keep your faves a secret!!! I'm already loving this thread and hoping that at some point I will go YEES!!!!!!! like whassername in When Harry Met Sally.

Also, what I may think is a perfect site may not be someone else's idea which is why we must share! I don't want one with evening entertainment of the karaoke/hi de hi variety. Or pools with lots of slides and shoots. Lots of people do though. After sharing my camping holiday with a visit to my mum's in south west France, I don't want to drive too far, but again some people quite like that.

I've been to the minicipal at Beaumont Sur Sarthe and it is wonderful (especially wonderful when you return from what appears to be a refugee camp) so I'm not adverse to them in any way. I just have a feeling they may not all be like that!

I want one that's basic, clean, decent pitch and close to a beach. I thought that wasn't too much to ask but then again I'm a naive newby camper with stars in her eyes.

Gosh, maybe it doesn't really exist except for in my dreams! Mind you, I haven't investigated all the ones listed above. It may be there...

They should have a website called comparethebeachcampsite.com. Simples.