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Why Lyon?   Do you have a particular reason for wanting to visit the city and stay there for two weeks.  Whilst it's a lovely city for a short visit - two nights probably - I'm not sure that we.d find enough to keep us going for two weeks.  Additionally traffic is heavy in that area - commuter traffic going into the city, and tourist traffic going around it. 

There are some nearby sites, but we've only ever stayed for one night, preferring more rural France for our main holiday, and we've never tried public transport in the area - though I know they do offer those free to borrow bikes in the city centre.  Camping Indigo International de Lyon is to the north of the city, and accessible on public transport - tram and bus.  Lots of super restaurants in Lyon, great parks, and nice shoping street, but to be honest that's all we did when we were there.

BUT we never make our minds up before we go, and we always holiday in May/June and just go where we please, when we please, which is one of the advantages of using smaller sites, or Camping Cheques or ACSI sites.

Quote: Originally posted by colmax on 15/7/2013

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Just returned from 8 weeks various sites between St Tropez and Cannes.

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Sounds awesome. Can you leave some site reviews for all to read when you get a few spare minutes please

Cheers  Ratty

We spent three nights at St Genis Laval a SE suburb of Lyon with excvellent bus transport into the city centre. Thre's quite a loty to occupy you in Lyon but, like others, I wouldn't want/need to spend more than a week there although it's a good place to explore the local Rhone-Saone (Roman ruins at Vienne &c). 

We combined that stay with a week at St Geneste in the Pilat within easy reach of the St Etienne conurbation (interesting museums and galleries) and great countryside.