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03/8/2013 at 2:05pm
Location: Lancashire
Outfit: Touring caravan.
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It sounds like your 1st time across the channel so here goes related to a site for example. le Brevedent is much reviewed on here, it is 4 hrs easy from Calais, and is motorway to about 10 kms of your destination, so if it's just you and the kids, maybe you have no navigator, and straight easy driving motorway makes for a relaxed arrival. Cross country is cheaper and marvellous for sight seeing but can be very fraught until you are used to it.
At site, all admin staff speak very good English if need be, so no worries with foreign talk till you want to try your hand, and can be a mega boost if you are unfortunate to need assistance vehicle or medical. Local GP services are superb, and accessible virtually on demand, again can be significant with children in tow. Site has a shop and a restaurant, both at a price, but you won't be caught short if you forget something. Local mini mart is 3 kms, supermart is 6 kms, so shopping is no worry, and access to shops by direct route.
Site has open pitches, ie no hedgerows, not to everyone's liking but if you are on your own with kids, it is virtually inevitable you will find a neighbour to chat to, assuming you want a bit of company now and then. Mix of outfits, and in summer, more and more tents these days, so plenty of like minded souls. Site offers kids club every morning to give you a break if you need one. Pools are great for toddlers or older to say 12 ish. Coast is very accessible in about 20 mins, via Trouville which has most things for kids.
Bar at night is very informal, and child friendly, again if you fancy a small sherbert with company.
So not the only place to go, everyone has their favourites, but maybe some pointers as to what may become important once you get to the foreign shore.
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Don't forget to leave a review of the French and other European campsites you have visited!
Don't forget to leave a review of the French and other European campsites you have visited!
04/8/2013 at 9:29am
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Quote: Originally posted by kate w on 03/8/2013
I was going to suggest Lac D'Orient. Lovely site, child friendly, lovely lake for swimming and boating, theme park about half an hour drive away for all the family.
Le Brevedent is good for a first time camping in France but for me it's too full of British campers and doesn't feel at all French. Stayed Monday night on our way home, think I saw one Dutch car, the rest were all British.
Too true, I was thinking of someone 1st time and 1parent with kids, there's a lot of France round about, and maybe it's nice to mix the two.
Funny enough 2 weeks ago, Brits on Brev were in short supply, there were Dutch, they get everywhere, plus Germans, Belgians, Italians, Danes, Swedish, and funny enough a surprising number of French plates. It is only in the last week since schools broke up, that the Brits have arrived. In May, the A 16 down from Calais was a non ending stream of GB plates, but in recent weeks around Brittany, and Finistere, there was a noticable scarcity of Brit plates compared to times past.
FM
ps There were that many Brits last Monday, we were the ones on the overflow near the gate.
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