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Quote: Originally posted by Val A on 20/12/2015

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I notice you've reviewed Les Courtilles du Lido - which was a site we used to stay at on our travels up and down through France when we used routes near Paris. I take it you've got children (three from your review) so a cheaper site would be obviously a good idea, and it's worth looking at the ACSI Card website (www.campingcard.co.uk). If you can go the last two weeks in August, then there are 84 sites which accept the card then and offer free places for children under 6 (but possible discounts for older children too). You could combine a week at 'full price' with a week at the ACSI rate and save some money.

Have you any 'end' destinations in mind in the West or South? Are you looking for beaches, or would a lovely riverside site, with river swimming and great pools do instead. I'm thinking there are a lot of lovely sites which are more central then the West and won't have you thinking 'But we're going back on ourselves' once you get to France.

There are toll-free routes, too, which help to save us enough to pay for all our campsites for a fortnight.

I'd second the tips about supermarket fuel (which is very cheap in France at the moment)

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Quote: Originally posted by David Klyne on 20/12/2015

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Given where you live it might be worth pricing up the Poole-Cherbourg ferry service as you live a long day from Dover and it could give you a day or two extra days on your holiday.

David

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