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Don't forget to leave a review of the French and other European campsites you have visited!
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28/2/2022 at 9:16am
Location: West - North Yorkshire
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Quote: Originally posted by Pixie_Hez on 28/2/2022
I have just looked back through my reviews and we were at Soleil Plage in 2008 (how time flies) and had a lovely time. It is so sad when a lovely campsite is taken over by a big chain and they ruin it. This site has always been on my list of places in France I would like to return to but maybe not anymore!
I absolutely agree. We used a site on the Mediterranean, which was family run, and everyone loved it. It was very popular, with people going back year after year, like meeting old friends. It was so popular that the owner received an offer he couldn't refuse, and sold it to a chain. Within a year standards had gone down, staff numbers cut, mainenance neglected, shop range vastly reduced, burgers and pizzas replacing traditional dishes, and more mobile homes introduced. Now, apparently, it is even worse, with people saying 'Don't go there...' We haven't been back!
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28/2/2022 at 10:41pm
Location: Liverpool
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Quote: Originally posted by Val A on 28/2/2022
I absolutely agree. We used a site on the Mediterranean, which was family run, and everyone loved it. It was very popular, with people going back year after year, like meeting old friends. It was so popular that the owner received an offer he couldn't refuse, and sold it to a chain. Within a year standards had gone down, staff numbers cut, mainenance neglected, shop range vastly reduced, burgers and pizzas replacing traditional dishes, and more mobile homes introduced. Now, apparently, it is even worse, with people saying 'Don't go there...' We haven't been back!
I don’t understand the switch to Burgers and Pizzas on some sites. A site we regularly used in the Loire switched to Burgers and Pizza in the on-site eating place (I refuse to call it a restaurant). A couple of years later an independent restaurant opened just outside the site gates serving good traditional French fixed price menus. It was so funny to see the site eating place virtually empty every night while all the campsite patrons were queued up outside the independent restaurant at the gates waiting for a table.
One of the best sites we have ever stayed at in France didn’t have a restaurant but they had a traditional French dish of the day every day which was freshly made on site and you went and picked it up at a designated time and brought it back to your pitch. It was the best ‘take away’ food I have ever had.
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Quote: Originally posted by Pixie_Hez on 28/2/2022
Quote: Originally posted by Val A on 28/2/2022
I absolutely agree. We used a site on the Mediterranean, which was family run, and everyone loved it. It was very popular, with people going back year after year, like meeting old friends. It was so popular that the owner received an offer he couldn't refuse, and sold it to a chain. Within a year standards had gone down, staff numbers cut, mainenance neglected, shop range vastly reduced, burgers and pizzas replacing traditional dishes, and more mobile homes introduced. Now, apparently, it is even worse, with people saying 'Don't go there...' We haven't been back!
...One of the best sites we have ever stayed at in France didn’t have a restaurant but they had a traditional French dish of the day every day which was freshly made on site and you went and picked it up at a designated time and brought it back to your pitch. It was the best ‘take away’ food I have ever had.
That sounds lovely. Don't suppose you'd give us a clue? 😉
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