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Anybody camped at the Camping Caravaning Aqua Viva site, Sarlat Dordogne????

We are a family of 4 (children 5 and 3) looking for a quietish holiday by water.

We stayed at Bel Ombrage at St Cybranet, it,s in the Caravan Club brochure. The site is pretty quiet, large pitches, clean, is located beside a small river where the kids can enjoy themselves, but the Dordogne is onle a couple of miles away where you can park up for free and hire canoes, fish, swim, in fact it was very relaxing there.

 Jim

This was one of 6 sites we picked out of the Alan Rogers book. 3 were full and you could not book on-line with 2 of them. Sent an email to them but no reply.  

So we Booked this. Couldn't afford to gamble because of kids / long journey.

Need to work out where to stop overnight now (campanile!). Stayed at Orleans la Source last year, but we want to get a bit further this time. 

I liked Aqua Viva - when we were there it was quietish - not all-singing, all-dancing like some sites.  There was a great pool complex, with banana trees around, and lots of lovely flowers.  The pitches were quite big and in the bottom section, where we were the toilet facilities were excellent.  Sarlat, nearby, is extremely busy - but they did run a trip in by minibus, which saved all the parking fandango.  The restaurant on site was nice, and we found the reception, bar and restaurant staff nice and friendly.  There was a small lake to do 'canoe' type things on, and if I remember rightly a sort of meandering stream - not really a river.  However, you're very near the Dordogne river itself, for messing about in boats.  Domme was within striking distance, and Montpazier a little further.

We were there at the very end of August, so have no idea what it might be like in peak season.  I would imagine that it is the sort of site you would have to book in advance.

Quote: Originally posted by JimC on 25/1/2006

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We stayed at Bel Ombrage at St Cybranet, it,s in the Caravan Club brochure. The site is pretty quiet, large pitches, clean, is located beside a small river where the kids can enjoy themselves, but the Dordogne is onle a couple of miles away where you can park up for free and hire canoes, fish, swim, in fact it was very relaxing there.

 Jim

 

That's good to know as we are going to Bel Ombrage this summer.

 

We looked at the Soleil Plage TethersEnd, but we felt it looked a bit too "busy" for us, but we are going the last 2 weeks of August so I'll be interested to see how it goes this year. AFAIK, Soleil Plage has a sort of "visitors" policy so non-residents can go for the day, so we might pop down and see what it's like.

Amanda