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OK here goes...

If you go to stay at a campsite with your tent or a caravan or a trailer tent or whatever - back to nature being the thing - the last thing you want  to be overlooked by, or overlooking, is a large, white (and why are they all white?!) mobile home posing as a 'Cottage'!! With stuck on shutters with serve no purpose whatsoever - apart from making me even more angry!!            

Now, don't get me wrong - I quite understand the advantages of a mob. home holiday (apart from being v. expensive) and all that - but why are so many campsites selling their souls and putting so many in. Are they more lucrative - obviously they are. Maybe our members who have sites in France can explain it to me? Touche/Floyd?? But what I'm asking is can anyone recommend campsites that don't have mobile homes in France. And there's the other factor of having enough facilities for the children... Ah - of course - they put the mobiles in to pay for the water slides!?

Am I being a pain in the ****? Is this now the norm? Note how long I've been a member and how many posts I've done.... too timid normally, but having returned from France yesterday from a lovely site (Ty-Nadan) in Brittany ruined in my opinion by the  horrible mobiles, I just had to get this one out of my system!

Caroline xx

Not many of the municipal campsites in France have mobiles - although some do.   Camping a la Ferme is probably your best bet. 

I would think that the reason most sites have some mobiles is that they know that those particular pitches are paid for for the whole season, and not just the days when someone with a caravan or tent turns up and pays the daily rate.  If you're charging £20 per day (say) for a pitch, and it's empty for 50 days per season you're losing a lot of potential income.  French sites are never as full as English sites - and except for the very high season it usually isn't necessary to book.

Try to see the positive side (after all there are a lot of people out there who don't like little white - yes caravans are nearly all white too - boxes on wheels which slow the traffic).  Not all of us want 'back to nature' - for some people just relaxing outside their own little piece of heaven can take place just as easily on a site with mobiles, 'chalets', ready-erected tents or whatever.    If you do want back to nature then Camping a la Ferme or Aire Naturelle is what you need to look for.  These are much like our Certificated Site, or Certificated Location - although some are more sophisticated.  Each has their own website - can't remember the web page name - and you can search for your own mobile free campsite.