Can anyone recommend a site in the auvergne/ardeche areas of France. We will be taking a trailer tent to France for the first time next summer having done mobile homes for the past few years. We are looking for a site ideally by or close to a lake, high standards of cleanliness etc and hopefully not full of english (experienced this in the dordogne this year!)
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Cant recommend a particular site but I am looking at that area for next year and I'm using this website which has some sites that look nice and lots of info about the Ardeche.
Hi there, well we stayed in the Auvergne last year at Camping de la Filature. Several others have been there this year too and I think we all pretty much agree on the following - It is a very tranquil site with a riverside setting and good sized pitches. The loos and showers are dated but I found them always to be clean. It doesn't have a pool or lots of entertainment but has a small shop and a bar, although I am told the owner opens it sporadically!
The owners are English and we found them pleasant enough, but they can come over as being a little offhand. I don't think they mean to be but that is how it is! The site is used by all nationalities and we found the other Brits on site courteous and quiet. It is definitely not a rowdy site.
It is in a fantastic place for the gorges and lakes and we canoed just down the road for 10 kms. The owner also cooks fab food every night which out of season is available for 20 euros a night including your pitch for two people which is great value. We are talking duck, steaks etc!! We would go back there, in contrast to our site in the Alps this year that we would not be keen to return to and was poor value in comparison.
We stayed at Val de Cantobre for a week last year - it was an experience. Lots of people were returning for several years. Its a bit wild up there - driving about is not easy but the countryside and wildlife are stunning. The kids loved Val de C - the pool was cold but the bars and entertainment were great for 11 years upwards -they might be good for little ones too but I tok no interest in the under 11s.
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http://www.les-tours.com/ thinking of going here next year ,in that region , just working out our overnigh stops for the waydown from calais, any reccomendations on distance and sites
A bit further south but we stayed in the Aveyron on the Lac de Pareloup - huge lake great for all types of boating etc - site was Le Caussanel run (very well we thought) by Sunelia. No other UK visitors when we went in early July, loads of French and Dutch. On country roads so good for cycling too and lovely pool if you have kids. Rodez old town was lovely and you're close enough to Millau and the Gorges du Tarn too.
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How refreshing to speak to a first timer! My husband Boris and I are experienced trailer tenters! Each year we take our seven children on holiday in our mini pulling along our trailer behind us. We then spend several hours unpacking all our equipment when we arrive - how delightful!
If you would like any advice on the best place to buy a porto loo please get back in touch with me - we are experts! Boris and I share one and then the children have one between them! How exciting to empty it in the morning! (remember to wash your hands before cooking breakfast for everyone!) Please let me know what sort of tent you have - I am always interested in other peoples equipment.
I can recommend a lovely campsite for you and your family in the Ardeche - Camping du Comfortable - its on a beautiful lake and has lovely clean toilets for you and your family to use (1 euro per visit - correct change please!). It also has an excellent restaurant - last year Boris and I and the seven children had a 3 course meal (Boris had duck and I had steak, the kids had fish) with wine and all drinks for two euros! Try and beat that!
You will find some English on this site, but most of them are very friendly ( we met a lovely family last year Tammy and Tommy from Tamworth) and each evening there is a Quiz "Who Wants To Be A Camper??" which we all enjoyed.
Anyway good luck with your 'first time' Boris and I hope you enjoy it as much as we did!!!
We stayed here:
http://www.ukcampsite.co.uk/sites/reviews.asp?revid=4963
in 2004 and liked it very much. Not many other Brits, but a few nice Dutch kids for our lad to play with. Not close to a lake but bang on the river (Ardeche) and with a swimming pool.
In the Ardeche, Camping L'Ardechois is a fantastic campsite. Book now (essential)to reserve a pitch on the bank next to the river, but ensure that you do make a point of this. The views are wonderful and provide non-stop entertainment as all the canoes come past a few metres away and attempt to make it through the rocks. Watch the tree creepers as well. The facilities are outstanding. It has everything you could possibly want and this is the one campsite that all the family remember above all the hundred or so that we stayed at. Gorges, walking, canoe lessons from the site (these are also essential if you want to do the trip through Pont D'Arc.). Endless entertainment for kids. Food on site is pretty good although your salad may arrive with your pud! It is expensive, but, as they say, you get what you pay for. Oh yes, the thunderstorms are spectacular. Son et lumiere for free. See you there!
We have just got back from Camping de Vaubarlet (www.vaubarlet.com), near Sainte Sigolene just south of St Etienne. A stunning location in a steep sided wooded valley with a small river. It has clean, excellent facilities, a bar whith restaurant and takeaways and of course a pool. The campers were mostly French and Dutch with the usual small contingent of Belgians and Brits. The site was quiet and peaceful except for the half crazed Animateur who drove round the site at six each evening in a golf buggy, dressed in a clown outfit, and shouting through a loud-hailer at any children she saw; now what was that all about?
Steve
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How refreshing to speak to a first timer! My husband Boris and I are experienced trailer tenters! Each year we take our seven children on holiday in our mini pulling along our trailer behind us. We then spend several hours unpacking all our equipment when we arrive - how delightful!
If you would like any advice on the best place to buy a porto loo please get back in touch with me - we are experts! Boris and I share one and then the children have one between them! How exciting to empty it in the morning! (remember to wash your hands before cooking breakfast for everyone!) Please let me know what sort of tent you have - I am always interested in other peoples equipment.
I can recommend a lovely campsite for you and your family in the Ardeche - Camping du Comfortable - its on a beautiful lake and has lovely clean toilets for you and your family to use (1 euro per visit - correct change please!). It also has an excellent restaurant - last year Boris and I and the seven children had a 3 course meal (Boris had duck and I had steak, the kids had fish) with wine and all drinks for two euros! Try and beat that!
You will find some English on this site, but most of them are very friendly ( we met a lovely family last year Tammy and Tommy from Tamworth) and each evening there is a Quiz "Who Wants To Be A Camper??" which we all enjoyed.
Anyway good luck with your 'first time' Boris and I hope you enjoy it as much as we did!!!
Quote: Originally posted by Canvas Fran on 27/11/2006
Quote: Originally posted by joeycro on 30/8/2006
Hello Lucy,
How refreshing to speak to a first timer! My husband Boris and I are experienced trailer tenters! Each year we take our seven children on holiday in our mini pulling along our trailer behind us. We then spend several hours unpacking all our equipment when we arrive - how delightful!
If you would like any advice on the best place to buy a porto loo please get back in touch with me - we are experts! Boris and I share one and then the children have one between them! How exciting to empty it in the morning! (remember to wash your hands before cooking breakfast for everyone!) Please let me know what sort of tent you have - I am always interested in other peoples equipment.
I can recommend a lovely campsite for you and your family in the Ardeche - Camping du Comfortable - its on a beautiful lake and has lovely clean toilets for you and your family to use (1 euro per visit - correct change please!). It also has an excellent restaurant - last year Boris and I and the seven children had a 3 course meal (Boris had duck and I had steak, the kids had fish) with wine and all drinks for two euros! Try and beat that!
You will find some English on this site, but most of them are very friendly ( we met a lovely family last year Tammy and Tommy from Tamworth) and each evening there is a Quiz "Who Wants To Be A Camper??" which we all enjoyed.
Anyway good luck with your 'first time' Boris and I hope you enjoy it as much as we did!!!
Happy Camping
Joey
Windup
What? - You sure Joey isn't from the Wirral? - How can you tell?
We stayed at Les Tours in August 2004. Beautiful setting for a site but if the weather isn't good (and we had nearly two weeks of rain) there is very little to do in the surrounding area but walk which is probably why walking boots were suggested. The nearest town is a good twenty minute drive on extremely winding roads so be prepared. As the site is quite high up, the mornings were absolutely freezing too so take some thick jumpers too.
We stayed at Les Parcs des Alicourts in the Loire on the way down from Calais and that broke the journey evenly.
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A day of all things motorhome and campervan. The show is held both in the main indoor arena and across the grounds. Catering, hot drinks and food options are available. Easy access to the site and free parking included. Win one of five pairs of day tickets
Topic: sites in auvergne/ardeche
