Independent Campsite Reviews

We holiday in France every year with our Touring Caravan. We visit in June for 3/4weeks and find the site very good; the owners are friendly and very helpful indeed. We have been on 3 occasions and will be visiting this year for 4 weeks as part of our holiday. It has proved from all those we have visited to be one of the best. We have seen the owner make people leave who have made noise after the permitted time and would suggest that if you experience noise then tell the owner NOT the Courier of Keycamp or Eurocamp and he will do something about it. I do agree with Tracey K (below) that it is more suited for younger children unless parents amuse the older ones themselves instead of letting them roam free. The Clown that visits 3 times a week is in fact a Hired person and not the site owner his name is "Camembert"

Now that our children have grown up, married with their own children we can holiday out of the High Season when things are a lot quieter and sites not crowded but noise does travel at night and is heard more so in a Tent. It's a lovely area around La Tranche, nice beaches, good safe cycling routes, with La Rochelle an hours drive away to an old Town with a very good Aquarium to visit on a wet day. If you want a peace at night during August then it is hard to find on most Commercial Sites where Holiday Companies operate. Bill & Trish Wallace

My husband and I stayed on this site and found it wonderful. It was very clean and convenient for the beaches cycle routes and for places to visit. We stayed in our own tent last year in July for 2 weeks and found it to be very relaxing. The owners were really friendly and helpful. We would definitely stay there again and have recommended it to friends.

We have stayed on this site for four years now, firstly in a Eurocamp tent and latterly in our own caravan. It is my children’s favourite site, although they are young. The owners are very good and most helpful. Toilet blocks are cleaned twice a day and are immaculate. The site is quiet and family orientated. The supermarket is a few hundred yards away but be sure to go early, as it gets mad!

I hesitate in writing this review, as I don't want to let too many people in on the secret. We meet a lot of familiar people who like ourselves holiday at this site every year.

We visited this site for 8 nights in a Keycamp tent from 21/8/05. We are a family of six, with kids aged 9 months, 2, 9 and 13.

Pitches are sandy, and the canvas ones are all very close together - neighbourly, but we found it very noisy at night despite the campsite "hush 10.30pm baby sleeps" regulation. Many people completely disregarded this and made no attempt to keep noise to a minimum well after this time. Our pitch was also very close to the toilet/shower/dishwashing block and kids play area. Bored teenagers congregated in the kids play area late at night....again, very noisy. For these reasons we have abandoned canvas holidays and will go in a mobile next time.

The owner tries hard to entertain young kids, with something available each night - film, magician etc. He dresses up as a clown some days, and goes around the site - little ones seem to enjoy it. Ice creams on site are cheap and lovely. Kids enjoyed the pool, the over 14 Jacuzzi rule is ignored! Not enough sun beds.

La Tranche centre within easy walking distance, La Tranche beach opposite campsite big, soft sand, lots of seaweed and rocks. Nicer beach at La Terriere, 10 mins drive away. Van visits site with bread & croissant daily. Good terraced Italian restaurant in La Tranche.

Would suggest this site is suitable for families with kids around 4 - 12. Teenagers will be bored, and it could be too noisy at night for younger kids.

I think I’m the first person to write like this as I am writing from a working experience. I worked at the campsite for 2 very enjoyable months, I got to use the facilities which I must say are to a highest of any campsite I’ve ever seen. As I was children’s courier for Eurocamp and Keycamp, I can speak from experience saying that the site is very child friendly, and ideal for children up to the age of 12 as there is more for them to do and join in with. Jean-Michael the owner is very helpful and friendly and very customer orientated.

Overall I believe that this site deserves all 4 of its stars and is why it’s one of Eurocamp’s and Keycamp’s more popular and highly rated sites.

Jon Casey (2006 Funstation courier)

This was a fabulous campsite and my kids thoroughly enjoyed it so much so we're going back next year for 6 days before moving further south for a fortnight. My elder daughter was 6 and loved the kids’ couriers 'Jon & Becks', unfortunately my younger daughter was 2 months too young to join kids club!

Although this is a campsite is for younger families and there was no evening excitement for adults, the kids were very well catered for and lovely the evening films. The campsite was predominantly British which I normally don't like, however it was calm & clean and this made up for it.

The beach is fabulous!!! The restaurants in town (a short walk) are very reasonably priced and food very good! The PMU bar has very clean loos if your kids are caught short & the Tuesday & Saturday market (though busy) is bustling with atmosphere & good wine which you can taste first.

My whole family loved this site SOOOOOO MUCH!!!! We agree with JON!

I have worked this summer as courier on this camp-site. Completely beautiful camp-site! Top of the range, a terribly nice village and a large hypermarket. Furthermore the camp-site is very quiet and with that also very child-friendly. Very nice camp-site manager. I will certainly return next year.

Greetings,

Emiel Rietbergen

Just returned from a 2 and a half week holiday at this campsite with Eurocamp in a caravan. What a beautiful place and the campsite is lovely. I have got a 3 year old and a 5 year old and they had a fantastic holiday. Didn’t have any problems with noise after 10.30pm and found it a thoroughly relaxing holiday. Campsite owners were very helpful and friendly and we are going back next year

What a great campsite! Every time we visited the loos or the washing up block there was someone in there cleaning which was such a bonus. We had 7 kids between our families and they all thought it was brilliant - Fun Station with Eurocamp was fun and the atmosphere very friendly. The site is quite small and intimate which makes you and your family feel safe. The supermarket is a small 5 minute bike ride away down a very safe cycle path, which even my 3 year old managed most mornings (don't buy bread from the van man who calls on site - v expensive!) The local beaches are fabulous - we had such a great holiday and will definately be going back. All our children were under 7 but I do think that kids over 11 would be suited to a bigger site. 10 out of 10!