Independent Campsite Reviews

Having been an owner of a mobile home on La Loubine for 12 years from 1990 to 2002, we moved with Gilbert and Damien to Bois Soleil (only 800m from La Loubine). Great decision, as we have moved back to what La Loubine was when we first went in 1988. It is a small family run site with great facilities. You should try it.

Great site for touring vans. Spent a month there in sunmmer 2004 and hope to go again in 2006.

We came across this site last year by pure chance while on our camping tour of France.

We had a tent, but it was so popular that there was no tent pitches left, so they accommodated us with one of the touring caravan pitches (at a tent rate).

I was very impressed with the friendliness and helpfulness of the staff. The site was very clean & tidy, and had a wonderful feel to it. The facilities were excellent.

We've just booked a week there this May with our new baby, so the tent is staying in the attic and we've hired one of the chalets instead.

Definitely can't recommend this site highly enough.

This is a lovely campsite, with a "toe in the water". Lovely big beach. Cycle routes close by. Nice pool, but quite small. Shame that there’s a road that divides the campsite into two halves. For those with small children, it’s not very practical. On the road that separates the "seaside" part from the main part that contains the reception, there is a restaurant that organises karaoke (a private restaurant, that does not belong to the campsite). Impossible for the children to sleep before 1am, if you find yourselves close to this restaurant. If you go there, take accommodation well on the left (on the camp plan) in the "sea" sector, or well on the right in the "pine" sector. The "forest" sector is not brilliant, beside the main road, and what’s more, the crossing is not secure for the children who want to go from here to the "pine" sector, where all the activities are.

We have been going to this site for the last 24 years and have seen great changes, mostly for the better. We take a touring caravan and have a pitch on La Mer site (the camp is divided into 3: La Forêt where static vans are kept, Les Pins and La Mer). La Forêt is some way from the beach (access via a tunnel) but the other two sites are right on the sea front. Latest additions in the last 2 years have been chalet style on La Mer and a swimming pool/restaurant complex behind Les Pins site. Lots of things organised for children and adults without disturbing the peace of people that do not want to participate. Lots to see and do in the region, particularly Royan only 3 miles away. Can highly recommend it.

This is a HUGE site. It has got a good feel to it, BUT it can be noisy at nighttime in the "Le Mer" area, and there is a bar just by the beach that is not owned by the campsite and therefore has a rowdier crowd than you would expect from the site entertainment. The music goes on till after midnight so would be frustrating if you had small children to get to sleep.

Also - the pool is by no means big enough to cope with the number of residents it has in high summer. I guess they built the pool and then the site expanded around it.

Having said all that it is a friendly, clean camp, and right next to a great beach.

This campsite is brill!!! It’s now 19 years that I’ve been enjoying myself with all the other holidaymakers ;)

I was done. This campsite is useless.

Been using this site for nearly 10 years, first with the girlfriend on a motorbike, and most recently with the wife and two children (car, trailer, roofbox). Best things are the fact that the beach is so close, and the town is within walking distance (so little need to get in the car). Sailing (in the town) is fantastic (my 8 year old niece came out for a week to learn to sail), and the locals are friendly. The evening onsite entertainment (peak only) is great for kids. Fishmonger within walking distance, and the best oysters I have ever eaten fresh from the beds a short drive away.

Pitches are huge, and separated by hedges (and thus much better for containing kids). Day time activity club for kids (over 5 I think) was great for my niece (and us!)

Worst things (maybe I am just getting old): Web bookings are unreliable (last year our booking was not honoured, nor were 3 others that had been made by people I had recommended the site to). 10 years ago it was completely French speaking, now they have English speaking staff and this spoils it for me a bit. The entertainment at night in the (independent Restaurant/Bar) can be a complete nightmare. Last year (booking not honoured, had to take the last pitch available right beside restaurant) the 'Music' was so loud it literally terrified the children (6 months, 18 months) and a tent provides little protection. The next night the Caravanner's behind us invited every English/Irish family round and we had the pleasure of drunken charades and singsongs until sunrise. This was the first time we had such obnoxious neighbours but each year there are more and more mobile homes/chalets and fewer and fewer tent pitches, and the cliental seems to be changing with it.

Overall: I have already booked 3 weeks for a tent in 2008. My parents have booked a mobile home for one, my mother in law and my niece for another.