Are sites full in France?

We've found it very variable; we came to France the week before Whitsun, no problem getting on any site (including the one you mentioned for 2 nights TG) but did phone a site on the Loire to check if there was availability over that weekend and beyond.  Purely because it was a site with not many touring pitches and with excellent reviews.  The reply was that they were full, so we rang another site, who said they had plenty of pitches available.  We went there, had a choice of lots of pitches, and the site was never anywhere near full all over that BH weekend, despite also being popular as an overnighter.

Other sites we've stayed at in the Green Venice and Vendee have not been anywhere near full either; one we stayed on for 8 nights, had a lovely pool, huge pitches, excellent toiletblock, and cost the princely sum of 17 Euros a night, yet was never anywhere near full, even on weekends.

No problems getting on unbooked sites in France & Spain but a few aires were over-subscribed.

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Coastal sites tend to be near full in the first two weeks of August. Apart from that I haven't found any sites totally full.

On 3 of the sites we used, the 'Complet' sign went out.

In May 1 site on the Med was full one Saturday night and in June 2 sites were full, again on the Saturday night. They were plenty of spaces when we arrived days before. 

We've noticed a big difference in how busy campsites are in France and Spain. Compared with pre COVID there are a lot more motorhomes in particular, especially French German and Dutch, combined in France with a reduction in the number of touring pitches available as a result of an increase in chalets etc. We tend to visit in April and May, so on the whole sites are quiet. But around the three May bank holidays in France the opportunity to faire le pont/make a long weekend of it, meant campsites were very busy, mostly with MHs with local number plates. I read somewhere that in Germany the number of motorhomes increased by 40% from 2020 to 2021, and it certainly felt like we saw most of them in Spain last time we were there. So, while there are still quiet sites and quiet times of year, more people are enjoying this way of travelling and it's worth bearing that in mind, depending on where you're going and when.

We've just returned from 3 weeks at the municipal at Malestroit - lovely small town and excellent site. The site got busier at the weekends with groups of families in motorhomes but never seemed crowded. It was interesting to see motorhomes using a site rather than aires (but in my view very sensible). The large majority of people on the site were French with the odd UK and Netherlands registrations.

£15 per night was very reasonable especially compared to the £30 a night we paid in May for a vastly inferior crowded and cramped site near Robin Hood's Bay........

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