Saumur Domaine De La Breche

Thanks islandcouple-have been planning to visit next week after we gave it a miss last year due to the restaurant remaining closed-will now head for the alternative!

Motorhomes far out numbered caravans on my recent 6 week trip. I also thought there were more campervans about than I had seen in previous years. I only saw three Brit vans the whole trip. My experience is that although sites do have cabins/mobile homes and even where these have increased to a majority, there has always been pitches available for a few tourers. I didn't overnight much in France so perhaps it is not the same elsewhere?

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Hi brue yes to your question they will pay the malus(tax) just the same as fuelled vehicles.

A site not far from us near Villefranche would say 80/85% are mobile homes and cabins also ready erected tents so not too many pitches for touring also an Aire for motorhomes next to the entry to the main site and it has been expanded a lot since we first had a look around.

Thank RK  I think the French gov are advancing more swiftly on certain things. 

ValD we are on camping La Pepiniere.

The site that is no longer a touring site was called camping Remoulins. Both sites on the river Herault at Agde, there is another site called Neptune's which is nice its the first one you come to as you drive down by the river. 

It still does happen David, on many sites, including the one where we currently store our caravan, and we shall be doing that very thing ourselves, with our caravan very shortly, when our family come down to join us.

We've stayed many times at Neptune, and I was worried it was that one.  We shall be back in that area in late  August as we are moving from our current storage site to one in the Vias area, near to Agde.  We may have a week towards the end of the season back in Agde.

Hi TG & ValDa, Apologies for straying off thread but.........................

We are heading down to South of France next week and had planned on a few days at Domain De Masserau, to break the journey and use up some CMC vouchers, before heading on to the Frejus area.

As you will both know the forecast is not brilliant, so we will make a final decision when we meet up with our friends at Issoire, and it may be that a longer stay somewhere between Agde and Aigues Mort is an option.

If that is the case, do you have any recommendations for a site, preferably ACSI,  with a good pool area? We have a 7.3 m caravan and our friends a 8.2m MH-that's already ruled ot one potential site on this trip!

We have stayed at Les Sablons at Portiragnes which has a very good pool area-adults only-but would rather be more West than that.

Thanks!

Allan, I am not sure how your friends with a big motorhome will manage  at Domaine de Massereau.. My memory is of sloping, uneven pitches under trees, all in a very natural, unmanicured setting - so bare earth with leaf litter and lumpy tree roots protruding , and certainly not the sort of level pitches which motor homers go for.  I think you yourself will like it as it’s a site with many good qualities but I don’t recall it as ideal for a motorhome. 

A&J, not really familiar  with the area east of Agde other than we stayed on a site at Marsellian plage for a week.

The site we just left could accommodate your friends MH as they have some grand large pitches but when we left they were in use. All the other pitches could accommodate your van. The only thing is the pool isn't large and not that warm either sorry. 

I would wait and see as you said about the weather, its been very changeable and not always accurate especially on the coast which worked to our benefit. I think the eastern med is going to get a wet weekend but hopefully by mid week it will have cleared.

ValD may know more sites that would suit.