Good for a base or ferry stopover
Rogersrovers
Reviewed on 08/06/2016 20:18
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Rogersrovers
Reviewed on 08/06/2016 20:18
JohnRose
Reviewed on 27/11/2015 15:19
CMB
Reviewed on 02/10/2015 17:12
mich1995 kev
Reviewed on 05/08/2015 09:51
The blurb says that it has lots to offer - let's explore this... The pool is good! The loo blocks are clean but beware Brits - no loo seats- just porcelain, no soap or hand driers. The bar is very basic with a lump of kitchen worktop, a few random expensive items on a couple of shelves acting as the shop, is very small, extremely expensive (24 euros for a small beer and 3 x Vodka lemonade), the spirits are not branded and revolting and impossible to tell by taste what the actually are. There are some hot snacks offered - mostly 'plastic' food and not a taste of the local area, it is not a place to go and meet other holiday makers as it is too expensive and is not much used. The gym is a very small room with 4 pieces of equipment - only one worked - more akin to a scrap cupboard. The pitches are mostly very small and difficult to access with a large caravan (unless you have a mover fitted). Because they are small they are overlooked by neighbours. We found it noisy with endless crying babies - but that's the luck of the draw but not great if the noise source is 3 feet from your caravan. They are crammed onto the site with no open spaces anywhere. They are happy to charge you for allowing your dog to stay with you but offer nowhere to exercise it and in the summer you are not allowed to walk on the fabulous adjoining beach until after 6pm - so a drive to the other side of town to exercise it. The staff are very helpful and pleasant. It's very popular with the French and seemed to be used by other nationalities as mainly a short stopover. Not a place for the teens or if you are gregarious and want to meet new friends. It is however on a great beach and conveniently located to explore this region.
lynnfrank
Reviewed on 12/07/2015 18:27
We stayed here for one night at the start of our holiday and one on the way back. This site is very compact and most of the pitches have a tight access. You must also avoid the times between 12.30pm and 2pm for arriving as the reception is closed, nothing seems to get in the way of lunch. We arrived at 1.50pm on a Friday and we found a queue of two caravans and a motorhome and there was no room to wait without stopping anyone leaving or accessing the site. We were told we could arrive after 10pm and up to 11pm as the late ferry reaches Caen at 9.30pm, this is fine but there was no staff on scene and just a note was left saying we had pitch 49. Unfortunately there was no map shown for the site and as there are 140 pitches we were very lucky to find our pitch before it got dark. Groups of young people are allowed to camp, which caused us a little concern. There was a tent in the next pitch with about 6-8 French teenagers who went out at about 9pm. As we had to get up at about 6am to get the early ferry we thought we were bound to be disturbed, hats off the the French youth we didn't hear them once when they returned but felt it could have been so different. We have a 7.3m caravan and would be impossible to get on to a pitch without a motor mover. All said the site was alright as a stop over, but having spoken to some fellow caravanner's on the ferry who often use the municipal site nearer to the port, I think I would look into that next time.
GRS
Reviewed on 02/07/2015 13:06