What is your favourite Place to Camp in France ?

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What is your favourite Place to Camp in France ?

Yelloh Villages (anywhere) for us. Top end prices, but always top facilities with pools & slides for kids as a break from aires and WC..
 
Got to be Provence for me. It just has everything from the Verdon Gorges and the mountains and lakes, the hippy laid back Arty Vaucluse and Luberon and down to the Cote D'Azure. Spent six weeks there this summer on a four month trip. Every time I go back I forget why I like it so much until you get there. Its hard to put it in words really why it appeals so much. Just does. I think its the California of France.
 
i would say Provence too, the dry mind baking heat as you walk through the lavender fields,swimming in the freezing rivers in places like Buis les Barronies , the mountains and rock villages like Montaulieu nr Nyons, lovely place, lovely pace !
 
Not been to Provence yet but I like the Brittany Finisterre coast. Paimpol, Ile de brehat( ferry),also Quimper ,Guerlesquin it’s all beautiful and unspoilt.
Just a shame there’s no well priced good aires in Quimper.
 
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Without any doubt the whole length of the magnificent Atlantic coastline of France takes some beating-especially from the sea! In particular The Pays de la Loire region including Pornichet, La Baule, Guerande and Le Pouligen. Fantastic!
 
Provence Alpes for me too, though Rhone Alps, Auvergne and Midi Pyrenees are fantastic areas too.
 
We just luv France ,Carnac,la baule,honfleur,quiberon,Loire valley the list goes on and on.
 
I love the Pyrenees, midi Pyrenees, Provence ... all of it really! Don't go anywhere near big campsites but love the old municipals and out of the way Aires.
 
Difficult to say, I haven't been to most of it yet but I've liked everywhere I have been. Bit like the UK, really.
 
We love the Brittany coast but tour all round France and don’t really have favourites. Free Aires are good and there are lots of nice ones in the Midi Pyrenees and Pyrenees areas. Payolle is one we really liked
 
Mul;n373 said:
Yelloh Villages (anywhere) for us. Top end prices, but always top facilities with pools & slides for kids as a break from aires and WC..
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Hi

Last year 2017, we kept to the France/Belguim Border we came across a Holiday Village name ValJolly Eppe

Sauage https://www.tripadvisor.co.uk/Attra...ord_Hauts_de_France.html#photos;geo=1231224&d these reviews are just to show pictures

We had stayed a few days in a motorhome aires at the top of the resort, facing field which horses from the stables grazed, the stables where just near us so they regularly led ponies with children on

We had to use our own showers, but we could make it very holidayed, there was at least 40/50 vans there, lots of Belguims more than the French and very friendly but it was July and the weather was beautiful, their was also lots of over car parks there for people

Lots of adventure walks, if you have a dog and all the amenities of the nature park had to offer, which was vast

I also believe their is a campsite very near by, but I didn't look into that

Lorraine

 
My current favourite place in France was a village I stumbled across last year called Chef-Boutonne, peaceful Aire beside a huge chateau with a fishing lake,and ten minute walk into the village centre. The only reason I stopped there is because I was parked in a picnic area a few miles away when a woman in a BMW soft top pulled in and yelled,hi Roger...then realised I wasn't Roger,but we had a chat for twenty minutes and she recommended the Aire.
 
There are so many superb places in France, and many that we keep returning to, but my favourite is the Mercantour National Park.
 
A line Royan, Limoges, Clermont Ferrand to Geneva are where we find our most enjoyable places. There are a few places to the north of that line like the north coast of Brittany and bits of the Vendee but generally I see northern France as a bit of a prairie. Different areas have different appeals such as the vinyards of Beaujolais but that is just one example of many.
 
back on the day when i used to use motorhomefacts a lot there was a vote on for favourite places mine was ‘ anywhere you stop for lunch and stay for three days ‘ it came top of the poll and would still use that as my criteria
 
rugbyken;n21116 said:
back on the day when i used to use motorhomefacts a lot there was a vote on for favourite places mine was ‘ anywhere you stop for lunch and stay for three days ‘ it came top of the poll and would still use that as my criteria
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Thats a great answer and there are just so many places in France that just fit that criteria. Its hard to put a finger on it but I can think of so many little villages, Aires, wild camping spots where you just feel welcome and accepted. The attitude is generally laid back and I have always found the French both friendly and very civilised, especially when it comes to lunch three hour. We have seriously considered retiring to France but thats on hold at the moment for obvious reasons but like motorhoming the dilemma is where to go! Too many great places.
 
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