site on Isle d' Olerone

Ional
Ional Forum Participant Posts: 50
edited April 2016 in Overseas Campsites & Touring #1

Looking at sites for early May on Olerone. Been there by boat and know its a great place for cycling. Some sites seem very developed, we are not looking for pools and slides!Assume we dont need to book?

Any recommendations please for a quiet site, maybe with a view! Also sites on Noirmoutier please!

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  • eurortraveller
    eurortraveller Club Member Posts: 6,830 ✭✭✭
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    edited April 2016 #2

    My plan in May would be to go and pitch camp at the first site  we see , then spend half a morning checking out the others - and if need be move to one we like better. There will be no one about on the campsites - the motorhomers will mostly be in the Aires and car parks. 

    Though having said that we like the nearby mainland better than Oleron - for instance Camping Beausoleil in La Palmyre village. 

  • InaD
    InaD Club Member Posts: 1,701 ✭✭
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    edited April 2016 #3

    My plan in May would be to go and pitch camp at the first site  we see , then spend half a morning checking out the others - and if need be move to one we like better. There will be no one about on the campsites -
    the motorhomers will mostly be in the Aires and car parks. 

    Not a carpark for us. An aire maybe, but most likely a campsite.

  • DavidKlyne
    DavidKlyne Club Member Posts: 13,872 ✭✭✭
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    edited April 2016 #4

    I rather like Oleron when we went and stayed at Camping La Brand If I went again I think I would look for a site along the western shore of the Island.

    David

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  • iansoady
    iansoady Club Member Posts: 419 ✭✭✭
    edited April 2016 #6

    We used the (then) municipal Les Pins a few years ago - http://www.lespinsdoleron.com/234-camping . It is on the edge of a nice little village with boulangeries, grocery, restaurants, weekly market etc, was clean but basic (although the website seems to indicate it's since gone a bit up-market).

    Very sandy terrain (no hard standings) but we loved it. There's a mile or so long cycle track to the beach from the village.

  • MJ730
    MJ730 Forum Participant Posts: 184
    edited April 2016 #7

    There's a writeup in practical caravan about this one if it helps.

    Camping Le Domaine d'Oleron. It's also on trip advisor.

    Mike

     

  • SGThomas
    SGThomas Forum Participant Posts: 11
    edited May 2016 #8

    A site to avoid is L'Airhotel Oléron. Dire.

    The municipal site at the northern end of the island looked OK, but the  reception was closed when we went there, so we went to the nearby motorhome aire instead.  That was a former camp site and, as aires go, it was very good - nothing of the car park about
    that aire. When we return, if we want  a campsite, we would head for the municipal site.

    On Ile de Noirmoutier, we always stay at  the Municipal Le Clair Matin, Noirmoutier-en-l'Île.

    Total agreement about Airotel d'Oleron...we looked at it April 2016 and it is worse than dire. The "Jungle" at Sangatte is probably better!

    The municipal Le Saumonards, up near Boyardville is a good,clean site.

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