France Adult Only Sites
My husband and i are travelling abroad for the first time with our motorhome, can anyone recomend any nice adult only sites with bar etc on site that are near villages/town? maybe towards south of france?
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The only strictly adult only sites you are likely to find are those run by British expats - and for the most part they will be in rural areas, usually on a small scale, and mostly without a bar. They advertise in the back of the monthly Club magazine. Adults Only is a very British thing. However, if you go during French school term times the only children you will find on normal campsites will be a few under fives.
Motorhomers looking to be close to villages and towns often go to municipal sites or motorhome aires, because they are usually the ones in convenient locations. There are hundreds of them. Where do you want to go?
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I'd reiterate Eurotraveller's advice - go out of season and you'll find few children around, you may be one of only ten occupied pitches on a site with hundreds, and you'll have the pool, and bar to yourselves. We are on a site with 160 pitches, and just
nine of them are occupied! The bar is open but sadly the restaurant has closed. Sites in France have short opening dates, so pick your site carefully. As Eurotraveller says, 'Adults Only' is a British concept and there are few sites which offer a bar as
well as an Adult Only site. I know one which does, but wouldn't recommend it as friends, convinced by the owner 'talking the talk' booked in for two weeks, paying for their stay, but on receiving a less than friendly welcome, being allocated a disappointing
pitch, miles from the sanitary block, and being on the receiving end of a very sharp tongue when they asked politely if they could move, they decided to move - elsewhere to another (non Adult Only) more friendly site!If you're not able to go outside peak season (teachers perhaps who are limited to the school holidays) then you may find an odd Adults Only site which offers a bar, but you'll have to look very hard. Indeed, on the Eurocampings (ACSI) website or the Camping
France website it isn't even offered as a search criteria.Southern France is a very big area - do you mean the south west (Atlantic coast), or the Mediterranean, or just somewhere inland south of the Loire somewhere? There are some truly lovely sites which would fit your bill but I don't know one of them which
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If you look on - www.ukcampsite.co.uk - there are 14 Adult only campsites in France.
I'm not particularly impressed with screaming kids on site but finding a campsite without at least a family or two is probably too much like hard work.
If you don't like a site because of children, or any other reason, then move to another slightly more agreeably site - that's what Motorhomes are for.
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Following on from what ET and Val has said many of the Brit adult only sites are often no more than CL's so won't be large enough to support a bar. We travel extensively in Europe out of the main season. Whilst sites tend to be busier during May and June
you rarely see choldren on site unless a stay coincides with a school holiday. In September/October sites away from the Med coast are all but empty. Personlly I would forget about adult only sites and concentrate of the area you wish to stay in. Once we know
where you would like to stay I am sure many of us would be willing to make suggestions.David
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To minimise the impact of children:
- Travel out of season
- Choose sites without pool or play area
- Pitch well away from reception and sanitation facilities.
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I would have to hold my hand up as not being particularly tolerant of unrestrained children but in thirty years of caravanning in France out of season have never had a problem and rarely see children. On one site a family of four adults and five children
arrived and set up next to us so we were all set to move. They were next to us for a week and we hardly knew they were there. You honestly won't find it a problem.0 -
To minimise the impact of children:
- Travel out of season
- Choose sites without pool or play area
- Pitch well away from reception and sanitation facilities.
Personally, as someone who loves their early morning swim, I don't think swimming pools have any effect on the number of children on a site outside peak season. In peak season families will choose sites with pools In low season there are so few families
around that the likelihood of being on a site with noisy children is very low! We holiday in low season, and ALWAYS choose sites with pools, but have never had a problem with children on site. If there are any, they are too young to make a noise or a fuss!0 -
Well it's low season now and their are plenty of kids in the pool where we are in Italy but I meant that if you have to go in high season, avoid swimming pools. The first priority for families is a site with a pool.
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Well it's low season now and their are plenty of kids in the pool where we are in Italy but I meant that if you have to go in high season, avoid swimming pools. The first priority for families is a site with a pool.
For all of our stay (three days) here, we've had the pool to ourselves, and the average age of people here is probably much older than we are (and we've been pensioners for a while now!). Perhaps Italian families have different school holidays, or have less strict rules about taking children on holiday outside term time.
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To minimise the impact of children:
- Travel out of season
- Choose sites without pool or play area
- Pitch well away from reception and sanitation facilities.
Personally, as someone who loves their early morning swim, I don't think swimming pools have any effect on the number of children on a site outside peak season. In peak season families will choose sites with pools In low season there are so few families
around that the likelihood of being on a site with noisy children is very low! We holiday in low season, and ALWAYS choose sites with pools, but have never had a problem with children on site. If there are any, they are too young to make a noise or a fuss!Its the Germans; they have staggered holidays through to Mid-Sept. Then there are pre-school all nationalities. Not that we mind; we are right next to the pool although never use it.
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We've moved pitch during this holiday to avoid noisy, troublesome neighbours. They were adult Brits!
It's not always black and white.
We did that some years ago, on a favourite site, two parties of Caravan Club members who were Leicester football fans arrived with two separate vans, parked either side of us (though there were plenty of pitches they could have parked next to each other)
and then proceeded to put up their flags, get out their satellite dishes, install their giant TVs, turn them up loudly, and then shout over our pitch to each other all evening! Much worse than the sound of children in the pool! Even our Dutch neighbours
complained and asked them to be quiet - and then also complained to us about 'saying something to your countrymen - we already had'!We, and the Dutch couple, moved at 9.00 am the next morning to a site about 10 miles down the coast.
So, worst case scenario, you could book your Adult Only site, and then have them arrive on pitches next to you!
My apologies to anyone who recognises themselves from the above description!
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I too have experienced some disgraceful behaviour from a Brit couple next door who must have been in their late 70's with a caravan who should have known better.
End of May 2013, Fleurie.
I hope they do recognise themselves as they were asked to leave (quite rightly) by the site management.
What a showing up! Give me a few kids any day.
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I too have experienced some disgraceful behaviour from a Brit couple next door who must have been in their late 70's with a caravan who should have known better.
End of May 2013, Fleurie.
I hope they do recognise themselves as they were asked to leave (quite rightly) by the site management.
What a showing up! Give me a few kids any day.
Goodness me, Pensioners behaving badly! Intrigued to know what they did to cause so much upset?
David
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To cut a long story short, they got drunk and disconnected several campers water hoses from the taps in order to find a connector that would fit their aquaroll .
When challenged the woman started to throw wine over her husband (?) and anyone else in range
The site owners threw them off the site.
I heard next day he scraped his caravan on the wall in the village
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They must have been Saga Louts!
Not had great problems with noise etc but many years ago returned to site to find electrics off which on investigation revealed my plug detached from the site supply and replaced by new arrivals,two Brit families, cable. I was lucky that my neighbour, who
I was on drinking terms with, made Giant Haystacks look mild and once we spoke to them they saw sense. I do recall that they said it was because the needled their electrics on! Some years later we bumped into them at Alderstead and I am not sure who felt most
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We've seen a tendency to more disruption being caused by same sex parties booking into chalets, which sites are resorting to more and more these days. Particular problems seem to occur when the management allow groups to stay in adjoining chalets or nearby
and have a lax attitude to ensuring some peace breaks out at midnight or whenever their cut off is.The present wardens of the site we're on were quick to sort things out but it is a bit of a nuisance having to complain.
So, to answer the OP, be careful what you wish for.
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