Loire Valley

 

 

I'd agree with another David (and Deleted User) - if your teenagers are anything like mine were. We're not big fans of cramming in as many beautiful Chateaux as possible,  and so we found little else to interest us in the Loire. Our (typical) teenagers would
have found even less.  They both loved the Ardeche and Tarn areas, where they found plenty to do, exciting things like canoeing down the Gorge, white water rafting, body-boarding down river for picnics, jumping off rocks and swings into the river and so on.
 These days there are even more activities for typical teenagers - such as organised bike rides, those tree-top walkways, death-slides, bungee jumping, canyoning, etc.  By comparison they would have found the Loire too 'tame' and 'boring'.  However, you know
what your teenagers want - but what sort of site do you all prefer?  Do you want large and lively, with pool, slides, take-away, restaurant and bar, and organised activities for teenagers, or a quiet site in an orchard or vineyard with just a few other caravans
and tents around?  Do you want a state of the art sanitary block, or a small building with a couple of showers and toilets.  All sites in France have some sort of sanitary facilities, electric hook-ups and chemical disposal points (though occasionally, on
smaller municipal sites, the latter may be just outside the site).

Mine loved a  lively site, with plenty of other teenagers to 'hang-out' with, sometimes with organised sleep-overs out in the woods with everyone playing instruments around a camp-fire or other teen-targeted activities.  They liked a riverside site, a good
sized pool, table football tables and tennis courts, somewhere to ride their bikes, and a good area for teenagers to meet up and do what teenagers do - preferably with a take-away, or pizzeria!  Accordingly when they were that age we always stayed on sites
like that and if they were happy then so were we.  However, friend's teenagers were quieter, more introverted, and more interested in church architecture and buildings, and gardens, so they would have been quite happy wandering around the Chateaux of the Loire.

Even now we still like riverside sites, with pools and all the facilities we got used to when they were with us!  And this year the youngest (now thirty) came back and joined us on a site in the Ardeche where we now store our caravan!  He took our canoe
out on the river, and his dog swam alongside!

Tell us what sort of site you prefer and it will help with recommendations.

valda(or anyone else). Do you have any suggestions for sites such as you describe in Germany. We fancy the Black Forest but the sites lol lovely but not with many have teenager activity with a event pool.  Many thanks