Dordogne sites suggestions

Are you trying to book through the Caravan Club or have you checked with the site itself?   I've just tried the site's own reservations page, and on the dates I tried (in July and August during the school holidays) there were spaces available - albeit it
does say 'Last available piches'.

I know it's nice to go back to a favourite site, and we did it many times when our children were young, but equally they loved other sites too.  Perhaps if you can't find what you want in the Dordogne extend your search area - perhaps to include other lovely
regions.

Which sites have you looked at as alternatives?  It's a very long time since we had children with us, but it would help to know if you've already decided against somewhere.

Have you checked directly with the site that they can't accommodate you, rather than just through the automatic booking page?  Sometimes there are glitches and pitches are available when the computer says "no".

Has anyone stayed at Camping Le Montant http://www.camping-sarlat.com/   I'm also looking for somewhere near Sarlat but don't have young children?

The site looks to be one which is undiscovered by anyone other than the French.  It gets high scores on Zoover from all reviewers (average of 8.9) but there are 119 reviews in French, 12 in Dutch, and just one in English.

It looks lovely and I shall put it on to me 'may have a look at this one' list!

If you look it up on Zoover then there are several sites listed at the bottom which also have good reviews.

I've just looked at the prices too - and Tammygirl is right - for a site with those facilities, and good reviews,   It offers three different sizes of pitch, and in low season pitches are just 5 euros - including the largest 200 sq m pitch.  Each person
is 4 euros and electricity 3.50 euros!

Definitely on our hit list for next year, when the Dordogne is likely to be part of our holiday.  We canoe and haven't yet 'done' the Dordogne properly, yet.  We've done the odd short trip, but never a longer one, largely because of unsuitable weather when
we've visited.  Now from our house in France we will be able to set off any time, pick up our caravan, and be there the same day - so we can really watch the weather.

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Try Soleil Plage, Montfort, Dordogne, France.  A very nice site. http://www.soleilplage.fr/

Write your comments here...Yes, Highly recomended. We only stayed for two nights on the way back from Spain. We wanted a canoe trip down the river. We used Camping Cheques as it was towards the end of the season. Nice pools. See their website.

How that site has changed. We were there in the summer of 1982 and went back in 1983. It was just a farm site then - Camping de Ferme du Montant, and cost us 36 francs, about 5 euros for 5 of us. A ten year old daughter was moping because her two brothers wouldn't play with her and one of us said,"Oh go and play with the gypsies". She did. 

Do others of you keep caravan log books with nuggets of history in them? 

No, but fortunately I have a good memory.  I can still remember lots of details about most of the sites we've stayed on.  Our first ever camping trip in France was to Le Paradis at St Leon sur Vezere, in the Dordogne (lovely site by the way).  I can remember the Dutch owners offering us a drink when we arrived hot and tired and thinking 'Wow' I also remember the kindness of a Dutch couple in the next tent who babysat for us for an hour in the evening so that we could go to the bar.  We loved the site, especially the pool (much smaller in those days), and it set us off on thirty six years of camping and caravanning holidays.

Le Paradis has changed too, and so have many others that we've been to over the years, but like a lot of sites it remains in the ownership of the same family.  

We paid just £99 for that trip, with Eurocamp, including the ferry, a week at Le Paradis, and a second week at Le Truc Vert on the Gironde peninsula near Arcachon.

Some sites we won't go back to because we want to remember them as they were - such as Val de Cantobre in the Gorges du Tarn area.  This site would make a possible alternative for the OP if they want to think about a different area.  We stayed there so many times that we became friends with the owners and used to meet up with them if they were in this country.  Then they split up, and the site was sold to a Dutch camping organisation, so we haven't been back. However, it still scores 9.1 out of 10 on Zoover and still has the wonderful facilities that we remember.

We have introduced the site to several friends over the years, and all of them loved it and the area.