Le Moulin De David Monpazier
Hi All,
Has anyone stayed at Le Moulin De David Monpazier?
We're down that way in July and was wondering what people think of the site.
Thanks
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I know the district but not the campsite - and from all the reviews it sounds very pleasant. I just wonder if, with a Motorhome, you might find it rather isolated. Will you be renting a car perhaps to get around and to tour the area?
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We have stayed there but it was in 2002. A few pictures and a site report here. The pleasant towns of Monpazier and Villereal are nearby. We must have been there in the main season and it was very child centric which I suppose is not surprising. Given that it was 15 years ago its difficult to judge how much it might have changed.
David
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Are you a couple? Will you have children with you? Are you looking for a destination site - or somewhere with plenty to do in the immediate area?
We have stayed there years and years ago, and it's a nice site, flat and good pitches, very clean sanitaries, and an exellent restaurant - but as Eurotraveller says, somewhat isolated with a motorhome. It's about a forty five minute walk (checked on google) into Montpazier which is the nearest real village. Monpazier is lovely, with arcaded square, plenty of nice restaurants, and a few smallish shops (it may well have a supermarket these days). We had children with us, who were small at the time, and they loved the site, as did we at the time, but we've never chosen to revisit which always tells me something.
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Having a motorhome ourselves and stayed in Villereal a few years ago for a few days, I'd echo what has been said up thread, in that it is quite isolated in that area. We have bicycles with us and cycle a lot, so for us it wasn't too much of a problem, as we don't go round touring in our MH once on site.
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Depending on what dates in July you are visiting, you may find just a few too many chidren there. We found it to be a really good site for smallish children - but it may not be a site which suits a mature couple and a dog, in peak season. Sites in France, from the end of the second week in July can be very very different from the same site in late June!
What dates in July are you travelling? Are they fixed or can you go earlier, or later in August? Are you booked on this site, or is it just a prospect at the moment?
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Hi Valda,
We've booked and paid and now thinking have we made a mistake?
We're in France for 17 nights here's our schedule. Some are booked and paid for some are provisional. We have done a mix of quite sites and a more busier ones:
1 Night - Lyons Le Foret
2 nights - Le Mans.
2 nights - Brossac
5 nights - Monpazier Booked
4 night - St Emillon Booked
2 nights - Coulon
1 night - Honfleur
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Don't feel bad about it - your holiday is not ruined.
If it were me I would make the effort to take the Motorhome off the Monpazier site for a couple of the days - perhaps north to Bergerac market on Saturday or Wednesday, and then on another day south to see a different bastide village at Monflanquin, and on from there to visit the Latour Marliac garden at Le Temple sur Lot - where Monet got all the water lilies for his paintings. Lunch there in the open air by the lake is always a pleasure on a sunny day. And you can park there.
Have a great first holiday.
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Just like Eurotraveller says, don't worry.
You'll get to enjoy Bastille Day, which is usually spectacular wherever you are - and there may be a special menu in the restaurant. There are plenty of lovely dog walks, off site, in almost every direction.... you can walk into Monpazier, have a browse around the interesting square and the mediaeval streets and houses, people watch on market day (Thursday), before treating yourselves to a Menu du Jour at one of the restaurants around the square. You can drive along the Dordogne river and stop off almost anywhere for an icecream, patisserie, glass of red or white (just the one), and either take a canoe out yourselves, or watch the canoes up and down the river then visit one of the chateaux, or walk around Domme or Sarlat or Laroque Gageac or Beynac or Castelnaud.................
And if you take Eurotraveller's advice and go to Monflanquin, then you could return via yet another Bastide village at Villareal, which has a fantastic timbered market hall.
There are so many things to do off site, that I wouldn't worry. Just make sure you leave a notice that your pitch is occupied - and have a good time either on or off site.
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It may be different now but when we were there most of the pitches were to the right of the reception. However to the left there are a smaller number of pitches with the little stream running behind. These pitches are more private although I don't quite recall how easy it would be to get a larger motorhome on these pitches but it might be worth a look.
David
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We've stayed overnight at Lyons la Foret, and had a walk around the village next morning. It happened to be market day, so we had a lovely wander round both market and village
We've stayed at St Emilion a few times (I presume the site is La Barbanne?). That's a nice area, it is possible to walk to St Emilion from the site, it'll probably take a good half hour or more; alternatively, when we were there the site used to run a minibus there and back at certain times of the day. But I know it's changed hands since we were there so I'm not sure whether that is still the case.
Coulon is another site we've been to (site La Venise Verte by any chance?). Very pretty, not big, a bit touristy but that's to be expected. Do you have bicycles? Coulon is part of the Green Venice (hence the site's name!) and cycling in that general area is very enjoyable, it's flat and there are plenty of waymarked routes.
Honfleur is lovely; it's worth a few days there actually, but if you get there early enough, you could spend a good part of the afternoon there anyway, well worth it.
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