Var campsites

We love Selection Camping and indeed will be there for our second visit of the year in September, and are not alone in this which must say a lot about it in itself. We would say that it's an excellent site for a young family because you don't need all singing and dancing. The beach is beautiful and ten minutes walk from the site. There is a Spar supermarket between the two. Last year the site shop really began to reduce stock during September so shouldn't be relied upon. To access larger supermarkets a car would be needed but Cavalaire is only a few minutes away. We investigated our family flying in to Nice and reckon that due to Cavalaire''s slightly out of the way location and what can be a very slow journey from Ste Maxime to La Croix Valmer we would be prepared for it to take three hours for that journey, although it could be much less. Hope this helps.

We visited that area many times when my children were small and have friends still living at La Croix Valmer.  We've stayed on most of the campsites there over the years, or visited them for meals and to see other friends. We had a bad experience at Camping de la Baie when we were allocated a (Canvas Holidays) tent with not much outside space, and a terrible drop to one side, and had an eighteen month old toddler!  I complained to Canvas, and to be fair they and the site took action, but we had a very worrying holiday.  We've been back once with our caravan, though and those pitches have been much improved.  We loved the position, and the easy walk to the centre of Cavalaire.  

Selection is set in the hills just above the beach, and the beaches at that end (we think) are better than the ones nearer to the centre of Cavalaire.  Cros de Mouton is up a steep hill, quite a way out of town, but we used to like going up there in the evening, though we've never stayed there. Bonporteau is not far from town, but overlooks another lovely beach.  I don't remember La Treille at all!  We were in the area last, about six years ago, and intend to visit our friends this summer sometime as we're all getting on a bit now!

In peak season the traffic all along the coast can be terrible. Cavalaire itself (and La Croix Valmer) is rather tucked away from the main traffic route, though the roads into and out of St Tropez/Port Grimaud do get very busy.  The D93 runs past the bottom of our friend's road, and is perhaps the best way to get into St Tropez, though it's very winding.  It's perhaps better than going on the much busier D559. To get into St Tropez itself take the Chemin de Ste Anne, off the D93, which takes you to the top of the town.

There is a train station in St Raphael, which gives you an additional option of getting about by train.  It's also possible to get a water taxi from Ste Maxime into St Tropez and all along the coast there is the one euro bus - which is now very busy indeed at peak times.