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I spent a month in Belgium, Germany and France from mid May to mid June. Didn't book anything. Only site I came across that was full was Jeugstation at Ypres so I used an aire for a couple of nights.
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I had to drive past the Henley site yesterday to get to the Henley Golf Club and the whole area was very busy from about 8.00 am onwards. Best avoided until after the weekend but there is a great atmosphere there and you get to see all the “beautiful people” in their striped blazers.
Anyway, back on topic, earlier this year in late April/May, France was extremely quiet. At our regular site in southern France we got a fabulous pitch, vast, quiet, not overlooked and right on the river bank. The weather was perfect, mid to high twenties, which suited us but this was the quietest we have ever seen this particular site in about 15 years of visiting and that was simply because the weather had been quite poor up to that point.
Continental sites have a lot of Dutch and German tourists who check the weather and make last minute decisions. If you live in the Southern part of The Netherlands it’s not that far to reach the South of France and of course no channel or border crossings to worry about. The Italian lakes are as little as 4 hours from parts of Germany so you often see sites fill up rapidly when the weather is good and the weekend approaches. School holidays vary throughout Germany and you can check on the Internet to see when it’s likely to be busy.
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Hitch. I did a long loop out on the bike yesterday and passed Badgeworth GC on the way out and Henley GC on the way back via Woodlands road......some fantastic properties tucked away there...
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We spent all of June in northern Brittany.
The weather was dreadful for almost all of the time - so that's probably a big part of the reason that all the sites we visited were much quieter than we have ever seen in visiting Brittany at this time of year over the last 20 years or so.
In all, we stayed on 5 sites (all ACSI) and we never saw more than one other Brit. on any of them. The Brits. definitely stayed away this year. Most visitors seemed to be Germans. On one site with 120+ pitches, only 8 were occupied.
We arrived at Caen on the Sunday after the French bank holiday (Pentecost ?) which was one of the very few sunny days. The traffic driving the other way to us returning from their long weekend (i.e. driving eastbound) was very heavy.
The other thing we especially noticed was that campervans markedly outnumbered caravans on all the sites where we stayed.
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They couldn't have all been in Spain AD
we saw/heard more of them this year than any other year we've been there. The dutch were very thin on the ground until we were on our way back and stopped in the Loire, you could have been mistaken in thinking you were in the Netherlands
The Germans were on every site we visited but in very small numbers, Brits were on some sites but totally missing on others, again until we stopped at Blois and Neufchatel.
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Hi we've just come back from 3 weeks in Luxembourg germany and austria. Met a few British in Luxembourg who were transitting through and 4 couple's on Camping lech which is a club affiliated site excellent facilities near augsburg, however we stayed at alpen Camping Mark near weer 10 kms from Innsbruck used acsi 22Euro a night. Fantastic site free wifi swimming pool and mainly Dutch people thoroughly recommend it. Just on a note if your travelling down the a8 from Stuttgart to ulm it's a nightmare with roadworks due to the new high-speed rail link going in.
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we used it a couple of times but as its blooming expensive and is just an overnighter, we've now decided to zip right by an get all the way to the Valencia coast...
plenty of aires around for MHs but agree, sites for caravans a bit thin on the ground.
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Recently completed a 4000 mile, 10 week trip to France/Portugal/Spain. Brits were very thin on the ground, Germans ditto, but Dutch are everywhere in big numbers. A growing number of sites in France are Dutch owned and seem to be preferred by older generation Dutch who don’t speak good English. Spanish sites are strangely devoid of nationals until the weekend when locals turn out in huge numbers, usually big, noisy family groups.
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