Very noisy, isolated campsite (Camping Sites in France in general)

Member Name: mizzy

Product:	Camping Sites in France in general
Date:	03/08/08 (439 review reads)
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Advantages: I had a lot of fun working there, great pool and bar

Disadvantages: Animals arent looked after, noisy, isolated

Miss Sixty has written a good review of this campsite as well. My perspective is from working there whereas she was there as a customer.
To get there you can either flydrive, or take the ferry and drive from there. I got the ferry as a foot passenger and got several trains to Quimper where I was picked up by my area manager. It was about a half hour drive to the site from there.
It is is South Brittany near Quimper. Its literally in the middle of nowhere and you definately need a car, as I only had a bike that was broken provided curtesy of Eurocamp, I had strong legs at the end of my season.
It is surrounded on one side by countryside, remote large manor houses and a few other campsites. On the other is the fantastic beach, you can walk all the way to BegMeil which is a pretty French small village, where you can get a ferry to Concarneu.
The facilities on site are quite good, theres a large pool with shallow parts for kids, loads of slides and things to climb on as well.
Theres a kids park with a huge ship that the can climb on. The ship is very high up as it used to be a real working ship! As a childrens courier I wasnt keen with the way that the kids can hang off the bits that used to have the sails, but some parents were happy to let their kids do this, despite it being pure concrete underneath the sand. This is a feature of french childrens parks, lets put concrete under a small layer of sand. I have seen some horrible things so just make sure you are aware of this when your kids play here.
Theres a tennis court which can be rented by the hour for a small fee.
Theres a good basketball court which is used a lot by the childrens clubs.

Theres a huge field where the kids club tents are situated. Eurocamp and Keycamp have funstation tents here from July onwards. Its a great club if you want some peace and quiet for a few hours. This is where I was working and if you come in peak season its one of the best facilities I think. We mostly do sports and arts and crafts in 7+ and the little ones do things like nature walks and small games. 7+ are noisy and like to do loads of things, so theres a lot of marching around the campsite doing hunts. We generally visit a lot of the parents caravans which sometimes annoys them but then we get sweets from them to go away! I love working for funstation as its the best job on the campsite and the kids all seem to love it as they make friends and learn loads of cool songs (which I taught them). If you can find a site with seperate age groups of fun station its well worth it. Make sure your child is the right age, because its very annoying for the kids couriers when parents say their child is 7, then later on the child admits they actually are 6 and you can see they arent really coping with the level of the activity.


Theres also a small holding here, with a pony (who desperately wants to escape and is very good at doing so. A few goats live there and they also escape on a daily basis. The best is the rabbits but they dont generally get cleaned out apart from when one of my colleagues did it as the kids were coming back smelling once they had visited the rabbits.
The bar is most widely used by the workers and the customers, its got a lot of cheap alcohol and they have theme nights which are fun, especially the disco on monday.
They have a large entertainment shed thing where you can play Bingo, see a magician, french meeting parties.
There are a lot of companies on site including Eurocamp, Keycamp, Venue, Matthews, Vacansolei.
Its quite a noisy campsite despite there being 'no tolerance of noise'. Its quite often the French making it as the owners dont want to upset their customers but they arent really bothered about the English companies customers.
The couriers for Eurocamp and Keycamp live behind the crazy golf and so if you are around this area it can be quite noisy as everyone likes to drink!
I enjoyed working on this campsite but it is too isolated if you dont have a car, and if you travel before July most of the local amenities are closed. This is because the majority of the campsite doesnt fill up until the summer holidays, around the 20th July.

Summary: Good if you can get a cheap deal