France Ferry & Campsite info (use Search function) mod warning post 1

Summer Fridays are challenging around Bordeaux, presumably also Sundays as the French second homers head to Arcachon

I think it's Russian roulette whether you go East or West on the ring road, if traveling from South to North.

I have. And I have driven to Narbonne numerous times and that would take me 12-14hours alright including stops. 12 hours for that journey to Bordeaux is crazy. Like I said "Either you were in no rush and taking long breaks or something went drastically wrong for that drive to take over 12 hours"

opposite experience for me, any campsite I’ve stayed in, you can drive in and park right at your accommodation and come and go as you please with your car.

Yes. Some campsites have an automatic barrier which helps if you want to leave early in the morning. I stayed in a municipal campsite in Quiberon one time and the barrier wouldn't open until you had paid at the office. We had arrived in the evening after the office closed so couldn't pay till the morning. The office didn't open till 10am so we had to hang around. Nightmare. Typical of French bureaucracy.

i just returned from a min cruise on WB Yeats. Has anybody ever eaten in the Lady Gregory? Obviously vastly overpriced, as per food in the other areas. But is it any better in quality? The pizza and the cafeteria food was beyond awful. Shocking.

I see Eurocamp 2027 are open for bookings plus I read earlier today that another ferry company is due to start running from Cork to Boulogne in northern France later in the year. Hibernia Lines. The more travel options the better as far as I am concerned.

Exactly, opens up Holland, Germany and further afield now that Stena don't do the land bridge into the Hoek.

Wooo, going to France next month

Has anyone put in orders with the Wine and Beer supermarket in Roscoff for collection before taking the ferry home? Just wondering how long you'd want to allow for, for collecting the wine and being back on the road?

Also, has anyone visited Machines de I'le in Nantes? Looks interesting, and trying to decide whether to visit on the day we arrive in France, or on the way home. Nantes is already a traffic issue on the way home, would it be crazy to try and visit on a Friday afternoon in July

Bit of a last minute booking this year, going to France on the ferry at the start of August. Looking for a recommendation for a campsite where there's gonna be loads of Irish kids around the 12-14 age. We've done campsites all over France with the youngest lad's siblings and cousins but this year we only have one kid with us. The young lad being on his own will want to make friends. Any suggestions for campsites around Vendee area that will have a lot of Irish 12-14 year olds?

Thank you, Clarys Plages is one we have been looking at. Kelair doesn't seem to do as many campsites as they used to, we have used kelair for many holidays over the past 15 or so years.