Reviews Campsite Bel Air ****

Reception was excellent. Thank you Emilie! A problem with a broken window handle was fixed within 2 hours.

The park was clean and well managed. The mobile home was modern and practical. Flexible booking is a great idea - start and finish any day of the week. Tried the restaurant but staff seemed to be under

pressure, so ate elsewhere.

Overall a very good stay. Some minor improvements could be made to updating the sanitary block as well as enhancing the evening entertainment could also be improved.

As the only English on site we were worried as we knew it was a site aimed for French tourists. However the staff were absolutely wonderful and really accommodating. They made us feel right at home - I cannot praise your English speaking staff more, as they made every effort to converse with us! And your French only speaking staff were able to make light of both our struggles and despite having little idea of what each other were saying went totally out of their way to help. Absolutely brilliant campsite, beautiful location and our caravans were perfect for us. I would however always ensure that you holiday during peak simmer season, as one of our weeks went into off season and there was a noticeable change in both the campsite and surrounding areas.

What an awful campsite! Having driven for over 550 miles, a good night's sleep would have been great. Instead, for each of our 11 nights we had loud music and noise inflicted on us from 9.30pm till anything up to 2am (not to mention the odd fight between teenagers at the bar). I would say this is definitley a French campsite for the French. When we tried to get into the nightly noise a bit, it was generally awful. There was even noise at different times of the day blaring out through the loud speakers. If you like some peace and quiet, don't go here. The quality of food at the bar/restaurant was really poor. Don't exepect a decent shop on site. What shop there is occupies the far end of the restaurant and has little to offer. The best thing to do was to get away from the site.

The beaches are pretty good, although you need to cycle or drive. The local towns are okay. The local landsacpe is dull (ok if you like the Lincs Fens or Somerset Levels).

With our 2 daughters aged 13 we rented a rather small mobile home. It was important that the girls would amuse themselves. Within a couple of hours they joined a group of international contemporaries. very good for their knowledge of languages!! Two weeks have flown past, also for us. Trips to the different coastal places, and shopped and had wonderful food there. Two mornings a week there is a real French market in the village. Super-U 3 minutes away. Beach (la tranche) lay a bit far from the camp-site, not within walking distance.

entertainment team is enthusiastic, at night dancing etc in the bar, theme night, or a show on the square. Nice central bar with terrace and very good service. Really a family camp-site. No youth travelling alone and no guests from outside of the camp-site. Good security from 8pm. One of the reception people spoke Dutch. Very pleasant owner. Swimming pools were a bit small compared to the photograph, always fresh bread in the camp shop, it was expensive though.

Inland disappointed, terribly boring.

Take-away meals (pizzas/hamburgesr/chips) were simply bad.

We have had dinner in town for little money and therefore do not get why that shouldn't be possible on the camp-site.

Unfortunately all entertainment in French.

Behind the bar, however, there was some English speaking staff.

For kids in the age of 4 to 15 this is a nice camp-site.

In the direct area there is not much to do except for the aquarium of La Rochelle which is certainly a must is the place itself too.

Places like Taumont, La Tranche sur mer, Ile de reye are also nice places to go for a day.

All in all a nice camp-site and yes, the Vendee does have the most hours of sun in France.