badly maintained and not well cleaned
2. August 2019 um 11:12:06
We stayed for one night while travelling around Northern France, but it was amongst the worst of our experiences of a dozen or so campsites. We had booked ahead, phoning at breakfast time on the day we were staying. Later on, at the site, we noticed people who hadn't booked in advance being turned away.... (So the site is in something of a monopolistic position on a late July weeknight.) Whilst the site appears to have reasonable pitches in the centre, we and 6 or so other overnighters were given a row of very small pitches on a grassy verge next to a gravel road leading up to some of the very numerous static caravans/holiday huts. Just near us was a large pile of earth and some earth-moving machinery. Not very enticing or comfortable. The site advertises itself as 'only 3 - 4 km from the coast'. This may be so, but there is no way you could walk this, and I wouldn't be happy to cycle it either. (We had otherwise cycled to many places during our month in France). The site is immediately on a very busy and quite narrow road - albeit with the entrance set back a bit so that there isn't a problem with road noise. Apart from a couple of hundred metres either way outside the site's entrance there is no pavement. Even smaller and narrower, though still busy, roads lead off this main road towards the sea. The sanitation block, quite a walk from our pitch, seemed never to be cleaned and the floor was constantly swimming in muddy water. The wcs, in a row actually on the outside of the block, were basic and (as sometimes happens in France) without supplied paper, and with nowhere to put anything when one went in, except on the muddy floor. To access the block one had to negotiate a series of cracked and broken paving slabs - surely it's not much of a problem to replace these ? The advertised free wifi was welcome, but unreliable. Something to do with its IP address, according to my device. Again, after a month touring northern France, we were accustomed to prices and noticed that this poor site was amongst the most expensive we had stayed at, and even the pre-ordered morning baguette and croissants were 15% more expensive than everywhere else we'd stayed at (even in some rather chi-chi places). Nothing to make a serious hole in our finances, but nevertheless leaving a bad taste (excuse the pun).
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