Use our Travel forum for recommendations on everything from day trips to the best family-friendly holiday destinations. I was even a courier 25 years ago! It is great, but very varied depending on where you go, if you stay in a mobile home, tent or chalet. If you are going in term time or school holidays? What time of year? We have taken our own car, and flown with car hire. The French Riviera in a mobile home during August is a very different holiday to a tent in the Loire in May for example We've had several and it's been a mixed bag.
One, in the south of France, was amazing. We went in the school holidays, flew and hired a car, ended up with a brilliant mobile home situated in a quiet stretch where we could park the car easily. We did another, also school holidays, also flew and hired a car, in the italian lakes and it was horrific. Parts of the park that the photographed for the website was gorgeous, but the section we were in was horrific.
Late night noise, kids running up and down outside shouting until after midnight, mobile homes were dirty and run down. If I used a hairdryer, the electrics would fuse. We were a good 45 min walk from the pool complex and you had to be there before 8 to get any loungers.
Just awful. We haven't EuroCamped since and won't do it again. We'd be looking to stay in a chalet, and probably during school holidays as we'd be going with family who have children at primary school. I've had a brief look and the one in Brittany looks very good but I also love the look of Lake Garda for my own selfish reasons as I've always wanted to go. We'd be going in either May or July. The mobile homes are better as you don't have a bathroom in the glamping tents and if you're very unlucky with the weather they're still tents A family our kids played with one year were flooded out of their tent and have d to move to a mobile home, and spend two days washing and drying wet stuff.
IMO if you want to keep to yourself they're not the right holiday for you - half the point is the kids make friends. We just had the rule they couldn't go inside anyone else's tent or mobile home, but the kids played where we could see them from the terrace. You can book more cheaply directly with the campsites for virtually the same facilities minus the rep. The kids clubs etc. We went on at least 5 Eurocamp or similar booked directly or via a Dutch company - Happy Camp or something similar holidays; the first when our oldest were 1 and 3, the last when they were something like 11, 7 and 4.
