mlarkinwhh.co.uk Posted April 24, 2017 Share Posted April 24, 2017 Hi guys Can anyone recommend a good campsite book for France (got the Aires books) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Caddies104 Posted April 24, 2017 Share Posted April 24, 2017 Hi Away from Aires we always use either :- Acsi. During low season (away from July / August) you pay on average 17Euro for a pitch with electric, shower block and usually a pool and bar etc. Need the buy the book with all the sites in. And Camping Cheques, similar to Acsi except you pay up front by buying the cheques (£15) and then handing the cheques to the sites that are in the book.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PJay Posted April 24, 2017 Share Posted April 24, 2017 Caddies104 - 2017-04-24 5:14 PM Hi Away from Aires we always use either :- Acsi. During low season (away from July / August) you pay on average 17Euro for a pitch with electric, shower block and usually a pool and bar etc. Need the buy the book with all the sites in. And Camping Cheques, similar to Acsi except you pay up front by buying the cheques (£15) and then handing the cheques to the sites that are in the book.. ACSI is best, get from vicarious books in Folkestone. You save the cost in 1 or two nights use. Camping cheques you pay up front, and it is a card now not cheques. We did not find Cc very good, and have now not bothered with them. The sites appear to be less and less in the book they provide. ACSI more useful all over europe, as long as you go out of season. (not July and August) PJay Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Robbo Posted April 24, 2017 Share Posted April 24, 2017 We've always found the Caravan Club campsite guide very useful. "Caravan Europe 1" covers France, Spain and Portugal. The associated maps distinguish between all year round sites and seasonal sites. Comments by members give a good flavour of what to expect in terms of facilities and local attractions. The "Caravan Europe 1" edition covers 4500 sites, so quite extensive coverage. The guide is available direct from the club (non members pay more) or eBay sell old copies at a much reduced price. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hagrid Posted April 25, 2017 Share Posted April 25, 2017 We use the ACSI book and Alan Rogers, we prefer sites that appear in both! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brian Kirby Posted April 25, 2017 Share Posted April 25, 2017 Robbo - 2017-04-24 8:28 PM We've always found the Caravan Club campsite guide very useful. "Caravan Europe 1" covers France, Spain and Portugal. The associated maps distinguish between all year round sites and seasonal sites. Comments by members give a good flavour of what to expect in terms of facilities and local attractions. The "Caravan Europe 1" edition covers 4500 sites, so quite extensive coverage. The guide is available direct from the club (non members pay more) or eBay sell old copies at a much reduced price. Ditto. The main difference between this guide and the others is that the site reports are submitted by club members, which means they are written by people who have used the sites and not just be wandering inspectors. You may also wish to consider the ACSI app, that can be downloaded to a tablet, phone or laptop, and gives details of all ACSI inspected sites (which includes all those accepting the ACSI discount card, but also many more that do not), on a country by country basis. You pay an annual fee, and then download the sites data for whichever countries you choose. You can add countries as/when you wish. It has some quite useful search features, though it still needs some work and is not as good in that respect as the previous, DVD based, version which, unfortunately, is no longer available. However, it is cheaper - money, payment, & choice? :-) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Caddies104 Posted April 29, 2017 Share Posted April 29, 2017 Hi Further info. Just had the Camping Travel Club book, used to be Camping Cheque, has around 600 sites in there at various prices (15/17/19 Euro) Still need to pay up front, loading your card but has some of the sites we like to go like Chateau du Gandspette close to Calais for our return crossing. Still use Acsi for most of our trip but a nice alternative (off soon for 7 weeks) (lol) :-) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
malc d Posted April 29, 2017 Share Posted April 29, 2017 hagrid - 2017-04-25 10:03 AM We use the ACSI book and Alan Rogers, we prefer sites that appear in both! Here's another vote for the Alan Rogers books. We used them for many years before we used ACSI, and always found their descriptions of sites to be quite accurate. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Robbo Posted May 2, 2017 Share Posted May 2, 2017 malc d - 2017-04-29 2:57 PM hagrid - 2017-04-25 10:03 AM We use the ACSI book and Alan Rogers, we prefer sites that appear in both! Here's another vote for the Alan Rogers books. We used them for many years before we used ACSI, and always found their descriptions of sites to be quite accurate. We bought the Alan Rogers campsite guide one year but found it was more aimed at family holidays with all the facilities which we didn't need (but were nevertheless paying for in the campsite fees). It depends on which style of camping suits you best. Our campsite Bible over many years has been the CMC (Caravan Club) Europe 1 & 2 as mentioned in earlier posts. Another excellent resource is Archies web based campsite guide which covers virtually all the campsites in France and elsewhere. See http://www.archiescampings.eu/eng1/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
witzend Posted May 4, 2017 Share Posted May 4, 2017 mlarkin@whh.co.uk - 2017-04-24 1:33 PM Hi guys Can anyone recommend a good campsite book for France (got the Aires books) Not Exactly what you asked for but a good site for French Municipal Sites http://www.camping-municipal.org/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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