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Quiberon, Brittany - Camping and mobile home holidays Email: camp@justcampingfrance.co.uk As travel editor for Live Listings as well as a couple of other French camping and ferry sites you could say that I have been around the block a few times, camped here there and everywhere and taken more mobile home holidays than I've had hot dinners. Unfortunately, all this travelling did not endear me at all to Quiberon, though to be fair, there are others who absolutely love the place, lots of french people for instance. There are very few places in France which I hate with a passion but this is one of them. This peninsular is 15 km long with Quiberon town and the bulk of the camping sites at the southern tip. The town is on two levels - top and bottom - and there are upmarket shops on both levels as well as the steep hill which joins them. There is still free car parking to be had at the bottom of Quiberon town at sea level by the way. Beaches? Lovely, you can't fault it on that score, but the problems start when you are actually in your camping site because there is a small but very active private aerodrome slap bang next to most of the sites which are clustered at the southern tip of the peninsular. Ask your tour operator about this but my guess is that they will deny any knowledge of it just as a certain company did when I asked. The result was that I took my family to Camping du Conguel in the summer of 2010 with Matthews Holidays, and it was a bloody disaster, but you can read all about it here if you wish. The noise from the aerodrome was bad enough but it was far, far worse from different groups of young French tent campers paying just a handful of € Euros per night, and who were singing and dancing on car roofs until the early hours for half of our hols there. Sadly the campsite management failed to tackle the problem even though they were told about it more than twice by myself and others, so on those grounds alone I would never return, but I have often wondered what their attitude would have been had those noisy youngsters been Brits. Having said all that, and excessive noise in a campsite is a big issue, this campsite was spotless and very well maintained. It has a very nice restaurant and take away, wonderful pools with water slides, but they really, seriuosly should never let groups of youngsters camp anywhere near holidaymakers who are paying £1 k or more for their hard earned holiday because it is a recipe for disaster! Apart from all that, and though Quiberon town itself and the camping areas are clean and scenic, the rest of the peninsular is rather a dump, with the exception of Port Haliguen which must rate as one of the prettiest little towns in Europe. There are a couple of walks round the Pointe du Conguel (headland) and that's about your lot. In short, this place may be attractive to families with very young children but anyone else? You may die of boredom here! |
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