Camping Les Varennes

Used the motorhome pitches, directed to a quiet pitch as requested on booking by a rather stern receptionist. As with all French campsites there’s no real rules for pitching so you can set up as you want. The facilities were very good and extremely clean. The shop/bar is open first thing and in an evening. Fresh bread made on site every morning (order night before). Pools are very nice ideal for a cooling dip, but not Olympic swimming practice. Overall it was a very good site and was value for money. Would definitely go again

It was immediately apparent to us (and others with whom we spoke) that sadly since the campsite was under earlier family control that much of the earlier atmosphere has been lost. Many of the pitches have been given over to mobile homes this has had an impact upon the camping community. Prices, especially for the mobile homes, is very much higher in comparison to those available at other campsites and in our opinion of lower quality although new. As an example we believe it to be inexcusable that a small security safe in addition to fly screens are not fitted as standard in mobile homes in this price category. We were further disappointed to find that the heating of the indoor pool had been reduced making swimming on colder days an unpleasant experience. If the campsite advertises a heated indoor pool then it should be heated ensuring a pleasant experience. We formed the opinion, whether correctly or not, that this reduction of heating was a cost saving exercise by the management. WiFi has been mentioned several times over the years and regrettably there doesn’t appear to have been any effort to make improvements in this area despite the campsite not having been anywhere near full occupancy during our stay for 3 weeks in May. A campsite that we were happy to award a full 10/10 in earlier years we now find that overall only justifies a 4/10.