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Right, I quit. I give up. Find me somewhere to go please...

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PerArduaAdNauseum · 27/02/2011 17:49

So I'm trying to organise a couple of weeks somewhere where another family or two can join us. Was looking at holiday homes, but can't find much that's big enough for up to 12. Looking at August - middle two weeks. We all have tents (mine's lovely Grin) so maybe I should just book some pitches?

But WHERE?

Am dazed and confused, and don't know how to decide.

So, Holland would be good, Denmark would be good, North Wales or Scotland would be good (if weather likely to be compatible with not spending weeks drying out a canvas tent after?).

What I don't want is what happened last year when a lorryload of windows shed on the A1 in Germany and we made it to the ferry by the skin of our teeth after 5 hours without stopping, many of which spent at 100 mph. With a roofbox. So easy driving distance from a port so it's not all so horribly nerve-and-bladder shattering.

Oh, and with good loos in easy reach. As soon as I sleep under canvas I will start a period - no matter where in my cycle I thought I was. Sigh.

I've never had to decode campsite marketing before - we usually just go to friends', or a field in Norfolk we have access to.

Help?

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SlubberKongWubba · 27/02/2011 17:58

PerArdua, I've done August in N Wales and August in Holland and it rained, horribly and gonnorhearically in both.

If you want good HOT weather close to a ferry I get the one round to Bilbao in Spain.

I can recommend several lovely campsites in Wales that will take groups but it will rain. It just will.

Durinell in Holland is close to the port and big and clean but is a bit like camping at Thorpe park. It is bound to rain.

As for the period, get yourself a mirena lady has revolutionised camping for me

SlubberKongWubba · 27/02/2011 17:59

I'd get.

Have never done it.

I believe it is hot and non rainy in Spain in august.

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PerArduaAdNauseum · 27/02/2011 18:02

Ah, can't be too hot, and hormones make it worse...

Don't mind a bit of rain, just not 10 days in a row

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PerArduaAdNauseum · 27/02/2011 18:03

And Spain is full of English people isn't it? Like my MIL...

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SlubberKongWubba · 27/02/2011 18:11

I am led to believe that there are parts of Spain that are mil free.

But hotness maybe too hot.

N Wales was bastard inclement last august. I think the dds wore t-shirts and shorts once, for maybe 2 hours before they started going blue around the edges, in two weeks of holiday. Fleece, raincoats and welly weather it was.

Nice scenery though.

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PerArduaAdNauseum · 27/02/2011 18:11

Gah!

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GretchenWiener · 27/02/2011 18:12

france

mobile home
with decking
or the keycamp chalets

GretchenWiener · 27/02/2011 18:12

adn get seperate homes
WAY better
then you can row in private

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PerArduaAdNauseum · 27/02/2011 18:28

no to mobile homes and decking, yes to private rows

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DuplicitousBitch · 27/02/2011 18:31

go to brittany, yes it might rain a bit but it will be warmer and ti will be french

DuplicitousBitch · 27/02/2011 18:31

scotland is good but poss. v. wet adn cold and of course not french

GretchenWiener · 27/02/2011 18:34

so just go to a campsite in france then?
why is that so hard?

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PerArduaAdNauseum · 27/02/2011 18:42

yy Gretchen - but I was asking for specific site recommendations? RTFOP

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GretchenWiener · 27/02/2011 19:23

Lol.aha. Right. How far donyou want to drive.

JemimaMop · 27/02/2011 19:27

We camped in North Wales last summer. In almost all of the photos the DC are wearing full waterproofs and wellies Grin We had a great time, but it was very wet.

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PerArduaAdNauseum · 27/02/2011 19:30

We camped in N Wales when I was a kid. I don't remember any rain at all.

But then I don't remember it ever raining when I was a kid Hmm

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PerArduaAdNauseum · 27/02/2011 19:31

Driving's a tricky one - needs to be within 2 hours of a port I'd say. But we need to keep ferry costs down as family joining us rather skint and we don't want to book something they can't afford... Hence looking at Holland as well.

Denmark's out anyway - lovely place but £1500 just to get there and back...

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GretchenWiener · 27/02/2011 19:37

Look at the grand metarie in brittany

Himalaya · 27/02/2011 19:37

France? We stayed at L'ete Indien campsite in Wimereux - n France less than 30 minutes from the ferry so very easy.

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PerArduaAdNauseum · 27/02/2011 20:22

Mmm Himalaya - and how was it? Like the look of the website but it's not as informative as I'd like where are the loos in relation to everything else

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Himalaya · 27/02/2011 23:03

Nice. Mainly static caravans and wooden chalets, some tent pitches and teepees (we stayed in the teepees).

There is a little shop, bar with tablefut, a small pool, boule pitches(of course) nice clean big shower block, a toilet/toothbrushing/dishwashing building in the middle of the main drag for tents.

About 30 minutes walk along the seafront/cliff top to the town where there is a beach which is altogether classier than the ones on the Kent side, but not Nice by any stretch of the imagination. There is also a sailing club there that looked like it did lessons. I think there were stables nearby for horse riding too.

I'm not sure I would stay two weeks (but not sure I could camp anywhere for two weeks) but might be good for you having other
families coming and going as it is super easy to get to.

bigTillyMint · 28/02/2011 08:31

How old are the children?
Do you want a good onsite swimming pool complex?
Do you want to be on a beach / near?
Do you want to be near other stuff to do?

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