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Keycamping at Berny Riviere in July. Any packing tips please?

13 replies

Ceolas · 18/04/2012 16:53

2 adults, 5 kids. We're staying in a 3 bed mobile home. We have a big car but I don't want to be unnecessarily laden. Never Keycamped or been to France before!

I think we need bedding and towels. Anything else we should bring?

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bibbitybobbitybunny · 18/04/2012 16:53

Crikey, you like to plan in advance!

Ceolas · 18/04/2012 17:12
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FantasticMissFox · 18/04/2012 18:01

Yep you need towels and beddding, although I think they can provide these for an extra charge. Make sure you have a good French map and change for tolls handy.

cheerup · 18/04/2012 18:36

Not much - bedding, towels, laptop/tablet/DVD player, bath mat for when you get out of the shower, washing up liquid, black bin liners, washing up sponge & j cloth, tea towel, toilet paper, charcoal for the BBQ. I would probably also take a cool bag of frozen home cooked food and as well as tea/coffee/cereal/ketchup/salt/pepper/squash/ketchup/frozen fresh milk and a whole heap of other things I won't pay Euro prices for. Bikes? You can hire there but it's quite pricey.

lemonbonbons · 18/04/2012 19:29

I ve been - and you will be glad to know there is a supermarket about half a mile ( if that ) away. We were getting wine for 75p a bottle !!!! (happy days Smile)

The patisserie in the small town by the site is to die for - I rec the strawberry tarts.

We hired bikes ( with baby carrier s ) from the site and had a right adventure . We were meant to be following the sites ' suggested route' - I still don t know if we ever did !

lemonbonbons · 18/04/2012 19:32

Just realised I offered NO packing tips , and got straight to the cheap wine Blush

Ceolas · 18/04/2012 20:16

Thanks! Equally glad of the cheap wine advice :)

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lemonbonbons · 18/04/2012 20:22
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footphobic · 18/04/2012 23:27

Haven't been to that site, but done Keycamp/Canvas. We try to budget for a couple of meals out/pizza takeaways etc, then do the rest self catering. Family of 7 so need decent stuff to cook with, the pots and pans are a bit crap very basic, learnt the hard way, so we take our big pasta pan which is a godsend, and beauclaire bbq. We have a big car and roof box so I just do a box of stuff, depends on what space you have but it is worth the hassle of taking ime. We take pretty much as per cheerup's post plus kitchen knives are always rubbish so I take one, oven glove, wash tabs, kitchen towel, big plastic jug for water with meals and basic cooking/cleaning staples. Just to say we have found the range of cereal very minimal and expensive and so is squash (they don't really do squash), so we load up with both (x5 kids for x2 weeksGrin), we buy loads of cheap water at the supermarkets, but my kids still like squash, esp if really hot. Everything else we just buy fresh there.

For the car, you are supposed to have originals of reg and ins docs, but we always carried copies, by law must have a warning triangle and high vis jacket and advised to carry spare headlight bulbs, you might know this but may help.

We've been doing France, mainly south and Italy every year or two since kids were born and got to 2 or 3, eldest now 16.5, with own caravan or sometimes Canvas. Majority of people think we are brave deranged to do it, but we have just had the most brilliant hols, stayed in some fab campsites, met lovely people and have great memories, so have fun! Really hoping to get away this year if circs/funds allow.

VillaEphrussi · 19/04/2012 18:16

Haven't got any packing tips because I tend to pack everything, but just to say that we went to Berny Riviere last summer and loved it. It's really well run and clean and the facilities are excellent. A word of warning to be a bit vigilant if you're going to use the lake beach, as a teenage girl in one of our neighbouring mobiles cut her foot on a broken glass bottle in the sand on her first day and was on crutches for the rest of the holiday. Sorry that's doom and gloom. We had an excellent time there and are hoping to go back with our tent this time this summer!

Oh, and they have a trampoline and a bouncy castle which were perfect for my ds at that age, but they are expensive I thought (maybe 2Euros for 10 mins?) so if that's something that your dcs would be hoping to do, either factor that into costs or be prepared with a plan for how to avoid them asking/save for the last day etc.. But that's just if you're like me and don't like unexpected costs or saying no on holiday! The playgrounds are nice and free obviously.

Have a great time!

HelloShitty · 19/04/2012 18:25

We stayed there too. No packing tips, as we had a safari tent rather than a caravan, but as lemonbonbons says, there is a big supermarket just a 10min walk away. Thought it was a great location - close enough to Paris for a daytrip, and lots of nice towns nearby. Pierrefonds and the forest near Compiegne were lovely.

Ceolas · 19/04/2012 23:53

Thanks everyone! We're really looking forward to it. What about the kids clubs? Our older children are 12, 10 and 9.

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serin · 20/04/2012 23:45

Take table tennis bats and balls, there is a dedicated barn full of tables, free to use them if you have bats and balls!

Lemonbonbons; I dream about that patisserie........Smile

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