Brittany

[RobinRobin2025]

Hello!

We are planning to visit Brittany for 2 weeks in late Aug 2026 and would love recommendations for our first trip there - we plan to do 2-3 stops in different eurocamps (or similar). Our children will be 5 and 7. We would like to be on a sandy beach, with pretty towns to walk around, ideally places to ride bikes, eat good seafood. We don't like overly pretentious places (thinking yachts/expensive restaurants).

We had been advised to go further south so were thinking of heading down to Lacanau/Bordeaux as a mid point of yhr trip.

Suggestions very welcome!

My sister lives in France and she recommended Carnac to us. The Eurocamp there is lovely and right by a beautiful beach, lovely town and lots of people on bikes.

Bordeaux would be a bit too far south really - have you looked at the Vendee? They have lovely beaches and great resorts. In Brittany consider places around Pont Aven or Concarneau and also look at the peninsula around La Baule too. I would do the crossing to St Malo (lovely place for a night/day trip) as it is closer to routes south.

I've been to Carnac a few times, lovely beach, nice shops. We stayed at eurocamp last time, small site but enough facilities. If you do go to the area, there is a play centre (mainly outside, all day thing, slides, swings splash park, can bring own food) near by, Parc de loisirs Le P'tit Délire. It was brilliant for our kids. I recommend it to anyone going!

Bordeaux is a long way, but if you do get down to that area, go to a small town on the bay of Arcachon like Gujan-Mestras or Andernos-les-Bains and have oysters at one of the shacks where they harvest/farm them. I didn't think I liked raw oysters until I had them there.

Ile de Re is great for beaches and cycling.
ile du Noirmoutier is closer to Brittany and quieter than Ile de Re.

We prefer Yelloh! from the Eurocamp, Huttopia type companies.
Odalys is a French company who have brick and mortar sites like the one in Rivedoux-Plage , the first town in Ile de Re.

St. Malo is lovely to visit, as is Dinan, and on the opposite coast Vannes is very nice.

Another vote for Carnac/Trinite Sur Mer area. Lovely sheltered beaches, cycle paths, beautiful Vannes and Auray to visit, Quiberon peninsula for wild coastline. Our best French holiday last year was here. Lots of Eurocamp sites to choose from.

We enjoyed Concarneau in the south of Brittany and the lovely sandy beach at Benodet isn't far from there. St Malo has a beach that stretches miles and the walled town of the centre (Intramuros) is very pretty.

Guilvinec- aim to go on one of their market days

On Benodet , we’ve got the small ferry across the river, cycled to Ile Tudor, got a ferry across again and had lunch on one of the beaches of LocTudy. In between the beach of kermor is vast, clean and stunning.

There is more than enough to see and do in Brittany without travelling further south. Save that for another trip.
If you end up anywhere near Dournanez (lovely beach) a visit to the Museum of the Sea is brilliant and includes visits to real boats moored against the quay.
There are amazing beaches all around Brittany, Morlaix with the boulders is fantastic. Beautiful towns and defensive cities abound.

Lorient has a fabulous museum of sailing boats including a secure area where children can try sailing in safe small boats, and on the other side of the estuary in Port Louis, is the museum of the French East India Company. That stretch of coast from Lorient, via Carnac, Quiberon, Auray, Vannes and the Gulf of Morbihan is all lovely. Belle Ile and Ile de Groix if you fancy a day trip to an island or two. There's more than enough to keep you occupied for a week or 10 days.