How much would you expect to pay on a summer holiday for a family of 5 s/c in France?

[McDreamy]

Haven't paid for a holiday for a few years as I've lived in Cyprus for a while. Heading home (to the UK) soon and planning next years holiday. Just wondered how much it's going to cost! (We have school age children so restricted to school holidays)

Would you be renting a gite/villa? Camping? Would you be looking to eat out or cook in the villa/camsite?

If you are selfcatering and booking via someone like Just France, you'd pay about £1700 for a gite with a pool for two weeks in France. That shoud include ferry crossing. If you book independently I think you'd get a better deal, but have never done it so am not sure.

Depends when you go. End of July/beginningof August is peak peak season. Last 2 weeks of August tends to be cheaper. If booking independently, the rates vary widely at the end of August. French-owned properties tend to come down more, Brits stay higher because of the UK school holidays.

We've just been looking at this and priced up a gite with pool, all mod cons and ferry crossing at nearly £2300 for us all (5 of us too). Then we'd have fuel and food on top of that.

You can camp cheaper than that!! get some brochures and suss out he campsite you like then try booking direct.

Oh I know Leslaki but I don't do camping

The cheapest way is often to rent a bigger property than you need and go with family or close friends and then split the property costs. It usually works out cheaper than getting 2 properties and you also have the chance to use each other as babysitters by occasionally taking turns to stay home in the evening and one couple being on duty one night and then swapping later on in the holiday.

Yeah, but I mean "camping" ina luxury mobile home - not in a tent!