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It isn't difficult to fall in love with St Jean de Monts as we did nearly twenty years ago. Some of the brochures describe the town as "bustling" which really means busy as Hell and the tallest man with the longest nose is the survivor. That may be in high season, and to be fair we haven't been there in high season, just June and July staying in a varied assortment of mobile homes. I love it, my wife loves it, our daughter loves it and I defy anyone to say they dislike St Jean de Monts.

Like many other seaside towns there is a top and a bottom town to St Jean, only in this case the top of the town is at sea level and the bottom....well you can guess as it is a couple of hundred metres downhill. God only knows what would happen if they had a really high tide!

Getting there is relatively easy depending on where you are coming from, but as most Brits approach it from the North there is a fair chance that you will encounter Nantes at some point in your journey. If you have loads of time then don't read on, otherwise you really need to get on the Nantes Périphérique or ring road. Get off that awfully stressful road at Junction 48 (otherwise you'll be going round the damn thing again), and about 2 K further on take the road to Challans and thence to St Jean de Monts. It is mostly free dual carriageway from St Malo but I've never done it (approx 175 miles) in less than 3 hours yet despite the fact that you can really put your foot down most of the way.

It wouldn't be fair to other sites to say which camping/mobile home site we stayed with the last two holidays we went to St Jean de Monts as I'm saving that for another page but suffice it to say that it was/is superb. The campsite is split into two by a road and to get to the other half you walk or drive through a small tunnel. Most of the site is given to mobile homes but there was one company there the last time we went which specialised in offering tent camping - at a premium I thought because they were charging virtually the same to rent a tent for 2 weeks as we were paying to have all the mod cons in our mobile home, and as the weather was rather iffy I reckon we had the best of the deal.