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Camping and mobile home holidays in the Vendee. If you have a camping and mobile home website which relates to camping in the Vendee and you would like to see it featured here then please email camp@campingmobilehomesholidays.co.uk
We started to take camping holidays in the Vendee about 16 years ago, that is roughly 1992, and since then we have hardly missed a year. Oh yes, we go elsewhere as well but the Vendee still has that "pull" for us. When I mention camping: yes we have been tent camping there but most of our holidays these days are in mobile homes, and if you shop around some you may be pleasantly surprised at the cost! But mobile home holidays are classed as camping holidays so that's why I mention it here. We have a link here to a map of the Vendee which shows most if not all of the towns along the coast and some inland too.
It is such a lovely area that it is difficult to say precisely where is our favourite place, but probably St Jean de Monts has to be in the frame with La Tranche as a town coming a close second. Possibly the beaches are a tad nicer at St Jean de M though. If you do decide to visit the vendee for your camping/mobile home holiday then try to avoid going through La Roche Sur-Yon as it is a nightmare to drive through and there's little of interest there for you to see, apart from other traffic. I mention this because you may be directed through La Roche if your holidays are in the Longeville to La Tranche areas.
Yep, the beaches are a delight and for the most part they shelve gradually into the sea, but we have noticed that some places where the beaches are not so shallow there are life guards in high season. Beaches vary so much in the Vendee; there are some which are literally covered in shells, there are some where you can still pick up fossils of Ammonites which have been washed ashore, there are flat beaches for sunbathing and which are ideal for children to play on and there are some seriously good surfing beaches where it seems that half of Europe come to visit every weekend in Summertime.
Agriculture and tourism are the two main money spinners in the Vendee, so camping sites are dotted all around the coast and inland as well. Most of these sites are given over to British, French, German and Dutch tour operators who rent out mobile homes in varying sizes and degrees of comfort. There are also some companies which rent tents fully kitted out with cookers, utensils, fridges, freezers and beds. Larger camp sites usually have some emplacements for Motorhomes to park and plug in but we have noticed a decline in sites which welcome campers who just want to drop in with their own tents for a week or so. Probably it isn't a viable situation for site owners any longer.
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