Information about camping and camping holidays in the South of France

OK, let's assume you are driving to the south of France for your camping holidays, and you look at the map and think, "Wow, this is rather ambitious."

And so it could well be because that trip doesn't suit everyone by any means. You could fly of course and hire a car when you arrive, but for some strange reason most Brits don't do that because some of the holiday fun is actually driving down those virtually traffic free Autoroutes (depending on the time of year) or dual carriageways. But before you book please have a look at these mileages:-

Calais to Nice is 1219 KM or 726 miles
Caen to Nice is 1161 KM or 760 miles
Cherbourg to Nice is 1284 KM or 802 miles 

 Now any of the above are daunting mileages to clock up in one day, and especially so if you have family in the car who are bored stiff, so it is well worth taking things more slowly and having a night's stop somewhere along the route. We seriously recommend that you do this and especially those who have some way to travel before reaching Calais in the first place. Take ourselves - the editor and family live in the Midlands UK and it is near enough 5 hours driving time to Dover for us, + the ferry time, and then well over 700 miles of driving. It is unsafe for one driver to undertake all that without breaks.

The south of France itself is large area with a coastline reaching from the Spanish border south of Perpignan to the Italian border near San Remo. This area of France is one of the most expensive both as far as living there is concerned and for holidays too, though Camping holidays are not much if any dearer there than elsewhere - as long as you eat "at home" rather than go to a restraunt where you will certainly need really deep pockets.

You will find that the whole area is camping mad! There are camping sites all over the south of France, all tastefully hidden away, and you will find more Brits there than any other nationality in high season. The Dutch and germans get down there but not in great numbers as we do.

Unless you get really unlucky your camping holidays in that region are pretty well bound to be hot, very hot in July and August, and even a lot of French people take their holidays at that time and move further north to escape the heat of high summer.