Information about camping resources in and around Frejus in the Var department at the heart of the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region of southern France

Frejus is pretty well slap bang in the centre of the Cote d' Azur or French Riviera as our link to a map of the region shows. Getting there from Calais is easy enough if you are sticking with the autoroutes then really you don't need a map at all until maybe at the end ofr your journey when you get near to your camping site. Get onto the A26 outside Calais and simply follow signs for the major cities along your route like Reims, Troyes, Dijon, Macon, Lyon, Valance, Orange, past Avignon and on to Aix-en-Provence, then just follow the signs for Frejus (list these cities before you travel). Easy peasy.

Don't try and do the whole journey in one go without a night's rest. Been there, done that several times and I can tell you it just ain't worth it.

Camping in and around Frejus has been a way of life for many holidaymakers in all the 45 years or so I have been going to that region, but before even my time Julius Caesar founded the city in 49 BC and it was then used as a Roman military port, and even now it is used as a port by the French Navy. The city is filled with monuments which include one of the largest amphitheaters from Gallic times - 1st or 2nd century, a Roman theater, the Porte Dorée - a golden door, ruins from baths of the 3rd c, the Porte des Gaules, the aqueduct which carried the water from Signole for 40 km.

Camping holidays in and around Frejus cost no more than anywhere else in France, but there are additional costs to be taken into consideration such as the extra fuel you will use there and back plus the cost of using the autoroutes there and back. If you are content, as many campers are, to buy your food from a supermarket and cook it back at your accommodation then ok, but if you like eating and drinking out then this area will make a hole in your pocket!

Personally I love the Med areas and there is nothing finer than getting a decent, hard wearing inflatable sunbed and taking it out to sea for a couple of hundred metres of total peace and quiet