Name: Camping Domaine de l'Orée 4*
Address: 13 Route des amis de la nature, 85340 Olonne-sur-Mer, France, Les Sables-d'Olonne, Les Sables-d'Olonne, Les Sables-d'Olonne, France
Rating: 8

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Camping Domaine de l'Orée 4*

Les Sables-d'Olonne

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Our first time to travel to France on family holiday, stayed here for 10 nights, booked it on basis of good reviews online. Very family friendly as has one of the best waterparks in site in the area. Was quiet at night and security on site in the evenings, campsite is split into two parts divided by a minor road, most of the touring pitches are in the rear site, was probably quieter than the front part. Only negative is the pitch was very small for our 6 berth touring Caravan and awning. We had about 2 feet to spare along side of pitch with awning up. If booking advise to specifically request a large pitch. Very few English speakers on site which we didn't mind, other travellers were friendly and washing facilities were clean. Activities for kids are on site but in French only. Great location right on the Vendee velo cycle track and near to Sables dOlonne by bicycle in one direction and 10 minutes on bike to Plage de Sauvterre one of the best beaches in the region. We had 1 damp day during our stay but weather around 21-22 degrees most days and up to 28 on a couple. Feels warmer than at home and get good colur even with those temperatures. Our kids were between 9 and 15 and ideal to keep them occupied. Recommend take canoe trip on salt marshes nearby (€40 for two 2 seater open top kayaks. also bring your bikes with you as miles of tracks off road and all are flat. Visit French market in Sables and Sunday market in Bretignolles Sur Mer which was excellent dozens of stalls. We have booked again for 2018, highly recommend.

Family Holiday in Vendee August 2017

Great campsite, friendly staff, close to a cracking beach - take your body boards kids!  Pool fantastic for family fun , the kids loved the water slides, hours of fun.  
Clean facilities and well stocked chalets, not the usual 3 spoons and an odd glass!  
Would definitely recommend to anyone looking for a holiday close to the beach and a lively campsite.

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Stayed at this site for the whole of August 2023, pitched my caravan and awning on one of the private facility pitches. These pitches are quite expensive but have utilised them on various sites around France and prefer the benefits they bring with immediate access to your own shower, toilet and added advantage of a washing area and fridge. Sadly the pitches were all of varying sizes and I believe that only two of the ten private facility pitched were suitable for the bigger english units. We stayed on pitch 43 but initially directed to pitch 40, which was far too small and right on the roadway by the bins. I could not fault the staff, they were all brilliant and hats off to them, we ate at the restaurant on site several times, not a lot of choice on the menu but certainly enough to feed you. The small shop on site sold most items, particularly the baguette but go early if you want one for lunch. The pool area was adequate but you wont get a bed if you go later on in the day, sadly it can get busier as they sell day bands for the locals to come and use the pool also. It is a very french site with the majority of pitches being occupied with static homes so don’t expect to meet loads of English, our teenage son struggled with this. Later on in the month there did appear to be more dutch and german people arriving as our stay progressed. The site is split by a public road with the majority of tourers situated on the other side of the road. The local area was full of things to see and do and excellent supermarkets close by such as Lidl, which was great as you didn’t get ripped off with prices. The local beach was a 30 minute walk through the forest or a free bus ride in the peak season. The beach was very good with long expanse of beautiful sands and great surfing waves, lots of cycle paths and Le Sables and St Gilles only a short drive away, with lots of amazing restaurants to suit each taste or pocket.  We had one or two heavy storms while there and the aftermath brought the dreaded midges out on the beach and the mosquitos on the site so make sure you pack your repellants with you. Would I recommend this site, probably Yes, but not at high season. Would I go back, possibly Not as we like to try different locations and the insects were a big issue for us. Hats off to the staff as they tried really hard to assist and accommodate us.

Great location but sad about the insects

Lovely site with friendly staff.
Good size pitches with great amenities.
The pool areas are great, fun, war, and well kept.
The bar and restaurant offer a good selection and an easy alternative.
We were there the first 2 weeks of the school holidays and were the only British people on site for the first week.
Great access to cycling tracks which lead to the beach and beyond.

Lovely site, great amenities

A nice park in a good location, the reception staff were always helpful. The pool was good and my son loved the slides, two life guards were always on duty which is a relief. On sunny days the pool area does get busy so you will need to find a chair in the am. 

The site is divided by a small road mostly used by bikes and farm equipment so was not noisy. An automatic gate allows access to the site which had communal washing / showers etc. Although the site was full we never waited for toilets and showers which were clean and had toilet seats!!. Pitches are segregated via hedge rows tall enough to allow some privacy. Make sure you book a pitch that suits your tent as some pitches are small enough for a singe tent. There are pitches with personal showers etc however these are close to the kids parks and entertainment so may be noisy into the night. That said the camp was quiet after 11:30 - 12 pm.   

There is a basket ball / football pitch on site which our son enjoyed playing in until late evening.   A shout out goes to an NL teenager who organised football games in the evening with the kids and got everyone involved. It was great to watch.  The kids play area was well equipped with assault course and zip line. 

The entertainment is  held in a hall next to the bar. We did not get involved too much in this as most acts were not for us. 

The bar area is too small for the camp site population, although the food was nice and waiters attentive. The area could do with a total reconfiguration opening the entertainment  to the bar area rather than being separate and increasing space. There was also no night time pool party which is also something they should consider in the future.  

There is much to do in the area inc Segway tours, horse riding and sailing and would recommend doing your homework before hand as everything will be booked up when you arrive. Also take your bikes as there are some good bike trails next to the camp taking you through the salt marshes and to the beaches, the Velo Vendee trail is next to the camp which is good to explore. The site does hire bikes but you will need to pre book the elec bikes.  Try out La Cabannajus for a snack and great smoothies and L'Octopuss in the town for a meal.

August camping in the wind, rain and sun.

Been a while since I camped in France.

We rented a camping pitch with private facilities (toilet room, kitchen room, shower room)

Pro's
Shop onsite caters for all basic needs
Onsite bar has good food and service
Pool areas large (see detailed review below)
Other facilities (but we didn't use) football/basket ball court, table tennis, bouncy castles, small electronic arcade, boules.
Bike hire from Reception
Location to beach and local supermarkets
Lively Children's club and evening Animations
Private facilities were excellent

Con's
Very very noisy up until about 11:30pm.
It might be difficult for some non French speakers (reception, activities, bar table and service etc)
Pool water and surrounding areas dirty
Privacy - or lack of (see below)

Detailed Review

Arrived at around 4pm, was dealt with swiftly and located our pitch quite easily. The pitch was smaller than expected and part of the pitch was a concrete slope from the adjacent kids miniclub (and therefore unusable for camping)

The pitch was not very even (compared with other sites we have used), with deep holes and a considerable slope right to left on the pitch. The pitch was hedged left and right. The pitch although not unexpected was a rock hard dry dustbowl (so hard pegs would be a must)

We managed to pitch our tent 9m long x 4.4m wide, plus a 2m x 2m gazebo beside it. there was not enough room on the end of the pitch to part the car, it had to be parked parallel to the pitched tent, it made the whole pitch very cramped. To be fair we could of parked the car on a roadway about 200m away. Because of the lack of depth of the pitch we pitched the open end of our tunnel tent looking towards our facilities the bedroom end was there about 1.5m away from the roadway (not many regular car traffic but heavy pedestrian footfall).

The private facilities were really good, basically a mobile home with three access doors all lockable, a spacious toilet cubicle with a window. A central kitchen with a sink and fridge (running water and an average under counter fridge), then a nice size shower room with sink and space (the water was always piping hot if needed, ran cooler after 4 people showered, basically an electric immersion tank)

There was an external 16amp hook up at one end of the mobile home (French two pin plug - so UK visitors might need an adaptor), the kitchen had two sockets one used by the fridge. The bathroom had no sockets. All rooms had lights and there was an external light. Constructed decking steps traversed the entire length of the mobile unit (two steps) on our pitch due to the unevenness the first step was quite high.

We visited the shop a few times as they sell fresh bakery items every morning, plus lots of other basic essentials if you need them (foodstuffs, toiletries, alcohol, water, kids toys etc)

We used the bar/restaurant a few times, once for take-away other times we sat in the bar (the terrace was always busy at mealtimes) for drinks of ice-creams. The quality fo the food and drinks was good and the bar service good also.

There was a large animation (entertainment) hall that was lively and full most nights, discos, live music etc, but not our thing this time round and almost exclusively French. However always lively, well attended and noisy, but somewhat entertaining at a distance (our pitch was within speaker range but we were not fussed by this). Most nights Animations went on until 11:30pm, we would often try to settle around 10pm, the animations in themselves were not a problem.

Locality was great, local beach was 10 minute drive, supermarkets with 10 minutes in several directions, spend a pleasant day in the more commercial resort of Sables. We spent most of our time either at the beach or at the pool, that's what we chose to do but the choice of what to do is plentiful.

Local beach was superb, kept clean and also with some limited facilities (Huge car park but it does get full probably space for 1000 cars or so), very basic toilets and a beach shack for refreshments and ice creams. There is a small surf club on the beach. The beach has lifeguards between about 11:00am to 7pm during July and August. Remembering this is an Atlantic beach the waves can be large and the current quite strong, good for body boarding and surfing. The lifeguards were strict on swimming between the flags which depending upon the conditions were sometimes less that 50m apart, the sea was crowed at times, too crowded for my taste.
At low tide some great rock pools and lagoons to wade around in all sorts of sea life to be seen and found.
Whilst the beach itself is huge the area where you can swim is at time so restricted the beach can get very busy indeed, the density of people on the beach and the proximity to each other can be quite intrusive compared to our experiences on Cornish or Devon beaches for instance.
The beach becomes extremely busy between 4pm to 6pm.

Hopefully fairly positive review apart from the size of the pitch up until now, please read carefully the information below it is from our own experience and perspective as a tent camper and is somewhat not entirely the fault of the campsite owners and managers.

Our pitch and the four adjacent ones run parallel with the main throughfare from the facilities (pool, shop, bar, reception etc) to the main bulk of the mobile homes and other camping pitches. Not a great deal of vehicle traffic but pedestrians back and forth all day and night - no really a problem. When the Animations finished at 11:30pm between 150-200 people with little or no respect for other peoples privacy would shout, run around, play football etc along this roadway - I don't mind noise but it was excessive and every night. We often after 11pm had footballs kicked against the tent or car. (Adults, teenagers and kids)

During daylight hours (up until about 9:30pm) the noise was not noticeably, with the way our tent was pitched and our car parked it afforded some privacy.

What was particulary annoying and unacceptable was the number of people (adults, teenagers and kids) who though it was okay to run riot through our pitch or walk through it between our equipment and setup as a shortcut from one place to another. Little kids okay you understand they are exploring, yet several times I would have a Gas BBQ going and youngsters would run through the pitch chasing each other or their loose dog, On one occasion knocking over the luckily cooled BBQ. We had teenagers chasing each other tripping over guylines, once or twice pulling the pegs from the ground, not sure what I would of done if they had ripped my tent. On yet another occasion we watched with some pleasure late one afternoon around 30 or so adults, teenagers and kids running around with empty water bottles trying to soak each other on the roadway and adjacent grassed areas it was all vey entertaining and jovial, it become too much and excessive when these groups then rampaged over our equipment and pitch as if we were not there. One adult male I guess around 40 or so, stood with a large bottle of water in our pitch (not at the edge but smack bang where we were sitting enjoying our wine) waiting for one or more individuals to appear around the corner so he could soak them. In my best angry Anglo-French I appealed to his sense of decency and asked him too disappear, with an indignant shrug he ignored me I was forced to assist him from our pitch much to his disgust.

We were forced to erect or tie spare guy-lines over the remaining openings and throughfares in fortification of the constant and downright rudeness over the entire two weeks of our stay (so not the same people just a general theme with all of them). I am not sure what the campsite management could of done about the situation apart from make an empty appeal at the bar for more restraint.

On several evenings stray dogs (unleashed not feral) would wander through our pitch without any sign of an owner (the site rules are dogs on leash), often late at night we could hear dogs outside and sniffing at the bedroom end of our tent.

My point being in two weeks the rudeness and lack of privacy was constant not just one or two disrespectful individuals or groups. Most of the site is dedicated to mobile homes so there outlook on noise and personal space is somewhat dictated by there insulated walls.

The POOL Area.
It looked impressive, there is a large area described as the lazy river with the shallow beach type padding area, slides etc and then a more conventional rectangular pool. The lazy river pool was clearly heated, the rectangular pool not but extremely refreshing in the heat of the day. Plenty of sun beds and one our first use at the beginning of the second week nice and clear and clean. Over the week the water became cloudy and large number of dead insects floated around in the water (the skimmers of pumps were clearly not working, and several visual inspections took place so it was not un-noticed), the water also got warmer as the week progressed another side of lack of circulation and filtering. We had to stop using the pool altogether on the last few days. The area surrounding the pool also became increasingly dirty and no cleaning was ever witnessed (mostly leaf litter, dust and accumulated dirt).

The rectangular pool was used for Aqua fit in the mornings for about an hour and water games for about an hour after lunch. On more than one occasion the afternoon water-games extended to 2-3 hours for around 25 individuals - the remaining 50 or so people wanting to use this pool were excluded - abetter balance needs to be found.

One thing that was not on the website or information is that the pool facilities are available to general days visitors, so it effectively became a public pool with large numbers of day visitors (different colour wristbands) at times outnumbering the "residents" and making the whole area extremely busy.

Nevertheless we enjoyed our stay and took everything in our stride with the help of local wine and strong beer.

They have the right facilities and the pitches with the private facilities are a great asset, but its is not managed well for the reasons above, If it were I would return but sadly based on the experience we had we will look elsewhere.

If you feel you can dealt with the small pitch, lack of privacy and the somewhat overcrowded and dirty pool area in favour of all the plus points then there are some positives to be found, more in a mobile home than a tent or camper.

We did mention some of these things to the reception, but my lack of conversational French did not really get the finer point across.

Camping in Tent with private facilities July/Aug 2018

Not a site for families with young children who enjoy a sleep on holiday.
We paid extra for the pitches with private bathroom and wash facilities. Unlike the picture online, the ground was very dusty with no grass at all.
The entertainment at night was so loud all nights except Saturday and Sunday. The base on the music was more fitting for magaluf as you'd here all over the camp site until midnight.
The kids park area was so loud every night with kids screaming until late. One night the entertainment staff had a party in the kids club with booming music which was so loud at 2am, it woke me and my 1 year old baby. I knocked on the window to tell them to turn it down but they did just abit so I didn't get back to sleep until half 3! I complained the next day and the reception staff and manager where nice and oppologised but it was too late really. When checking out I was asked if the staff who partied came to me to say sorry, which they had not. 
The pool was great and site is a good location too. Restaurant food was nice! 
Just a shame about the noise really, definitely not somewhere I would recommend for young families apart from the pool area.


Not recommended for families with young children who like to sleep

We booked a week here with our children in August, the pitches were small, very close together with a small hedge separating them. We thought we could make the most of it so pitched anyway.

We booked private facilities, these were clean, the toilet, sink, and shower were all separate. 

The public toilets near the park were not clean, had no soap and frequently had no toilet paper. 

The food and service in the restaurant were both excellent. 

The play park was very close, children played out until midnight unsupervised. This was very loud with children on bikes returning to the adjacent pitch to complain loudly to parents. The music from the club house was also very loud.

The next morning we made a visit to reception knowing it wasn’t the site for us. We were refunded the rest of the week and moved on to an Airbnb. 

Be aware, not a quiet campsite!! 

My family and I recently planned to stay at Domaine de L’Oree campsite as, according to their website, it has “direct access to the beach”. It was only after settling our bill on arrival that the staff informed me that the beach is 2km away – over 30 mins walk!

We decided to have a look around the site and it soon became apparent that it was not the “Children paradize” it claimed to be. 

Our pitch was located in a section of the campsite separated from the main resort by a public road, with little security to prevent any pedestrian entering. There were also several gangs of youths lurking around that raised concerns for the safety of my family and children.

The pool area was very crowded – they probably couldn’t be bothered with the 30 minute walk to the beach!

So, shortly after arriving, I expressed my concerns with reception. They were not interested and refused to give me any kind of refund when I decided that we would not be staying there after all, as I felt they had misrepresented the campsite (I had only paid a few minutes earlier). In the end, I decided that the safety of my family was more important that the £250 I could not afford to lose.

If you want a family friendly beach holiday, then this is not the place for you!

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