Saint-Emilion

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Oasis in a landscape of vines

We spent 7 days here, near the end of the season. It had originally been a stopover site - but due to car breakdown, our time here was extended. The really great thing about this site is the number of free activities available on it. Our shaded pitch overlooked the lovely lake - with free boating, the pool was the warmest I have ever swum in (delightful), crazy golf, tennis - all free for those on site. The area is a little dull to spend a whole week there. St Emillion is a great medieval town but it mostly functions for tourists. The area surrounding the site is vineyard as far as the eye can see. Good for flat cycling but a little monotonous to look at. We hired a car to go to surrounding areas - but that wasn't too inspiring either. Bergerac was recommended to us - but at around 50 miles away, it was too far for us. We were always really glad to get back to the site and relax at the pool. We even enjoyed the water slide a few times! The showers (the central ones)were like hotel showers; the best I have ever seen on a camping site. Staff at the site spoke English well and were really helpful - giving us info we needed re: taxis, trains, car hire. This is a really lovely site!

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Flutel

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Reviewed on 13/10/2016 14:20

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A real treat!

What a lovely site. A really efficient and friendly welcome with a comprehensive explanation of the facilities available. We were allocated a generous, shaded and hedged, private pitch, which was accessible to units of all sizes. Toilets and showers were clean and well maintained. The leisure facilities were superb, with a lovely heated pool complex (which we had pretty much to ourselves), on site restaurant and local wine sales (not cheap wine, but then again St Emelion Grand Cru rarely is cheap!). Complimentary rowing and canoeing, on a lovely little lake (which we also had to ourselves!), was available during daylight hours. The site offered a shuttle service into the delightful town, which at less than two miles from the site was also a pleasant walk along quiet lanes through the fields of vines. There was absolutely no indication that the site was entering its last week of the season, nothing looked tired or neglected and the staff were always pleasant and attentive. We will definitely visit a Yelloh Site again. Word of warning! The Avtex CC satnav does not offer the best route to the site, from St Emilion follow the signposts. The satnav directs you along single track lanes with sharp bends, ditches and few passing places. Although passable with our mid sized (6.6mtr) motorhome it would not be a good route for a towed caravan of any size.

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Stevesie

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Reviewed on 26/09/2016 14:52

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Beautiful Site

Stayed at the end of their season, but it was still quite full with all nationalities of visitors. The pitches are divided off by hedges with some facing a lovely lake with the resident ducks letting you know that it was their lake...... The facilities were first class, spotlessly clean. The site offered a free bus service into St Emilion which was really useful. St Emilion itself is a small but beautiful medieval town with its cobbled steep streets and plentiful wine shops. There is a site seeing bus/train that runs around all the local Chateau Vineyards where you can get off and sample the local wines. My only caution is that sat-navs do struggle with the location and try to bring you through some very small roads some no wider than a footpath. It was quite a topic of conversation with my German and Dutch fellow motor homers. But, don't be put off, it's well worth it. Because once you do arrive you get a great welcome from the multi-lingual staff, and find yourself on a great site.

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MJD47

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Reviewed on 13/09/2016 16:13

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Great site

Now our second stop here, site is great. Pitches are good size, facilities are plentiful and clean, and staff are very helpful. Easy to get to St Emilion and also to other places around. Site is easy to get to from Bordeaux ring road. Worth a visit!

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Huggybear

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Reviewed on 13/09/2016 09:36

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Overnight Stay Wished We'd Booked 3

Great site, great location for visiting the vineyards of the region. Small lake on site offers fishing and boating. Pitches are of a good size and private. On site restaurant is good with entertainment provided. Site is about 25 to 30 minutes drive east of the Bordeaux ring road as is okay as an overnight stop over if you are travelling further south. Facilities are adequate and clean.

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james

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Reviewed on 29/08/2016 18:09

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Tip, Top Site

We had an excellent stay at St. Emilion, the site and staff were excellent, the staff being so obliging even when we went back to them saying the placement allocated (No 51) was to small for a caravan / car / awning due to having a tree in the centre. No problem they offered another two placements for us to look at which were ideal. The facilities were second to none, overall an excellent site run by a first class team, long may it continue...

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Colehouse

Reviewed on 25/08/2016 16:41

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Good place to stay

We have enjoyed 2 stays at this site and is what we believe to be an excellent camping site. Staff always helpful, facilities clean and maintained to a very good standard. Pitch was large and easy access to water and power. Lots of trees and both sunny and shade for those hot summer days. We will be returning when we are next in that area.

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mikep1

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Reviewed on 18/08/2016 20:17

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So Many Vineyards

We used this site for 2 nights as we travelled north. There was the Jazz Festival on during the time we were there- great music. As this was a short stay we did not want to travel far so some of the places available were too far away for this stay. St Emilion was interesting but a small place so one day would be sufficient for a visit. Wine enthusiast would be able to make more of the area.

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RogerSaab

Reviewed on 30/07/2016 19:28

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Good Base to visit Saint-Emilion

We spent a week here in early July this year. The site was tidy and clean, the staff were pleasant and helpful and the pool was good. We had a lakeside pitch that was thankfully fenced off from the lake as our springer spaniel would have loved to play with all the ducks that regularly came calling. The lake water is very smelly if your dog goes in so avoid this if possible. Despite being told that the shop sold bread and croisants every morning and there was no ordering system as they had plenty, bread was available but unless you were ther at 0800 forget croisants as they quickly sold out. Our pitch was a reasonable size but was made difficult by the large concrete electric hook-up point shared by 3 pitches which was in a difficult position. However, the main issue was a large tree growing near the middle of the pitch that made manoeuvering and siting our 7m caravan difficult. This was compounded by the small round seeds that constantly fell from the tree and sounded like stones hitting the roof all night! When we came to leave we found that both the caravan and awning were covered in a sticky sap type residue which necessitated a complete scrub of the caravan and awning on our return home. Despite this, it was good to return to visit Saint-Emilion again and we found a large lake, that is a rowing course with a swimming beach, parking and good walks the other side of Libourne. In summary, nice site with a good pool that is probably quite noisy in high season, but DON'T accept a pitch right under the trees!

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Colinfb

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Reviewed on 29/07/2016 08:07

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Pitch problems

I am glad we only stayed one night. We arrived mid June and as happened last time we stayed they had been subjected to lots of rain and the pitches were like mud baths. They were aware of this but did nothing to aid drainage. We had to change pitch as we could not physically get the van onto the pitch. We saw another couple that got stuck. They need to cut back the trees so that the sunlight can get to the pitches to help dry them out. They have replaced the toilet block but there are not enough toilets we had to wait twice in the one night we were there. Will we return a third time.....no way I can't face the thick mud again !!!!!

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Digger50

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Reviewed on 17/07/2016 21:50

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