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Rated 1 of 5

Peace and quiet

Rated 4 of 5

Facilities and cleanliness

Rated 5 of 5

Location

Rated 4 of 5

Good for families

Great site for visiting Paris - but has major drawbacks in the way it's run

This is a city site in a built-up area with all the disadvantages that entails. It's not quiet or peaceful, you can hear trains rumbling across the nearby railway bridge over the Seine from very early in the morning until late at night. But having said that, for a city site, I thought it was alright. The pool area is nice and was open at Easter 2019 - we had amazing warm weather and had to go out and buy swimming trunks (yes, in common with pretty much everywhere else in France us guys have to wear trunks, not shorts). There's a big Carrefour across the other side of the river, about 3 miles away. The san facs were good too, but see below... There's a good site shop where bread / croissants etc can be ordered. You have to wear a bracelet to use the pool etc. Location is perfect for visiting Paris and all its sights and delights - about a 15 minute walk to the station from where it's 25 minutes or so to Etoile-Charles de Gaulle station for the Arc De Triomphe. As others have said the access roads are not brilliant - through residential areas but we had no problem either arriving or departing. BUT... the way the site is run is appalling. We arrived at 1.00 p.m. Reception had just closed for lunch, so nothing doing until 2.00 p.m. At 2.00 p.m. I duly returned to reception - you can't check in until 3.00 p.m. Why not? Because you can't. So 2 receptionists sat there talking and doing nothing for an hour. I returned to reception yet again at 3.00 p.m. By this time there was a queue of about 10 people also waiting to check in - I waited another 45 minutes to be seen by the one receptionist. The other one had cleared off somewhere else at the busiest time. Eventually after THREE HOURS of waiting, we were allocated a pitch... and we had a reservation. If you turn up here without a reservation, you get left till last. Secondly, the sanitary facilities were regularly closed for cleaning at 9.00 a.m. Call me lazy if you like, but I sometimes like to get up and have a shower a bit later on holiday than I do at home! In fact a lot of people seemed to be wanting to use the shower blocks at 9.00 a.m. but no can do. Why? Because that's when the staff want to clean them, apparently not realising that's pretty much peak time on a campsite where people are on holiday. The san facs are mixed too which might be a problem for some people. The pitches are not as smooth as we are used to from club sites in the UK and some looked pretty badly rutted. There was a distinct lack of taps too - only managed to find one that worked on a pitch that was unoccupied, not sure what we would have done if it had been busy. I would use this site again, if only because of its convenience factor but Sendaya seriously need to sort out some of the management issues which were incredibly irritating.
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