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Advantages: Unusual and brilliant spectacle Disadvantages: Its all in French!
We have travelled to the Vendee region of France several times and we had heard about The Grand Parc at Puy du Fou but it is billed as a Medieval Theme Park and it really didn't appeal to me! However having "done" many of the attractions in the area and faced with another day of dodgy weather (we were very unlucky in 2008) we decided to give it a go.
The tickets were about 25 euroes for adults and 15 for children. However when I enquired about directions at our campsite office they told me that we could buy tickets from them with a 5 euro discount each. This seems to be common practice in the area so either book online or through your accomodation if possible to bag a bargain! They also informed me that it was a simple journey and would be well signposted off the A87. They mentioned that the road to The Grand Parc gets busy ...
Advantages: Clean and reliable Disadvantages: Some cabins are getting "tired"
We haved travelled to France six times in the last 8 years and each time we have chosen to use Brittany Ferries for our crossing. This is more to do with the fact that they service the crossings we want to use rather than a conscious decision over other operators. We usually travel to the West side of France and the Calais crossing and the tunnel require longer drives for us on both sides of the Channel.
Brittany ferries operate from Portsmouth, Poole, Plymouth and Cork and travel to Caen, St Malo, Cherbourg, Roscoff and Santander.
I have always booked my tickets as part of a package with my campsite accomodation with various tour operators so I am not sure how much each crossing costs but the crossings can also be booked direct from their website: www.brittanyferries.com . I did speak to someone else on a campsite a couple ...
Advantages: Amazing shows; attractive setting Disadvantages: Too much to do in one day
, but just in case you're going I won't spoil the surprise.
Regretfully we didn't get to the other show with the birds of prey as we wanted to look around the parc itself. There were a couple of villages that had been constructed with realistic shops you could wander around. A word of warning is that the medieval village was absolutely heaving with people so all we could do was manage to walk through it - no chance of getting into any shops. This was a disappointment as we'd been to the 19th century village and spent some time there looking around as it was loads quieter. We'd hoped that the medieval would be the same but it was not to be!
We certainly didn't manage to look at everything and it explains why the parc offers two and three day passes as it is truly impossible to do all the shows and see the entire parc in a day. You ...
