Advantages: Large pool, excellent mini-market, good location Disadvantages: General noise most evenings
La Carabasse is a Haven owned holiday park in the south of France. We went there for a week because a friend of the family owns a mobile home on the site and kindly lets people use it when she's not there. It had been years since my last foray into the world of camping, but I wasn't expecting much thanks to memories of a misspent childhood in flimsy tents in Brittany. I was pleasantly surprised - with the site, with the home, with the resort. In ... ...the lack of sun in la belle France, but this was my mother's only sun holiday of the year, poor dear).
So, La Carabasse. Haven sell it as a ferry/drive, Chunnel/drive or fly/drive holiday, but we did none of those things, choosing instead to fly into Nimes and publically transport ourselves to the site which is situated about 7 miles from Agde in a town which may, or may not, be called Vias Plage (see previous op). The site has a huge sweeping entrance ...
zoe_page 20.08.2005
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Advantages: LOTS FOR YOUNG CHILDREN TO DO - CHEAP HOLIDAY TOO! Disadvantages: NOISY AT NIGHT - POOL ON THE COLD SIDE IN THE DAY - YOU WILL GAIN A STONE EATING THE FRENCH FOOD!
...I went to La Carabasse with my two children aged 8 and 11. I booked flights separately through Ryanair and booked the holiday itself with Tesco Clubcard vouchers. If you don't have vouchers then it may be cheaper to book with a caravan owner onsite, than with Siblu direct. I wasn't keen on driving, so the receptionist at La Carabasse gave me a number for someone living on site, who I paid to come and collect us from Nimes airport (1 hour away). On ... ...buggy to take our luggage to our caravan. The caravan itself was a bit old and next time I would book earlier for a bigger and more modern caravan. We were very near the pool, so at night it was VERY noisy as the entertainment is on an outdoor stage. This didn't bother us, as we went to bed late anyway, but for info, it tends to quieten down about midnight. The slides were great - very little queueing. The pool though I have to say was very cold, ...
LAURALILIA 10.03.2009
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