Château Lez Eaux, St Pair Sur Mer

Description      Booking Your Holiday       Getting There     Things to do in the Area   

Description of the Campsite

Chateaux Lez Eaux is a picturesque four star Castels campsite.  It is a peaceful campsite for those who want to enjoy their holidays.

The site is in an excellent situation right on the West Coast of Normandy close to some excellent beaches and very close to Brittany, Mont St Michel, Granville and the Channel Islands.  New for this year is a redesigned indoor waterpark.

The site is at Saint-Aubin des Préaux which is only 4km inland and a short drive from St Pair Sur Mer, a small town of only 3,000 inhabitants and which has a beautiful long sandy beach where you can take part in watersports. 

The larger town of Granville is 5.5 kms to the North. The site is off a main road, but is surprisingly quiet.

The facilities on the campsite include :

• Excellent swimming facilities including an outdoor swimming pool and an indoor waterpark with slides.  Please note that boys and men may need to wear the speedo or trunk style swimming suits as opposed to the baggy shorts style swimsuits. This is the case in many pools in France so its well worth packing them anyway !

• Kids clubs in high season, including from the main tour operators

• fishing on the lake

• a fantastic playground as well as an inflatable playground

• a games room

• a football field

• tennis courts, table tennis tables and a volleyball court

• bike hire

• a market onsite with local products on Monday evenings

• a grocery which has fresh bread in the mornings

• a bar and terrace with two internet access points and free WiFi  access throughout the Bar and Terrace. There is also a large screen TV for you to follow any events.

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Booking Your Holiday at this Campsite

Book Your Holiday at Chateaux Les Eaux Campsite with Keycamp

These links will take you to the Keycamp and Eurocamp websites where you can find out more about the holidays, get a quotation and book your ideal holiday.

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Getting There

Hover your mouse over the map for some more information about the various ports and airports. This information is kept as up to date as possible but please only use it as a guide and check details of all flights and crossings with airlines, tour operators and ferry operators.

Ports

There are sailings by ferry with Brittany Ferries and other operators to some of the following ports which are the nearest ones to St Pair Sur Mer  :

• St Malo: 87 km
• Roscoff: 256 km
• Caen: 119 km
• Cherbourg: 108 km
• Le Havre: 212 km

Airports

There are flights by a variety of airlines from the UK and Ireland to the following regional airports. Hover over the map to discover some airlines which fly to each airport (please note that this information was up to date at time of writing but you will need to check details of flights with your tour operator or airline) :

• Rennes airport :  114 kms
• Nantes airport:  213 km
• Dinard airport: 90 kms
• Beauvais airport: 405 kms
• Poitiers Airport 395 kms
• Paris Charles De Gaulle: 360 kms
• Paris Orly: 360 kms
• Deauville airport (166 kms) is a small airport used mainly for French holiday charter flights

Public Transport

• Local Railway:  Granville (6kms)  Services To: Paris but fairly infrequent. Please check with campsite for further information about public transport.

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Things to Do in the Area

Mont St Michel - a magnificent abbey on an island. One of the first sites to be included on UNESCO's World Heritage List. This is busy but well worth a visit if you haven't already been to this most visited Tourist Attraction in France !  The narrow streets can get busy in high season and you may find them difficult with very young children and buggies. If you have young children and are desperate to see it then it might be a good idea to try and get there as early as possible to avoid the crowds. 

Cobac Park is a small leisure park for children, with a swimming pool, slides, roundabouts, miniature train and play area. There is also mini-golf, a bouncy castle and pony rides. It is situated at Le bois du Cobac, 35720 LANHELIN. To link to a map of how to get there click here. To link to the internet site for the park, click here.

Zoo de Champrepus at Villedieu-les-Poêles in Normandy is an excellent zoo with 50 different species in 7 hectares. To link to its internet site click here.

The Scriptorial in Avranches contains some of the precious ancient manuscripts from the Abbey at Mont St Michel.  For more information click here.

Granville is a lovely small town, famous as a yachting centre. It is just five and a half miles north of the Campsite.  Here you will also find the Christian Dior and Richard Anacreon Museum.

World War 2 Museums and Historic Sites - there are many sites to be seen in Normandy, related to World War 2.  For some of the sites that can be seen in Avranches please click here.  The D-Day celebrations take place this year from 5th to 7th June.  More information about World War 2 and Normandy can be found by clicking here.

The Aquarium du Roc in Granville is worth a visit. Have a look at its internet site by clicking here.

Coutances Cathedral (29 kms).

The Jazz Festival "Jazz sous les Pommiers" (Jazz under the Apple Trees) takes place every May in Coutances. Jazz lovers from all over Europe flock to this festival where they will enjoy eight days of music and partying. It is now in its 29th year and the bill is bursting at the seams with music greats as well as plenty of up-and-coming talent. There will be promenade concerts and jam sessions as well as ad hoc performances where the music literally spills out onto the streets.  Click here for more information.

Mini Golf

Elves forest at Cerences

Many local producers of cheese, cider etc can be visited.

St Malo

87kms away is the walled town of St Malo which would be worth a day out. There is also an excellent aquarium at St Malo.

The walled town of St Malo is definitely worth a visit. There are many fantastic shops and restaurants within its walls.  You can also enjoy watching the artists or if you are brave enough you can have  your caricature painted !

The town has a fantastic history stretching back to the days of pirates, or corsaires, who set off from here, and leading right up to the recent history during the second world war in 1944 when many buildings within the walled town were bombed. The restoration job is so well done that you would never guess that many of the buildings have been restored.

The 2 hour walk around the ramparts will give  you some magnificent views of the coast and islands. There are many access points to the ramparts so you can chose to join or leave them at many points.

The photograph to the left shows a view of the port of St Malo taken from the walk around the ramparts.

There is always something to see around the port area. Here is a tall ship from the Tall Ships Race 2006 at St Malo.

St Malo has an excellent bus Park and Ride facility which is a great way to get into the walled city.

For some other ideas of events that are going on in Normandy have a look at the Guide2Normandy site.

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We have found that the campsites described are very good but we find that it is difficult to find a campsite which has 100% of what you are looking for.  Also one person may love a busy campsite with lots of activities while someone else may love a quiet campsite with a small swimming pool. Actually we tend to be the latter ! So what we have done is highlight the good points of the sites and maybe point out a few of what we have found as slightly negative points. However we strongly recommend that you make full use of as many internet sources as possible before deciding about your holiday, including other review sites and Google maps etc.