what a lovely campsite. very friendly staff. pool wonderful warm. clean tolets showers. bread in the morning delicious. farm animals lovely to watch. very well kept site. we will be back thank you

La Grand Metairie near Talmont St Hilaire is a large campsite which accept Acsi cards. Our greeting was pleasant and a good level of English understood which is always helpful to us :-). This site is mainly static vans with 39 touring pitches which offer shade but not too much! We visited at the start of September 2015, initially for a week but ended staying 17 days!

To enter you need to go through a security gate which works on a fob, in the evening no vehicles allowed to move around on site between 11pm and 6am but there is limited parking in front of reception if you are late.

The two toilets blocks and showers are in central locations close to the touring pitches (and one near the restaurant), there separate facilities for male and female, between six and eight in the block which was open and there was not a problem. Toilet paper and seats or hand soap was not provided but in the female toilets there were seats.

There are two main pools with water slides (indoor is heated), a paddling/ shallowpool, water fall with a 'Whirl pool', jacuzzi and steam room.

Electricity is reported at 10 amps and we had no problems.

Pitches varied in size and required a pin plug (which was offered as a loan) you can not connect to the plug yourself, it is done for you.... To reduce folk using it without paying?

Water is not on all pitches, but can be obtained from the central toilet block area, although my pitch had water and a makeshift drainage point.... There was a TV point but it was not 'terminated' correctly. We have a small (normal) sky dish which gave us an excellent UK Freesat signal, awesome! (We checked our Aldi sat set up and this work well too).

For kids, there is a petting farm, more a pen really with goats, rabbits, chickens and goose etc. there is table tennis, tennis, boles etc. and there appears to be activities provided daily, according to the notice board.

There is a variety of shops (about 6 miles) nearby, Lidl and Super U.

A church is nearby and sounds to call parishioners and the hour, we did not hear it before 8am.

There are some really nice places to visit in this area and we plan to return (which is high praise as we rarely return).