Camping Les Places Dorées — Hotel in Les Sables-d'Olonne

Recently returned home from a 2 wk stay on an tourism pitch with electric & water on this site. We had a lovely time here, brought back memories for my husband who had stayed here previously with his dad over 12 years ago! |Upon arrival, the girls in reception were happy to help & very quickly helped us book in with a little map of the site so we could find our way to the pitch. It was slightly annoying that there wasn’t an electric socket for us , seeing as thats what we had booked, they sent the maintenance man over with a very long lead , in fact he had to walk through 3 other pitches before he could attach it for us! And when it tripped one evening, we couldn’t go and put it back on as the box was locked! So we had to wait overnight with no electric in our caravan! Also a strange thing was, they closed the toilet block at 11pm every night, so we had to walk to the main shower/toilet block Where one toilet was available to use, but for a site that big, we thought it was an odd thing to do!? Apart from that, the site was great, lovely pool area & 2 slides, the new bar area was fab aswell, the staff who seemed to work non stop were lovely & always made an effort to speak to us.|Saint Jean de Monts old town itself was very pretty, and we spent many evenings along the beach front too, fabulous restaurants, too many to chose from!|Would definitely recommend this area for family’s who want to holiday with the best of both, beach one side and then inland all sorts of tourist attractions! |Bike hire very reasonable, bike tracks all around the site & across the road which you could cycle to the towns either side of the site, Notre-Dame de Monts next town over was so lovely! |We would definitely return to Les Places Dorees sometime...

Location and facilities great - but not ideal for English families.

We stayed with our touring caravan at this location. Unfortunately our pitch was tucked in a corner (thank god for a motor mover!) and it was mainly sand so this wasn’t fun constantly trying to keep the sand out the caravan with young kids. Not all the pitches seemed like this though, the majority of the site is static caravans. The kids enjoyed the swimming pool area, although my son got a sickness bug from the indoor pool. We managed to get sun loungers by going early as they get taken up if not. The splash area is nice for the little children. Kids enjoyed the play park too and the sports areas. They also had fun riding their bikes and scooters around the site. Toilets were clean and the showers good. Although they seem to close them at 5pm for cleaning and this was when people wanted to shower after a pool or beach day for the evening. Unfortunately the staff do not speak much English at all, my kids wanted to do the activities but found it not accessible because of that. We tried to join in a quiz one evening with one staff member translating but then she just gave up and we couldn’t understand what was happening. The same for the restaurant staff and reception. Very limited English and appeared unhelpful when trying to order and ask about things. Nice to order the pasties for the morning although limited items. We had a nice holiday but definitely wouldn’t return or recommend for an...

We had a great holiday here. The site is extremely clean and well organised. The pools are good and the new slides and children’s water area excellent.||||British should be aware that this is a predominantly French site and whilst we were most welcome by everyone it did mean that our kids couldn’t make friends and that some of the entertainment wasn’t as accessible. ||||The location is brilliant. 5 min drive from the excellent beachfront 8 mins to Explora Park. ||||The indoor pool can get a bit overrun at times and would benefit from better supervision as some of the teenagers messed about and took risks that made it dangerous for themselves and others. ||||When we had a problem with our electric supply it was fixed within 30 mins, which was great. ||||Biggest problem was the poor Wi-fi in the site. Other sites along the strip advertise free Wi-fi but we had to pay here €24 for 2 devices for a weeks access. We wouldn’t have minded but we could hardly use it as it was so poor. We wouldn’t get it in our caravan, and the best locations for it were where we could get 4G signal on our phones. total was a total waste of money and the only reason why we might not...