Name: Camping Domaine de la Dragonniere
Address: Route Departementale 612,34450 Vias sur Mer., Portiragnes, Portiragnes, Portiragnes, 34450, France
Rating: 8

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Beziers Vias Airport

Plateau des poètes

Musee de Biterrois

Les Halles de Béziers

Musee des Beaux Arts

Place de la Revolution

Beziers Cathedral

Fonserannes Locks

Montpellier Aqueduct

Peyrou Gardens

Peyrou Gate

Medieval Mikve

Montpellier Cathedral

Opera House

Comedy Square

Musee Atger

Jardin des plantes de Montpellier

Languedoc Museum

Musee du Vieux Montpellier

Esplanade Charles de Gaulle

Fabre Museum

Le Triangle Shopping Center

Corum Convention Center

Esplanade de l'Europe

Montpellier Mediterranee Airport

Camping Domaine de la Dragonniere

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Facilities and site excellent. Ibiza style parties drowning out our radio on our pitch not so good, Even though we are a few hundred meters away from the entertainment, the bass is shaking the ground,

Our last Sandaya experience was excellent, but this is hell. If we could leave early, we would.

Noisy. Seriously noisy.

Just returned from 2 weeks holiday with my wife and kids (9 & 11) on the campsite and had a wonderful time. The several pools available provided a good balance for what individuals require. Adults tend to enjoy the deeper of the two "olympic" pools whereas kids enjoy the Havana pools, slides and lagoon. Worth noting that no inflatables are permitted in any pool and is strictly policed by lifeguards. Balls and sinkers appear to be fine apart from if a swimming session is on in olympic pool. We were camping on a premier pitch which was quite tight for our family tent (8m long) and didn't allow us to put up an awning to provide well needed shade. Gravel has been placed around the sanitary blocks on the pitches which has migrated onto the actual pitches making it uncomfortable under foot in a tent and actually punctured the groundsheet of our friends on an adjacent pitch. The pitches are probably more suitable for caravans than tents or require a good stone pick prior to pitching. Not sure how feasible this is though as some stones are bedded in. Despite the small issues with the pitch we still had a great stay. Several restaurants on site provide variety for adults and the option of takeaways from sushi bar, pizzas and also full cooked chickens provide options for food. Kids menu however is generally the same in most restaurants (4-5 options). Staff are generally very friendly and happy to help and although sometimes staff don't speak perfect English they are patient enough to work through with us when our French didn't make muster. We only had one experience in the grill restaurant where staff appeared disinterested and unhappy to serve, perhaps they were just having a bad day. Lots of activities going on around the campsite during the day should you wish to get involved. Entertainment on site on evenings was good, kids particularly enjoyed magic show although we did struggle to enjoy the clubbing night that went on until the early hours (We were a reasonable distance from the stage, I feel for those who were closer).  Site has lots to offer with trampolines, ping pong, petanque areas, bike hire (not sure has the best cycle links around the campsite though but didn't explore in depth) skate park, tennis courts, volleyball etc.
Site ideally located for visiting wider areas such as Narbonne, Beziers, Carcassonne, Montpellier (Has a free zoo), also possible to drive into Spain (We visited Gironde) which kids thought was an amazing adventure.

Domaine de la Dragonnaire

A great place all told but one major issue that will stop us returning……the showers !!.

Here on site at the moment in a Cottage Taos and we await our second visit from the technical team as we have no hot water.  Not such a major issue but if you value a hot, dependable, good pressure shower…….don’t come here.  The showers are actually freezing…..

It’s our second visit and the first was the same.  Maybe we were just unlucky, we thought.  Nope…..same issues as last year so never again.  

Shame……..as noted, it’s a good all round site but not being able to take a good shower at the end of the day is a basic requirement.

Close but no hot shower……

We really enjoyed our stay at this campsite. Very close to beaches and plenty to do on site too. It was busy but this was not too noticeable when in your own pitch. Facilities were good too and so was the pizza takeaway.

One thing we did notice was the quality of the private sanitary. In comparison to the other Sandaya site we have visited, this was slightly disappointing. Overall, we really enjoyed our trip. 

Amazing campsite!

We stayed here following a recommendation from a friend who spoke highly about the facilities and the evening entertainment.

We stayed in our motorhome opposed to the chalets and the pitch was a decent size and the individual bathroom and washing up facilities specific to you were really helpful. Access from the camping site to the main facilities was just a 2 minute walk.

The beach/lagoon and pool areas are the main attraction at this site, in particularly the lagoon which is really picturesque.

Where this site let's itself down is the service from staff. I read several reviews that their English wasn't great and thought "why should it be, I am in France after all?!" Whenever we go overseas we always try to make an effort to converse in the native language and 99% of the time there is a level of respect between everyone for the efforts made and we get there!.... Not here...... 

The staff at all of the food outlets have little or no time for those that don't speak French. They are rude, arrogant and despite you paying prices more akin to a 5* resort in Dubai, they make even asking for a napkin a massive chore, flailing their arms and shrugging their shoulders at the mere request. In particular the gentleman at the bakery seems insistent on belittling those that don't speak French, even when my wife was trying to order 4 items with the equivalent cost to a small family car, He seemed insistent on making an example of her in front of the queue to the point she was visably upset. 

In summary, the good facilities are completely overshadowed by rude and arrogant staff with little or no ability to offer any form of customer service. I only good experience was at the check in at the very beginning of the holiday. Combine this with massively overinflated prices (which we were willing to overlook intially) I would not recommend this site. 

Mange tut Rodney, Mange Tut. 



Good facilities overshadowed by terrible service and staff.

Absolutely Paradise for the couples with children.
Great swimming pools, entertainment, friendly staff. At the age of fifty, we passed this stage of our lives, our children are adults and don't have grandchildren, but still it was a very nice stay.
Prons:
Campsite is very close to Beziers aiport, almost a
 walking distance. It took us approximately 15 minutes to get there.
Great and new mobile homes, very well equipped and clean. 
Amazing swimming pools, very children friendly and safe.
Very friendly staff.
Good entertainment. I enjoyed water aerobic. 
Great place to explore Beziers, Cap d'Agde and the surrounding areas even without a car. There is a bus stop in front of the campsite number 650. We used it explore the surrounding areas. 
Good takeaways, pizza, Chinese with reasonable prices.
Great place for riding bikes and long walks.
Cons,
The supermarket at the campsite was extremely overpriced with a quite limited selection of food and a very limited  choice of fruits and vegetables, but we were at the end of the season. 

Overall,  I can highly recommend this place,  especially for the couples with children for stress free holidays and great time for children. 
For couples like we are,  slightly older it's a great place to have a relaxing time.

Babies' Paradise

We stayed for 7 days, in a 10 bed lodge. Our group was three adults and four children 8 to 13 years.
Accomodation - great, spacious rooms. Much better than chalet / static caravan type accomodation. Had everything you needed to be very comfortable.

Place - we really enjoyed the Olympics pool, two large pools, one approx. 1m deep ideal for the younger ones. Plenty of sunbeds and chairs available. This pool area is much quieter than the main pool with slides etc.
There are plenty of food options, we used the pizza and burger takeaway a few times. On site shop and bakery are a little small, but sell everything you need. 

Entertainment - all in french, little English spoken. The night time entertainment was still very good, bands, on site staff doing quiz type games. There are quite a few paid for things, trampolining, cycle hire, archery which are a little expensive. 

We are looking to book again for next year.

Family stay, great fun

We spent an enjoyable week here in August 2022.  The site is huge, much bigger than any compsite we have stayed at before.  We had a Cottage Luxe Taos which was excellent, although note that the pitches generally on the site are small with very small or no grassy areas beyond the decking.

The pools and slides are good and varied, if a little crowded, and the lagoon is a lovely alternative.  The shop and bakery are very well stocked and there are multiple eating options on site (eat in and takeaway).  There is a lively games room and evening entertainment which appeared to be very well attended.  Our children are younger but it looked like the site was best suited for slightly older children who could have freedom to cycle or scoot around the site going between different pools, game areas, skateboard tracks, outdoor gym zones etc.  Driving in and out of the site could be quite hazardous with all the people around! Our cabin was on the edge of the site although I suspect it would be incredibly noisy for those located near the centre with the evening entertainment.

We had a good time on the site and made a few trips to nearby towns and the beach (which was a 10 minute drive away).   Overall we liked it: we probably found it a tad on the big side although our children preferred it to other campsites we have been to.

Big but fun

Spent 2 weeks here with another family and stayed on the camping pitches.

Site is very much geared to chalets (of which there are loads of!) All pitches are in one small area of the site. We opted for the luxury pitch which had a private shower/toilet, outside washing up facility, bbq, fridge, 2 sunbeds and seating area along with electricity supply.

Pitch was fairly big but the shower room takes up quite a lot of it. Once car, caravan and awning are set up there’s not much room left. I assume the pitches were once grass but they are now pretty much all very dusty/mud. Pitches are close together and not much privacy. Don’t be deceived by the website pictures!

Facilities at the site are pretty good. The water slide pool is good with a variety of slides which kept our 10 and 7 year old entertained most of the time. Pool was clean and we never had any issues with getting a chair (there’s no sun beds) The lagoon pool is also very nice, lots of clean white sand with plenty of shaded areas. There is another pool at the other end of the site but we didn’t use it as it was so far from the pitch.

There are a number of takeaways available. We only used the pizza takeaway once - very expensive and busy so orders were slow. Friends we were with used the buffet - very expensive and not great quality. There is also a burger takeaway but we didn’t bother using this.

There is also a crepe/waffle/ice cream shop which was fairly good but again quite pricey.

There’s a baker and grocery shop but we didn’t use them - prices seemed high in comparison to other sites we have stayed on. 

The poolside bar was nice and overlooked the slide pool/lagoon. Prices were fairly standard.

Some have mentioned about needing to speak French - we didn’t find any such issue. It’s at least polite to try and speak French - it is the language after all! However once my limited vocabulary ran out, all staff we spoke to could help out with English or would slow down so we could understand. 

On site entertainment was of mixed quality, we went along to a couple of the nights, however we could hear it from the pitch anyway as it was very loud. 

We were on the furthest pitch away from the main stage and could still hear - fortunately it didn’t really disturb us too much. I felt sorry for those closer as it must have been unbearable - most nights going on past midnight. There’s no option to pitch in a quieter part of the site - it seems campers/caravanners get the raw end of the deal. Whilst I appreciate it’s all to entertain etc. some people probably want to get some sleep as well!

That said once it had finished the site does go quiet and we had no other issues.

Nearby there are nice towns nearby (Beziers, Vias) with nice places to eat and experience French lifestyle. Plenty of supermarkets (around 10mins away) and the statutory Decathlon too!

Overall we enjoyed our first foray to the south of France but we wouldn’t stay here again. The site is geared very much towards chalets as this is clearly where they make the money. Pitches are pretty poorly kept and need resurfacing so you don’t end up with a thin lay of dirt/dust over everything! However pitch facilities were good and the private shower/toilet was great. As already said the pitches are close to the evening entertainment so you get to enjoy that every night if you like it or not!

Not brilliant…

Just be aware that being English does effect your stay. None of the activities have English speaking people and most staff don't speak or don't want to speak English. It wouldn't stop me going again and the site itself is amazing! we loved our stay.

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