Name: Aquatique Club La Pinède
Address: 2103, route de la Fouasse, Les Mathes, Les Mathes, Les Mathes, Les Mathes, 17570, France
Rating: 8

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We are currently staying at La Pinede and are having a wonderful time. 
On arrival we were initially unimpressed with our caravan - but this is on us as we booked the cheapest one, as an extra week with our little one following on from a larger family holiday in the may half term. We upgraded caravan the next day, during which reception staff were very helpful, and we just paid the difference in price.
This is the week after half term and the campsite is very quiet, and absolutely wonderful because of it! All the staff are very friendly, always say hello and are always smiling. 
The animation team are fabulous, especially Adam who always explains the bar games in French and English and tries to include everyone. 
The lifeguard at the pool is also wonderful, speaks to everyone, is very friendly, and very good at his job. The pool complex is spotlessly clean, the water is warm in the pool and the slides are great! The toilets at the pool are also kept very clean and are very stylish and modern. Speedo style swimwear for men are a rule and everyone seems to wear them.
The bar does a lovely mojito, again, the staff are friendly.
The campsite shop stocks basics, the croissant and pain au chocolate are ok but not the best. We found going into one of the local towns and finding a bakery to be the best thing for breakfast.
We brought the campsite WiFi and it has been mostly good, decent reception 80% of the time, enough for our little one to play games and stream YouTube when required.
We did a couple of days at a nearby beach, the water was shallow and not too cold which was perfect with kids. 
There does not appear to be a laundrette on site, but we found a reasonably priced one in nearby La Tremblade
All in all we are loving La Pinède. The facilities are good but the staff make it wonderful. They are friendly and absolutely brilliant with our little one!


Great site!

We stayed in a 3 bed privilege club accommodation for 7 days which was great. Superb location, close to the ocean, beautiful, absolutely amazing beach near by. Great activities for the kids ( mini golf, table tennis, great pool with slides, mini farm) sadly, animations  were  strictly in French, such a shame as there were a lot of English kids.

Great Camping Site

This is the 6th time we have been to La Pinede with our children and I came as a child multiple times 30 years ago! There have been so many improvements over the last 8 years - its been great to see the site grow

3 families, 3 touring pitches requested in advance all next to each other - pitches are a good size - however not all are on the site so its worth ensuring you get a pitch big enough for your van/ tents etc.

The site has so many positives - location, pool area, bar and restaurant are all really good and well maintained, staff are very friendly and really appreciate when you try and converse in French. One of the reasons we like this site is there are typically so few English, slightly more this year but still predominantly French. As a result all of the entertainment is in french - this doesnt bother us, however if you are looking for somewhere more 'british' this probably isnt the site for you.

Two areas that I would note as requiring improvement - shower/ toilet blocks - particularly the red one near the front - this is pretty dire, very poor standard of cleanliness and hygiene, no soap or hand sanitizer in sight. Availability of seating around the pool - in the morning this tends to be ok, however after lunch there is never any available and quite often lots of beds with no one coming back to them for long periods of time - some days this is managed and the lifeguards make everyone go back to their beds but not very often

Other than that another lovely 2 weeks in The Pines and cant wait to return!

Another great trip ....

This is our second visit to the site. Came back here as the children ( 14&16) loved the slides at the pool. 
We had a really good plot, spacious ( bit noisy as near the exit / entrance/ pool complex and restaurant) but we were happy as the plot accommodated campervan, large tent and sun shelter as well as our large trailer. Plot was dusty and a bit rocky in places but fine for us. Needed rock pegs in some areas of the pitch otherwise we wouldn’t have be able to put our tent up ( for reference) Pitches are generally semi shaded and a mixture. Can be noisy if near the field with the alpaca and goats ( goats bleat most of the early morning so if that bothers you, ask for a pitch at the back of the site) and you also have Luna park across the way. 
It was quite busy when we went here mid July and left early august but not comfortably so. 
Reception staff were friendly and very helpful. Security were efficient. Had an issue with very noisy neighbours and it was dealt with well. The ladies at the shop were a bit grumpy towards us if we paid by card.. beware! 

My BIGGEST issue with this site was the hygiene. We were close to the wash block ( red coloured interior near the front of the site) I was pretty shocked to see that there were NO soap dispensers or gel machines in the age of covid.  I did say this to reception and the lady there said there were soap / gel machines in all the wash blocks. In hindsight , not sure whether she understood ( my French is poor so speaking English) The wash block were poorly cleaned ( personally feeling) I’ve been camping for 40 years and mostly other campsites close the wash blocks a few times a day and hose the whole thing down, not here! So many times poo were around the loos for DAYS, the place stank, tissues over the floor for hours, the drains were blocked and it was fairly unpleasant. Put together with no soap and you’ve got stomach bug central waiting to happen. Generally I saw the cleaner with a cloth wipe around the sink ( 🤮) , wipe out the water on the floor rather than cleaning it all down with fresh water etc. Quite nasty. No bleach down the loos, no cleaning the whole toilets, just the rim with the cloth ( I’m hoping it wasn’t the same cloth that was around the sink) There we’re no toilet seats on the toilets either so pretty grotty…. The best toilets were the ones at the restaurant. They had soap and the elusive toilet seats. 
I can understand not having toilets seats if you are hosing the whole block down, as this wasn’t happening , it was just really dirty and unpleasant. We won’t be coming again due to the bathrooms to be honest. This was our main holiday so it was really important that we felt comfortable ( our son is also immunosuppressive due to Crohn’s disease so even more important it was clean) I don’t think the campsite view this area of there business highly enough. I did report this but like I say, perhaps the language barrier was an issue.  The soap in the restaurant did run out, I asked in French it had run out, was left empty a few more days. I then asked the cleaner again and she grumpily filled it. 
All in all, the location is good , if you can tolerate the noise from everywhere, the swimming pool is lovely and has been improved in the 7 years in between our visit and the site is lively. The entertainment is ALL in French but I think that’s fair enough. If you need to put your English children in the clubs, they might struggle unless you want them to learn French.
We did enjoy our holiday and so much of it was good, just not the hygiene ( that I’m sure you can see is quite an important element to us)

Ok… a bit disappointed

We arrived at Camping La Pinede after a very long journey and I explained in reception that  I didn’t have a car and asked if we could be located near amenities. Nothing was said and when we checked back in to reception to get our key we discovered that not  only were we not neE amenities, we were at the farthest end of the campsite from everything. Maybe there was a good reason for this but it wasn’t explained. The lady we spoke to, an older lady was not very welcoming. A few days later I asked about getting a taxi into La Palmyre to collect a hire car (I decided to rent as there are no taxis qnd few buses) and the same lady reprimanded me for not giving them more notice. I was told more than once they were too busy with check-ins . There was no-one else in reception while we were there. 

Then I was told there were no taxis and I’d have to get the bus. I asked what bus and I was told they didn’t know but she vaguely pointed in the direction of the bus stop. A reception in a resort that doesn’t know the local area? Or the buses that run to local areas? 

I went over to the bar/restaurant and asked a very helpful member of staff about buses and he went out of his way to try to help. The staff there are  generally very nice.  They should be running reception. Myself and three kids went to get a bus and it never came. I rang the hire car company and I changed the date until tomorrow and I’m hoping I can get a bus there. It’s a crazy situation in 2022

The resort has plus points, the pool,s, the wooded areas , the games area . All the entertainment is in French, we were sitting having our dinner and French people having great craic at an aperitif game that everyone else is excluded from. Same with the evening act. A fair few Irish people here . I wouldn’t mind all that too much if we had a good reception where you could go for advice and information when in an unfamiliar place.

Very unhelpful reception

We spent three weeks here in June 2022 and loved it. We booked the privilege club 6 person 3 bed for our family of three kids 6, 3 & 2. Perfect amount of space for all of us as we weren’t planning to hang out in the unit too much during the day and it had a nice deck outside for outdoor dining.

The outdoor grill was ideal for cooking dinner and the tropical shower was nice when it was very hot.

The campsite seemed to get very busy during the weekends with the locals but was still fine. There were a couple of other Irish & UK families but it’s mainly french. All the entertainment is in French but we weren’t bothered by that as
Kids were in bed early.

Pool and slides are great. Pool has a retractable roof if the weather turns bad.

I would recommend and come back.

Great family campsite for young Irish family

We had a brilliant holiday staying in one of the Premier Cabins overlooking the lake.We had a hot tub too which was really nice.Our first thought arriving was that the cabin was basic but it actually had all we needed apart fro the sun beds were uncomfortable and would have liked comfortable chairs outside. Other than that it was just brilliant and we definitely will go back. Lovely area to explore and a visit to Palymere Zoo is a must. Pool area is brilliant and clean. Great holiday

Very enjoyable

What a great location family friendly and the staff are excellent, the site has many activities for the kids to be entertained and it is close to many beaches -  I highly recommend la pinède, we stayed in the mobile home 4 bedroom privilege with hot tub by the lake it was perfect next to the lake and very quiet in the evening.

camping la pinède

This was our first holiday staying in a mobile home type accommodation as we normally camp and also the first trip to a bigger holiday camp.

We like the quiet life so we were a little nervous that we would find this a bit noisy but on arrival we were directed to our Amac accommodation and it was brilliant! A quiet spot away from the main hub but within a short walk of all the facilities. 

The park was safe we were happy for the kids to cycle around and they were able to entertain themselves either in the pools or at the football/ table tennis making friends from all over Europe. 

Good bar, good food at the restaurant, have the muscles! 

Only thing against it was that the entertainment was only in French but your in France so we embraced it and had

Make a trip to the beach great surf ! 

Looking at going back again this year. 


What a great holiday

Wonderful few days here. Staff are lovely. Pool complex is amazing. Mobile home with jaccuzi was brilliant. Clean, modern with lots of space . Beautiful places to visit nearby. Great time of year to go in mid September

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