Having worked last season as a courier on a Eurocamp campsite, I can highly recomend you bringing your family across, depending on age, for example if the family is young and you want a beach holiday your best bet is the Vendee or Mediteranean, if they are older perhaps the Loire with its castles or the Dordogne for its magnificent caves and fabulous food.
Eurocamp also offer a flydrive option to some of their sites although I know in my experience many only went to that site for a couple of nights and went on to visit a couple of others on their break, this year we had Americans, Canadians and Australians on our site all with a hire car.
Other companies that might offer this service are Keycamp and Eurosites, although you cannot mix holidays with different companies!

Hope this helps

Colum Deignan schrieb:
    > Originally posted by John Lloyd:
    > > We are an American family of four considering a vacation in France and
    > > Italy next
    > > June. We are interested in staying at Eurocamp sites. Anyone have any
    > > comments or
    > > suggestions or experiences with Eurocamp?
    > >
    > > We are also trying to get an estimate on total vacation costs,
    > > however that is
    > > difficult not knowing car rental expenses, food costs, entrance fees
    > > to museums,...
    > > Anyone have any suggestions/experience on how to arrive at a very
    > > rough estimate on
    > > costs? I realize expenses vary depending on whether you are eating at
    > > five star
    > > restaurants or street vendors.
    > >
    > Having worked last season as a courier on a Eurocamp campsite, I can
    > highly recomend you bringing your family across, depending on age, for
    > example if the family is young and you want a beach holiday your best
    > bet is the Vendee or Mediteranean, if they are older perhaps the Loire
    > with its castles or the Dordogne for its magnificent caves and
    > fabulous food.
    > Eurocamp also offer a flydrive option to some of their sites although I
    > know in my experience many only went to that site for a couple of nights
    > and went on to visit a couple of others on their break, this year we had
    > Americans, Canadians and Australians on our site all with a hire car.
    > Other companies that might offer this service are Keycamp and Eurosites,
    > although you cannot mix holidays with different companies!
    > Hope this helps
Hi
we used Eurocamp for several years, in my experience you can completely
sure to be staying at the finest best kept campsites in Europe. We only
stopped using Eurocamp because the kids grew up, and we bought our own
gear.

The car issue is a problem - many campsites are in beautiful but remote
locations. With four people, it would seem to me to be an esential,
although many people in this NG may think otherwise.

Tom