Camping Seasonova Le Point du Jour

We had a wonderful time with our grandchildren—a spacious, hedge-lined site with very clean restrooms nearby.
Swimming pool, playground, and goats for everyone to enjoy
Warm welcome
Thank you—we’ll be happy to come back

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A quiet, family-friendly campground where we spent two pleasant weeks.
Pros: direct access to a quiet, supervised beach; sites clearly marked off by hedges; a few organized activities (bingo, concerts, karaoke, permaculture, mini-farm, etc.); the staff is welcoming, helpful, and attentive to guests’ needs; no noise after 11 p.m. or before 9 a.m.; clean restrooms that are cleaned regularly; vehicles drive slowly; comfortable bedding; a small snack bar on the campground and pizza/galette trucks parked in front of the campground every day; self-service herb gardens.
Cons: dishwasher unusable (dishes come out completely white despite adding rinse aid, salt, and cleaning with white vinegar...); pool too small and fills up quickly; spa too expensive, so we didn’t use it.

The campground's location and proximity to the beach—as well as the beach itself—are great.
However, I don't understand how this campground earned a 4-star rating based on its restroom facilities.

Two expensive weeks that were, in parts, a sound-and-light torture. Be very careful if you book online: I asked in advance to choose a pitch and my messages were simply ignored, so we ended up with one of the worst on the site: stony, on a steep slope, and with a motion-sensor light aimed directly at the only level patch of ground, which is of course where the sleeping area of our tent had to go. Every time someone walked past at night (which happened quite often), the tent lit up like a stage. Reception was unfriendly when we raised it and offered neither help nor an alternative pitch.

On top of that came the noise: on more than half of our fourteen nights, groups of teenagers were drinking and shouting until at least 1 a.m., sometimes until 4 a.m. They gathered at the playground and around the sanitary block. Both were unfortunately right next to our pitch (no. 75). Asking them to move to the beach or quieten down changed nothing, and the campsite clearly does nothing either. On a well-run site, that kind of repeated behaviour would get people asked to leave.

The sanitary facilities were a chapter of their own. There are no cold showers, only a preset warm temperature, which is not what I personally prefer after a day in the sun (there was no shade on our pitch, as on most of the pitches). Several times we found human feces on the floor around the toilets; that's on other guests rather than the cleaning staff, who worked hard and came through several times a day, and it may well be a high-season problem. The block doors lock automatically at night, and at one of the blocks the button that opens the door from the inside is unmarked. At around 3 a.m. one night we had to let out a woman who was hammering on the door and shouting in panic because she couldn't find it. That is a safety issue and needs a sign, at minimum.

The campsite is absolutely not recommended for tents. Most pitches simply aren't suitable, and there's no guarantee you'll get one of the few that are. Maybe we were even lucky with our mixture of sand, dust, dirt and small but sharp stones. Some pitches looked properly rocky. And despite carefully clearing away dozens of small stones and branches, we now have several tiny holes in the tent floor.

If you go there anyway with a tent, insist on a pitch as far from the sanitary block and playground as possible, avoid high season, and bring a small tent. Ours was too big, which left us no choice about how to position it on the pitch.

To be fair, the location is good, the beach is beautiful, there's an indoor pool, a well-equipped and well-maintained playground, and our child really enjoyed the pony riding. But for the price, two weeks of broken sleep isn't what we expected when we booked a presumably relaxing "slow life" stay.

A beautifully located campground with direct access to the beach. The campsites are quite tight. The restrooms are very well maintained. Great playground, pool, and friendly staff.