Château de Bouafles

Liked Not our usual more basic rural campsite, but having all the facilities was great and very welcome at this point of our travels. It’s in an interesting area and we enjoyed exploring. A wander around the site revealed the banks of the River Seine! and there is a cycle path which takes you out into the surrounding countryside. The food and cider went down well at the end of the day. Great washrooms too.

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From the manager: merci beaucoup et au plaisir de vous revoir

Liked We stayed on VIP pitch with own facilities which was overlooking a meadow and the hills which was lovely. The site has a cycle route running through it giving excellent access to the Seine Vilo route. We used this to cycle both directions along the Seine. The Chateau has a nice terrace area which was good to sit and drink wine or beer and the Pinsa was great. The dog Tao was uninterested in the visitors. Gaillard Chateaux is within a nice walking distance we did a circular walk up through the forest and back along the cycle route. Les Anderleys is a nice town with grocery shops available

Disliked Our pitch was lovely however was let down through lack of weeding (lots of thistles) and mowing of lawn although the mowing did get done whilst we were there. The walk to the washing up area was about half a mile round trip and the bins were nearly round trip from our pitch. It would be worth thinking about adding additional bins or facilities down this end of the site. It wasn’t an issue but would have been if weather was bad.

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From the manager: Thank you for your compliments.
Allow me to explain a few things:
Regarding weed control, all treatments are now banned in France, and even more so in rural areas. We are now moving towards more natural methods and doing away with lawns everywhere. We will have to tolerate weeds!
As for trash, the trucks only collect it from one location. If we put trash cans all over the campground, we will attract animals and odors, and we cannot collect trash every day. All you have to do is drop them off by car when you go for a walk or something else. Garbage is becoming a major social problem, and each of us must make an effort and soon start composting so that we have almost no waste! For us, garbage is a major concern.
Thank you for accepting these few explanations in good spirit.
See you soon.
Fabienne

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Liked Probably one of the best sites we have stayed on. In terms of friendly welcoming site owners, it really does not get any better than this. The site is large, but all the pitches are very good, private and quiet.
The owner works extremely hard to make stay as good as it can be.
With a small bar, and a home made pizza service between 18:30 and 20:30, a resistance pool, hot tub, tennis courts (full list on the site) this really is highly recommended. Fantastic stay.
The owner could not have done more to make us feel welcome.

Disliked Absolutely nothing negative to say about this site. Highly recommended.

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From the manager: Merci pour votre beau message , belle récompense pour notre travail et celui de notre petite équipe !!

Liked The owners were very friendly, the toilet block very clean, the site in general was fantastic, large private pitches set in a beautiful location. Bar, pizza, games room all a bonus. I'll be coming back for a longer stay rather than just a one night stop off en route elsewhere.

Disliked Nothing

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From the manager: Merci beaucoup , a une prochaine fois avec grand plaisir !!

Liked Beautiful setting with mature planting creating lots of provacy. Park runs down to the river which is framed by weeping willows. Large pitches, large play area for the children and well stocked area of board games and free table football and pool for older children. Friendly team and very delicious locally made 'ready meals' you can buy. I wish we had stocked up on all of them. Clean toilets and showers. Great.

Disliked very little! The golf was a little tired but overall a very charming site. Hard to find any

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From the manager: merci beaucoup , avec plaisir de vous revoir

Liked Large pitches, beautiful quiet location where you can walk the river Seine.
Great park areas, tennis court, trampoline and games room for the kids.
Bar and pizza also available.
Showers and toilets clean with lots within one block

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From the manager: merci beaucoup !!!!

Liked The site had vast pitches and good facilities

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From the manager: merci

Liked Well set up campsite, friendly staff, right on the river, large private pitches, very clean facilities with lots of games options for kids and a great little pizza kitchen for evenings

Disliked The only thing I would prefer but its not really a problem is centrally located washrooms, especially if the weather is less favorable, the village of Bouafles itself although pretty is void of anything, you have to traveling 5 mins by road, 45 mins by foot to the next town for restaurant and shop options, but these are not complaints we were prepared its just to help people with their research.

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From the manager: merci pour vos remarques

Liked Clean toilets and showers and very friendly owners and staff. Delicious pizza from the pizza van! The patio to sit and play games or chat is also lovely. Nice to go down to the Sienne and let dog swim there. A quiet campsite.

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From the manager: merci pour vos commentaires , nous tiendrons compte de vos remarques .bonne continuation

Liked Great camp site. Very well maintained. Great shower & toilet facilities. Staff were very polite, welcoming and helpful. Great shaded pitches due to the trees so it was perfect for us and the dogs. Great sized pitches.

Disliked This was our fault for not bringing a ground sheet and not a campsite problem. Our only dislike would be the lack of grass to pitch our large awning to our campervan as we had to put our awning at the back of the pitch (as this was where the most grass was) with the van going across the middle of the pitch (from left to right, essentially cutting the pitch in half), just so the awning was on grass and did not tear on the gravel. There were also a few dips in the pitch which were where we had pitched the awning at the back so as we stepped out of the awning there were 2 holes we had to make sure we did not twist our ankles in. This was just very unfortunate because of where we had to pitch our awning because the rest of the pitch was level. If we had bought a ground sheet with us, we would never have noticed these as they were towards the back of the pitch.

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From the manager: merci , nous tenons compte de vos commentaires