Flower Camping L'Ile d'Offard *****

This campsite was not for us. We were allocated a super pitch with EH water and drainage. It was tiny, couldn’t put an awning up if we wanted as too small. There was no privacy on the pitch either as no hedging or demarcations between pitches. Pitch was grubby with rubbish all over. Restaurant was just like a canteen with fast food but not much else. I had dried up goats cheese salad ugh! We asked for 2 nights but left after one. Reception, bar etc were a long way from the pitch. Would not go back there.

This site is very close to the town centre where there are restaurants and bars close by. The Chateau is on the far side of the Loire and can be accessed by cycle or walking and is well worth a visit as is the rest of the town. The site is clean and tidy and the staff are all friendly and helpful. There is a lovely pool on site and the bar and restaurant are well worth patronising. Bread is ordered each afternoon and delivered fresh the next day. Toilet blocks are clean and pleasant. Recommended!

The toilets/showers were clean and water hot. Restaurant was adequate, set up like a canteen and food below average if you don’t like pizza. I had goats cheese salad. The goats cheese consisted of three very small thin discs of cheese which were cold and dried up. Not good!
Our allocated pitch was a super pitch with water and drainage but it was tiny and there was no privacy whatsoever. We were a really long way from reception, bar and restaurant and it was not well lit at night. Would not return there.

Expected a riverside pitch for fishing. Did not expect a 6ft high wire fence all around the campsite with only one exit by reception. Felt a bit like a prison camp. Not mentioned in any info. We left early to find a site without a fence. Would not go there again, although Saumur was lovely.

Excellent site with excellent facilities. Acsi pitches are the lesser of the two grades, but for 3euros more (Sept 19) you could have posh pitch with its own tap. Check the price list in Reception before booking in. Brilliant reception staff, spoke excellent English.

Very friendly at reception. Good size pitch, slightly sloping but level laterally. Grass a bit long. No waste water disposal nearby so people were draining into hedge. Great facilities. Dated but clean. Loads of hot water! Pool looked great. Nice bar for food and drinks overlooking the pool and great view of the Château which is only a 30 minute walk away.

I had the best steak on the menu Sirloin, but it was full grizzly hard bits. I mentioned it to the staff, I paid for it and left

Stayed for an overnight stop- would have stayed longer if the weather had been better. Large site with good size pitches. Sanitary very good- outer toilets but toilet paper provided

We were a bit disappointed – don’t really know why: it’s got good sized plots, the plots are separated by nice leafy hedges, the grass is a bit scrappy but we’ve seen worse, lots of trees so it would be nice and shady in hot weather: hmmm we just can’t put our finger on it.
While we were eating our lunch a bull finch came and hovered about a foot in front of the table having a good look to see what was on offer!. It spent a lot of the afternoon hopping around our feet and hovering in front of us looking for stuff to eat presumably. At lunch I threw a bit of baguette which it was fairly ambivalent about – huh! It was just amazingly tame.
Went for dinner in the site’s restaurant: we both had pizza; both were lovely - cooked in a wood fired oven. But overall it was a bit of a scrappy restaurant. The walls were made of chipboard which, I’d guess, someone thought was really trendy or something but it just looked like it wasn’t finished or it was really intended for a builder to store his tools in.

Lovely peaceful site with excellent service from the staff. Very easy to walk into Saumur. Good facilities and clean with plenty hot water. Excellent shower facilities with lots of space including basin.