Huttopia Lac de Carcans Huttopia

This place should be great, just what you expect from a cool camping site. Facilities, surroundings ,staff ,area , all fabulous ... BUT , it’s bedlam in the evening and night with music and noise from the surrounding area. This simply cannot live up to its billing when you are so badly disturbed in the evening .Its not as if it finished at a certain time , one evening going on till past one followed by shouting and screaming from the participants till very late. Some reviewers have mentioned this, some haven’t - all I can say is you would have to be a heavy sleeper not to be badly disturbed. I would suggest that Cool Camping remove this from the website and Huttopia make some serious efforts to deal with their neighbours. Sitting here on our last night with thumping music going on , having had a good time but wondering how much better it would have been without the spoilt evenings and nights . Without the noise this place would be stunning

If you want a holiday where the kids are kept occupied the whole time while you relax this is the place for you. There’s so much to do for kids. Whether it’s football or basketball or table-tennis or volleyball or just hiding in the trees. There’s a swimming pool on site or the ocean is just a 20 minute bike ride away on safe cycle paths. The local town is 10 minutes away by bike selling all you need with nice coffee shops and restaurants. But the jewel in the crown is the lake which is a 5 minute walk. You really feel like you are at the beach. You can hire a boat or a pedalo or swim and jump off the many piers there’s also an aqua park. This is a great family holiday destination.

Very noisy adjacent campsite that will spoil the tranquility of the area night after night with parties til midnight and beyond. Huttopia have not once recognised my complaint, so they obviously do not value their customers or their experience. Avoid

We stayed in sweet wood plus safari tent last August for 5 nights. Lovely area. The tent was well equipped except there were no reclining chairs that should have been provided. The other tents had them! What we didn’t know was that the tent was up a very steep sand dune which made it really hard to lug all our bags and five bikes up there in 35•c! Which is why we were in need of a comfy chair! Apparently they had trouble getting more chairs. The play park is really good, swimming in the lake and biking to the beach was great. If you go in July and August then expect noise at night as the campsite has lots of summer schools close by. And check on the position of the tent if staying in safari unless you like climbing sand dunes, however once you’re up there it is lovely!

We turned up at this campsite with no booking in the week before Bastille Day. We’d travelled up from Spain and just wanted somewhere for a day or two before we carried on north to our return ferry. We ended up spending a week here leaving us to do a mad dash for the ferry at the end of our holiday! We’ve used Huttopia / Indigo sites before so knew what to expect. This site was clearly an old campsite owned by someone else before & we had arrived within the first couple of weeks of the new ownership. Indigo have installed all new toilet blocks (which were immaculate and plentiful) and there is a huge play area / gathering area in the middle of the site. All the pitches are just dotted around between the trees in the sand. The pool was next to the Reception Area & was just a simple pool with a separate paddling pool for the little ones. I should imagine if they had been designing the site from scratch, they would have the pool, playground & food truck together, but it was fine with the layout they had. There was football screened on a couple of evenings as the World Cup was on while we were there which created a good atmosphere & wasn’t too noisy too late. The food truck served excellent pizzas – we were their 2nd customers of the season on our first night! Perfect when you’ve had a hard day at the beach & don’t want to cook. The campsite could not have been in a better position. The huge Lac D’Hourtin was 100 yards from the site through the dunes and the woods. Once you were at the lake, there is a beach with a café & activities – windsurfing / peddle boats etc. You can cycle through the woods to Maubuisson which is also on the lake & worth the visit for shops / cafes / ice-cream etc. We also cycled a little further to the sea at Carcans Plage which has the most amazing beach – loads of space & huge waves. All of the bike rides we did were along purpose built bike paths. You could cycle all day everyday from the site & not repeat your journey. Bikes were available to hire at the campsite, but we brought our own. If you have small children, you would probably be better off using the lake beach as the water was nice & calm. There were loads of places for days out from the site – Bourdeaux, Arcachon etc. Even though we arrived without a booking and then decided to stay longer, the staff at the site were very helpful & found us a pitch that suited us. The pitches are a bit haphazard & won’t suit people who like clearly defined spaces. Later on in our stay, the campsite was starting to get busy, so I’m not sure how well this would work at peak season. We couldn’t have our car near our pitch – just wasn’t physically possible, but I think there were some pitches that were more accessible. Really nice to not be disturbed by cars on our pitch – I wish more sites were like this. Looking forward to revisit this site in the future.

Great site with good facilities. This is a new addition and is clearly still having teething problems. The team at the office were very pleasant but somewhat ineffectual because they were so new. Training had obviously been sketchy. There are supposed to be no cars on site, so they made us lug all our gear over a hill to get to our pitch - it then transpired that there was in fact a roadway to the pitch itself that they didn't know about/tell us about. No wifi at all at present and only smiles and hope from the staff. Absolutely perfect place for us and our kids - calm lake, atlantic rollers a bike ride away and loads of safe cycle tracks to stretch legs. We will be back and would recommend it - just know the idiosyncracies.