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Rating: 
- Difficult to understand
I was lead to believe that Mitchelin has a good name for guide books, however, this book proved me very wrong. For a start it is in French, although there are 3 pages of English - French translation, this does not inculde all of the words used in the book. This also makes reading the entries very difficult.
The map references are not related to the map provided in the book, therefore are useless.
It is also quite complicated to use.
I would not recommend this book, I am now going to buy the more reliable AA one.
Rating:
- Useful
I have to disagree with the reviews given to this guide. It is extremely useful as a back-up in conjunction with the Michelin road atlas when touring. O.k. the sites listed aren't always the type of site you would necessarily spend more than a night or two on, ( although many are ), but it does vet. the sites and gives them a rating as a guide to general standard, and packs plenty of other info. into a small space.It also lists a hell of a lot of sites, so if you are touring using the Michelin road atlas and you need to stop for the night, the atlas indicates, with a symbol, which towns or villages have one or more campsites listed in the camping guide.Find the nearest one on the map, look it up in the guide, and Bob's your proverbial. As for not being able to find the sites, I can't really see a problem. You are usualy given a direction from the named town or village, a road number, and an indication of distance. The rest is up to you.
Rating: - Not up to the job.
Avoid - I'd give it a zero rating if this were possible. This book does have a fairly comprehensive list of campsites throughout France. However, there is NO ADDRESS INFORMATION FOR INDIVIDUAL CAMPSITES, not even postal codes, just rough directions along roads from nearby towns and the telephone number of the nearest tourist office to each site but not the site itself). Oh, it does give you the sites website - very useful when on the road!! Pathetic!
Rating: - very poor
very poor book, not a thing i was looking for, maybe if you know how to use it than yes. I could not grasp the idea. Waste of money really. Could give my away for just p&p if anyone wants it. Could not find a single place using this book, if you have sat nav, download french camping pois and go with that. cheaper and much better.
- Difficult to understandI was lead to believe that Mitchelin has a good name for guide books, however, this book proved me very wrong. For a start it is in French, although there are 3 pages of English - French translation, this does not inculde all of the words used in the book. This also makes reading the entries very difficult.
The map references are not related to the map provided in the book, therefore are useless.
It is also quite complicated to use.
I would not recommend this book, I am now going to buy the more reliable AA one.
Rating:
- UsefulI have to disagree with the reviews given to this guide. It is extremely useful as a back-up in conjunction with the Michelin road atlas when touring. O.k. the sites listed aren't always the type of site you would necessarily spend more than a night or two on, ( although many are ), but it does vet. the sites and gives them a rating as a guide to general standard, and packs plenty of other info. into a small space.It also lists a hell of a lot of sites, so if you are touring using the Michelin road atlas and you need to stop for the night, the atlas indicates, with a symbol, which towns or villages have one or more campsites listed in the camping guide.Find the nearest one on the map, look it up in the guide, and Bob's your proverbial. As for not being able to find the sites, I can't really see a problem. You are usualy given a direction from the named town or village, a road number, and an indication of distance. The rest is up to you.
Rating:
- Not up to the job.Avoid - I'd give it a zero rating if this were possible. This book does have a fairly comprehensive list of campsites throughout France. However, there is NO ADDRESS INFORMATION FOR INDIVIDUAL CAMPSITES, not even postal codes, just rough directions along roads from nearby towns and the telephone number of the nearest tourist office to each site but not the site itself). Oh, it does give you the sites website - very useful when on the road!! Pathetic!
Rating:
- very poorvery poor book, not a thing i was looking for, maybe if you know how to use it than yes. I could not grasp the idea. Waste of money really. Could give my away for just p&p if anyone wants it. Could not find a single place using this book, if you have sat nav, download french camping pois and go with that. cheaper and much better.