The Thomas family want to find a simple, old-fashioned family campsite with a beach within easy driving distance of the UK.

Camping Municipal de Santec is on the Brittany coast just west of Roscoff - vast sandy beach, backed by forests; the campsite is in the dunes, bit basic but very laid back. Camping Municipal les Sables d'Or, near Cap Fréhel, is an enormous, busy, but simple campsite in a pine forest with direct access to beaches and a lively resort town just down the road. Our favourite, but a slightly longer drive, is Camping de la Plage de Goulien on the Crozon peninsula; simple, clean, friendly and right next to a fabulous family beach.
Russel Breyer

Camping Sainte Anne la Palud on the west coast of Brittany is a simple campsite that has hardly changed since we first visited in 1979. It is less than four hours' drive from the Plymouth-Roscoff ferry, next to the magnificent church at Sainte Anne and less than a kilometre from a beach in a sheltered bay. The facilities are not modern but are clean and include hot showers.
Maggie Loveless