France May 2013

Several changes for this year's trip to France, we were going in May instead of September (as we had the last couple of years) and we were not going with Siblu.

We found an offer on Croupon for a week in a mobile home with Thompson Al Fresco, only £129 but the holiday had to be taken between the 15 April and the 17 May. We had been with with Thompson Al Fresco last May using a Tesco £50 voucher offer, but to Holland.

We bought the coupon and booked from the 11th to the 18th of May in Charente Maritime (close to where we were last year)and while I was booking I enquired about a second week paying with Tesco vouchers (as we had usually booked our holidays with Siblu). The second week would cost £225 or £75 of Tesco vouchers, we had enough Tesco vouchers, so we booked that week as well. All we needed to do next was book a ferry, the crossing we had used in September looked like the best bet but Thompson Al Fresco's quote seemed very expensive, a lot more than Siblu had got us crossings for last year. So we left it while we weighed up our options.

Then a week or two later, we found a Tesco £50 voucher offer, for another week with Thompson Al Fresco. I contacted Al Fresco and booked a week in Normandy, also after making more enquiries about ferries (including telling them that Siblu had much better offers that they did), we got the deal we needed.

So now the holiday was looking a lot like the one we had just had in September, ferries Portsmouth - Caen, a week in Normandy followed by two weeks in Charente Maritime. Total cost, around £435 for three weeks in a three bedroom mobile home, including the ferry and extras like equipment damage waver and linen packs.

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France 2013