Camping les Cigales

This lovely little campsite could be a real gem, if only …. Quietly tucked away in a mainly residential area, it is one of the neatest and best laid-out campsites we have ever stayed at. It is very private & secure with mature pines, mimosas and other well-tended trees, with perfect roads and generous, level hard-standing pitches. The centre of Cannes is about an hour away if you walk to the bus stop and use public transport. It’s an easy journey, it’s cheap, and it’s well worth it. There is a huge Geant supermarket just a few minutes away. Clearly, there has been a big investment in this campsite, but it falls seriously short where the toilet block is concerned. Perhaps the excellent first impressions highlighted the shortcomings of the toilet block, and it took us completely by surprise. The first thing to hit us was the dampness - the concrete structure must have been so cold that the ceiling was continuously dripping and the floors always wet. You couldn’t even hang a dressing gown on a hook without it getting wet from the water streaming down the walls. It was strange on a site of this quality, that there is no soap, no toilet roll dispensers and no hand-drying facilities. The washing cubicles are badly lit, there are no shelves and few coat hooks. Some of the vanity basins are cracked and the worktops are too deep for easy use. I could go on, but let’s hope that the people who have made this site such a gem, will spend a little more and get their ‘sanitaires’ in shape sometime soon. It would make Les Cigales a little gem!