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History

Les Flots-Atlantique** campsite was born from the fusion of the the campsite Les Flots 123 and the Campsite L’Atlantique, a life project that has taken shape in just 2 years.

Our story...

We are Cyril and Elodie, both born and raised in the Charente Maritime, we were looking for a sea change and chose to come to the Ile d’Oléron in 2017. We took over a family friendly campsite on the seafront in La Perroche: the campsite Les Flots 123. This facility of 59 residential and rental sites, of a small scale, was an ideal stepping stone into the world of outdoor hospitality industry.

During this first year, we hardly changed anything in the way the campsite was run or in the mobile homes, we concentrated on the renovation and the conversion of the snack bar to a restaurant in order to be able to offer a menu of local delicacies (fish and shellfish from La Cotinère, oysters from the Marennes Oléron basin, mussels from Boyardville and Charron etc) and quality food at an affordable price. Along with a convivial and family friendly atmosphere, we are working to put in place an ethic that we believe in: fresh products - locally sourced, balanced management, low waste, recycling...daily efforts that are becoming fruitful

Alongside this, the possibility to acquire the neighbouring campsite L’Atlantique meant that as the young owners we were, we could imagine new development possibilities. In fact, Les Flots 123 had no bare campsites and only a few rental mobile homes, this development opportunity would allow us to offer a larger palette of options for tourists.

At the beginning of the summer season 2018, the project went ahead, and the two campsites became one and the campsite Les Flots-Atlantique ** was born. At the same time, we gave our bar-restaurant a new identity, it became a new and separate facility offering several services: bar, restaurant and take away for lunch and dinner, breakfasts, emergency groceries, Wi-Fi, lounge room... It is now called LE COUTIA (meaning knife in the local regional language)

Since then, we have made every effort to improve the campsite from day to day and offer more quality services: modernization of the campsite and restaurant facilities, renovation of the alleys, renovation of the sanitary block, installation of bicycle rental, installation of wi-fi throughout the site, installation of an automatic laundry, embellishment of the green spaces, widening of the plots, renewal of the accommodations, increase in the offer of the bar-restaurant, ... and we will not stop there, we still have plans full head to improve!