Leisure

Made in Brittany Campings & Glampings

Since some few years I follow the trends around camping and glamping, certainly the Dutch influence. As freelance I work for one of the biggest camping group in the Netherlands – Via Select– and I have more and more opportunities to see what is going on on this market. But what I did not know was that Brittany holds innovative projets in the camping industry. I want to share 3 of them with you in my category Made in Brittany and I’ll begin with the most recent one that I discovered.

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An end to the old blue French hotel panels

Times are changing, French hotel identification signs too.

Yesterday I’ve made for the fun in front of my house in Haarlem a photography of an old blue hotel panel, bought 12 years ago  in a “vide grenier” in Brittany. An one star hotel! Of course our house is much more than an one star hotel according to all our guests visiting us, but it remains subjective and just the good (never bad) impression of our guests. And the new French hotel classification is supposed to be anything but subjective. The new hotel rating system is aimed to help travelers to select more easily their hotel when travelling to France.

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