[Closed] How secure are Eurocamp chalets?

Ours was no better or worse than any other type of Static caravan that’s what our ‘chalet’ was anyway really and unlike say Centre Parcs it’s not a secure site. But they tend to be in the middle of nowhere so it would be a pretty committed theif who’d travel miles out of town, skulk around a camp site to break into the one chalet on site with a decent bike in it.

I would assume that a lot of people would have keys for cleaning/maintenance etc.  I would be chaining by bike to something solid outside rather than hopingit is safe inside

not secure at all. If someone wanted to get in they could without much trouble. But the campsites themselves seem pretty safe. We've been on 4 camping hols now in France and never known of any more serious crime than someones inflatable dingy they left overnight by the side of the lake going missing. I've certainly never heard of anything going missing form anyones tent/chalet/or anything left out on the pitch. But usual sensible precautions apply as usual. When I took my decent bike a few years ago I left it in the car most of the time and when we used the car locked it in the chalet. Pretty low risk even though the chalet is hardly Fort Knox....I would have been pretty unlucky for someone to have picked my chalet at random to pilfer, and I was careful not to flaunt my bike in plain sight in and around my chalet anyway so difficult for anyone targeting my bike to locate which chalet it was in. And anyway that is what insurance is for. Take reasonable precautions, if it gets knocked then tough luck, but it's insured.

Just back from centre parks.  My Ti 26er fit in the broom cupboard so i't lived in there out of plain site locked to the ironing board.

I'm not sure I'd be happy to leave an expensive FS bike on a Eurocamp site unattended - but then i've spent a lot of time working on French campsites and seen plenty of stuff go missing. Which Brittany site is it? some are worse than others and certainly those in the Alps get targeted these days and those on the med are just thief magnets.

I took my CAADX to one of the Eurocamp Picardy sites. (We booked a normal tent.) I didn’t think it was too unsafe to leave the bike in the tent while we had days out, but it was locked to every heavy piece of apparatus I could connect it to. I’m fairly paranoid about leaving my bikes anywhere.

Cheers all, it'll be my aluminium road bike so nothing flash. It won't fit inside the car, but I'll lock it to something large/heavy (like a bed) during the day, take the usual precautions and make sure we've got insurance.

My main concern was that I've heard the horror stories about bikes at centre parks and wanted to check that it's not the same elsewhere.

It's the Chateau de Galinée site near St Malo if that makes any difference!

TBH I think thrives tend to concentrate on the big Dutch and German mobile homes on campsites as they know there are usually a couple of expensive ebikes with each one.

went last year and took my ti road bike. I left it outside on the decking chained up (a big chain) under my kids and wifes bikes the whole holiday and it was still there at the end.

I 'm sure an alu road bike will be fine (no offence!). Its the flash looking full sussers or as mentioned above ebikes that are targets. I'm afraid I don't know that site though I did live in Brittany for a couple of years but much further west. Reason I asked is because some sites have better onsite security than others - i.e Point St Giles in Benodet is well known for excellent security and if anyone was nosing around then they would be spotted pretty quickly! However some of the northern Vendee sites are just open to anyone walking in...

I've spent plenty of time in France with bikes in the back of a van in plain sight, or sitting outside a chalet (a real one) with no problems.  Really it is as safe as anywhere else and I think this whole topic speaks to how paranoid some folk can be.  There are good and bad people everywhere, but more good than bad

Is there a bike theft problem at centre Parcs? Genuine question. Hadn't heard about it.

There used to be a bike theft problem at CP. Not sure there is now though. The best thing to do at CP is to rent their bikes. You really don't need a good bike and there is not much good riding in the surrounding areas (the Lakes one excepted) - certainly not mountain bike riding. The beauty of renting one of their bikes is you just don't have to worry - you just place them in their front wheel only stands and use their crappy cable locks and forget about it. No matter how well I'd chained up a decent bike It'd always be on the back of my mind. Actually there only CP you really need a bike at is the longleat one. Everything is perfectly walkable at all the other sites and a bike is just a PITA.

I know it's hardly whistler but pines is right next door to centre Parcs and ain' bad for a pootle. Ridden the faster the better in fact.

The longleat cp has plenty of good mtb close by and wind hill now as well