Center Parcs Europe, recommendations please

moneypooh

Looking at taking the family to CP Europe this October. They are both older teenagers now so we don't require play areas. They would love the bigger activities and a great pool area.
Are any near enough to an airport to fly there?
We are looking at either Holland or Belgium preferably, but would consider Germany or France if the parc was the right choice.
Many thanks

Roberta1

Sensible choice!

Center Parcs in France is not a great deal cheaper than England.

If you look at Tripadvisor (and similar) you will see that the Dutch ones tend to get the best reviews.

My fave is De Kempervennen. You can fly to Eindhoven which is only about 20 miles away I think. This has a huge pool with all the normal slides et al, plenty of other activities and a snow centre with real snow where you can ski, snowboard etc.

De Eemhof also gets good reviews. You could fly to Amsterdam and it is not far from there.

We normally pay (at Easter or October, in school holidays) roughly a third of the price of a holiday at CP Longleat. Activities are also cheaper in Holland than at the English Center Parcs.

Downsides: If you go for the basic acommodation you will find it shabbier than the English counterparts - perfectly clean, but needs updating. There are no spas.

bara03

We went to De Kempervennen about 2 years ago, it is a nice site and we drove there!!!!!!

Our Sat Nav got us lost through and took us to the entrance to the Ski Slope which is at the back of the resort and not the front entrance, took us ages to find it!!!