An affordable off-season camping holiday on the Côte d'Azur
Our campsite is handicapped-friendly
You already know about your campsite’s commitment to accessibility. Today, we’d like you to meet the campsite’s partner, the association “Un Fauteuil à la mer”, a proud bearer of the Tourism & Handicap label.
Our partner: Un fauteuil à la mer
Based in the Var area, this association caters to all four types of handicap, i.e.:
Physical handicaps
Mental handicaps
Auditory handicaps
Visual handicaps
As their slogan so aptly says: “Share our differences and say no to indifference”!
The association’s goal is to organise sea-based activities adapted to all types of handicap. Families are also invited to take part in the activities.
The association is based in Giens, a few kilometres from the campsite.
Its members will be delighted to introduce you to their various sites and tourism amenities covering all types of handicap, and offer you an adapted stay.
Their summer team is trained to use three types of bathing equipment.
You can contact them here:
Un fauteuil à la mer – Hôpital Renée Sabran – Bd Édouard Herriot – 83406 Giens
Here at our four-star campsite Les Jardins de La Pascalinette®, we offer several adapted mobile homes together with a bathing system so that handicapped guests can enjoy our heated pools to the full.
The campsite’swater park is also fully accessible* and we have two bathing chairs kindly donated by the association, to guarantee our guests a great welcome and delightful stayin the Var area!
Since 2016, we have been financially backing the association “Un Fauteuil à la Mer” and their extraordinary work in helping handicapped visitors make the most of the sea and beach.
We wanted to share another fave Var-based association with you today: Handibou.
You can help us help this amazing association with a few simple gestures. Handibou works to offer HANDISPORT wheelchairs to handicapped people living in the Var area.
Sport is of course vital to health and a great way of getting out and about and meeting people, but it also helps people push back their limits, whether or not they suffer from a disability.
Autonomy is a massive stumbling block for handicapped people and the cost of the equipment they need is prohibitive: a “simple” wheelchair costs around 3,000 euros and is simply not affordable for most families.
How can you and your family contribute to this worthy cause? All you have to do is keep your plastic bottle tops (milk, soft drinks, fruit juice, etc.). The Handibou association then collects them and sells them to a recycling plant.
So please keep your plastic bottle tops and bring them to Reception, where you will find a special container for them (next to the container used to collect corks for “France Cancer”).
A proud holder of the Clef Verte ecology label since 2012 and Tourism & Handicap label since December 2013, we have decided to take part in a fabulous challenge initiated by the association France Cancer.
Our campsite boasts exceptional vegetation, including magnificent and majestic cork oaks (Quercus suber), the bark of which is used – among other things – to make corks for your Provence rosé wine!
The association France Cancer raises money for cancer research. How? Simply by collecting corks from the public and restaurants.
Once the volunteers have collected a ton of corks, they resell them to cork specialists, who then transform them into noise and heat insulation boards and panels.
All proceeds from sales are donated to cancer research units sponsored by the association (CNRS and INSERM in Nice, Provence Côte d’Azur region. The association also attends various events (car boot sales, boules tournaments, lotteries, fairs etc.) to further boost donations.
We felt this was a wonderful opportunity to combine our desire to protect the environment with assisting research into a disease that overturns the lives of so many families.
So, at the Camping de La Pascalinette® reception, you will find a yellow collection container where you can place your wine corks and hence contribute to the fight against cancer.
Meanwhile, let’s raise our glasses* to the rosé wines of La Londe-les-Maures, the Var, Provence and our many other delicious wine growing regions… Just make sure the stopper is made of REAL CORK!
