ile de re is fantastic. It really only opens up in june and starts to get really busy in July/August. St Martin is the main town with a lovely port. Very friendly town with plenty of restraunts, though most serve up very ordinary stuff. Other place are the smaller town of La Flotte and the even smaller town of Arse with a nice little crepe restraunts in middle.
Perfect place for a family everythink is very close, plenty of beaches to visit but not really the perfect postcard type. Seawater is cool or even cold. Loads of Cycling and the Donkeys are cool
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I am a regular visitor to Ile de Re and am amazed at this negative view. The island is %26#39;open%26#39; all year and is very popular over Christmas and New Year. I agree it has a high and low season and closes down a bit in the winter, but the season opens long before June, from Easter in fact. It has a far longer season than the July and August of most French resorts, due to its popularity as a weekend haunt for Parisians. For myself, I prefer to go in the winter when we have St Martin almost to ourselves and we have lunched outside in the sunshine in November!
I don%26#39;t know where this poster ate, but he/she seems to have been very unlucky. The area is famed for its lovely restaurants, to suit all tastes and budgets. Fish is the speciality and couldn%26#39;t be fresher; the ice-cream on the quayside in St Martin is to die for!
The beaches? Well, imagine miles of white sand. No rented deckchairs or sandwich sellers here, just the Atlantic rolling in and plenty for watersport enthusiasts. The best beaches are on the southern side of the island and there are lots of beautiful postcards of them.
I just had to put the other side!
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May I also come down very heavily in favour of the Ile de Ré, a charming island with so much to offer. The kind of place where you go to enjoy, well, just doing nothing.
You will find humdrum restaurants that are better avoided, of course, but there are also plenty of excellent eateries all over the island. Not to mention any number of glorious markets where you can pick and choose and put together your own assortment of fish, fresh fruit/veg, cheeses, sausages, patisseries...mmm...enjoy!
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