Tonight will remain a painful memory of this holiday. Our children saw inflatable games set up right in front of our accommodation—it was impossible to resist the urge to play, like any child on vacation. They were already getting ready to run to them. Then they were told no. No orange wristband, no access. This wristband, reserved for Pierre & Vacances guests, was never given to us: we're staying in a Maeva Home.
I had to watch my children—including my youngest, who is 3—being turned away from a game set up right outside our door, while other children, just a few meters away, were laughing and jumping around without a care. How do you explain to a child that they don't have the right to something that everyone else in the same village, just a few meters from their home, has? There are no words kind enough for that. It's a humiliation, pure and simple, and it's our children who have to bear the brunt of it.
It's exactly the same story as with the swimming pool, which we also don't have access to as Maeva Home guests—despite a clearly visible photo of a pool at the time of booking. Two categories of guests, two categories of children, in the same village, at the same price displayed on the facade.
The setting is magnificent. But this system that sorts families according to their booking type, and that makes children cry in front of a bouncy castle, will remain the defining image of this stay. Never again Maeva. Never again Belle Dune.
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