- Original release
- Previous episode S02E06 - Roméo et Juliette au camping
- Number S03E01
- Episode runtime 90 minutes
- Country France
- Original language French
- Genres Drama, Comedy
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Ça décoiffe au camping
Pour la saison, Brigitte, la tante d'Ariane, a installé son salon de coiffure au camping. Le succès est immédiat. Tom lui propose alors d'embaucher un jeune apprenti, Franck, 21 ans, le fils de madame le maire. Pendant ce temps, Paul Jolibois, un veuf, arrive au camping avec sa progéniture. Contre toute attente, la juge aux affaires familiales qui le menace depuis quelques mois de lui retirer la garde de ses enfants, occupe le bungalow voisin.
The Season 17 finale of Camping Paradis aired on 31 August 2026, and for longtime viewers, it delivered exactly the kind of debrief-worthy ending the series does best: warm, messy, funny, emotional, and just dramatic enough to make the holiday setting feel like a place where real life can finally catch up with people. After 17 seasons and 108 episodes, the TF1 favorite could easily be running on autopilot. Instead, this finale used the carnival of Martigues as more than a colorful backdrop: it became a fitting metaphor for the episode’s many masks, delayed confessions and moments of truth.
What worked best was the balance between celebration and vulnerability. Camping Paradis has always thrived on the contrast between the campsite’s festive surface and the personal storms brought in by its guests. Here, Sophie and Aurélien arriving with the happy news of a baby could have been played as a straightforward family feel-good plot. But the finale wisely complicated that joy through Amanda, Sophie’s mother, a former queen of campsite evenings and a woman still carrying her own announcement. The emotional strength of the storyline came from the way it understood generational timing: parents and children rarely reveal themselves to each other at the same pace. Sophie’s future is opening just as Amanda’s life is shifting, and the episode found tenderness in that overlap rather than turning it into pure melodrama.
Laurent Ournac’s Tom Delormes remains the anchor that makes these moving parts feel coherent. Tom’s role has never simply been “campsite owner”; he is the emotional air-traffic controller of Camping Paradis, the person who senses when a holidaymaker needs privacy, a push, a joke or a full intervention. In this finale, the writing once again leaned on his quiet ability to make other people’s stories feel safe. Around him, the familiar team dynamic — Xavier, André, Audrey and the rest of the staff — gave the episode its rhythm. Patrick Guérineau’s Xavier and Thierry Heckendorn’s André continue to provide that lived-in workplace comedy texture, the sense that this campsite functions because everyone knows exactly how chaotic everyone else is.
