Aires, not that impressed really... (1 Viewer)

[Robert Clark]

Hey Robert, just checked this out on my iPad but cannot find where you switch to the desktop version, are you using a proper PC?

Use the web browser on your iPad
Regards

 

[Judge Mental]

Just found it, there is a link on the info page, so if you have good internet connection you could have the full site running along side the app. Useful to know. Thanks.

Which Link? Can't see nufink on info page...

 

[Robert Clark]

I contacted Campercontact last week to ask about English translations on the App and they replied to say that they are looking to add this, which would be a great improvement, as in all other respects the App is better than the web version

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[Kool Kroozer]

We just done 3 weeks in 4 countries and only used 1 Aire and 1 car park with a couple of others (Germans) only cos the campsite up the road was locked up for the night, we stayed on the pub car park by the New Dover Road Aire as we couldnt get on (packed in like sardines) the nice lady at the pub said "no problem just park around the back in the corner out the way" refused to have any money from us.. Its nice to find a nice clean site with all the things needed at hand, we love sight seeing and if the area offers much more we stay longer otherwise we just hit the road with the map out - and who could ever not like listening to this while touring about ?

 

[chaser]

I don't get it, you drive from Aire to Aire and seemingly never stay anywhere for more than one or two nights, so your either driving or your in the Aire!

Do you actually ever see anything, other than through your cab window?

Do you get home a "Whiter Shade of Pale" than when you left?

Should be some good Daily Quiz results today, it's all about what you can see through a window.

Well even if it was true at least it's better than sitting by a pool full of other folks or looking at the back of a toilet block for a week.

 

[Armytwowheels]

Which Link? Can't see nufink on info page...

Go into Info, bottom of screen, tap on About this app and the link should be highlighted.

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[DBK]

We've just spent a pleasant night at the aire at Guilvinec, Brittany. A car park but plenty of room and virtually in the town centre beside the fishing port. #19272 in CamperContact. It isn't in our copy of All the Aires but it might be in the latest edition. It deserves to be. €4 a night plus €2 for water this morning. Only downside was the weather. We got soaked yesterday afternoon!

We've now moved about 20km up the coast to another waterside aire at Audierne, #159 in the Aires book. Weather hasn't improved much, it rained again a few moments after I took this picture.

 

[chaser]

We've just spent a pleasant night at the aire at Guilvinec, Brittany. A car park but plenty of room and virtually in the town centre beside the fishing port. #19272 in CamperContact. It isn't in our copy of All the Aires but it might be in the latest edition. It deserves to be. €4 a night plus €2 for water this morning. Only downside was the weather. We got soaked yesterday afternoon!

We've now moved about 20km up the coast to another waterside aire at Audierne, #159 in the Aires book. Weather hasn't improved much, it rained again a few moments after I took this picture.

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That's how useing Aires should be , you are not traveling all day as someone remarked, maybe an hour and you are in a new place , maybe a small town or village and a day sightseeing is all you need , a nice restaurant or bar for dinner and relax all evening , if it's somewhere that needs another day to get round everything , so be it,stay another day, if you've done it move on .

 

[Deleted member 29692]

We usually aim at travelling 2 or 3 hours a day, never more than 4, then finding an aire, parking up and exploring. Sometimes we stay one night, sometimes longer. I think we see far more of wherever we are then someone sat on a campsite looking at a pool for a week would.

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[Kool Kroozer]

We do mainly campsites NicNic, find a pitch an go off exploring on bikes/foot and have never sat looking at a pool yet !

 

[Judge Mental]

Go into Info, bottom of screen, tap on About this app and the link should be highlighted.
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Thanks for that

Hmm...dont seem to work on Android phone. as I can open desktop version as instructed but not click on site..will persevere

 

[Judge Mental]

We've just spent a pleasant night at the aire at Guilvinec, Brittany. A car park but plenty of room and virtually in the town centre beside the fishing port. #19272 in CamperContact. It isn't in our copy of All the Aires but it might be in the latest edition. It deserves to be. €4 a night plus €2 for water this morning. Only downside was the weather. We got soaked yesterday afternoon!

We've now moved about 20km up the coast to another waterside aire at Audierne, #159 in the Aires book. Weather hasn't improved much, it rained again a few moments after I took this picture.

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nice spot..wrong time of year

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[snowdrops]

I was an avid airer but am gradually changing to village centres for overnighting - nearly always greeted with a smile and frequently find myself invited to share drinks/meals/boules - the Real France.

We too have experienced some wonderful local hospitality. Usually on the teeny campsites in quiet villages. Got plied with free ancient liqueur a few weeks ago and owner refused to accept a penny for it. Had great fun even when the storm began and the few that we were pelted into our own little spaces. Agree that is the real France and quite lovely

 

[snowdrops]

the municipal campsites in France can be fantastic value and in really nice spots. not all singing dancing, but even in high summer surprisingly reasonable prices. I like to stretch out under an awning, on a patch of grass in bare feet, bbq on, drink in hand etc...

Its the outdoor life that attracted us to camping in the first place....Better then being stuck inside a van on an packed Aire on a lovely summer evening any day!

There are indeed some wonderful municipal campsites, usually a lovely area too. May think about getting the book or an app for them.

 

[snowdrops]

We have found its inland aires that are the best often just a couple of spaces on grass next to a nice river with benches and tables some are larger city center along side canals and rivers often free or very cheap
if your on the coast i think due to demand for lots of spaces they do tend to be of the concrete car park types and often busy especially in the peak season and some are nearly as expensive as a site
i think this is often the reason some love them and some hate them
then there are what we call traveling aires not far from main routes often carpars or even a couple of parking spaces outside a rail station purely there to be used on route

Yes I think you're right there, the ones we have liked have been inland, mainly Brittany, quiet by a canal etc. We are mostly always down South and near the coast and so that's probably why we haven't found one we like very much and why they're only a euro or 2 cheaper than an acsi.

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[Minxy]

I don't get it, you drive from Aire to Aire and seemingly never stay anywhere for more than one or two nights, so your either driving or your in the Aire!

Do you actually ever see anything, other than through your cab window?

Do you get home a "Whiter Shade of Pale" than when you left?

Should be some good Daily Quiz results today, it's all about what you can see through a window.

No you "don't get it"! We use aires and wild camp (or whatever you want to call it), all the time, we don't drive straight from one aire to another, we explore as we travel, taking in lovely villages, views, scenery etc, stopping to explore them, then go to an aire at or near wherever we end up. I know some MHers do travel from aire to aire with nothing in between but that's not for us, part of the holiday is seeing stuff as we travel, not just at the final destination of the day.

 

[magicsurfbus]

I don't get it, you drive from Aire to Aire and seemingly never stay anywhere for more than one or two nights, so your either driving or your in the Aire!

Do you actually ever see anything, other than through your cab window?

Surely it depends on how far apart the aires are when you're touring doesn't it?

 

[sdc77]

All this is confirming is that we all do it differently ... 50 shades of motorhoming ... none are wrong and all are right.

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