In Slovakia With Empty UK Calor Gas Cylinders

[flatpackchicken]

Title basically sums it up, but we are in Slovakia and just now ran out of gas.

I know we can’t exchange Calor bottles out here (13kg size for reference), so I’ll need to buy a new gas bottle. A couple of questions:

Does the UK connector fit any other European countries gas bottles? I’m assuming no, which brings me to my next question:

Where can I buy an adapter to convert my UK connector to whatever new country I buy a gas bottle in?

I’m in Slovakia but close enough to Czech, or I can wait until Hungary — which country would be the best for buying a new gas bottle (and getting it to fit our connection)?

Thanks so much in advance!

If you are very near Brezno there is a garage there that does LPG but May also fill foreign bottles to !!!!!! If near give it a try !!!
Satnav coordinates

48.803110, 19.644540

 

[slyfry]

There's a place in Hungary that refilled UK amongst other bottles.

park4night - (8230) Balatonfüred - 1 Laki dűlő

Station de remplissage de bouteilles de gaz (cela nous semble très coûteux, mais apparemment, il est difficile de trouver des endroits pour remplir des bouteilles de gaz en Hongrie)

park4night.com

If they do yours it's a quick fix, but in the ideal world refillable bottles are the way to go, in the UK you have companies like

GAS IT Trade Centre ( LPG By Design Limited ) Refillable LPG Gas Bottles and Gas Tanks Solutions. - GAS IT Trade Leisure Gas - Catering, Motorhome, Campervan, Caravan, Farrier and Road Repair Refillable Gas Solutions. - GAS IT Leisure Gas Bottles, Ga

GAS IT branded products sold via the UK approved distributor LPG By Design Limited, at our GAS IT Trade Centre here in North Wales is not only the largest UK manufacturer and reseller but also Europe's Premier Brand of Self Refillable Refillable LPG Gas Systems ( gas bottles & Gas tanks )...

www.gasit.co.uk

Gaslow

Gaslow self-refillable LPG gas cylinder systems are designed to be user refilled at any garage that sells Autogas.

www.gaslowdirect.com

Safefill | Safe and easy to refill LPG Gas Cylinders

Safefill LPG Gas

www.safefill.co.uk

In Poland

Carbon Zorro - Motorhomes, BBQ, Boats, GasBank, Autogas LPG

Online shop - gas installations lpg and cng - autogas systems, parts and accessories - Worldwide Delivery.

carbonzorro.com

Do a search in your location you might be lucky. Bob.

Update: Found a place 30 min away in Budapest that refills other country’s gas bottles!!! The guy is refilling them now and we are so relieved!

I used the good ole’ Park4night app, and selected the filter for “Bottled Gas Services”. We had tried that up in Slovakia but it didn’t find any results. In the overwhelm of so much info I forgot to try a search on Park4Night again until seeing this post, so thank you Bob!!! Being in a much larger city (Budapest) was the winning ticket this time.

Thank you sincerely to everyone who responded and helped with so much info!!! I am so grateful when people take time out of their day to help me — it means so much!!!! Thanks!!!

- Sara

 

[Brains]

Update: Found a place 30 min away in Budapest that refills other country’s gas bottles!!! The guy is refilling them now and we are so relieved!

I used the good ole’ Park4night app, and selected the filter for “Bottled Gas Services”. We had tried that up in Slovakia but it didn’t find any results. In the overwhelm of so much info I forgot to try a search on Park4Night again until seeing this post, so thank you Bob!!! Being in a much larger city (Budapest) was the winning ticket this time.

Thank you sincerely to everyone who responded and helped with so much info!!! I am so grateful when people take time out of their day to help me — it means so much!!!! Thanks!!!

- Sara

Sara

The long term fix for this is to install a refillable system.
As others have suggested above see GasIt, GasLow and others.

(LPG gas in the UK Calor is over £30 a bottle, a refillable is about £5, so you will get back the installation cost, eventually.)

 

[Gromett]

Update: Found a place 30 min away in Budapest that refills other country’s gas bottles!!! The guy is refilling them now and we are so relieved!

I used the good ole’ Park4night app, and selected the filter for “Bottled Gas Services”. We had tried that up in Slovakia but it didn’t find any results. In the overwhelm of so much info I forgot to try a search on Park4Night again until seeing this post, so thank you Bob!!! Being in a much larger city (Budapest) was the winning ticket this time.

Thank you sincerely to everyone who responded and helped with so much info!!! I am so grateful when people take time out of their day to help me — it means so much!!!! Thanks!!!

- Sara

Thanks for letting us know you got it sorted. Too often we answer questions etc and never find out what happened. I hope you enjoy the rest of your tour.

 

[VXman]

Sara

The long term fix for this is to install a refillable system.
As others have suggested above see GasIt, GasLow and others.

(LPG gas in the UK Calor is over £30 a bottle, a refillable is about £5, so you will get back the installation cost, eventually.)

£5 is a bit hopeful. More like £15 now. (11KG bottle takes about 21 litres. 75p litre? I guess Calor is more than £30 now too.

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[SwissBob]

I've got a LHD van with German 13kg bottles but also have a UK bottle and use an adaptor for that. If you can't get sorted in Slovakia, might it be worth going into Germany, finding a camping/motorhome shop/dealership, getting an adaptor and buying a German bottle? Fritz Berger is a large chain of camping shops that carry stocks of gas bottle equipment and gas bottles.. For the gas bottle you could alternatively go to one of the large hardware stores (Obi, Martkauf etc.) I mention Germany as almost every decent size town will have a camping store or motorhome dealer of some sort. Hooray for diesel heating!

Searching threads for exactly this - we are coming to the UK for 6 weeks with our French van and wondered what adapter we might need for a UK bottle?

 

[Soycd]

Searching threads for exactly this - we are coming to the UK for 6 weeks with our French van and wondered what adapter we might need for a UK bottle?

Below is a link to the one that I have, but mine is German to UK. I think you could probably contact the company and ask them for advice?

Gaslow Easy-Fit Adaptor

Gaslow Easy-Fit Adaptor – Effortless Conversion for UK Propane Cylinders Seamlessly Connect Regulators & Hoses to UK Propane Cylinders The Gaslow Easy-Fit Adaptor (01-1674) is a UK POL LH male adapter designed for quick and hassle-free connection between 21.8LH regulators, regulator hoses, and...

www.gasproducts.co.uk

 

[SwissBob]

Below is a link to the one that I have, but mine is German to UK. I think you could probably contact the company and ask them for advice?

Gaslow Easy-Fit Adaptor

Gaslow Easy-Fit Adaptor – Effortless Conversion for UK Propane Cylinders Seamlessly Connect Regulators & Hoses to UK Propane Cylinders The Gaslow Easy-Fit Adaptor (01-1674) is a UK POL LH male adapter designed for quick and hassle-free connection between 21.8LH regulators, regulator hoses, and...

www.gasproducts.co.uk

Thanks muchly. Question asked. I have a feeling German and French are very similar if not identical so should be ok.

 

[The Wino]

Searching threads for exactly this - we are coming to the UK for 6 weeks with our French van and wondered what adapter we might need for a UK bottle?

I think is it worth paying the deposit on a UK bottle rather than bringing a spare French one?

 

[SwissBob]

I think is it worth paying the deposit on a UK bottle rather than bringing a spare French one?

We'll have 2 French ones. One full, one part full. This is just forward disaster planning

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[Nanniemate]

OP posted in November 2022 I hope they are sorted

 

[Bailey58]

OP posted in November 2022 I hope they are sorted

They replied in #32.

 

[VXman]

For regular European travel refillable bottles are the best solution - and cheaper in the long run. It was the first thing I planned for when we got the motorhome and knew we would be traveling on the continent.