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has anyone stayed overnight on motorway parking areas? is it safe and ok either nottingham m1 leicester forest or tamworth?
duffie
duffie
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Yep - it's really handy not having to pull off & find somewhere on a journey. Safe and surprisingly quiet if you choose your spot carefully. The 'free breakfast' thing only applies to certain operators - and I don't know which. Charge last few times I used one around £8 - just follow the instructions on the Car Park notice on how to pay.I loved staying at Motorway service stations overnight. If you've got a dog which you will be walking then park near or under one of the huge lights. I can't remember how much it costs but it includes full English breakfast next morning.
We always feel dinky parked next to you lads..... !Additional bonus (for me) is that my RV looks dinky next to those huge HGV vehicles ... it's always nice to feel "dinky"!
BritStops are the way forward IMO !!!!!
Yes, but the point being this. Lets say, (as in my case), that your heading South. You go at night. Your booked in at, lets say for arguments sake the next day, Cirencester CC. If you arrive at 2 in the morning, then you lose a night of your stay you paid for, and get stuck outside the gates. If you stop elsewhere, then hang around until 12 pm, then that would be better. But where? Risk a supermarket car park? If the system was better set up for all travellers to journey at night, then day time congestion would be slashed. It's like having a street light on all day, wasted capacity.Yessss.. but recently we have noticed several night closures of main trunk roads.. Most notable being the A1 :-(
I'm being drawn rather swiftly to night time travelling, South on the M6 for instance. Living North of Manchester, anything South of Junction 19 is a daytime nightmare. Trying to find areas/lay-bys that I can pull onto at say 2 am, off the M5, and well South of Birmingham. Might just try it this year.