Spawn_e_git
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Hi.
Ferry booked for July 2020 to Santander, we have three weeks between arrival and departure.
The plan is to stay along the north coast of Spain unless the weather is poor where we will head south.
Looking at a lot of the campsites along the north coast there are some that are very good but it seems that most of the big sites with the entertainment etc are basecd along the Costa Brava.
The reason for going to Spain via Ferry was to avoid spending a long time driving, we went to the south of France this year and the hours and hours driving was boring and unfair in some respects on our 3 year old son sitting for hours in a car seat but the weather in the north was not very good so that made the decision to head south.
We have a 5.3T Tag Axle MH so the road tolls in France were expensive, even though most tolls dropped us down to Class 2, those that refused and left us at class 4 cost us dearly.
My question is for info from anyone who has travelled from the Santander/Bilbao area across to the Catalunia area and what routes you took?
Google Maps is giving me the route via Vitoria Gasteiz and Zaragoza onto Lieda and up to Girona area or the non toll route via Pamplona onto Huesca and then Lieda.
The toll route is around an hour and a half less but we intend to take a couple of days to get down and back so the time is not really important, more the tyoe of roads the non-toll route would be.
I tried last year to try the non-toll routes a couple of times but found 3.5t limited roads and small passes that made it difficult in a big MH.
Will I find the same thing in Spain? I have dropped to Street view along a few sections of the non-toll route and they look like good roads with few roundabouts but that is only a small sample.
Any advice on road toll charges in Spain would also be appreciated, are they the same as France where we will be charged the same as a truck @class 4? Are the Spanish accomodating to drop to class 2 is asked at the toll booths?
Thanks in advance for any info you can give.
Ferry booked for July 2020 to Santander, we have three weeks between arrival and departure.
The plan is to stay along the north coast of Spain unless the weather is poor where we will head south.
Looking at a lot of the campsites along the north coast there are some that are very good but it seems that most of the big sites with the entertainment etc are basecd along the Costa Brava.
The reason for going to Spain via Ferry was to avoid spending a long time driving, we went to the south of France this year and the hours and hours driving was boring and unfair in some respects on our 3 year old son sitting for hours in a car seat but the weather in the north was not very good so that made the decision to head south.
We have a 5.3T Tag Axle MH so the road tolls in France were expensive, even though most tolls dropped us down to Class 2, those that refused and left us at class 4 cost us dearly.
My question is for info from anyone who has travelled from the Santander/Bilbao area across to the Catalunia area and what routes you took?
Google Maps is giving me the route via Vitoria Gasteiz and Zaragoza onto Lieda and up to Girona area or the non toll route via Pamplona onto Huesca and then Lieda.
The toll route is around an hour and a half less but we intend to take a couple of days to get down and back so the time is not really important, more the tyoe of roads the non-toll route would be.
I tried last year to try the non-toll routes a couple of times but found 3.5t limited roads and small passes that made it difficult in a big MH.
Will I find the same thing in Spain? I have dropped to Street view along a few sections of the non-toll route and they look like good roads with few roundabouts but that is only a small sample.
Any advice on road toll charges in Spain would also be appreciated, are they the same as France where we will be charged the same as a truck @class 4? Are the Spanish accomodating to drop to class 2 is asked at the toll booths?
Thanks in advance for any info you can give.
