Travelling to south of france

Teecey

Teecey

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Hi we are travelling to the south of France from Calais to nice can you please recommend sites for motor homes
 
Teecey said:
Hi we are travelling to the south of France from Calais to nice can you please recommend sites for motor homes
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Plenty Aires o n the way down, but not many on the south coast , there is a nice site just over the border in Italy that we have used a few times, they have a shuttle bus that takes you to nice and Monte Carlo and also the other way on a Friday to venimiglia market
 
Sorry forgot link.

Camping Por La Mar
 
Guignicourt has a pleasant site just off motorway,
Langres is a good stop plenty of room on the aires there.

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Depends on your route you intend to take, not done a lot of France but have stayed twice at La Fleche. We really enjoyed it here and it’s a fabulous location on the banks of the Loire and a 4/5 minute walk into La Fleche which is a lovely little french village with everything you need.

The site is immaculately clean with pool and look new toilet/shower block and a little shop selling fresh baguettes amongst other stuff

Camping la Route d'Or | La Flèche

Au bord du Loir et à 4kms du zoo de La Flèche, le camping municipal 4 étoiles de La Route d'Or vous accueille pour votre séjour dans la Sarthe (72) : emplacements, mobile homes, hébergements insolites, piscine, accueil vélo, cyclotourisme…
www.camping-lafleche.com www.camping-lafleche.com

We last stayed in 2020 and it was 17 euros per night
 
Toll expensive....
See PLYMOUTH2PLYMOUTH..
 
Al n Val said:
Depends on your route you intend to take, not done a lot of France but have stayed twice at La Fleche. We really enjoyed it here and it’s a fabulous location on the banks of the Loire and a 4/5 minute walk into La Fleche which is a lovely little french village with everything you need.

The site is immaculately clean with pool and look new toilet/shower block and a little shop selling fresh baguettes amongst other stuff

Camping la Route d'Or | La Flèche

Au bord du Loir et à 4kms du zoo de La Flèche, le camping municipal 4 étoiles de La Route d'Or vous accueille pour votre séjour dans la Sarthe (72) : emplacements, mobile homes, hébergements insolites, piscine, accueil vélo, cyclotourisme…
www.camping-lafleche.com www.camping-lafleche.com

We last stayed in 2020 and it was 17 euros per night
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Just left La Fleche, 15.5 euro per night, 7th night free. No shop but bread and food vans call at weekends.
 
Whitebirdyman said:
Just left La Fleche, 15.5 euro per night, 7th night free. No shop but bread and food vans call at weekends.
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nice one

tbh no need for vans as it’s a very short walk into La Fleche to get everything you need

Did you like it btw?

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We use the ACSI card. You pay £15 for membership and you get an ID card, a detailed booklet and an amazing App that gives the location and details of over 3000 really good campsites at fixed reduced prices including all the facilities none more than €20 as long as its not high season. It is saved us so much money and hassle over the years. If we are on a journey we just look at the app for the best looking campsite in the target location, punch in the address on our satnav and arrive. Never had to book in advance either. You can add filters too, to narrow your choice down for heated swim pools, proximity to lakes or beaches, naturiste, restaurants, dog friendly, etc. In my opinion it really is a must have App for European camping as it covers all EU countries plus the UK. The UK should be ashamed of itself though because the campsite owners seem to be mostly too greedy to offer fixed price discounts including electricity. Consequently there are only about 10 sites in the UK on the App and most in the SW.
 
Jo662 said:
Do you have Park4night?

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In my opinion the paid for version isn t as good as the free one, it is overloaded with information that you don't need, I am not saying this because of the cost as it's not much but I paid for a couple of years and found I couldn't get on with it half as good as the free one so closed my subscription.
If you do get it try the free one first, but sign up to be a member or whatever they call it for free then you can add your own sites or comment on others.
 
I'm the same chaser ,only use the free version as has everything I need.

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chaser said:
In my opinion the paid for version isn t as good as the free one, it is overloaded with information that you don't need, I am not saying this because of the cost as it's not much but I paid for a couple of years and found I couldn't get on with it half as good as the free one so closed my subscription.
If you do get it try the free one first, but sign up to be a member or whatever they call it for free then you can add your own sites or comment on others.
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The advantage of paid for version is you can use it offline which is a big advantage when travelling/en route and don’t have wifi. Now with fair usage limitations of data available why use it for using app when for very small annual sub can access app offline.
 
Such a vague question. It really depends what kind of stopovers you are looking for. Free, facitiles, EHU, toilets, full campsite with all mod cons, somewhere nice to stay and explore or just somewhere to lay your head??

ACSI, campingcarpark, park4night, search for sites, Archie's app. Are just some of the choices to help your search.
 
We've been going to the South of France for 12 years now and are getting ready for our first trip since Covid. We use Newhaven-Dieppe as it's the closest port to Paris and then a direct run down to Aix en Provence, on to the A8 and straight along the coast to Antibes. We then make our base there for 3 months. Lovely town in its own right with easy access to Cannes, Nice, Monaco and the Friday Market at Ventimiglia. We use buses, trains and Shanks' pony to get about. In 2019 it cost €2 to get from Cannes to Nice and if you tell the bus driver when paying that you want an onward ticket to Monaco, you get a ticket allowing you to get the bus from Nice to Monaco at no extra cost !! (This was pre-Covid so it might have changed but almost certainly still very cheap). We stay at Le Rossignol in Antibes, found it by accident and are now firm friends of the family owners. ACSI rates in low season. It's a smallish site with no bells and whistles and the owners sometimes get poor reviews for not being jolly enough but we love them to bits and have never had a problem. (I speak French, which helps). Good sized pitches with just a few which would take 8mtrs. Gill S.
 
Mother Ship said:
The advantage of paid for version is you can use it offline which is a big advantage when travelling/en route and don’t have wifi. Now with fair usage limitations of data available why use it for using app when for very small annual sub can access app offline.
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Don't understand how you can use it offline, you get somewhere just press around me and they are all there, how's it know where you are if you are offline?
Edit I have never used it offline even when I was paying.
 
If you want a really nice first night or last night stop on the way the aire in St Valery sur Somme is really nice and the village is beautiful. We stumbled on it recently and although busy there wasn’t another Brit there.

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Don Campbell said:
If you want a really nice first night or last night stop on the way the aire in St Valery sur Somme is really nice and the village is beautiful. We stumbled on it recently and although busy there wasn’t another Brit there.
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Another vote for St Valery sur Somme, we have stayed there several time, first time in the campsite at the top of the hill and after that always the aire which has electricity to most pitches.
We have just come back from France, arrived at a beautiful site in the South East having spent a week in Switzerland, arrived late Friday afternoon, set up and spent a pleasant couple of hours in the warm sunshine. Jo had a bad night so did a test-positive-so turned round Saturday morning and drove straight back home…….
 
ACSI can save you money on sites, but you need about three weeks to make sure the card is delivered (ours was just over two weeks!)

We are in Argeles Plage at the moment and we are using a site called Artisian. Even without the ACSI card, it is on 17€ a night.

On the way down we mixed free Aires with Camping Carpark Aires, mainly their ex municipal camp site Aires. Search for sites have the Camping Carpark Aires listed, but their own app is very good.

Check them all out and see what suits best. We are heading north today, meandering upwards, final proper stop, the new memorial to the men who came ashore on D-Day in the area and gave their all.

From all the rehouse mentioned, find the one that suits you. I am not keen on Park4Night but others love it. We use Search for Sites, there are many thousands of places to stop in it.
 
chaser said:
Don't understand how you can use it offline, you get somewhere just press around me and they are all there, how's it know where you are if you are offline?
Edit I have never used it offline even when I was paying.
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Your phone will use its GPS location to know where you are and will pin point you on the downloaded map.
 
Zigisla said:
Your phone will use its GPS location to know where you are and will pin point you on the downloaded map.
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So I might be thick, some would say no might about it but do you have the whole of Europe in your phone, what if it changes from when you downloaded it.

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chaser said:
So I might be thick, some would say no might about it but do you have the whole of Europe in your phone, what if it changes from when you downloaded it.
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Not sure if you have whole of Europe, but if you go to “downloaded areas” in your profile, it’s there. I don’t use it myself as I only buy “pro” monthly when I’m away. Then when back on wifi, you can update maps then.
 
Having done the Rouen bit nearly two weeks ago, we came down the free A20 motorway from Vierzon past Brive, about 300km. Stopped at Rocamadour L’Hospitallet at Le Relais site behind Hotel Amadour. €14 per night, all facilities (she said they stopped using ACSI due to hassle, and are now cheaper!) Good restaurants but amazing 5 hour thunderstorms on 2 nights! Albi has a free aire in the car park below the Cathedral for about 10 motorhomes; Cathedral the largest brick structure in the world - and it is big. Been down to the Dali museums in Northern Spain; can recommend Girona, charming city with vast churches. And the Via Augusta, from Tarragona to Rome, runs through it! The aire in Passatge Massaguer is good €10 for 24 hours, room for 37 vans, grey and black water dumps and proper toilets and washbasins on the floor below; it’s the ground level of an underground car park. Despite the central location, it was utterly silent in the middle of the night! Now back at Collioure.
 
Hi are you staying at Camping Amandiers? We are heading that way in a couple of weeks and thought it looked a good place to stay with access to Collioure and the beach? We’ve been to Collioure before but not in our camper.
 
cool camper said:
Hi are you staying at Camping Amandiers? We are heading that way in a couple of weeks and thought it looked a good place to stay with access to Collioure and the beach? We’ve been to Collioure before but not in our camper.
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No, we had two nights at the Aire de Stationnement, next to the tennis club, on the D86(€20 pn) which looks unprepossessing but has free electric (says 2 hours but it was on for 40 hours for us! As much water as you want, 3 basic toilets, grey dump and the most awful-looking cassette dump. It’s a 20 minute walk down, but at least 40 back up. Coaches park there, room for 180 cars, but we saw only 3, so you can park where you want.
 

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