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Subject Topic: Newbie campervan owner 0 advice please?
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03/1/2013 at 9:30am
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ok, after a few years of toying with the idea of buying a small camper to travel to our mobile on the vendee, i have finally done it!!! we used to use the inlaws coachbuilt a few years ago, but it was really too big for our purposes. we mainly want to use the camper to explore a bit further afield along our route and away from our mobile, not really looking to spend more than one or two nights in it at a time and certainly not a full holiday !!!

 

so now i need to listen to you hardened campervanners especially when picking your brains for free/cheap overnight areas en route from calais to the vendee. to start we arereally looking for a couple of sites that are around the abeyville area pref a small village with restaraunt BUT the boss insists that there is a decent clean toilet, so we may need to look at municipal sites, we once stayed in Wissant town square as advised at the local tabac, had a great meal in the town etc, but i cant remember if there public toliets etc (we had on board facilities!!)

 

anyway, any advice/suggestions welcome - we particularly like the idea of parking in the town centre for free and spending a few euros on dining out !!!



03/1/2013 at 10:12am
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I would get a book showing Aires de Service locations in France. Amazon is a good starting point. On the other hand there are several campsites on the coast road at Wissant. We did not even book in advance but it was late season (September). There are several websites listing motorhome Aires too. Have a great time !24

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06/1/2013 at 8:54pm
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Buy the Aires book and a GPS to enter coordinates. We did this route last year with 2 small children and used aires for 1 & 2 nights and then some campsites for longer stays. Municipal in France is nearly always good and not to expensive but the aires are brilliant and cheap, if not free!



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