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Quote: Originally posted by vagasv1 on 01/7/2014

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We are new to caravanning this year. Been away 5 times and starting to love it. we have booked a ferry and a campsite near Paris for 2 weeks in august. I cannot decided what sat nav to get for this journey. We have an 8 year old Tom Tom witch we are happy with but I do want to get a newer version. We have a 6 birth 7.5m long caravan and was wondering how important it is to get a caravan sat nav. where you can input the sizes of your setup and it will not take you down streets where you cannot fit. I would love some advise from you all

Paul

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Ours was just £59 and seems to work fine for a solo car.  Friends have borrowed it to go to France for three weeks - but there's no way I would rely on it with a caravan.  I like to look at a map of France, and work from the road colours, village indicators, and so on, so that I know what sort of roads we'll be lead down if we follow the SatNav blindly.  It's surprising just how much detail you can read from the Michelin A4 size France Road Atlas.

Our experiences of SatNav in the past haven't been good.  We met a couple at Riviere sur Tarn who'd blindly followed their SatNav directions from their previous campsite in the Massif Central somewhere, and it had taken them twenty-four hours, on roads which I'd hesitate to walk on, let alone tow a caravan,  before they'd reached the site at Riviere!  They came down a road into the Tarn Gorge which is perhaps suitable only for donkeys but of course couldn't just turn round and go back again as there was nowhere to turn.  Any half-decent map would have shown them that the road they were planning to use wasn't suitable for a caravan.

Quote: Originally posted by vagasv1 on 24/7/2014thanks Guys for getting back to me. I guess the question was "do I buy a £300 sat nav with Caravan sizes or just go for a basic £100 one.

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I think I am going to go for the £100 and just plan my journey out on google maps. I will be sticking to the toll roads until I get near my destination. Then just check out the last few mile/towns I will go through.

Thanks again

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