Hello all..can any key recommend any motels in rouen or calais area that offer secure car parking. I mean secure.enough to leave bikes on the back of the car? Thanks!
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We were at the Campanile/Premiere Classe Dunkerque (Armbouts Cappel) last Friday/Saturday and there was around 30 Bicycles (Dutch Type) just stood up in the car park near reception, some in fact blew over in the night, which I stood back up in the Morning.
When we took a bicycle last year, I broke it down and packed it into the Trailer, I would never leave a half decent bike out on display, either lock it in the car or put it in the hotel room, secure car park or not.
A strange but stupid fact of insurance, is that if your bicycle is stolen of your car whilst locked to a cycle carrier, it is covered by insurance, but if it is stolen from being locked inside your car, caravan, MotorHome or trailer, or nicked from your hotel room, it is not covered by the insurance!
Left our motor at the Ibis next to Cite Europe with bikes and surfboards on with no problems at all. Is secure parking plus a large contigent of police are based there too, which helps.
Can you email me valdaathome at gmail.com. Three times now I have tried to post a recommendation, and each time the post has disappeared.
Just quickly - the Premiere Classe at Val de Reuil, or Manoir des Deux Amants at Connelles, both booked through booking.com and both have secure parking, but I'd like to add just a bit more detail and for some reason it doesn't like longer posts!
I always take mine & my wife's into the rooms - no way I'm leaving several thousand £'s worth of bike on the car overnight - secure parking or not. Never had a problem with this at Novotel or Holiday Inn
However, plenty of people do just leave them, though I doubt very much that my insurance company would consider that I'd taken reasonable security meansures if they did go walkabout!
Wrong direction for you but Holiday Inn Englos just outside Lille is right next door to the local Gendarmerie (actually share a car park) and we've left bikes on back of car whilst staying there. Also a big Auchan shopping centre on the other side of the roundabout, so perfect for an overnight and picking up supplies en route.
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We always reverse park and then padlock bikes with security chain to roof bars which are non remove able.
We also padlock them all together.
Never had a problem
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Topic: bikes on car. staying in a motel en route
