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Ohdear! Back to original post - after being reassured by you people yesterday, today I received an email from the first campsite I contacted saying ours was too big! I'm back to worrying again now - we usually go to Hyeres on Med coast near St Tropez but I can't find anywhere that will take us (looked at the Cogolin one, though that's a bit inland) What's my best option for finding info on sites accepting large motorhomes? I didn't find a lot of detail on the database here, at least , not for the area we usually go to - though I guess we'll have to go elsewhere!
Thanks Nukes. I think that most campsites actually on the coast in the S.France normally have jam packed pitches and I personally wouldn't go to one of these if I owned a shopping trolley although a shopping trolley and an up turned pram without wheels would not look out of place in some.
Hi again. I'm just 'upping' this thread because we're getting somewhat worried now; having emailed six sites in the area we are interested in, four of them have replied saying their sites can't accommodate a van our size and two haven't bothered replying. Will someone please ressure us, a month on, that we've done the right thing ordering this long one?!
Many sites in France and Spain have far smaller pitches than we are used to in the UK.. The question is, do you want to stay on a site where vans are packed in like sardines ? If a site can't accommodate an 8mt van I wouldn't want to be on it at all.. even with a tiddler.
We have stayed on sites where it was impossible to erect an awning and the vans were so close that open windows were almost touching, needless to say we moved on.
However, the larger your motorhome the fewer sites that will be suitable..
We never ever book and have never been stuck for a place to stay.. The spirit of motorhoming is the freedom to roam and wander as you wish, not to book in for 14 nights.. we left that behind when we sold the caravan..
Go and enjoy your van, stop worrying but don't expect to have a 200 sq mt pitch on the edge of the Med.. with sea views.. you may be disappointed.
So, on the subject of height then, is 3.42m 'too' high for continental touring and getting off the beaten track? Would hate to miss out on those beautiful French villages. Still looking at Carthago and it is high.
Scotjimland we agree totally with you and don't really want to stay in a site at all - 'camping sauvage' is more our style. HOwever....it does appear in our recents visits to France that they are being more rigorous with regard where they let motorhomes park; we've seen lots of places with motorhome crossed out signs - and so we figured at least booking a campsite we'd be assured of somewhere to go. The same applied to the ten years we had a caravan before we moved over to a (smaller) motorhome than the one we've currently ordered. Unfortunately due to partner's inlaws living in Hyeres near Toulon we are sort of legally obliged to go down that way for at least part of the holiday, to visit them and it's just about the worst place to find somewhere to stop with a motorhome!
Yes you have, takes a bit of getting used too, but we have been away several times over the last few months and have had no real problems and we are new to all this both in terms of MHing and of course our size.
I now find the van looking and feeling smaller!!
This summer we are going to try and go has we please turning up as and when we feel like, I know there will be some risks but we feel less insecure that when we first started in May last Year
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