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Subject Topic: Parking overnight near Eurotunnel Post Reply Post New Topic
Personrebmum2004
09/6/2014 at 6:01pm
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Hello.

We're going to France for a long weekend with our caravan in July and I'd like to break the journey by driving down the night before and staying over night at one of the services near the tunnel instead of getting everyone up at the crack of dawn.

As we've never done this before has anyone got any suggestions for which services to use and will we get much sleep or should I be buying everyone ear plugs (including the 2 dogs).

Thanks for your help.


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Personjaiash
09/6/2014 at 6:26pm
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Personally I would go straight across and stop on the French side.


Personfixings
09/6/2014 at 6:31pm
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2 services on M20, one just after Maidstone, at J8, about 30miles before tunnel & the next at J11 only a few mins from tunnel. Both charge about £20 for overnight parking & both will probably be noisy with vehicle movements all night.

If you are heading toward Boulogne theres a motorway services on A16 10mins from tunnel with free parking if you fancy getting across to France the night before.


PersonDavid Klyne
09/6/2014 at 8:22pm
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The services at junction 8 have a dedicated caravan area but the only trouble is that it tends to get full of other vehicles although you could be lucky. Have you thought about staying at Black Horse Farm which is only a fairly short distance from the Tunnel. They have a special transit area and the cost won't be much more than the services charge.

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PersonSproz
11/6/2014 at 9:17pm
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There's a cl site close to the tunnel that we nearly stayed at but a change of plan meant we did an afternoon crossing and stayed in France. The services near the tunnel exit dont or didnt have caravan parking, we did stay there for a few hours early one morning in the coach area. I would cross and stay in France.


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Personfranbee
12/6/2014 at 8:31am
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I'd cross to France before sleeping too.


Personfrederico
13/6/2014 at 3:23pm
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Black horse is ok. We stayed over night there in March. Cost about £23 in the overnight area. Cheaper for club members? Dearer in summer.
Fred.


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Personweavers78
13/6/2014 at 10:45pm
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we always use Broadhembury near Ashford.

http://www.ukcampsite.co.uk/sites/details.asp?revid=1521

 £19 for a hard standing with electric where you can keep the car hitched up and 30 mins from the terminal


Personblueexpo97
14/6/2014 at 7:09am
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weavers is that in the family area that you can leave it hitched up. Don't know when you were last there but this will be our fourth year there and the first couple we could stay hitched up, but the new hard stands everybody seems to have to unhitch. This is in the adults only section.

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Personfrederico
14/6/2014 at 9:46am
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We had to unhitch at Black horse.
Fred.


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Personweavers78
15/6/2014 at 10:15am
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only booked earlier this week and was told would be ok to stay hitched up on hardstandi9ng in adults only section

We will find out later today and report back


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Personbexamy
15/6/2014 at 10:29am
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I think there a cl site at the drum pub just of the m20 or their is a nice cl site in Whitfield dover.


Personbeecherk
15/6/2014 at 9:16pm
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I used the m20 services 2 weeks ago never again noise all night and when we tried to get a parking space they guys in there werent intrested finally found a spot and they charged us £20 so i asked for a receipt. Never again m20 services are rubbish only intrested in lorries i am afraid.

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Personfrederico
15/6/2014 at 10:30pm
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Black Horse. We were two Adults and not allowed to unhitch and the site was quite empty. Maybe they have changed their rules?

Fred.



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