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Quote: Originally posted by Buzzy-Beans on 13/2/2017

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I used to live in France and did so for many years, during that time I became well aware that they are exceptionally good at generating red tape!

Although I do not have any concrete evidence to support my suggestion that you can't legally refill a gas cylinder at an LPG point in France, I do know of quite a few people who have been refused.

If you care to look at this page of the Safefill website http://www.safefill.co.uk/refilling-retailers.html you will see on the European map that there isn't a single filling point registered with them in France!

Only today I spoke with someone at Safefill and quite frankly I couldn't believe a word that was being said to me.

Although I bought one of these cylinders specifically for fitting to my van conversion, with hindsight I now firmly believe that I would have been far, far better buying an Alugas cylinder which does have a remote refilling facility (i.e. a proper van wall external refilling point).

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Quote: Originally posted by woodman2 on 16/2/2017

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Thanks for the reply.

We are off to France later on this year so will see if we have a problem.

I was proposing to remove the tank from the caravan and take it in the car to the station when needed, but in view of the responses I think we will leave it in the locker of the van and refill whilst towing the van. In that way they may just think I have an LPG car and take no notice.

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Quote: I've seen Safefill and Gaslow mentioned. Is Gaslow any better in France or basically the same idea?

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And why are Alugas & Gasit possibly a better bet, Boff? (Forgive newbie ignorance here, please!)

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