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Subject Topic: Help finding Campingaz in France Post Reply Post New Topic
20/6/2011 at 12:35pm
 Location: Snowdonia National Park
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Hi

On my first camping trip to France in Normandy in my tent. I have a Campingaz Chef 2 ring cooker, but have no idea where to find replacement 907 cyclinders. Thought I'd try to find a stockist before I run out.   Have checked several garages (including Carrefour, Intermarche and E.Leclerc), but they only sell huge containers which are not suitable for the Chef.

Does anyone have any idea where they hide them in towns?


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20/6/2011 at 12:45pm
 Location: West country
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907 cylinders are what we use. They are easily sourced, I have changed them in all the supermarkets you posted in the past. We pick them up In the store though, (with the camping gear), as outside at the service stations they only carry the huge domestic bottles usually. 


20/6/2011 at 12:48pm
 Location: Wirral
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supermarkets sell them. larger branches sell most sizes.


20/6/2011 at 1:06pm
 Location: Cheshire
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Have you tried Super U?

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20/6/2011 at 1:30pm
 Location: Wirral
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Yes you get them in supermarkets and if you are exchanging one then you have to go to customer services first and hand in the old bottle for which you receive a voucher that you give to the cashier with the new bottle. We made the mistake of taking our old bottle with us to the checkout tills and the poor till girl just looked baffled.

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20/6/2011 at 1:32pm
 Location: Scotland.
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Remember they won't have CampingGaz  in the gas cages in the garage forecourt, it will be inside the store itself, in the camping/leisure/BBQ section of bigger stores. The usual method is to take your empty to the Customer Services desk and they will either send someone for a new cylinder and do the handover there or give you a token which you hand to the checkout operater with the full cylinder you've picked up from the shelves. Only rarely and in smaller supermarkets will you take your empty bottle into the supermarket in the trolley. In my experience it also pays to check they actually have full ones in stock before you go to Customer Services. You can usually get 907s, 904s and sometimes the old 901s. But inside the store, remember. Not the garage bit!

Decathlons stock them too btw.



20/6/2011 at 6:11pm
 Location: up north
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We bought some at Intermarche last year & even managed - with very little french - to swap ours that doesn't have a screw top, we just put the connecter on the new one at the till...bit stressful at the time, trying to explain wth sign language!


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20/6/2011 at 6:38pm
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As has been said above most of the bigger supermarkets have 907s, some of the smaller ones do too. But as has been said inside the stores with the camping gear. The big cages outside hypermarkets with 15kg gas bottles or bigger are what the French use for their domestic cooking supplies. There are many rural properties in France that dont have mains gas, as they dont use gas for heating as much as we do in the uk.


20/6/2011 at 7:47pm
 Location: Snowdonia National Park
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Hi again

Thanks for all your replies. Have enough gas for a day or two so will go to the big E.Leclerc store a few miles away, which has a camping section, and ask at customer services for their help (once I work out how to say it in French).

Yet another learning experience in my travels!!


21/6/2011 at 7:46pm
 Location: Lassay Les Chateaux France
 Outfit: Campsite La Cloue
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Hi,
Camping Gaz do have a web site so you can search before you leave, just leave the bottle at the cash desk, and get what you require, nearly all the supermarkets round us have Gaz bottles on the shelves http://www.campinggaz.com/FR/t-retailerlocator.aspx

Have a nice holiday




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