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Personwilekit
06/3/2012 at 11:48am
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We're travelling via Eurotunnel to France this summer for a camping trip, and I've just seen on another forum that you can't take gas bottles with you on Eurotunnel. How easy is it to get gas bottles? We tend to use a combination of the single stove which take the little canisters, and the larger 2 burner stove hooked up to a conventional calor gas bottle. What have others done?



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PersonVal A
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You can take gas bottles on Eurotunnel, it's LPG powered cars which are not allowed.

You can buy Camping Gaz in many larger supermarket and hypermarkets in France, as well as DIY warehouses, caravan accessory shops, camping ships,  filling stations (where HGV drivers filll up), and many other places.


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It's maybe worth mentioning that Calor don't sell their products outside of the UK!
As Val says, Campingaz is available everywhere in France and taking their bottles on Eurotunnel shouldn't be a problem.

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You definitely can take campingaz in the tunnel, the stewards just check if you have it switched off before you embark.

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For 30 eurs you can buy a light weight French gas bottle
10 kgs .including regulator. cheaper than camping gas refill

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We used to have trouble finding the 'tubes' of gas to go in the cooking range, and still always take our own.


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That's a relief, I'd rather take the bottle & big stove than the little ones. Thanks for the advice guys :-)

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