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There are lots of budget hotels, (find links here) and if you have small children then you may prefer rooms with an en-suite bathroom.  The Formule 1 bathrooms are down the corridor, and are those self-cleansing types, where the door locks again after you leave and the pod washes itself down. 

You may prefer a more characterful hotel, which may offer a family en-suite room, and you can find these through Logis de France website or through booking.com.  We stayed in one this year wbich cost no more than a budget hotel, but offered a pool and nice garden, and did a 9 euro three course evening meal.  It wasn't on your route to Spain unfortunately.  Your trailer should be safe enough in a place like that provided parking is available. 

Have you decided on your route?  That will make all the difference as to actual recommendations as to where to stay.

If you are driving that distance, a hotel for one night would be your best bet - I would guess that you will be ariving pretty late, and setting up the TT will be the last thing that you want to do.... and if you TT is packed anything like ours, it would be a real pain as well.

The problem with the E11 is that there are very few hotels between Clermont Ferrand and Beziers - you may have to venture off the beaten track a little. We looked at Milau but there aren't that many places (on the internet at least)

Towing a TT I can easily manage to maintain 70 - 75 mph, if you have an early crossing (in France and on route by 10am) you can get to Milau by 7pm with 3 short breaks - if you are not travelling at the busiest time (ie not Saturday) you may even consider pushing on to Beziers (2 hours beyond Milau) with a really early crossing this is possible

As a reference we towed a trailer tent from Rosas in Spain to Dieppe in 11 hours with one overnight stop and 4 short breaks