We are intending to stock up our 3 way fridge for our journey to France but are not planning to do it in one hit, rather leave Saturday morning, stay overnight in France in a hotel and then arrive Sunday midday.
My question is will the food keep cool enough for the entire journey considering we will stop the car overnight?
How do most of you deal with this?
Thanks
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We used to take ours into the hotel room and plug it in when we were on our way south to pick up the caravan. No one seemed to mind.
Obviously whilst you're travelling you plug it in to the cigarette lighter point.ht
I should add, we pack it tight, fill any spaces with those mini packs of frozen juice which we freeze in advance, and put several folded T towels over the top of the food - and DON'T check on how it seems to be doing!
I did wonder about doing that but thought it might look a bit odd! Obviously as you say when the car is running the fridge is on (although as I understand not quite as good as mains or gas).
We'll do what you recommend thanks (at least I know it is possible).
I don't think you'll have a problem. We just carry ours in, once we've booked in and transferred everything else - and we've stayed at some quite 'posh' places, where they don't seem at all bothered.
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We never take any food with us, except for stuff to eat 'en route' ... Half the hol fun/change, for us, is shopping/cooking/eating what the french do ... and their supermarkets seems to offer such a much better range of pretty well everything ... oh, you could take the odd thing that's tricky to find, if you're addicted, like ... marmite!
Yep, we take our 23lt Fridge into the hotel room to keep it going overnight, just make sure you have a adapter with you, not an issue for us as our Fridge has a French type plug fitted for mains use.
We do two Budget Hotel overnights in France on our way down to the South East which breaks the journey nicely.
And having the Fridge to hand, makes for some lovely lunchtime picnic stops along the French Autoroutes using one of the less busy Aires, instead of a service station area.
We stock the fridge up with various items from the French supermarket in the morning, for that days journey.
Funny how most French supermarkets don't open till 9am, it just like how UK was back in the 70's.
We are rather like Kelper and take very little food with us, but we once met a British couple who had run out of bacon - they had arrived with their fridge packed with the stuff but had eaten it all. They got their daughter to cross to Calais and drive half a day south to re-supply them with more. They seemed to eat nothing else.
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Some good points here. In fact the only reason why I had intended to stock the fridge up was because we will be arriving on Sunday and if there were no reasonably close supermarkets we would have food to hand straightaway.
But of course I will be cooking using local produce whilst we are away as I love food!
We usually carefully freeze a cheep plastic bottle of lemonade (you need to make sure it doesn't split the bottle) and add this in with the contents and it takes 2-3 days to slowly defrost this keeps everything else at an even temperature for traveling.
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