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Don't forget to leave a review of the French and other European campsites you have visited!
Don't forget to leave a review of the French and other European campsites you have visited!
Don't forget to leave a review of the French and other European campsites you have visited!
06/3/2020 at 5:43pm
Location: West - North Yorkshire
Outfit: Swift Speedbird 490 Mondeo Estate
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Have a look on booking.com, find a chain hotel in the town you expect to reach after your journey from Calais, but make sure it offers 'cancellation up to 6.00 pm'. Then at 5.30 pm if you're not going to get there, or might get a lot further, cancel the booking on line and book another somewhere else. These chain hotels almost always have rooms available, and will soon find a new occupier for the room you were planning to have. ?
Standards vary, even between different 'branches' of a hotel chain - some have been modernised and are quite smart, others are becoming very tired. So it's difficult to recommend which chain is 'best' if you only want a bed for the night. Most of the chain hotels are in 'business parks' where there are usually plenty of choices of places to eat, and often hotel guests get a discount at these places.
Alternatively do the same thing, but for more charm and authenticity book a Chambre d'Hotes where you expect to reach, but again make sure that they are flexible on arrival time and then make sure you get there. You can find some nice personally run places on booking.com and many of them are similar prices to the budget chains, but include breakfast. One such, that we used one year, on arrival at 9.30 pm after struggling through floods around Orleans, asked us on arrival 'Would you like a meal - we thought it might be difficult for you because of the bloods, and have something ready for you just in case'. Even better, we had home made pate with home made toasted bread, pork with white wine and mushrooms, and the mushrooms were picked and dried by the owner's mother, and then we had a lovely home made pudding - but the details escape me - perhaps because we were so tired and stressed. We also had a couple of glasses of wine each, and were charged 10 euros each.
You might get that, grudgingly, in a hotel where the restaurant cooks for many many people, but it's nice to have such service in a tiny home where you will be the only guests in the only 'letting bedroom'.
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