Looking to travel to camposol by car in August

You are most certainly not going to get from Essex to Camposol in 22 hours !!

How long does it take then because relative done it in that time 

It all depends on where your ferry departs the uk and the where your ferry lands. You can go from Newhaven to Dieppe (Northern France) four and a half hoursish sailing time, then drive down through France to the Spanish border and continue south into southern Spain (Murcia region). About 1800 miles. But not in 22 hours.

You can choose to Sail from Portsmouth to Santander or Bilbao, sailing time 26-30 hours. Drive south from ferry terminal to Murcia region. About 800 miles. Maybe that is where you get the 22 hours from. We travel from Essex to Camposol a couple of times a year. Work out your route prior to departure and pre book hotels along the way. Good luck

We use eurocamp to stay over they also can book ferry/shuttle cheaper

I got out of Dieppe port at 4:30pm and was in Camposol at 11am the next morning including an hour’s sleep in Valencia as I was an accident looking for a place to happen by then.  

Just stopped for half a tank of fuel and a wee 3 times other than that.  Why half a tank?  The French garages even on the toll roads seem to be shut from late evening with no pay at pump facilities at many I stopped at, so I would suggest to start looking for fuel at about half a tank.

I also was showing a little mechanical sympathy for my rather leggy car too at about 110 maximum on autoroutes and took a bit of a scenic wiggly, slow little route over the Pyrenees through Huesca and Zaragoza thanks to a Google maps “better route” suggestion - so it probably could have been a bit quicker.  22 hours through the tunnel seems quite possible IMHO but it’ll be a grind for sure if you are not used to long distance driving.

I will be doing it again at the end of this month but this time with the wife and dog so will not be driving straight through the night and a lot more stops to stretch the dog’s legs.  We will probably stop overnight just before the Pyrenees.

Why not? We drove from Greenwich to Fortuna in 19 hours !

I've used the following route...

Get the earliest tunnel crossing possible, then - Calais > Rouen > Le Mans > Tours > Bourges > Clermont-Ferrand > Narbonne. This was about 10 hours drive and then we stayed in an Ibis Hotel In Narbonne.

The next day was Narbonne > border > then the E15 right down the coast - Girona > Barcelona > Tarragona> Valencia > Alicante > Murcia. This was another 10 hours.

Almost all of this route avoids toll roads, which saves about £150. If you use 'viaMichelin', you can plan your route, avoid tolls, calculate mileage, mpg, etc. which is quite handy.

Yes, you could try and do it all in one go, but road safety stats show that the likelihood of having a car accident increases in a linear fashion from hour 4 to hour 10 - but the increase at hour 10 to hour 11 is x 3 and then double roughly every 2 hours after to the point where after hour 16 you are more likely to crash than to not crash!

Hope this helps!

Yes thank u that sounds good route

22 hours from Calais, yes. 

Just our recent trip in the small car: Calais via A16 towards Versailles (Paris), taking toll tunnel (make sure your car is strictly 2m height), then taking A10, A71 tolls - total cost just over 70 euros .

A75 is a free motorway up to Beziers. There you have a choice to take toll A9 or carrying on the national road but need to join toll A9 at the last junction after Perpignan (cost €1) otherwise you end up on the old road all way down to Spain. AP7 no longer toll road so it's easy cruising.

This selection of toll roads will saves you around 4 hours through the France, forgot to mention Milau bridge, can't remember the fee as most times I like to go through the town stopping for fuel ect and it's only a few extra minutes.

Second and my favourite route A16 from Calais towards Boulogne, taking toll section (around €8 for the car) there till  junction towards Rouen, A27 , passing Rouen towards Evreux, Dreux N10 good  free road towards Tours, taking toll section on A10 from Tours and leaving at the junction 35 taking N10 towards Bordeaux saving kilometres and money 💰 instead of toll A10. Passing Bordeaux now you have a two choices: go towards Pau or Santander. My favourite is Pau direction, toll road cost about €25 for the car. Free national road twice longer but worth the views. France side of Pyrenees will offer picturesque road up to the long tunnel combined with dodgy speed cameras..., after that Spain done a great job improving the road and there's very easy drive towards Huesca, Zaragoza, taking A23 towards Teruel, Valencia etc.. New finished A33 worth to be mentioned avoiding Alicante all together.

Depending on the sailing/Eurotunnel crossing time, stopovers need to be chosen depending on the selection of the toll or free routes as both free options will take an extra 4 hours of driving. Taking the morning crossing would enable to choose hotel on the ,,Barcelona" route somewhere around Clermont -Ferrand or a bit further but a problem with this route it's not much cities on the A75. Afternoon crossing more advisable , taking two stopovers in the France (Amiens and Beziers, Narbonne, Perpignan).

Bordeaux, Zaragoza route taking early Dover- Calais crossing will offer stopover in Bordeaux  (5 hours to Tours) or if A28 toll road taken you can get to Pau the same night. Both Bordeaux and Pau have hotels just beside the route , no need to go very central.

Mentioned toll charges for the car: van,  car with the trailer charge is significantly higher for the overall France crossing.