Driving to Camposol in December.

Hi there, 

Congratulations on your purchase. In previous years, I have spent many weeks in Lyon, which is the gastronomic capital of France. I have stayed in hotels in the centre of the city, which if you are passing through and not planning to savour the gastronomy, is probably not where you want to be. May I suggest checking booking.com, hotels.com or one of the other aggregators. I am sure you will find something to suit budget and location requirements.

Welcome to Camposol and good luck.

Thank you very much & being a " chubby" chap, I might now think about extending my stay, sounds like heaven to me 

Paul 

I drove the following route...

Calais > Rouen > Le Mans > Tours > Poitiers > Limoge > Toulouse > Perpignan > Girona > Barcelona > Valencia > Murcia.

I travelled down through the UK and through the tunnel on my first day and stayed in a hotel at Calais, so I could start early the next day. I then did the Calais to Perpignan section in one day - it is 600 miles, but do-able. I then stayed in a hotel near Perpignan and had an early start to do the next 600 miles the next day. If you go via Lyon, you are adding considerable distance to your journey and will probably need to pay tolls on the 'route du soleil'.

Most of this route is not on toll roads, which saves about £150.

I would recommend Ibis hotels. They are cheap, but decent and in good locations just off main road connections

Hope this helps!

We used to travel down though France fairly regularly many years ago.

We had three routes.

The west route down via Bordeaux, the east route via Lyon & then the straight down to middle route bypassing Paris.

We used budget hotels similar to Ibis hotels, HotelF1 they are called.

https://hotelf1.accor.com/map/index.en.shtml

There are lots of other brands & they all tend to be grouped together.

Rather bizarrely many of then are on out of  town trading estate types areas.

Most of them you can book online in advance.

Hi Richard,

Thank you very much for your advice, I really appreciate it.

Sounds like a good plan all round.

I've stayed in Ibis before so I'm fine with that standard, thanks again

Paul 

Hi Roland,

Wow, a forum legend replying to me!!

Thank you for all your advice, I'm getting spoilt for choice now & I'll take it that a chap from Yorkshire isn't going to lead a Wigan lad astray lol 🤣

Thanks

Paul 

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Have a safe trip.

We used to love our drives down to Spain.

Look out for the Honey Buzzards perched on the fence posts of the roads !!

Hi we come over twice a year and stay in Valence Sud 40 minutes past Lyon, stay at Campanile which suits us as two small dogs, its about half way

Hi,

Thanks very much, thats exactly the distance I fancied driving in a day, I'll look into booking for the drive down, thank you very much.

Paul