Hippodrome campsite info please!

[Pompeydave]

Gutted to have missed out on a Tertre Rouge camping pitch but I’ve been allocated a spot at Hippodrome instead. Anyone have any experience of this site? Are there any electric hook ups? Is it a secure site? As it’s outside the circuit I assume you can’t take beer in? Toilets and showers? Any tips welcome!

[bennno]

Think I’ve read there are 30 or 40 m2 pitches. I read somewhere that the 30m2 pitches require cars to be parked elsewhere.

[Aysedasi2]

bennno said:

Think I’ve read there are 30 or 40 m2 pitches. I read somewhere that the 30m2 pitches require cars to be parked elsewhere.

Correct as I understand it. No electric hook up.

[NoBrakesWC]

Was on Hippodrome this year and same for next. People on the 40m2 pitches round the edge connected up to some generators don't think they were meant to but did. 30m2 the parking was very near the pitches. We liked how it was out the way so more secure. Didn't get stopped for alcohol or anything. The toilets and showers were very clean which was nice.

[Pompeydave]

NoBrakesWC said:

Was on Hippodrome this year and same for next. People on the 40m2 pitches round the edge connected up to some generators don't think they were meant to but did. 30m2 the parking was very near the pitches. We liked how it was out the way so more secure. Didn't get stopped for alcohol or anything. The toilets and showers were very clean which was nice.

Ah, so if you didn’t get stopped for alcohol do you enter via a dedicated Hippodrome entrance? ie at Tertre Rouge you are already inside the circuit (so they don’t check your bag for booze) and you just get a red label as you leave the campsite which you hand back in when you go back into the campsite.

Is Hippodrome the same, or do you still have to enter the circuit via a public entrance every time? The public ones are where they seem red hot on alcohol.

[NoBrakesWC]

Pompeydave said:

NoBrakesWC said:

Was on Hippodrome this year and same for next. People on the 40m2 pitches round the edge connected up to some generators don't think they were meant to but did. 30m2 the parking was very near the pitches. We liked how it was out the way so more secure. Didn't get stopped for alcohol or anything. The toilets and showers were very clean which was nice.

Ah, so if you didn’t get stopped for alcohol do you enter via a dedicated Hippodrome entrance? ie at Tertre Rouge you are already inside the circuit (so they don’t check your bag for booze) and you just get a red label as you leave the campsite which you hand back in when you go back into the campsite.

Is Hippodrome the same, or do you still have to enter the circuit via a public entrance every time? The public ones are where they seem red hot on alcohol.

Have to go through a public entrance. They didn't check our bags and got alcohol in easily just wrapped in jumpers.

[Pompeydave]

Ok thanks. It’s open from the Monday or Tuesday I guess?

[kel176506]

I stayed at Hippordrome this year and posted a review/feedback on it in the thread below but we were on the 30m2 plots that did not allow you to park your vehicle on the plot, so i can't comment on electric hook up etc.

https://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&...

I'm staying there again in 2024, which is largely because we thought it was fine and good value but also a by-product of not being able to get plots on Houx Annexe via the ACO and not realising how expensive Epinettes was.