Camping at Arnage & Mulsanne - personal experiences
Discussion
Looking at maybe trying Arnage or Mulsanne as a base for 2026.
What are peoples personal experiences please?
Interested to know:
How busy/quiet?
Is there electric hook up?
Access back to the village/start finish etc, what's the tram service like; big queues, frequency etc?
General facilities?
Many thanks,
What are peoples personal experiences please?
Interested to know:
How busy/quiet?
Is there electric hook up?
Access back to the village/start finish etc, what's the tram service like; big queues, frequency etc?
General facilities?
Many thanks,
Have stayed at both (including post pandemic aka the busy time)
Both sites lack hook up (I think unless you are close to facilities block and lash something up ) and the toilet/showers are fine but limited in number and very much at the corner end of Mulsanne which is a very linear camp site. These are non marked pitch and the best spots in each taken up early in the week so difficult if there are a good number in your group trying to turn up after say Wednesday. Saw a few disagreements with later arrivals this year.
Arnage is a great site but is crazy busy with spectators now. The delight for us camping there was just pulling your chair and a couple of beers trackside for a bit every so often. Now its hard to get a good viewing spot without bagging it from the start. Food and drink changed a lot and is now the standardised poor offering and saw massive queues this year. I think previously it was a more local operation having a go and much better for it.
Mulsanne less busy but still busy when the race is on.
Dont want to sound a grumpy old b*std and what happened 15/20 years ago was always better. The spectator banking at both is better these days - just too flipping busy but same can be said for all accessible parts of the track.
The shuttle buses seemed much more plentiful and frequent this year? the best way unless you have bikes - the night time ride between these 2 locations is actually great fun.
Both sites lack hook up (I think unless you are close to facilities block and lash something up ) and the toilet/showers are fine but limited in number and very much at the corner end of Mulsanne which is a very linear camp site. These are non marked pitch and the best spots in each taken up early in the week so difficult if there are a good number in your group trying to turn up after say Wednesday. Saw a few disagreements with later arrivals this year.
Arnage is a great site but is crazy busy with spectators now. The delight for us camping there was just pulling your chair and a couple of beers trackside for a bit every so often. Now its hard to get a good viewing spot without bagging it from the start. Food and drink changed a lot and is now the standardised poor offering and saw massive queues this year. I think previously it was a more local operation having a go and much better for it.
Mulsanne less busy but still busy when the race is on.
Dont want to sound a grumpy old b*std and what happened 15/20 years ago was always better. The spectator banking at both is better these days - just too flipping busy but same can be said for all accessible parts of the track.
The shuttle buses seemed much more plentiful and frequent this year? the best way unless you have bikes - the night time ride between these 2 locations is actually great fun.
Nosynchro said:
Have stayed at both (including post pandemic aka the busy time)
Both sites lack hook up (I think unless you are close to facilities block and lash something up ) and the toilet/showers are fine but limited in number and very much at the corner end of Mulsanne which is a very linear camp site. These are non marked pitch and the best spots in each taken up early in the week so difficult if there are a good number in your group trying to turn up after say Wednesday. Saw a few disagreements with later arrivals this year.
Arnage is a great site but is crazy busy with spectators now. The delight for us camping there was just pulling your chair and a couple of beers trackside for a bit every so often. Now its hard to get a good viewing spot without bagging it from the start. Food and drink changed a lot and is now the standardised poor offering and saw massive queues this year. I think previously it was a more local operation having a go and much better for it.
Mulsanne less busy but still busy when the race is on.
Dont want to sound a grumpy old b*std and what happened 15/20 years ago was always better. The spectator banking at both is better these days - just too flipping busy but same can be said for all accessible parts of the track.
The shuttle buses seemed much more plentiful and frequent this year? the best way unless you have bikes - the night time ride between these 2 locations is actually great fun.
Thank you this is really informative. Seems there is no way to avoid the overcrowdedness. If I'm honest I'd really like to get back into Houx but it seems it's become harder to obtain. We always been curious about staying at Arnage/Mulsanne (we've visited many times to spectate) but wasn't sure if it was a bit remote.Both sites lack hook up (I think unless you are close to facilities block and lash something up ) and the toilet/showers are fine but limited in number and very much at the corner end of Mulsanne which is a very linear camp site. These are non marked pitch and the best spots in each taken up early in the week so difficult if there are a good number in your group trying to turn up after say Wednesday. Saw a few disagreements with later arrivals this year.
Arnage is a great site but is crazy busy with spectators now. The delight for us camping there was just pulling your chair and a couple of beers trackside for a bit every so often. Now its hard to get a good viewing spot without bagging it from the start. Food and drink changed a lot and is now the standardised poor offering and saw massive queues this year. I think previously it was a more local operation having a go and much better for it.
Mulsanne less busy but still busy when the race is on.
Dont want to sound a grumpy old b*std and what happened 15/20 years ago was always better. The spectator banking at both is better these days - just too flipping busy but same can be said for all accessible parts of the track.
The shuttle buses seemed much more plentiful and frequent this year? the best way unless you have bikes - the night time ride between these 2 locations is actually great fun.
Edited by dredgey on Friday 20th June 11:06
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