Stopping on the way

[zeb]

First time le mans this year and want to make a week of it so i'm looking for somewhere to stay sort of half way there. Going via tunnel and so far have only been offered campanile outside of calais. Can anyone reccomend anywhere they have stayed in past years as i dont fancy calais much to be honest?

[tmk]

Me and my mate are going for the first time aswell. were staying in Rouen as a halfway point on the home leg just to recover

[irw]

Rouens good, due to traffic, stopping to help a bloke in a dead 911 and getting lost we didnt arrive until 12 midnight and still got a good meal oposite the Cathedral!

[happy snapper]

zeb said:

First time le mans this year and want to make a week of it so i'm looking for somewhere to stay sort of half way there. Going via tunnel and so far have only been offered campanile outside of calais. Can anyone reccomend anywhere they have stayed in past years as i dont fancy calais much to be honest?

Calais is OK depends what you want I go over the day before and stay at the F1 28Euros for a night. Get up early and head off steady drive Le Mans in 4 hours No traffic dead quiet have breakfast on route.

>> Edited by happy snapper on Sunday 19th February 08:24

[vario-rob]

Somewhere on the Normandy coast could be time well spent, Honfleur is lovely with many nice places to eat and drink or how about a night in Deauville? Ecellent if you want to get rid of all your money in a casino before you get to Le Mans.

Once you start to head south from Rouen another very nice town is L’Aigle, the Hotel Du Dauphine has a Michelin start if you fancy some proper chow prior to the rat burgers you’ll get at the circuit


>> Edited by vario-rob on Monday 20th February 09:38

[Piglet]

Think about where you stop and the time of day that you're travelling.

If you're driving down late it would be sensible to get past Rouen during the evening/night rather than trying to get through it in the morning.

[Tripps]

We've stopped in Gisors the last few years, a beautiful town with a good-sized car park, it's around the halfway mark from Calais/Boulogne if you take the scenic route.

[White_van_Man]

we are stopping in Honfleur again this year.

[puffpuff]

Honfleur for us too on Sunday night.

[shnozz]

noooo, your first trip to LM and you are missing the race, er, sorry, drive down there from the ferry?! One of the best parts. Going early isn't the same, ferry down from Wednesday night onwards and its like wacky races.

I guess stopping at Honfleur isn't so bad as you will pick up the convoys heading down when you resume your journey.

>> Edited by shnozz on Monday 20th February 12:54

[NJW 77]

White_van_Man said:

we are stopping in Honfleur again this year.

Im stopping for lunch at Honfluer on the way back Monday with Steve& Mrs_T (well, thats the plan anyway )