Newbie question - supermarket stock on Thursday night

[Coupe_bloke]

Just thinking about what to take and what to buy once arrived.

Will the Carrefour be sold out of stubbies, ice, BBQs, gazebos or fence-making materials from all the other le mans-ers by the time we arrive late on Thursday afternoon? It would obviously be a lot easier to buy beer etc on arrival if possible!

Thanks

Edited by Coupe_bloke on Sunday 12th April 10:54

[lowdrag]

Forget Carrefour and go elsewhere and avoid the crowds. Head south down the Tours road (D338, old N138) to Ecommoy. Big Super-U on the right before the town.Only 10 mins from Mulsanne bend and no traffic. Either that or the Super-U at Arnage just on the roundabout north of the centre of Arnage.

[Save Ferris]

Coupe_bloke said:

Just thinking about what to take and what to buy once arrived.

Will the Carrefour be sold out of stubbies, ice, BBQs, gazebos or fence-making materials from all the other le mans-ers by the time we arrive late on Thursday afternoon? It would obviously be a lot easier to buy beer etc on arrival if possible!

Thanks

You'll be fine, there will be plenty of everything! - The only thing Ive seen a shortage of is ice, The queues at Carrefour can be pretty long though, and as lowdrag said there are a few other stores to choose from anyway.

[Coupe_bloke]

Great - thanks

[davidd]

lowdrag said:

Forget Carrefour and go elsewhere and avoid the crowds. Head south down the Tours road (D338, old N138) to Ecommoy. Big Super-U on the right before the town.Only 10 mins from Mulsanne bend and no traffic. Either that or the Super-U at Arnage just on the roundabout north of the centre of Arnage.

thanks for those, any chance you could mark them on a google map for us...

please

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[lowdrag]

This will give you idea. I've noted Bleu camping opposite the main entrance to give you a point of reference. All you do for Arnage is take the four lane ring road west and come off two exits down and you are there, as you'll see. The Ecommoy one is straight down the D338 just off the map south



Here's a closer image of the arnage site\;-

Edited by lowdrag on Sunday 12th April 19:49

[davidd]

thanks

[-Lummox-]

My advice would be to buy the biggest cooler you can fit in your car... or take more than one cooler and use one for beer, and the other for ice. If you have a decent cooler full of ice it will stay frozen for a couple of days at a time. Then just take out a bag at a time as your beer cooler ice melts.

[RVVUNM]

We always call into Carrefour on the way in and have never had problems with stock shortages or que's, however our van is always to small,but there is normally 15 of us.

[Rude-boy]

As others have said most shops are across the level of beer sales for that weekend so i wouldn't worry.

I have seen fights over bags of ice though...

[MiniMan64]

We always fill up at the Auchan (I think) on the way into town, north of the ring road, it's never busy there as everyone heads to CF and there's a Decathalon across the street if you're a serious camper.