Keith T Posted September 18, 2013 Share Posted September 18, 2013 We are travelling back northwards along the west coast of France, and would like to visit the city of Rochefort later this week. On the way down we tried the municipal site but this was full, and the other site shown in CC guide was too far out. Can anyone advise of any overnight Aires-de -CC in the city. We did spot one when travelling out from the city on the road to Royan, looking down on it from a bridge over the river (?) which seemed to be full of MH's amongst trees ,but have been unable to identify this in the Aires guide. Any info please? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mel B Posted September 18, 2013 Share Posted September 18, 2013 It's a good few years since we've been but from memory the parking is on one side of the road and the service point on the other next to the marina, some info here: http://www.airecampingcar.com/aire_camping_car_gps.php/1106-Rochefort+Sur+Mer http://www.rochefort-ocean.com/preparer/ou-dormir/aires-de-camping-car I'm not sure that the parking area you saw, which is where we stayed, was an 'official' spot, which may explain why you can't find it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest JudgeMental Posted September 18, 2013 Share Posted September 18, 2013 There is an unofficial aire just below the campsite in a car park. we stayed one night this summer on way to Alsace/Italy along with 3 or 4 other vans....very peaceful and free. It's in the Camperstop book. We usually stay at Hans sur Lesse aire down the road, nearer to motorway, and have a lovely BIG slap up meal in town..but moi is on a diet! :-S Three hours from ports so a good overnight in both directions.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest JudgeMental Posted September 19, 2013 Share Posted September 19, 2013 Sorry but my contribution above for a differnt rochefort I believe..... Note to myself..read posts properly! :-D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PJay Posted September 19, 2013 Share Posted September 19, 2013 Did wonder why you were that side of France, going to Italy!1!! We made a simalar mistake, thought we were at the "Cheese" one I think there are at least 3 Rochfeorts , maybe more PJay Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Derek Uzzell Posted September 19, 2013 Share Posted September 19, 2013 The "Rochefort" near Royan is (as Mel B surmised) "Rochefort-sur-Mer". The campingcar-infos website http://www.campingcar-infos.com/index1.htm lists five 'aires' there with day & night parking, plus one campsite aire and one services-only/no-parking aire. The photos/comments suggest that some are more attractive than others. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest JudgeMental Posted September 19, 2013 Share Posted September 19, 2013 PJay - 2013-09-19 11:49 AM Did wonder why you were that side of France, going to Italy!1!! We made a simalar mistake, thought we were at the "Cheese" one I think there are at least 3 Rochfeorts , maybe more PJay Bloomin frogs! *-) (actually my rochefort in Belgium I fink!lol :$) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Derek Uzzell Posted September 19, 2013 Share Posted September 19, 2013 JudgeMental - 2013-09-19 12:20 PM PJay - 2013-09-19 11:49 AM Did wonder why you were that side of France, going to Italy!1!! We made a simalar mistake, thought we were at the "Cheese" one I think there are at least 3 Rochfeorts , maybe more PJay Bloomin frogs! *-) (actually my rochefort in Belgium I fink!lol :$) And the 'cheese' Rochefort is (almost certainly) "Roquefort". http://www.roquefort.fr/ Based on my AA road atlas, there are only two places genuinely named "Rochefort" in France. These are the Charente-Maritime sea-coast town being discussed here and another in Savoie. The former seems to have gained the unofficial suffix "-sur-Mer", possibly to distinguish it from the one in Savoie or possibly because someone just liked the idea. My road atlas lists a further 10 French towns that begin with "Rochefort" but all of these have an identifying suffix such as "-du-Gard" or "-sur-Nenon". France is pretty tricky regarding same/similar-name towns, as much as anything due to their affection for naming them after saints, but there's room for confusion in the UK too. For instance, 3 x "Newport", 2 x "St. Ives", etc. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
w1ntersun Posted September 19, 2013 Share Posted September 19, 2013 Hi, There is an aire down by the marina behind Lidl it was 6euro when we stayed but everyone stayed on lidl,s carpark FOC Easy walking into town. The Hermione Sailing ship is well worth a visit Richard Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PJay Posted September 20, 2013 Share Posted September 20, 2013 w1ntersun - 2013-09-19 2:37 PM Hi, There is an aire down by the marina behind Lidl it was 6euro when we stayed but everyone stayed on lidl,s carpark FOC Easy walking into town. The Hermione Sailing ship is well worth a visit Richard That's the place we stayed, in a camp site. We went to see the building of The Hermiome, being built a few years ago now. Must go back some time and see the finished ship. friendly town, when we were there the football world cup was on, so they made OH, as a token Brit, very welcome in the bars, to watch the matches (did not have a TV then) Winter Sun Do you have the co-ordinates Please? PJay Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PJay Posted September 20, 2013 Share Posted September 20, 2013 Brian you are right, got my Roch's muddled up PJay Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keith T Posted September 20, 2013 Author Share Posted September 20, 2013 Thanks for replies, one and all. We have decided on the Municipal site in the city,and there currently. It's Ok, but full - I think all French barring us! Very convenient. Did check out the aire which is down the road, and that now is a formal one, and whilst we didn't check out the price, there is a ticket machine.l There were several spaces there when we came past lunchtime today. Great city, and glad we stay 'in town', lots of good walking here. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Derek Uzzell Posted September 21, 2013 Share Posted September 21, 2013 As I said earlier, there are 5 'day/night parking' aire entries for Rochefort-sur-Mer on the campingcar-infos website. These are: http://www.campingcar-infos.com/Francais/airepda.php?numid=8581&Localit%E9=ROCHEFORT%20SUR%20MER http://www.campingcar-infos.com/Francais/airepda.php?numid=8582&Localit%E9=ROCHEFORT%20SUR%20MER http://www.campingcar-infos.com/Francais/airepda.php?numid=18102&Localit%E9=ROCHEFORT%20SUR%20MER http://www.campingcar-infos.com/Francais/airepda.php?numid=18385&Localit%E9=ROCHEFORT%20SUR%20MER http://www.campingcar-infos.com/Francais/airepda.php?numid=22911&Localit%E9=ROCHEFORT%20SUR%20MER There's also the campsite http://www.campingcar-infos.com/Francais/airepda.php?numid=10088&Localit%E9=ROCHEFORT%20SUR%20MER and a 'services only/no parking' aire http://www.campingcar-infos.com/Francais/airepda.php?numid=1125&Localit%E9=ROCHEFORT%20SUR%20MER More complete information (address details, a map, etc.) for each location is available by accessing the entries through the campingcar-infos website itself in the way that it would normally be retrieved. There's no guarantee the information is up-to-date or correct (or doesn't duplicate), but it's likely to be more accurate and comprehensive than what's in guide books. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brian Kirby Posted September 21, 2013 Share Posted September 21, 2013 JudgeMental - 2013-09-19 12:20 PM PJay - 2013-09-19 11:49 AM Did wonder why you were that side of France, going to Italy!1!! We made a simalar mistake, thought we were at the "Cheese" one I think there are at least 3 Rochfeorts , maybe more PJay Bloomin frogs! *-) (actually my rochefort in Belgium I fink!lol :$) There are towns named Rochefort in departements 01, 21, 53, 17, and 73, plus the one in Belgium and another in Switzerland. The one in Charente Maritime (17) is actually on the Charente and not on the coast, being about 9km inland, so should probably not really be called "Sur Mere" (I don't have any maps giving that suffix). There are then the ten others identified as being "du", "sur" or "en" something, that Derek mentions, so plenty of scope for error. Probably why the French almost always quote the department name, or more frequently its number, after town names. Every little helps! :-) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Noodles Posted September 22, 2013 Share Posted September 22, 2013 We stayed at the Aire near Royan last week. Its called Aire Soubise it costs about 7 euros a night. It was quite busy when we were there and I have to say we just about managed to park on the grass cos of our length. We had a problem with some French motorhomers cos their leads for the EHU wouldn't reach so after 3/4 hr of 2 couples pacing up and down to try and work out how they were going to hook up they decided pull out our EHU without even asking and then they had the cheek of trying to park so clse to us as they could have more room cheeky blinky sods! There is a cycle track to Royan but we didn't cycle it cos it rained quite a lt whilst we were there unfortunately. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Derek Uzzell Posted September 23, 2013 Share Posted September 23, 2013 Brian Kirby - 2013-09-21 9:32 PM ...The one in Charente Maritime (17) is actually on the Charente and not on the coast, being about 9km inland, so should probably not really be called "Sur Mere" (I don't have any maps giving that suffix)... There's a 2007 discussion about the "sur-Mer" suffix here http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discussion:Rochefort_(Charente-Maritime) I suppose it would be no bad thing if Rochefort (17) were universally called "Rochefort-sur-Mer" to identify it specifically, but that's up to its inhabitants. I live near Ross-on-Wye, which used to be called just "Ross" until 1931 when the "on-Wye" suffix was added. Confusion-wise, the suffix probably does more harm than good nowadays as many people think Ross is the well known 'Book Town' Hay-on-Wye. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Derek Uzzell Posted September 23, 2013 Share Posted September 23, 2013 Noodles - 2013-09-22 9:19 PM We stayed at the Aire near Royan last week. Its called Aire Soubise... http://www.soubise.fr/aire-de-camping-cars.htm http://www.campingcar-infos.com/Francais/airepda.php?numid=1162&Localit%E9=SOUBISE Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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