What's Halfway from A to Z? Useful website

ValDa
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edited March 2016 in Overseas Campsites & Touring #1

On this section we're often asked if people can suggest an overnight campsite halfway between the port and the 'destination' campsite.

This website What's Halfway may help.  It shows your route, and a town or village halfway, then you can look at accommodation, including campsites within a certain radius of the halfway point.  It also shows Food and Drink, Nightlife, Fun and Family, Cultural, Shopping, Transport, and 'Inspire Me'.

I don't think they've ironed out all the 'glitches' in that changing the zoom on the maps just seems to cause things to bounce around, but it is a useful website for planning.

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  • BlueVanMan
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    edited March 2016 #2

    What a super website. Great planning tool thanks

  • Oneputt
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    edited March 2016 #3

    All to their own, I think I can work out the halfway point between 2 places with clogging my computer with more stuffSurprised

  • Camdoon
    Camdoon Forum Participant Posts: 37
    edited March 2016 #4

    Thanks Valda, I will run the risk of adding another bookmark to my computer and wasting 30bytes of computer storage.

  • EJB986
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    edited March 2016 #5

    Suppose it saves all that dividing by two!!!!

    Well done Val I'm sure it will help manyHappy

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  • EJB986
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    edited March 2016 #7

    It's certainly a very clever site and gives the appropriate optionsHappy

  • paulgill
    paulgill Forum Participant Posts: 41
    edited March 2016 #8

    Thanks Val

    Looks Great

  • Martatin
    Martatin Forum Participant Posts: 306
    edited March 2016 #9

    Thanks Val will be really helpful with my planning

  • ValDa
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    edited March 2016 #10

    Once you've identified the half-way mark you can play around with the markers and move them in whatever direction you wish, so if you think you'll get a bit further, and not be able to travel as far, it will still point out campsites in whatever locality
    you choose.

  • Dave Nicholson
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    edited March 2016 #11

    Just a quick experiment with the site identified a potential stop over campsite and restaurant that I'm sure I wouldn't have identified using my usual methods. Looks good to me.

  • DSB
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    edited March 2016 #12

    Thanks for that Val.  A useful little website.

    David 

  • SCOTT2144
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    edited March 2016 #13

    Hi wonder if someone can recommend a decent hotel with big enough parking for a car and caravan around the Alencon area please. Many thanks Scott and Diane 

     

  • ValDa
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    edited March 2016 #14

    Hi wonder if someone can recommend a decent hotel with big enough parking for a car and caravan around the Alencon area please. Many thanks Scott and Diane 

     

    When are you travelling, weekday or mid-week, and what date (approx)?  It may be much more difficult to find space if it's peak weeks in France when everyone is on the move.

    Does it absolutely have to be a hotel?   There are plenty of sites where you can just find a pitch for one night, including the municipal site in Alencon itself.  Camping Municipal de Guerame, unfortunately I can't find opening dates, but there is also Camping Municipal at Beaumont sur Sarthe, which lots of others recommend.

    It may be easier to find a pitch on a site than a hotel with enough room to accommodate car and caravan.

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