Overnight in Spain

simonandtessa
simonandtessa Forum Participant Posts: 18
edited June 2016 in Overseas Campsites & Touring #1

We are arriving at 6pm into Santander with a view to travelling down to Camping La Fresnada, Teruel the next day. However since we have been stuck on the ferry for 24 hours we thought we might try to do a few hours that night and pull up somewhere (services
or similar) overnight from 9/10pm ish and then carry on in the morning.

Does anyone have any suggestions or places that you can stay at overnight arriving at that time or do you think it might be easier to stay near to Santander then just do the drive the next day leaving early?

Thanks

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  • Tammygirl
    Tammygirl Club Member Posts: 7,957 ✭✭✭
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    edited June 2016 #2

    We got this ferry across in April it was an hour late in docking and by the time we had cleared the ship it was getting on for 8pm. We just drove to Cabo Mayor campsite and stayed the night. However there are quite a few sites a bit further away that we
    would use next time if the ferry was on time. I think with a caravan that would be my choice, then get an early start the next day. Have fun whatever you decide.

  • Geejay
    Geejay Forum Participant Posts: 232
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    edited June 2016 #3

    Are you in a motorhome or caravan?  Bear in mind it'll take up to an hour or so to disembark.  If you are in a mh you could drive to the Aire at Cabarceno, next to the elephants, which is about half an hour away.  There's another aire at Vitoria-Gasteiz
    a couple of hours away, just slightly off your route to Teruel.  The aire is a in the corner of a huge car park, so if you're in a caravan you could park in the main car park as there's lots of room.  Wednesday is market day so you would need to be off very
    early in the morning.  You enter Vitoria on a dual carriageway and have to drive past the car park and then turn left at the first set of traffic lights and retrace a couple of hundred metres.

  • simonandtessa
    simonandtessa Forum Participant Posts: 18
    edited June 2016 #4

    Thank you for your advice, the campsite might be best and an early start but if we get off fairly quickly the temptation might just be too much.... we are in a caravan and have read lots about aires but nothing really saying if we would be welcome / allowed.
    Do you just arrive, park up and get your head down?

     

  • Tammygirl
    Tammygirl Club Member Posts: 7,957 ✭✭✭
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    edited June 2016 #5

    Aires are usually only for motorhomes although caravans do use them when its not busy season I belive. In Spain its not unusual to have vans arriving on sites up until 10pm although I would check first that someone will be around to check you in. If you
    dock on time and you feel like doing some driving then do so, its still light so why not. Enjoy

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