Eurocamp what to pack (France, in a mobile home)

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We are driving so apart from the usual basic kitchen items, condiments etc, loo roll, kitchen roll and cleaning products are there any other must pack items

We have ordered linen and will bring our own beach towels.

Is there a line to dry clothes on, do I need to worry about mozzies (no a/c on our park sadly so windows open at night).

My children are 8 and 3 if that helps

Thank you.

Oh and any tips to manage the 10h drive down also welcome. Thanks

Also how big are the freezers? I'm guessing they are just the tiny freezer boxes inside mini fridges

Eurocamp mobiles normally have mossie screens on the windows in my experience - and a normal size fridge freezer. There is normally a clothes airer. I would pack pegs and a bath mat. Which type of mobile have you booked? Change of clothes ready to hand in the car and some plastic bags in case of travel sickness. Portable DVD player or tablet etc with lots of movies. I would always have a cool bag with water and snacks. We have a toll doodah so can go through the express lanes at the toll and pay the bill the following month. www.mango-mobilitesbyaprr.com/en/avantage-badge-telepeage Whereabouts are you going? Normally it's best to avoid Saturdays end of July onwards as the traffic will be heavy.

Mugs! Often end up with tiny ones or little glass ones and had to pop to carrefour for decent size.
Little blow up paddle pool to have on the deck or by your van

The car journey was hard but if your DC's can watch tablets or similar it helps. They may sleep some of the way. Few nice long stretch your leg stops built in?
We used to stop in a shady wooded area on the way for a picnic and break it up a bit.
Of they scoot and you can fit them in the kids are often scooting or biking around the site.

Cool bag/box, Tupperware and ice packs for picnics. Maybe tin foil/cling film/sandwich wraps
Tea towels and dish cloths
Pegs and clothes line
Bags for life if you’re going to do a food shop
Beach bag - not just for the beach, but also for taking stuff to and from the pool
Blackout blind if you have one
European adapter plugs
Bin bags for dirty laundry etc…

Our latest eurocamp trip, we had a full sized fridge-freezer

There will be mozzies, even with the screens they manage to get in.
Bring plenty of sunscreen - very hot at the moment and set to be around 37degrees early next week in South of France.

Your own pillows if you can fit them in. The ones in the mobile homes are not good. Definitely a bath/shower mat or two, so one is drying and one in use. Agree with pegs and mugs also.

I always take a couple of cheap mesh type pop up laundry bins regardless of where we go on holiday.

Teatowels and lots of plastic bags. They always come in handy!

A few washing machine pods for the machines on site. I like hammam towels for the pool/beach - dry quicker and don't clog up with sand. Mugs and tea bags, some simple games or cards to play in the evenings, own pillows; wet wipes, tissues and a rubbish bag for the car. The rural 'aires' are nicer for a stopover on the motorway, depending on which route you take, and tend to be less busy. We always take a large flask of coffee - saves queuing and means we can stop in a rural aire - snacks and picnic. Stories to listen to on the journey makes a change from DVDs - we once did the journey back from the French Alps with ds aged about 6, he listened to Harry Potter for most of it.

There should be an airer on the deck but there is an inventory list on the website.

tea towels and bath mat as I don’t think they are included in a linen pack.

a sharp knife.

Sharp knife - they're always dull
Possibly kettle, check you're accommodation, a lot of the ones we've stayed in have coffee percolator or something similar but I only drink tea.

The fridge freezers are a decent size, the freezers typically have two shelves in them.

Definitely take a sharp knife and mossie repellant that you put on you, maybe some washing up liquid (if you don't want to buy it) and a few pods for doing laundry, a couple of tea towels and some small bin bags. Take your shopping bags for shopping as you would at home. There will be a clothes airer, you won't need pegs. You can buy mosquito repelling candles and plug-ins in all the supermarkets and every corner shop so might as well buy them there.

It's a while since we did Eurocamp but the chopping boards used to be glass ones which drove me mad while chopping, so I always took one with us along with a sharp knife.

I used to work for eurocamp as a cleaner on a site. The mobile homes have black out blinds and mosquito screens at the windows but not the doors so mosquitos can still get in.
There is a horizontal drying rack, it's not massive but fine for a holiday I think.
There should be a kettle that goes on the hob, rather than an electric one.
I'd take a sharp knife, tea towels, and washing up cloth/sponge.

If you are short of mugs/glasses/plates etc just ask the staff for some extras. They'll have a store of them and should be fine to give you some.

Dishwasher tablets if you have a dishwasher/ washing up liquid
Bath mats usually come with the towel pack which we get
Sharp kitchen knives
4 way extension cables plus adapters
Kitchen towel
Loo rolls
Surface spray/wipes
Hand soap
Foil/cling film
Recyclable bin bags as some départements are quite pushy on that

@MissAmbrosia thank you! Great tip on tolls too.

I took a small paddling pool for the deck. It was great for the kids to cool off in.

A bath mat the shower floor always floods. Salt & Pepper for cooking. 😊

@ilovebagpuss scooters - great tip. Not thought of that. Also Amazon fire kids are half price today so just ordered one.

Thank you all for your great tips. I have a good list going now 😀

DH has already started packing his bbq box with sauce marinades, rubs and knives

I'm nostalgic for a Eurocamp holiday now - had many happy ones over the years in France and Italy. Dd is 18 now and is off working over the summer so no family trip for us :(

The paddling pool on the deck reminds me of when dd was tiny and hated the shower. We bought an inflatable boat at the campsite and she had an al fresco bath every day. She was happy to sit in there for ages whilst we chilled with a glass of vino.

We have a mobile home down near LaRochelle so have done the road trip many many many times!

Don't stop at a service station unless you need fuel. Stop at the Aires if you are on the paeage. The service stations are hellish in summer, huge queues and really crap expensive food.

We usually leave early, 4am, so I take breakfast, lunch and loads of snacks and cold drinks. We eat breakfast in the tunnel. We don't take lots of breaks, prefer to just get there. DTs are good travellers and love a road trip. We drive until someone needs a wee or the dog needs water.

I make and freeze a meal like chilli or spag bol etc and take it down in a cool box so we have a meal that is easy to prepare while unloading the car, making beds etc and in case there are delays and the site shop is closed etc.

If you are using the paeage get a tag, it is really worth it, the lines are shorter and you just go straight through. Don't go through the lorry lanes though or will get charged more.

Sorry to derail the thread - but I'm interested in the toll doodah! Is it a physical dongal that you hang on the rearview mirror/windscreen or is it done via ANPR? Do you just need to create an online account and add your number plate?

Thank you!