Campsites in or near Dijon?

I'm planning a trip on the bike to Malta in mid June, leaving Bedford
and riding down to Genoa in northern Italy to get a ferry to Valletta.
I can do the trip in two days, but it means an overnight in or near
Dijon. Does anyone know of a good campsite in the Dijon area that is
bike friendly please.

 

for the sake of an extra 10-15 Euros I'd stay in a Premiere Classe or even
a Formel1, if you really are on a tight budget. Worth that just to avoid
unpacking and repacking for 1 night.

 

Budget isn't really a problem, though the cheaper the better for
obvious reasons. I only need to stay one night so its just somewhere to
stop, eat, have a short wander around to have a look-see and then get
my head down to sleep.

A travelodge type place sounds like a viable option really, thanks.

 

Certainly F1 are fine for this. No need to interact with anyone, just
swipe a CC and get an entry code and they're often located close to
the main roads.

 

Garmin Mapsource shows 2 clusters of the cheaper hotels. One north of the
city on the N274 junction for Zone Industrial Nord Est, the other south of
the city on the N74/D122 junction. The southern one seems to have better
facilities nearby, the usual Buffalo Grill etc plus a Cora supermarket
nearby if you want a picnic in your room.

http://www.accorhotels.com/gb/united-kingdom/index.shtml will give you
details of F1, Etap & Ibis (I often pay a premium for Ibis as they can be
found in city centres), F1 are very basic with shared bathrooms.

http://www.louvrehotels.com/en/index.aspx will give you Prem Classe &
Kyriad. Posh clique types use the dearer Campanile brand.

http://www.hotel-bb.com/ - not used this chain myself but they are of the
same ilk

http://www.choicehotels.eu/en can throw up the odd bargain too. I got an
overnight stop near CDG airport for 20 Euros. It was August and the whole
area was like a ghost town.

 

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Wonderful, I am grateful to the frequent Euro travellers for their
input.

 

We stopped at Dijon Sud on the way down during the Milan and back in a
week by Nordwest trip in 94. I recall just missing the last room at a
Formula 1 and grabbing the last one at the nearby Hotel Villages by
dropping SWMBO off at reception before parking up the bike. It's all so
much easier these days with on-line reservation.

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Dijon Sud looks favourite at the moment as it's reasonably priced, will
do all I need it to and is close to the A39 for the next leg of the
trip. I can always ride into the city if I want to explore or get some
proper food.

 

perhaps it is this one "Le Nicobike", next door to the BG
http://snipurl.com/uczyv

I'd recommend avoiding the Frejus or Mont Blanc Tunnel on a bike.

Grenoble-Briancon[1]-Turin would avoid the long tunnels and do a bit in the
Alps without climbing to 2000m - 425 miles acording to Google maps.

Col du Mont Cenis is another alternative but the descent into Italy is
horrid due to huge convoys of trucks & caravans. You can get past them but
the fumes in the narrow gorges build up to unpleasant levels.

I can suggest several alternatives involving roads up to 2802m above sea
level...

[1] Grenoble to Briancon via La Grave is fantastic. Swooping, twisty &
potentially fast.

 

Via Mont Blanc according to Google Maps, this may change when Garmin
has a go at a route.

 

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As we have just started to consider driving (yes, in a car) to Umbria
(nr a place called Todi) for our holiday this year (end aug/start sept)
this route stuff is interesting. Thinking of doing it over 2 days (one
overnight stop) google reckons its around 1150 miles door-to-door via
the tunnel.

I don't know how many car routes in to Italy so am open to
suggestions...do we go through any of Switzerland? Google by default is
giving me:

CALAIS
METZ
REIMS
STRASBOURG
BASEL
MILAN
PARMA
BOLOGNA
FLORENCE

What's a good route for a car?

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at that time of year stick to the motorways. Trying to take a car over
the mountain passes will be horrible due to the traffic in the Alps. The
scenery would be lovely but you would want to take an extra couple of
days to allow for traffic & photo-ops.

Swiss motorways have some lovely views. You'll have to buy a vignette
for 40CHF.

An alternative route is to go further down France and run south of
Geneva to Milan. You'll avoid the vignette fee but pay French tolls.

www.viamichelin.com will work out the tolls for you. If heading to
Basel, some French tolls can be avoided on the northern section by going
via Belgium & Germany towards Saarbrucken. Saarbrucken is not a bad
place for an overnight stop, I've used it when heading further east as a
convenient place to cross the Rhine before heading into the Black
Forest.

Fancy Bavaria & Austria? Go via Belgium & Germany to Munich, south to
Innsbruck then over the Brenner pass to Verona. Check the tolls on
viamichelin as there are none until you get to the Austrian border.
Their motorway vignette is cheap but the tunnels & passes can mount up.

 

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**** knows but the bit between Basel and Milan is a cracking road on a
bike because when we did it (heading for Mugello) we used the Grimsel
and Simplon passes which are both worth the effort.

If I was heading for Genoa I'd speak nicely to Ace and take a scenic
route to his place then another scenic one to Genoa rather than drag
out endless motorway miles.

 

The diff is more than that.

 

Pop down the road to Beune, some good sites in and around there.
Also some good wine.

 

not if you would need to buy a tent etc first...

 

well, of course but there are 2 issues:
1. I don't like to suggest staying at other people's places
2. a stopover at Ace's is not conducive to a journey where an early start
is needed to complete the second leg

 

I wouldn't dream of asking. To me it would be an imposition on Ace and
Judith as I know neither of them well enough. Besides, as you say, I
need to be up bright and early and on my way to catch a ferry a few
hundred miles away - a ferry that only leaves Genoa once a week at a
set time on a set day.

 

Ok, stop somewhere near Basel.

Now that really is the only problem.

 

As he has not asked tent advice, one assumes he already has one

And, if you do need to buy a tent, it pays for itself very quickly.