Spanish travel

[Mc50]

Hi ,
We’re off to Spain in January in our 11 mtr Monaco.
We arrive at Santander and have 2 days to get to Alicante and am after any route and stopover suggestion’s.
Any advice would be greatly appreciated as this is our first time abroad.

Mike

 

[Olley]

If your arriving about 1600 I would drive to the large free aire at Palencia

Área de autocaravanas "E.S. Suances" · Ctra. Castrogonzalo, 19A, 34005 Palencia, Spain

★★★★★ · Mobile Home Park

maps.app.goo.gl

Can't help after that as I have never driven from there any further than Madrid before heading to Portugal.

Just had look on search for sites, (excellent app)
And this one just off the A3 looks ok.

Área de Autocaravanas · C. Santiago, 16623 Castillo de Garcimuñoz, Cuenca, Spain

★★★★★ · Campsite

maps.app.goo.gl

 

[MERLIN]

Santander to Zaragoza, then on to Valencia, A23, FREE motorway, then along the coast to Alicante. I believe the AP7 motorway is also free at the moment.

 

[Merv-IOM]

Have look here;

English

Areas de servicio y Parkings para pernocta de Autocaravana.

www.areasac.es

It's an interactive map of all the Spanish Aires, some are fantastic places to stay.

Bien viajes

 

[Steve Martin]

Santander Aire
N 43.27.6466 W 003.48 3046
40’ + trailer will fit EHU plus LPG nearby
Price is now by metre

 

[Steve Martin]

A8 to Bilbao then AP68 to Zaragoza then
A23 to Valencia then A7 to Alicante.
AP68 is tolls but cheap and easy drive.
A23 free dual carriage way.
I usually just stop in any service station along the way for the night.
This route is easiest just cruise control all the way with plenty of Aires to pull in to rest.
2 days driving long hours.

 

[damiandaybrake]

We are portsmouth to santander 2 nd Jan ---arriving early morn 4 th ..--us and our chums =2 rv^s ,;;; all free to zaragosa to valencia to alicante where we recover from the 600 miles ,on to beach within sight of the airport ! Enjoy

 

[Olley]

The A23 from Zaragoza to Valencia, free it might be but its crap, or it was in May, when we drove down it.
Full of potholes, had to keep to around 40mph, it did improve past Teruel but not much.

 

[Steve Martin]

Sooo basically it’s just like driving in the U.K. with sunglasses on

 

[poacher]

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I usually just stop in any service station along the way for the night.
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We are usually headed towards southwest Spain / Portugal - so cannot help with your routing
but
echo Steve's overnight stop arrangements

many more opportunities on the principal routes / autovias - both at service stations and parking / picnic areas

P.S. what are these 'tolls' thingys ??
(NEVER met one in Europe - go out of my way to avoid them )

 

[RV Neal]

We are usually headed towards southwest Spain / Portugal - so cannot help with your routing
but
echo Steve's overnight stop arrangements

many more opportunities on the principal routes / autovias - both at service stations and parking / picnic areas

P.S. what are these 'tolls' thingys ??
(NEVER met one in Europe - go out of my way to avoid them )

Generally I am the same with tolls; avoid them like the plague but, I have found that Spanish toll motorways are very reasonably priced and are kept in good condition.

 

[old mo]

Any advice would be greatly appreciated as this is our first time abroad.

Remember to drive on the right hand side of the road....

And keep an eye out on your speed.. Loads of sneaky speed cameras now...

 

[Mc50]

Thanks everyone for your advice, it’s much appreciated