Whoops Serious Foul Up

[Chrisgr31]

I have managed to cock up in big style and somehow book 3 Expo parking passes instead of camping passes.

Anyone got any bright ideas for finding 3 camping passes at this late stage?  Or does anyone know any local campsites that might have space?

[Grand_Fromage]

I might consider some 'stealth camping'. I did below-the-radar camping in parking bleu for several years in the 1990's

[Perdu]

Indeed my first time was by stealth in Parking Vert


The little tent sat on the verge at the back worked for me and my mate

The humungeous ants kept us out of the tent for much of the time though 

We seemed to be the only ones who found them though, everyone else was a happy camper

[aricus654]

Hi!

Provided that you arrive before Friday, you should get onto Arnage - lots of people just turn up there. Bikes to get in are useful if you end up there.

Aricus

[aricus654]

I have managed to cock up in big style and somehow book 3 Expo parking passes instead of camping passes.

Anyone got any bright ideas for finding 3 camping passes at this late stage?  Or does anyone know any local campsites that might have space?

ChrisGr,

How did you get on - was that you I saw sleeping in their car?

Aricus

[Chrisgr31]

Nope wasn't me you saw sleeping in the car!

Having discovered on Tuesday night I had neither camping nor ferry booked I did a bit of research.  Found someone on here with 2 surplus camping tickets for Epinettes so sent them a text.  Whilst waiting for a response looked at other options including municipal campsites in the area.

Booked a later ferry for the Wednesday and decided to aim to get to Dover for 8am, with a ferry at 10.15am to give a couple of hours to make calls etc.  As it happens on the drive to Dover I received a text from the member here advising they still had the Epinettes tickets, so agreed to buy them off them for the price they paid, and meet them at Maison Blanche to collect them.

Those plans worked, so we ended up in Epinettes with 2 camping passes for 4 cars, however we had 3 car parking spaces in Expo and one in Rotunde, so basically ferried people and luggage from Expo to Epinettes and vice versa.

On the plus side it meant that on Sunday morning we packed up and moved all cars to the parking areas, so had a quick get away after the race!

I did also receive emails from the municipal campsites I contacted confirming that they had availability over the Le Mans weekend, one was at Econommy and one was at La Suze sur la Sarthe.  Not ideal but not an outrageous distance away.

The rest of my party did not take the piss about the organisational foul up too much, presumably on the basis that they don't want responsibility for organising the tickets!  First time in 20 yrs I have fouled up the tickets!

[Perdu]

"I love it when a plan comes together..."

Even if by luck and with greatly expressive distress 

Glad you got sorted

Funny how a disaster never gets volunteers to be IT instead

[garyfrogeye]

It certainly looked like there were spaces on BN all weekend. I wonder who's allocation wasn't fully taken up?

[Andy Zarse]

Great story Chris! If you had had some sort of Commercial-car based camper van, albeit ancient, one would have comfortably stopped in Expo Parking for the week and acted like it's what you intended all along.