Wooie1958
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Château de Chambord, anyone stayed over night and if so was it peaceful / quiet / ok ? Chambord Castle & Domain (Official)
We have been twice, parking is easy in the large car park but I don't know if overnighting is allowed, there is however a fee aire quite close. Huisseau Sur Cosson N47.5937 E1.45977.
Pick up a ticket on the way in and there’s a pay station at the start of the footpath going over to the chateau. The parking charge was €11 from memory and there is a service pillar at the opposite end of the aire which was €2 or so for water but I think the connector was moe like a hydraulic hose than any water point I’d seen before. Didn’t go into the chateau because the weather was too good to be inside but we did see some wild boar roaming around after everyone had gone home.
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H
Unless it has moved or talking different chateaus, Chambourd is in the Loire region an area worthy of touring itself, Mind you Pyreenees are stunning I preferred the topography more than the Alpes
Channa
We`ve done the Loire region several times just never got round to visiting the Chateau.
The top of our list is the Pyrenees and like yourself we prefer it over the Rhone-Alpes which can actually get overcrowded as we experienced last year :sad:
If we was to retire over there it would definitely be the Pyrenees, it`s exactly what we are looking for and we both sort of feel at home down there :dance:
The parking charge was €11 from memory and there is a service pillar at the opposite end of the aire which was €2 or so for water but I think the connector was moe like a hydraulic hose than any water point I’d seen before.
Stayed close to there last year when the family were stopping on a campsite at Muides-sur-Loire, there were a few free stopovers aires around the area. We stopped right on the banks of the Loire at Saint-Dye GPS 47.654499,1.479000 & at GPS 47.668598,1.525590. These were about 5kms from the Chateau Chambord so a relatively easy bike ride. From what we saw of the aire at the Chateau it looked pretty well packed.