Help Spanish Gas!!!!!

sue21

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I am in El Masneu in Northern Spain, I have been to Lloret and Blanes and Barcelona, I cannot get gas anywhere. I foolishly came to Spain thinking I could just buy an empty bottle and adapter and get it filled but I am banging my head against the wall. I cannot find anywhere that will sell me what I require. I have also stayed on 3 campsites, none of which could help me either. How do I get gas in Spain? Please help. Desperate.
 
absolutely no problem , what sort of system do you have ?
is it one with a regulator on the bottle or is it one with a high pressure hose going to a regulator screwed to the vehicl e..in that case what sort of gas bottle do you have on now ?
 
Don't panic!! you can buy it from most garages BUT if you want it instantly you can only have a 6kg one. What its about is terrorism,especially in the North, try find a garage with a young assistant (they have a better chance of speaking English) , you have to fill in a form with your UK address and produce your ID to match, they charge a non refundable 20Euro? deposit and you can take the bottle away with you, most diy shops sell the adaptor for the bottle BUT make sure you get a 30psi one, you may even bump into a Brit coming home who may have one, good luck.
 
Thanks

Thanks everyone, just off now to find some gas, thanks again for prompt replies.:)
 
well sue , seems to me you went off just knowing that you could buy gas bottles in spain , and not knowing what you needed to fit YOUR system

so I hope you got lucky and bought the right thing
 
Still no gas

I said in my post willing to buy adapter for spanish gas. I know I will not get any gas for my Calor fitting. Been to 7 campsites, 3 Repsol garages and 1 Cepsa plus numerous other worthless suggestions by the locals cannot get gas anywhere. Been driving round Barcelona and surrounding districts all day, just about to give up.
 
sue , if you look at my first reply I said , absolutely no problem , and asked some questions

WHY DON'T YOU ANSWER THEM ?

not being psychic any more than anyone else here is I can't tell you the easy answer to your problem unless you do !!!
 
All gassed up.

Finally at 6.30 pm found a camping shop in Canet De Mar who assured me I could get a bottle of gas from Respol garage across the road. The kind man then rang them for me and told them what I wanted. It seems not many Respol garages in Catlunya stocks the bottles of gas. (Or at least thats what one man said)So I got one for 20 euros deposit and 8.95 euros for the gas. I bought a regulator from Alcampo for 9.95 euros and hey presto I have gas. Thanks again everyone.:)
 
there you are sue , so you have a system with the regulator on the bottle , why didn't you say that !!! could have saved yourself a lot of running about

normally , when you have finished with the bottle you can hand it into any repsol garage that sells those bottles , give them the receipt and get your deposit back

the regulator you have bought will fit ANY spanish bottle

loads of catalan repsol garages sell the gas , or did a month ago when I was there
why don't you answer questions ...here is another one , what are you going to use to get home on when you get back to france ?
 
When we were in Barcelona with a boat we had the same problem but found that some marinas would fill any bottle if you left it and collected it the next day. So might be worth trying marinas, another benefit being that there is usually someone who speaks English. Good luck
 
Stayed at Bonterra park in Benacassim. Explained at reception that I'd run out of brit gas, and could I take a contract out for a spanish bottle. They said yes, and gave me an 11kg propane bottle straightaway. The paperwork took 5 days to return from the gas depot at Castellon. This all cost about 35 euros. Refills were 13 euros.
Lots of people on site got their bottles this way.
As for the regulator, it's depends what system is already on your van.

We had 2 months at Bonterra, far too long in one place, but as it was our first time in Spain we wanted to be careful. And the weather wasn't up to much !

Allen
 
not surprised the campsite were keen to sell you gas
I paid €9.71 all winter to change my bottles , so normal profit margin and €3.30 a bottle !
nice little earner for them
understand the official price was going up to €10.50 in march though , can't confirm though
 
I knew the site were charging over the odds, but the nearest garage was over 2 miles away, and I didn't want to move the van as it took ages to site it on the relatively small pitches.

By the way, over 30 nights stay and you had to go on metered electric. Now that was expensive, 35 cents per KwH. I used the roof mounted 80 W solar panel combined with a 45 W floor stood panel (I was regularly moving it to track the sun) and my 2 month total bill for electric was under 4 euros.
Occassionally we had the slow cooker on, and my 300 watt inverter couldn't cope with this, don't know why as the cooker is rated at 100 watts.
When the sun was behaving (it was most days, but accompanied with a cool breeze) my 2 x 120 amp leisure batts were indicating full charge by 10.30 am. And that's after 4 hrs tv / vids the previous night. Don't usually watch tv that long but it was too cold to sit out.

I was amazed (not really) at how many folk were settling their monthly electric bills for up to 100 euros. They were mainly caravaners, not used to wild camping.

Allen
 
incidentally , was this repsol? I presumed it was because castello is where the repsol filling plant is , but it occurs to me that cepsa could be there as well

presuming you have repsol , did you get both bottles [ repsol contracts are for 2 bottles ] or did the campsite scam the second one off you ?

and did you manage to get the free municipal wifi to work ? I went to the library
and signed up , got the 6 pages of instructions , but no luck [ I wildcamped down at the tower with all the others ]

great town for wild camping , benicassim ,free service point with water/grey and black emptying , free wifi around the town , police look after you ...what more could you want ?
answer this winter , some warm weather !
 
We were at Bonterra mid Jan 'till end of March. Me & wife walked / jogged to Tower St Vicente & the 'wild camping cut' and back every morning approx 8.30 am. Almost always saw an old (80 +) spanish guy with walking sticks & brolley strapped to his back.
Were you there then ? If so which van ?

Allen
 
if you can find a charity shop, you can usually pick one up for 10 euros, if not try a boot sale or flea market. 10 euros seems to be the norm wherever you get one,good luck
 
ask localy there is often a truck delivering gas give him 10-15 euro and pay for the gas about 11euro .then visit a ferretirer (hardware shop .get a regulater .)i use a repsol adaptor to euro gas thread then i can fill them anywhere.
 
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