New Member Gas Question about to go to France and Spain

belka

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Hi
We're about to make our second trip over to France then on to Spain and do not know how we are going to manage our gas supply.
Last time we had enough gas brought in the UK for the entire trip.
I believe the bottles/adapters are different from the UK so what is the best solution?
Can you help?
 
this is always a problem.i usually take a couple of bottles and a camping gaz as backup.if that won't do it you'll have to buy local.keep the receipt and you can get the deposit back within a time frame i can't remember.and you have to buy the regulators which are all different.camping gaz is stupidly expensive but you can get it anywhere
 
Hi
We're about to make our second trip over to France then on to Spain and do not know how we are going to manage our gas supply.
Last time we had enough gas brought in the UK for the entire trip.
I believe the bottles/adapters are different from the UK so what is the best solution?
Can you help?

To help with the best solution, How long are you intending stopping in France and Spain ? Whats the itinerary ?

Getting gas in France from the supermarkets complete with regulator is easy but perhaps not much point if you intend wintereing in Spain is my point.

Channa
 
To help with the best solution, How long are you intending stopping in France and Spain ? Whats the itinerary ?

Getting gas in France from the supermarkets complete with regulator is easy but perhaps not much point if you intend wintereing in Spain is my point.

Channa

We will be spending a large part of the winter in Spain so this is where I think we will need to but gas
 
Gas in europe

My advice is get at least one refillable such as Gaslow then filling up is cheaper and less trouble, but not cheap to setup:have fun:
 
We use Gaslow and carry a camping gaz cylinder as reserve. We swop the camping gaz back to propane when we get home.
 
My advice is get at least one refillable such as Gaslow then filling up is cheaper and less trouble, but not cheap to setup:have fun:

I will look into the cost of Gaslow maybe we need to spend a little to make life easier.

I presume the adapters are country specific?
 
You can get Repsol gas bottles here in France complete with regulator with no problem at all at petrol stations that stock them (we got ours from Intermarche) and then they can be exchanged in Spain and Portugal. Unfortunately they are the large bottles, can't remember whether they are 11kg or 13 kg so won't fit in your locker. :wave::wave: Hi, I coppied this from another Forum, they are currently discussing this same topic on there, I would suggest that you go to a RASTRO [Car Boot Sale ] in Spain and buy for about 10 euros a REPSOL PROPANE bottle, you may be lucky and get one part full,regulators can be bought easily at Hardware shops, Todo shops etc in Spain , once you have the bottle you can get an exchange full one at Repsol garages across Spain and the gas is cheap to buy as it is really intended for domestic home use and is subsidised , bottles can also be easily exchange in Portugal at Repsol as well, and as you can see from the post I copied also France although I have not tried France exchange myself.
 
you don't give enough information in your question

how many bottles fit in your locker , and what size
do you have on bottle regulators or screwed to the motorhome
 
you don't give enough information in your question

how many bottles fit in your locker , and what size
do you have on bottle regulators or screwed to the motorhome

We have space for 2 bottles
one is 11 and the other is a 6
 
do you mean you could actually fit 2 x 11 Kg ?

and what about the regulator ?
 
re gas filling abroad

hi get yourself a refill adapter from ebay. you need the baynet type that screws on to the bottel and the dish type adapter for france ect. then go to the petrol station that sells lpg gas and fill it up loads of garages in france ect sell lpg gas. it comes with full instructions we have just came back from france never run out of gas cheap as well
 
Spain can be a problem with refilling bottles as there isn't many places that sell it, that said we manage to spend some of the winter in Spain & we have only one 11kg Alugas refillable & a calorlite 6kg bottle (which I refill with an adapter off eBay)
France, Germany & Portugal have plenty of places to refill, it also works out much cheaper. Refillable bottles are handy as you can top them up at anytime you don't have to wait until it is empty like you would with an exchange bottle. It helps if you have some idea how much gas you use, our average gas consumption is just under a litre/day so the 11kg bottle will last just over 22 days so I look to top up after about 2 weeks.
 

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