There is an excellent free Aire near the university. It is at Calle Marino Fernandez Fontecha. It is about 3.5km from the port, 8 minutes according to google. It is on search for sites. We stayed at it in early October. Nice city, worth staying for a couple of days if you have time.
Davy
We found that coming off the ferry a lot of vans are looking for parking so drove to Cabarceno (Elephant Park) 43.358100 -3.819767 about a 1/2 hrs drive there's plenty of parking there and free services so you can fill up before setting off if it's not freezing
When I stayed there it was great - only a handful of vans and not a peep from anyone so it obviously varies and it is a lovely place to stop.
We stayed on the Elephant Park aire earlier this year and NEVER AGAIN :mad2: It was by far the worst night we`ve ever had and any aire :scared:
The local VW camper brigade was at it playing music, shouting and opening and closing them bloody sliding doors until after 03.00am :mad2:
Then not long after that we had some cars doing what could only be described as drag racing the full length of the parking area along the lake.
Come 09.00am when we was ready for leaving all the little poppets were fast asleep tucked up tight in their campers so i made a hell of a racket when packing up.
It woke a couple of them up and they got out to say something, my answer to them was .......... **** Off .......... i`ll let you fill in the blanks :mad1:
You were just unfortunate Wooie, it does get a bit busy at weekends, but normally it’s an excellent stopover.
Being the middle of January I am rather dreading the Bay of Biscay! Hoping to take the coastal route down to the Algarve after that.
We're going for a couple of months but will travel back up the Spanish coast as we need to be in the middle of France mid-March.The west coast in January is very likely to be quite rough You haven't said how long your staying but it would make a better return route later in the year
Thats just the luck of the draw a group like that without regard for anyone eles could turn up anywhere. It,s nothing to avoid the aire for. I,ve visited 3 times apart from late arrivals from the same ferry as us who had tried everywhere else only to find them full. We,ve had quiet nitesThe VW camper lot only turned up at about 10pm and i`d had a drink so it was too late to move on.