help with le mans booking please

[turboflow]

ok so

me and mates are goin to le mans this year hopefully but wanna know where is best to get the tikets in advance if we choose to, what day is best to turn up on, are we restricted to the size tent we want, is there anything else we should know or want to take with us

cheers

 

[Lidders]

Come for the week mate. Think its 140 odd all in including ferry and your camping. Should be awesome. Pm starlet sam if your interested.

 

[Starlet_Sam]

OK best place to get tickets is direct from the ACO in France, they run the event. The website is www.lemans.org. From there you want to choose to see it in English and look for the option to buy tickets. I'd put a link up but I can't from my phone. You may then need to choose english again, it happens sometimes. There will be a few 'stages' at the top, the first being general admitance tickets. I really wouldn't bother buying these in advance unless you want grandstand seats. I would go straight to stage 3 which is your camping. Choose the right event, and then choose the campsite you want. To buy the tickets you need to register and when I did this is is all in French so have Google open to translate (don't worry, I don't speak a word of French so you know it's easy). Pay and your done. Then just book any ferry you want. I can guide you through on the phone if need be.

We always go on the Tuesday, turn up at around 8.30pm, I reckon a first timer would take a fair while longer as you have to navigate through Rouen and Le Mans. Rouen is a bastard but we know our way round it now. Le Mans is a lot easier to navigate.

For your money in the camping you get 35sqm which is enough for my 5 man tent and my car. A lot of sites have decent toilets (take your own bog roll) and showers (queues are hideous all morning meaning I rarely shower at Le Mans).

Any questions?

 

[turboflow]

can u get more than 35 square meters as we always put up a 3m x 6m marquee then put the tents inside that, i hate gettin out the tent on the wet grass which then follows u all fuckin week lol, also fancy give me the route u take home coz it sounds fun.

cheers mate

 

[Starlet_Sam]

I'd love to give you the route home but even I don't know it, we've done a different 300 mile country road blast each year! You can get more but only in the campervan site.

 

[Starlet_Sam]

Also, a 3x6m gazebo is 18sqm! You'll be fine.

 

[turboflow]

would it be ok to give u a call this evening and you talk me through the website coz its well confusing, also the 35 square metres, is that a perfect square marked off or just roughly thats what u should use

 

[Starlet_Sam]

It's marked off. Never used to be but is now.

 

[munday]

Free camping FTW