French Aires

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Hi everyone, planning a trip to France in June and was wondering if you can help with a ?
Do the Fench aires payment machines accept credit card payments or is it cash.
Many thanks for replies
 
In the words of the song
"Some girls do, some girls don't".
Many aires are free but coins or jetons needed for water/sewage.
Card use becoming more widespread but can ddepend on the card !
 
If there is a payment machine it will probably be designed to accept cards but as already said it probably won't accept yours this is what we've found to be the case.
This organisation is uniform at all their aires it's worth getting their access card
https://www.campingcarpark.com/en_GB/
 
Credit/Debit Cards for Aire services? For something that will take, maybe e20 on a good day? Installing that wouldn't be cost effective.
 
Jo001 said:
Most accept cards but we also keep a stock of coins in case.
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Another Fifer asking the supermarket till staff to open the drawer and change the €5/€10 note for s some €1 coins, whilst paying for the daily food shop? 👍

Steve
 
Ferrari27 said:
Hi everyone, planning a trip to France in June and was wondering if you can help with a ?
Do the Fench aires payment machines accept credit card payments or is it cash.
Many thanks for repliesmj
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On a different note was around the Nantes area last October and found I couldn't connect to the water point. They looked like the standard and hoselock push connection but we're female requiring a male on the hose. This filling point was new.Is this going to be standard french connection.
 
Lefty107 said:
On a different note was around the Nantes area last October and found I couldn't connect to the water point. They looked like the standard and hoselock push connection but we're female requiring a male on the hose. This filling point was new.Is this going to be standard french connection.
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Better if it includes a tap though
 
Probably the only service points in aires that need a credit card to work are Flot Bleu. We try not to use them as the services are behind a locked door and the water hose ( usually with a petrol pump style trigger) us only a few inches above where you empty your cassette. Not very hygienic!
Apart from Campingcarparks aires, which have their own payment system and pass cards, if the aire you are going to has a barrier with payment, it will accept a foreign credit or debit card.
 
snapster said:
Probably the only service points in aires that need a credit card to work are Flot Bleu. We try not to use them as the services are behind a locked door and the water hose ( usually with a petrol pump style trigger) us only a few inches above where you empty your cassette. Not very hygienic!
Apart from Campingcarparks aires, which have their own payment system and pass cards, if the aire you are going to has a barrier with payment, it will accept a foreign credit or debit card.
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Yes just used one of these , quite surprised
Would not accept my debit cards . This has happened several times on this trip
 
Trotter said:
Credit/Debit Cards for Aire services? For something that will take, maybe e20 on a good day? Installing that wouldn't be cost effective.
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It might be. Locals might jump at the chance of free water. I've seen someone turn up at an aire with a trailer full of jerrycans and fill them at the service point.
 
Lefty107 said:
On a different note was around the Nantes area last October and found I couldn't connect to the water point. They looked like the standard and hoselock push connection but we're female requiring a male on the hose. This filling point was new.Is this going to be standard french connection.
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I've come across those in a few places, particularly, but not exclusively, on canals. The thing to watch when using a double-male adaptor on the end of your hose, is not to leave the adaptor in the water point because, if you do, a jet of water continues to erupt from the borne.
 
Jann said:
Most are free.
Some take cards
Some take cash in machine
Some are honesty boxes.
Some have someone collect the money
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Forgot to say,at some aires, such as marinas,you will have to pay at the office.
If the aire is free, but a charge for water then payment is either by card or you will have to buy a jeton(token) from a local shop.
Expect anything!!!!
 
Jann said:
Forgot to say,at some aires, such as marinas,you will have to pay at the office.
If the aire is free, but a charge for water then payment is either by card or you will have to buy a jeton(token) from a local shop.
Expect anything!!!!
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At some aires, go to the town hall to pay.
At one aire the mayor brings a bouquet of lilies of the valley and offers lettuce and radishes from his garden.
 
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