Gas bottles in the French Alps (11 Viewers)

[Lar450]

Looking for help with swapping out gas bottles in the French Alps, (Praz de lys area) We are taking our young children and dog over the Christmas period, planning on staying in a camping aire there, there is hookup available but I have heard of the supplies often being weak low amp connections, our motorhome has a dometic A/C - heating unit on the roof but it tends to trip my workshop trips regularly when I have the heating on, I think it draws a heavy current, I will do research on this now, I think we will mostly be heating the van on gas, it carries 2 13kg bottles of propane now, I think it will burn through this fairly quickly trying to keep the van warm, any help on getting gas bottles in the area or any advice would be greatly received
Thanks

 

[ChrisL]

You should think about refillable gas cylinders, I have Gaslow but there are other makes. I'm pretty sure French cylinders have different connectors to British ones but someone who knows definitively should be along in a minute.
Edit: I have a Dometic Freshjet 2200 on the roof as well, it only draws about 4 amps, most low amperage hookups abroad are 6 amps so if your careful about what other 240v devices you use you should be okay.

 

[Spriddler]

Just to clarify, what brand are the cylinders that you have now? As you may know you can't exchange Calor ones abroad.

 

[enark]

Yes refilable bottles give you more flexibility in europe. You may be able to fit yourself?

Gaslow LPG Refillable Cylinders Archives

Gaslow Refillable LPG Cylinders available in sizes 2.7kg, 6kg and 11kg as either no.1 or no.2. One of the safest, most reliable refillable cylinders.

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But you also need EU adaptors…

Gaslow French/Italian Adaptor

The French/Italian Fill Adapter allows you to fill at European LPG stations with the French/Italian style pump nozzle. The adapter simply screws into the internal thread on the UK Fill point. Suitable for pumps in France, Italy, Greece, Hungary, Norway, Austria, Poland, Slovakia, Czech...

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[fishplug]

I also went for a refillable tank with the adapters so it can be filled anywhere, however that probably doesn't help you much!

I did a search on the Butagaz website for 13kg propane cylinders and it came back with a few options in the area.

As others have mentioned you won't be able to exchange your Calor bottles there so be prepared to carry an empty cylinder around somewhere. You should be able to find a Butagaz point near the crossing back and return your French bottle there I think.

There are other gas suppliers such as Antagaz so might be worth doing some research to see what's most cost effective / convenient for you.

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