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Le Mans MotoGP 2019

My brother, Neill, and I have been looking at this since the autumn.  By the time we thought of it, the hotels near to the circuit had gone up astronomically and were mostly booked up.  There are a few in the £150 to £350 a night category.

So I had to expand the search outwards and to cut down the journey on the way there to the north of Le Mans.  Gradually the search area had to be increased up to 60kms radius.

I have a booking with booking.com at a hotel just to the north of Alençon, breakfast included.  It's not far from the F1 hotel we stayed in back in 2012.  That seems to have disappeared from the booking's site.  The nearby Campanile where we ate is a lot more expensive and doesn't come with included breakfast.  

I do like the Campanile idea though and Claire and I stay in them quite regularly when we are away even when we have Reggie with us.  But at over £40 a night more it might not be worth the change.

How to get there? Well TomTom will work that out once we get across the channel.  To that end, as usual I have bitten the bullet and will risk the Eurotunnel train.  Mainly because I have a couple of £30 vouchers I bought on the Tesco scheme.

Originally bought to go to the Sinterklaastreffen in December 2018.  I bought one in August and forgot, then another in September.  A total of £60. As one expired tomorrow I had to use it quickly.  I have booked the Friday out at 0920 and back on the Monday at 1650.  Both times should give us time to get to Alençon and back on each day and not get too stressed. According to Google Maps it is 230 miles from Calais terminal to the hotel in Alençon.  About 4 hours with stops. maybe see what there is to see on the way down?

I made sure I did the API was well to ensure that my passport can be checked!

The next job was to buy the track tickets. We had trackside only in 2012. And we will again. Not many grandstands are not showing as "sold out".

So. It's all done and dusted. Until May then.


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