Northern Spain van levellers

The Tall Luthier · May 13, 2023

We went to northern Spain last year via Atlantic France. We took our levelling wedges but didn’t need them in France.

As soon as we got to a Spanish campsite we were called back to the UK.

This year we are going again, we will stay on decent campsites.

Can you tell us whether we are likely to need wedges in the majority of sites. My thought is probs not, but maybe once or twice.

A pair of wedges is approximately 8 bottles of wine! Just saying.

Azteccamper · May 13, 2023

The Tall Luthier said:
We went to northern Spain last year via Atlantic France. We took our levelling wedges but didn’t need them in France.

As soon as we got to a Spanish campsite we were called back to the UK.

This year we are going again, we will stay on decent campsites.

Can you tell us whether we are likely to need wedges in the majority of sites. My thought is probs not, but maybe once or twice.

A pair of wedges is approximately 8 bottles of wine! Just saying.

I’ve used ours about half a dozen times in 10 years!

Lambeth Cali · May 13, 2023

Difficult to say definitively but probably not. Main problem in Spain was camping on dirt not grass mostly. Nightmare for tent pegs if required.

Ozzy Pete · May 13, 2023

In 8 years we used them once, mainly because we think they are a waste of space taken up in the van. I find as long as your head is higher than your feet when sleeping that’s good enough.

AJQ · May 13, 2023

We're in northern Spain at the moment, been here nearly a month and stayed on eight different campsites. We used the levelers on three of them, it's true that as long as your head at night time is higher than the rest of you it doesn't matter hugely, but it's nice to be able to choose which way to point the van based on the view etc, not just the slant of the pitch. I guess it depends on how much space you have, there's only two of us so we're not packed to capacity. Hope that helps!

wildslammer22 · May 13, 2023

The Tall Luthier said:
We went to northern Spain last year via Atlantic France. We took our levelling wedges but didn’t need them in France.

As soon as we got to a Spanish campsite we were called back to the UK.

This year we are going again, we will stay on decent campsites.

Can you tell us whether we are likely to need wedges in the majority of sites. My thought is probs not, but maybe once or twice.

A pair of wedges is approximately 8 bottles of wine! Just saying.

I have a roof rack for levellers etc so the boot has more space available for wine and other real essentials…

Ting Tong · May 13, 2023

We keep ours inside the camping chairs in the tailgate: always handy to have.

Skylark2.0 · May 14, 2023

We've never used them. Mind you we haven't got any and we've had vans for 12 years now.
We don't cook a lot, that's where a slope gets you as the pans slide off which isn't very safe...

Viktorgeorge · May 14, 2023

Ting Tong said:
We keep ours inside the camping chairs in the tailgate: always handy to have.

How do you manage that?

Ting Tong · May 14, 2023

Viktorgeorge said:
How do you manage that?

These 9cm height Fiamma level pro ones fit together inside one folded chair in the tailgate but I think the wider 9cm yellow Fiamma Magnum ones will too.

Fiamma 136/133 Ramp Level Pro Pack of 2 https://amzn.eu/d/9DL8Jup

The Tall Luthier · May 14, 2023

AJQ said:
We're in northern Spain at the moment, been here nearly a month and stayed on eight different campsites. We used the levelers on three of them, it's true that as long as your head at night time is higher than the rest of you it doesn't matter hugely, but it's nice to be able to choose which way to point the van based on the view etc, not just the slant of the pitch. I guess it depends on how much space you have, there's only two of us so we're not packed to capacity. Hope that helps!

I think we are doing a similar trip 4/5 weeks to get to Portó and back. 3 out of 8 is quite high I think. As you say it is nice to be able to choose your view.

Thanks for your feedback everyone

Anthony1 · May 19, 2023

The Tall Luthier said:
We went to northern Spain last year via Atlantic France. We took our levelling wedges but didn’t need them in France.

As soon as we got to a Spanish campsite we were called back to the UK.

This year we are going again, we will stay on decent campsites.

Can you tell us whether we are likely to need wedges in the majority of sites. My thought is probs not, but maybe once or twice.

A pair of wedges is approximately 8 bottles of wine! Just saying.

Its like my favourite saying at the moment. 'Better to have them and not need, them, than need them and not have them'. They sit nicely nicely in the gap beside the under bed drawer..

gandalfthegrey · May 19, 2023

The Tall Luthier said:
We went to northern Spain last year via Atlantic France. We took our levelling wedges but didn’t need them in France.

As soon as we got to a Spanish campsite we were called back to the UK.

This year we are going again, we will stay on decent campsites.

Can you tell us whether we are likely to need wedges in the majority of sites. My thought is probs not, but maybe once or twice.Min

A pair of wedges is approximately 8 bottles of wine! Just saying.