Avtex Sat Nav

What model TomTom do you have. POI's are relatively easy to load but there are two methods depending on model. I have both Archies and the Club POI's on mine and they have always worked fine. I can talk you through the loading of POI's if you wish.

David

Buy the Garmin equivalent and download Archie's POIs from his website. The Garmin instructions tell you how to use the "loader" but if you get stuck there are several people on this forum who will explain how in detail. You will need a 16Gb memory card but they are quite cheap.

Once you have Archie's loaded it will give you every site in Europe.

me too, my 'new' XXL classic' is old by many folks' std but it has everything i need....a european map, all the POIs I could possibly want (sites, aires, club cl/cs, autogas/lpg thrpughout europe etc, etc...

my model is very easy populate with these files, just drag and drop using windows....later/different models require these files pass through some special 'tomtom' process prior to upload

Just his evening I've order a Garmin Drive 60LM

It has a 6" screen and has lifetime European map updates. No traffic information (have found it to be completely inaccurate on other devices) and no pre-loaded points (as I'm quite capable of loading a destination). 

No abilty to tell it that I'm towing a caravan, because I always look at the map as well when planning an unfamiliar route and take note of any restrictions noted on the caravan site's web site.

It was £120 from Tesco, less £10 for a voucher code on the same page as the advert. So £110.

This is to replace a TomTom Start 60 which drives me mad with it!s faulty screen that continually jumps through the menus while driving along, as though someone is pressing the menu buttons.

I'll report back on how it performs.

Our Garmin 660 (no cc sites loaded)in caravan mode brought us directly to this cc site on just post code

no good overseas then, where a french countyside postcode can cover many (many) a square kilometre....

our forst trip abroad taught us this lesson when gaily drivng around looking for 'our site' and all we could see were ploughed fields...

cant beat a good (accurate) POI file with locations miles more accurate than a postcode....

First impressions of our new Garmin Drive 60LM.

Contrary to what it says on the Garmin web site, it does have speed cameras.......and very accurate too.

The estimated time of arrival seems to be very accurate and readily adjusts depending on speed and delays.

Downside - only appears to show time of arival or milage to destnation, but you have to chose which - it doesn't appear to show both (subject to me reading the instructions).

Lane guidance appears as a pop up side screen. Not very accurate on the number of lanes, but still useful.

You can enter lat / lon co-ordinates, which is useful in France as it pin points the site entrance. They don't have post codes like ours.

The display is very clear.

So far, so good.

Four years ago I bought a Tomtom with a lifetime guarantee of European map updates.

Yesterday I loaded the latest update and noticed that this guarantee now expires  in 2022

Therefore I am now looking for funeral expense insurance rather than a new sat nav

Just about everything the club endorses seems to cost the earth.  

My pretty basic Garnin has only taken me wrong once in France (no POI loaded) and that was due to the site having changed it's entrance.  

Good question, l can't answer it by the way but we like your dog !