AA European Breakdown Assistance

JSGARTH replied on 04/06/2024 21:41

Posted on 04/06/2024 21:41

I have for many years taken out Red Pennant when I travel to France with my caravan. I have had to call on them a few times and been pleased with the response. However this year I have a Nationwide Current Account that includes AA European Breakdown Assistance which would cover my car and caravan. I wonder whether to rely on the AA and save myself quite a lot of money as I am going for 6 weeks. Have any fellow travellers had any experience of calling the AA from France and were they satisfied with the service?

allanandjean replied on 05/07/2024 13:30

Posted on 05/07/2024 13:30

Sorry hit post in error! The answer, as I recall it, is that, in my case towing a caravan, mcr can be up to 8m long and so can my caravan when measured including anything, such as a bike rack, attached to the rear.

We unfortunately had to call on the breakdown service in Spain this year and would stress, as mentioned in the policy document, that you have the appropriate info available-I didn't and accessing it at the side of a foreign motorway being buffeted by passing traffic is quite stressful!

One thing that we learned was that despite knowing exactly where we were-and giving a junction number and heading, the operator insisted on sending us a link to a site to allow them to pinpoint our location-which means that without mobile internet access we would have had problems.

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