Southbound accommodation on the M6

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Used to routinely do St Andrews (Leuchars) to High Wycombe (HQSTC) in one when the wife and I were for 6 months at opposite ends of the country (if you cannot take a joke, don't join) and always travelled in the early hours for a leisurely relaxed drive, shower, breakfast and then a short working day if I could skive off.

Sadly those days are behind us both I suspect. What I have found now however is that I rarely sleep well in a Travelodge/Premier Inn and always wish I had done it one!
 
The holiday inn at Haydock is surprisingly comfortable. Park Hall Hotel At Eccleston ok too! Both just off the M6. Park Royal and The Partidge around Stockton Heath good too, but maybe a bit south for you. Similarly the Marriott at Worsley is excellent and not too far out your way if you take the M61 south of Preston.

Alternatively give Malmo guns at Bayhorse (Lancaster Services) and see if they can recommend anywhere!
 
I have done this coming back solo from the far north of Scotland to Sussex and stayed at Lancaster Services Travelodge.
It is at the Northbound services but they let you use the little access road to cross the M6 from the southbound services.
It was pretty rough to be honest but served a purpose. I slept badly and decided to just get up at 4 and leave which actually worked well from a traffic point of view.
 
JockStalk said:
I did Marseille to Aberdeen in one go, less an hour on the ferry and had to stop at Southwaite as I couldn’t see so well through the tears.
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That beats my longest trips by some margin. Wycombe to Chamonix a load of times and then Tring to Bergerac a load of times.
Both are c720-750 miles each way and it used to take 12 hours door to door using the Chunnel, stopping only for fuel and one permitted toilet break!!
 
TringSaint said:
That beats my longest trips by some margin. Wycombe to Chamonix a load of times and then Tring to Bergerac a load of times.
Both are c720-750 miles each way and it used to take 12 hours door to door using the Chunnel, stopping only for fuel and one permitted toilet break!!
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We were trying to wait until unusually heavy rain stopped, which meant our usual three stop return journey became two, then one, then…..none. I remember late Saturday evening in nothing but trunks standing in six inch of water in heavy rain, which was at least warm, taking the sodden awning down and we just headed off - having to get home for work Monday morning. My wife drives but doesn’t tow.
Never. Again.
 
JockStalk said:
We were trying to wait until unusually heavy rain stopped, which meant our usual three stop return journey became two, then one, then…..none. I remember late Saturday evening in nothing but trunks standing in six inch of water in heavy rain, which was at least warm, taking the sodden awning down and we just headed off - having to get home for work Monday morning.
Never. Again.
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Driving back from a skiing holiday in St Gervais at night once we had snow covered roads and motorways all the way from the resort up to about Dijon which is c300km - was a nervous wreck by the time the roads cleared, that was until about another 100km or so further up the road when I came up to the brow of a hill in the champagne region only to find the motorway covered in a blanket of snow whilst doing 80+mph (no warning given) and on the other side of the road there was a Jack knifed lorry blocking the entire carriageway.
Not nice trying to lose all that speed when you are on snow in a fully loaded up 4x4 in the pitch black!
Got home in one piece and after only a short course of therapy I was back to normal!!
 
Don't know whether you've thought of stopping at Charnock Richard (Junction 27-28 M6), we've stayed there before on the way South and about 270miles from Dundee. The Hotel is the Ramada Chorley South - we weren't carrying rifles at the time, but I'm sure if you're discreet they wouldn't go into panic mode! That would give you a relaxed 230 mile (ish) run South to the wonders of Somerset!
 
opticron1 said:
Don't know whether you've thought of stopping at Charnock Richard (Junction 27-28 M6), we've stayed there before on the way South and about 270miles from Dundee. The Hotel is the Ramada Chorley South - we weren't carrying rifles at the time, but I'm sure if you're discreet they wouldn't go into panic mode! That would give you a relaxed 230 mile (ish) run South to the wonders of Somerset!
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That's a pretty good idea, thanks!

Far enough down to break the journeys back, but not so far as to be overly tiring. I reckon this is a good option 👍
 
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