Hitchhiking from Argelès-sur-Mer
Hitchhiking to Argelès-sur-Mer
Recent reviews mentioning Argelès-sur-Mer
42.52352, 2.8177
Waited infront of the green thing before the toll station.Two hikers picked me up and offered me to take me to the train station in Narbonne.
―Ompyl
42.52062, 2.82235
Cars have some place to stop and mostly locals, I (one boy) got a ride super fast to Palau del vidre, but Argelès is probably also easy.―Peddy42
42.5253, 3.09103
The car are going slow and there's space to stop. Good for going into the direction to Spain but probably hard to get in to Spain.―jokndm
42.53177, 3.05614
Good to go to Collioure, there's space to stop and cars aren't going too fast. The closer to Spain you want to get the hardwr it probably is.―jokndm
42.67362, 2.88846
Difficult to reach we had to cross a street with lots of traffic. But got picked up really fast. Good to go too Argelès-sur-Mer―jokndm
42.41937, 2.92314
The spot is perfect. Shade, slow speeds and good visibility, just not a lot of traffic. Third car that came by picked my up and dropped me right at the bus stop. They were french.―Mandarina787
42.2796, 2.95168
Pro: plenty of space, gas station and small market. Fairly good traffic both ways.Con: gotta walk 15-20 mins to get here. Cars getting out of Figueres start to speed up and the gas station is not super busy.
Possibly the traffic lights about 500m before this is a better spot.
―inka
42.52352, 2.8177
mother with daughter took us and said that she is going to Barcelona, loud music, windows down, hurricane at back seats, stoped few kilometres behind border in Ia Jonquera and without any speach she went to shop. so did we, the prices were so low, must have, little chaotic, but good vibe after all―kapitan
42.78155, 2.89797
ok spot, ground was burning like lava, lovely truck driver threw a nice hat at us for my girlfriend, big shoutout―kapitan
42.57751, 2.84567
it serves both directions so it can be tricky, besides fuel is more expensive than in spain. and yet i was picked up by a german whose mother, in another car, needed fuel. there was a lot of people, the spanish were telling me they were unfortunately coming from spain but would take me―andrej
43.71597, 4.13355
a nice englishman who's lived in france all his life took me with him―andrej
42.52352, 2.81771
Good spot to go onto the highway.―TajineMachine
42.52778, 2.82131
Grand péage à la sortie de la France vers l'Espagne. Ts les véhicules s'arrêtent.―Anonymous
42.52778, 2.82131
Waited two hours, but then i got a ride all the way up to Dijon (600 km) by a french couple.―Anonymous
42.52778, 2.82131
good place, a lot of cars going to spain and stop at the péage!―Soulclap
42.52778, 2.82131
I was there in March 2013 and there was a big fence in front of the peage lines, making it impossible to get in. Furthermore there is a police station(van) a couple of meters after the peage,facing it. I put a new point on the map, where I hitch hiked succesfully afterwards.―Alexan
42.52778, 2.82131
The last french toll gate in direction to Spain.―Studan
42.52778, 2.82131
I got a ride on the 30.7.14 from here to Barcelona. Waited a very long time despite the fact that there were long lines with hundreds of cars passing me. Some drivers gave me food and others tried to give me hope. all'n'all, it was a very good day.―BeerMe
42.57666, 2.84508
I was dropped there direction Barcelona, that was a very bad idea, nobody there. I finally walked to the D900 which is just 10mins walk, i then got a lift in 10mins.―Dylg
42.57666, 2.84508
Seemed to be a good idea but got stuck here for 3+ hours... Maybe it was just the wrong day to try (2nd Sept) but I see a couple of problems with this place if you are going north.- even though it is a big service area, Spaniards coming from Spain would have already stopped at La Jonquera that vastly reduces your chances
- the truck parking lot is a 5 minute walk from the station itself which makes it impossible to cruise around both trucks and cars asking for a ride
- the petrol station has two exits, so if you are a cardboard guy, you have to back off beyond the roundabout where the two roads merge. Again, drivers are already prepared mentally to drive away by then so you'll need quite some luck to stop them
- you may try the very highway entrance close to the truck parking but there is no shadow and cars are already going at a decent speed
Long story short, get dropped off at La Jonquera instead!
―Lvsti