Hitchhiking from Dammartin-en-Goële
Hitchhiking to Dammartin-en-Goële
Recent reviews mentioning Dammartin-en-Goële
49.07105, 2.55169
Single male, no French, big laugh but started to disappear after 5 hours. I arrived this place at 14.00. FIRST DAY, I waited 4 hours until I decided to set my tent. I tried everything, sign with "Lyon, Sud de Paris, Paris", thumb, askimg around and nothing. Plenty of cars, actually ton of them but no one was taking me. As you get closer to Paris you see that "Parisian" nonwelcoming attitude. I set my tent at the north western end of the Aire, next to where truck restpoints were. Nobody bothered me. Asked Mcdonals for cardboards and they gave me some. Chill place as I think they are kind of used to hitchhikers. And second day, I started early and tried to catch early birds. After 1 hour with sign of Lyon I got back to Paris. First I wanted to avoid Paris and hoping to find a long distance ride who was also gonna skip the city. But as the suffering progressed, I understood that I dont have the luxury to make a wish. After 2 hours, two hitchhiker girls came next to me. we chatted a little bit, I told them I was waiting here for 8 hours now and told them they have more chance then me, they found a ride 5 minutes later. They asked people. After few more hours bees started to attack me so I changed my position. this cursed land doesnt wanted me in their premises. When I came back I saw a couple who was doing the thumbs up in my old spot. Talked with them! They were cool and I stood a little front of them for an hour. I didnt wanted to spent another day in this gas station so I gave up to hitch to the closest bus stop and move to Paris. Right before I leave the gas station, this crazy french chick Illen stopped in front of me with a handbrake! She asked me where, and I said anywhere! She took me to a train station in Paris, Pierrefitte Stains. Then I took the D train to south from there. It is lovely how universe giving you small surprises in these frustrating moments :D So total 9 hours of waiting time. A lot of cars, but they are not picking. A hard spot for a single male woth no french. Good luck out there stalker!―whiterabbit
50.52965, 3.0448
Single male with a huge smile. It had a lot of traffic on the morning. I waited at the very end of the station to be able to see all the cars exiting. Luckily Naim took me to the north of Paris. I was holding a cardboard " A1 Paris"―whiterabbit
49.07369, 2.55264
Lots of traffic, great spot. Driver's first time picking up a hitchhiker.―Streamrider
48.99979, 2.52271
Well intentioned driver misunderstood my request for a service station on A1 and took me here instead. All Taxis/livery drivers or rental car returns, one took pity on me and got me to the airport so I could find a way back to A1.―Streamrider
48.94918, 2.47625
Beware of drovers heading to the airport who want to help, wait for a ride going further north to catch a good service station for long distance.―Streamrider
48.92141, 2.34663
Easy ride out to A1 toward north and Belgium , some traffic and trafic light for cars to stop. Picked up in 20 with a cardboard that said A1. Should be easy to get north once you are on a highway stop―Anonymous
49.0737, 2.55269
Best spot to go North from paris, a lot of Belgium cars and people going to Lille.―Mano75
48.93388, 2.39271
I already used this spot to go to Lille but it is not that good after all, a lot of people are going to the airport and you can get stuck. Try Aire de Vémars Est if you want to go north it is way better―Mano75
49.07369, 2.55264
still good―GermaineBreton
49.07369, 2.55264
Waited at the exit with a thumb up and after a few cars the first lady who stopped took me straight to Lille.―StanBoi
49.00803, 2.52863
Place for a cars to pull over and a turning onto the motorway, but no one did.―StanBoi
49.07332, 2.55029
A guy and a girl without a sign. We got there quite late, at 11.30pm, and tried to get to "Aire de Limours/Briis sous forge" south of Paris from here.Did not work at all : some people were trying to help us, but only went to morth-east of Paris, and there was no one there after 1am so we went to sleep. The staff was very friendly and offered us some pain au chocolat and hot chocolate because the machine didn't work well for us, and we could set the tent at the back of the restplace without anyone bothering us at all. In the morning we waited one more hour before somebody took us to Saint-Denis' train station, as everybody else ignored us.
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49.00909, 2.53731
This spot is really not good. Most of cars here are taxis, We were very lucky to get such good lift―piotras
50.49006, 4.09527
At beginning cars were ignoring me but after around 35 minutes guy stopped and took me to service station before Paris―Anonymous
49.07332, 2.55029
Took us to champs-élysées. Good spot to go into the city, just ask around cars stopping to get gas and look for 75 license plates. 20min wait.―Voulez
49.07369, 2.55264
best spot to go north―GermaineBreton
48.93388, 2.39271
Worst spot I've ever been to. Place is hard as fuck to get there, I almost fell multiple times cause the ground was all muddy. There was no traffic at all and people don't go north to far, the closest I found was Charles de Gaulle with a sign marked "A1"! I'll never go there again.―GermaineBreton
49.07446, 2.55239
Okay so we we arrived at Gare du Lyon at in the evening, got some kebab and continued our journey north. We knew about this station from the hitch south. From gare the lion we took the train to fosses and than a connecting bus to survilliers. The public transport trip took about an hour and costs 7,50 pp. We think it's worth the effort, considering the fact that we had a tent to camp at the station. From survilliers it's about 30 minutes walking through the industrial areas, which was quite scetch in the dark with all the cars racing by. Once we got to the petrol station we found a hole in the fence to enter the station, which was unnessecairy since there was also just a walkway a bit further. There are some nice grassy bushes to camp a bit away from the people on the station. In the morning we started hitching at 9 and after an hour we got a ride from this cool Canadian band all the way to Utrecht. Shout-out to Cola™️ for putting us on the guest list, you guys are great.―Artflix
49.002, 2.56254
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49.00909, 2.53731
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