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Cooking utensils, dishes, and silverware* are included by default at no extra charge.
(* See near the bottom of page the list of items.)
The vehicle comes with two gas bottles, one full and the other half full.
All our France rentals include unlimited kilometers.
Which if any portable GPS navigation option on the open market is best for you?
See
IdeaMerge's analysis of portable GPS navigation solutions on the market.
If you want your France-based motorhome or campervan rental to include
any of the following, you should order such items upon placing a reservation.
Our online order software will prompt you in this regard.
Likewise if you want to order the following insurance addendums, you
must do so upon placing your reservation:
collision damage waiver (CDW) : 15 Euros/day (minimum EUR105, maximum EUR750)
special assistance package**: 6 Euros/day (maximum EUR300; see at bottom)
cancellation insurance: 5 percent
(eliminates your financial liability for cancellations made prior to and including the pick-up day)
SORRY, BUT SATELLITE TELEVISION
IS NOT AVAILABLE IN THE VEHICLES.
And only the Group E vehicles have a television.
There is no charge for an additional driver (maximum two drivers per motorhome).
The vehicle will be delivered with a full tank of fuel. (Likewise it should
be returned with a full tank.) The water tank, propane tanks,
and toilet chemical repository will also be full. The interior and exterior
will be clean, and the water and toilet tank will be empty of waste. Likewise the vehicle
should be returned clean. Vehicles returned in an unclean condition will be
subject to a modest cleaning fee.
Also included will be a French/English operators manual, a list of campgrounds in France, a list of service areas in France,
road maps of France, and
suggested itineraries in the various regions of France.
A thorough explanation and demonstration of the rental vehicle will be provided
upon pick-up. This orientation, together with completion of the relevant
paperwork, requires approximately one hour.
* Included items:
Kitchenware: 6 plates, 6 dessert plates, 6 glasses, 6 bowls or mugs, 6 knives, 6 forks,
6 spoons, 6 tea spoons, 1 potato peeler, 1 kitchen knife, 1 can opener,
1 corkscrew, 1 bottle opener, 1 frying pan, 2 sauce pans, 1 salad bowl,
1 platter, 1 strainer, matches.
Vehicle kit: 2 bottles of propane gas (1 full, the other half full),
1 bottle of toilet chemicals, 1 fire extinguisher, 1 water hose, 1 jerrycan (20 liters),
1 electric cord + European adapter, 1 broom + dustpan, 5 clothes hangers,
1 kit of spare fuses and bulbs, 1 bilingual "User's Manual," 1 map of "Aires
de Services" (service areas),
1 printed guide of select campgrounds in France,
and suggested regional itineraries.
** The fleet of vehicles is modern, secured, and continually upgraded
no vehicle being more than two model years old, and 80 percent of the fleet
being renewed each year. Thus
breakdowns and thefts are kept to a minimum. Repairs necessitated by breakdowns
or accidental damages to the motorhome are naturally by default at the
expense of the vendor subject of course, in the case of accidental
damage, to the applicable insurance deductible/excess, and subject to
vendor approval of any repair estimated to cost over EUR100. (The client
should call the vendor to obtain such authorization.) The client may be
held responsible for mechanical damage or theft of the motorhome resulting
from negligent use of the motorhome or from failure to effect normal
maintenance. Moreover, the vendor
is not obligated to secure the repair of the radio, air conditioning,
refrigerator, propane gas units, and 12V appliances in general during a
client's use of the motorhome; which is to say, the client accepts the risk
that the motorhome's appliances may become and remain inoperable during the rental
duration. Likewise the client by default accepts the risk that the motorhome itself
may become and remain inoperable due to breakdown or to theft of
the vehicle during the rental duration; and this is to say, in such
cases the vendor is by default not obligated to pay for the towing of the motorhome,
nor to replace a motorhome with another motorhome nor with a car nor minivan
nor other vehicle nor tent. However, for an extra EUR6 per day the client can purchase the vendor's
special assistance package which, in the event of breakdown or
theft of the vehicle, covers towing costs, lodging (up to EUR38 per
person per night), and alternative transportation i.e. motorhome rental,
or automobile rental or rail tickets, depending the client's preference
and depending upon availability. (If no motorhomes are
available for rental as is often the case in, say, July the
client who has purchased said special assistance package would choose relative
to a set of alternative forms of transportation and accommodation.)
This optional assistance package is
effective in all the countries in which the default insurance
is effective; but like the default assistance, it does not apply to the
motorhome's radio, air conditioning, refrigerator, propane gas units,
and 12V appliances in general.
*** Child safety and booster seats:
We can address these safety devices in terms of law or, more wisely, in terms
of one or another more general and more conservative (i.e. child-conserving)
consensus about child safety. Nevertheless please note that IdeaMerge is neither obligated
nor qualified to present to clients nor to the general public
the full set of relative laws nor the letter of those individual laws;
the comments below, whether about law or consensus are merely intended
to indicate the nature of the general issue of child motor vehicle safety.
In many cases (such as Canada and the United States) the law applies based on the
state, province or territory in which the vehicle is registered or in which
a particular rental commences. In Canada such law is strictest in Quebec and
in Ontario. Which is to say, these are the only provincial units in Canada
that require booster seats. The general North American consensus considers booster
seats necessary for children weighing 1836 kg (4080 lbs),
forward-facing safety seats necessary for children weighing 918 kg
(2040 lbs), and rear-facing infant seats necessary for children
weighing up to 9 kg (20 lbs). Age-wise these ranges correspond to
4.5 years through 7 years, 1 year up to 4.5 years, and 0 years up to 1 year.
In Germany, however, the high-end figure is more conservative, in the sense
noted above.
German law puts this figure at up to 12 years or up to 1.5 m tall
(4 ft. 11 in.);
moreover, children under age of 10 may not travel in the front
passenger seat of a car,
the exceptions being: (a) a child younger than 1 year old seated in a
rear-facing safety seat, (b) a vehicle with no rear seats or seats
that temporarily cannot be used, and (c) a situation in which all rear
seats are already occupied by children under 10 years old.
French law puts said high-end figure at up to 10 years
but enforces the same 1.5-meter height threshold as Germany and likewise
requires that children under 10 years of age be seatted in one of
the rear rows of seats.
In Ontario a child need not use a safety seat if (a) his/her weight is over
36 kg (40 lbs) or (b) his/her age is over 8 years (i.e. he/she has turned 8 years old) or (c) his/her height is over 1.45 m (4 ft.
9 in.).
Generally a rear-facing safety seat should not be used in a seat equipped with a functional
frontal airbag. Also generally speaking, children under 12 years old
should sit in a rear seat.
In the context of the whole IdeaMerge Website it is appropriate to address
a few more specific cases. The state of Washington in the USA
is relatively strict: children up to 1 year old or less than 20 lbs must be
seated in a rear-facing infant seat; children from 1 year old through 3
years old or 2040 lbs must be seated in a forward-facing child seat;
and children from 4 years old through 5 years old or 4060 lbs
must be seated in a booster seat (in the rear if the front passenger seat is equipped
with an airbag). In the state of Oregon children from 0 through
3 years old or less than 40 lbs must be seated in a child seat, and children
4 years old through 5 years old or 4060 lbs must be seated in a booster
seat. In the state of California, children from 0 through 5 years
old or less than 60 lbs must be seated in an appropriate child
seat, perhaps a booster seat. In the state of Nevada
children from 0 through 3 years old or weighing less than 40 lbs must
be seated in a child seat. In the state of Colorado, children
from 0 up to 1 year old or weighing less than 20 lbs must be seated in a
rear-facing child seat; children from 1 year through 3 years old or 2040 lbs
must be seated in a front-facing child seat; and children from 4 through 5 years
or less than 55 in. tall must be seated in a booster seat.
In the state of New Jersey, a child 0 through 17 months old
must be seated in a child seat; a child 18 months through 4 years old must
be seated in a child seat if riding in front; and a child less than 8 years
old or less than 80 lbs should sit in the rear, if rear seating is available.
In Australia a child from 0 up to 1 year old must
be seated in a child seat, and this seat must be fitted with a top
tether that is in turn attached to a suitable mounting point on the
vehicle; other constraints apply per territory,
but the general rules noted above should nevertheless be applied
and are typically indicated by vehicle rental vendors.
In New Zealand a child from 0 through 4 years old must be seated
in an appropriate safety seat; a child from 5 through 7 years old must if seated in
front be seated in a booster seat or, we are told, secured with an
adult safety belt (although this latter option seems too lax);
and again the general rules noted above should neverthless be applied
and are typically indicated by vehicle rental vendors.
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