Drove the family to the very North East of Spain last summer, will be doing it again in August. Agree with Tunnel – we did take a ferry from Portsmouth to Caan? a previous year but the benefit of not driving for a few hours was wasted by the really silly timings of the ferries.
Santander is nice, but thats £800 to get you to the wrong end of the Pyrenees. Would be tempted if I was going anywhere to the west of the country.
We went east of Paris and generally stopped at Novotels as they do family rooms and have a pool. Stopped two nights each way last year, but will be just stopping one night this year (is the plan) as it did not really work out as the road trip type adventure we had hoped. The only good night was the last night on the way home where we just drove along some A-roads until we saw a sign for a chambre d’hote and stopped there. lovely place, local restaurant, rural and secure where many of the book on the internet type places are in really grim semi-industrial trading estate type places.
Got a Sanef tag – just looked at the invoices and it comes out as £200 but there would be a few more in Spain that would not be covered by the sanef.