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Recent reviews mentioning Poitiers

47.1617, -1.51274

Bad spot to go to Poitiers or Niort, people here are going more to La Rochelle, Bordeaux or Vendée area.

In two hours I met only two people going to Poitiers, but they didn't have seat.
Good spot to go to La rochelle, Bordeaux or la Roche sur Yon either.

rating: 2/5, wait: 120 min

―Anonymous, August 2025

44.88404, -0.50812

Had à sign Poitiers and nobody took so we decided to up our thumb and someone nice who had nothing to do of their afternoon (bc blocked outside of home) helped us reach the nearest peage. We waited for 2 hours so I would not recommand

rating: 3/5, wait: 120 min 🪧, ride: 248 km ↑

―Lulin, Fri 15 Aug 2025, 13:00

48.63549, 2.14949

I waited about 5 minutes at the exit of the station, with a sign saying "A10", and got a lift to Chatellereault (near Poitiers). A few cars even stopped before that but were not able to help me. Many people heading to the south, and a lot of truckers are resting. Go ahead and ask them, many of them go to Spain ! 👍

rating: 5/5, wait: 5 min 🪧, ride: 284 km ↙

―Oxyd23, Wed 06 Aug 2025, 16:00

46.54866, 0.29016

NOT a good spot towards Paris. Yes we were 3 but we waited for 2 days. Most cars that stopped were going to Niort (south) and not toward Paris. Maybe a better idea to try north of Poitiers to go North.

rating: 1/5, wait: 1000 min, ride: 371 km ↗

―Egg, June 2025

46.12567, 1.07429

Good spot towards Limoges, the Poitiers - Limoges road works well with a lot of roundabout with space to park

rating: 5/5

―cabalkin, March 2025

45.85598, 1.24814

It is my place to leave Limoges, to Poitiers-Nantes, or could be just After the bridge also
There is space to park, but the spot is not a top tier one, still after you've left Limoges and Couzeix it will be easy

rating: 4/5, wait: 20 min

―cabalkin, March 2025

46.55284, 0.39992

Best place from Poitiers to Limoges, it really is an easy ride to go little by little to Limoges, after this place the road is straight, with roundabouts and always a lot a space to park

rating: 5/5, wait: 15 min, ride: 88 km ↘

―cabalkin, March 2025

46.61763, 0.31235

Here is the place to hitchhack towards Nantes if you come from Limoges at least.
The last entry before it separates Nantes/Angers
Take every ride in the direction of Nantes, because after you've left Poitiers, the road is straight to Nantes, with nice roudabouts to hitchhack (until Cholet)

rating: 4/5, wait: 15 min, ride: 24 km ←

―cabalkin, March 2025

46.83284, -0.43512

From here on you're trip from Nantes to Poitiers really start, it finally become easy, every roudabout until Poitiers and even Limoges, is a nice place to hitchhack, i tried most of them.
Here there is a lot of space, the direction is clear, you may go to Parthenay, no need for a sign at all

rating: 5/5, wait: 10 min, ride: 33 km ↘

―cabalkin, March 2025

47.03578, -0.90561

Worst place in France. Cholet towards Poitiers is the worst ride i never did in France, i was there quite a lot of time but now i take BlaBlaCar to Bressuire cause here you will wait 30min if you're lucky, but it will easy go to 1 hour, my worse is 2h30 here, i know girls who waited more than 2h before give up here, and a guy who waited 4 hours.
The spot is not great but it is Ok to park, the problem is there are too much cars and most of them goes to Cholet center, maybe Nantes, La roche but not to Poitiers. So you're aiming to only a few cars in the whole lot
Moreover there are 2 entries to the national road on the same roudabout...

rating: 1/5, wait: 60 min, ride: 48 km ↘

―cabalkin, March 2025

47.22644, -1.46693

I also tried this spot to go to Poitiers.
But it is not great as well, you miss most of the cars, which are already on the ring, there is not si much traffic even if it is okay, but you won't arrive to Poitiers in one ride, or even to the horrible Cholet.

rating: 3/5, wait: 40 min

―cabalkin, March 2025

47.18615, -1.46218

A lot of space to park, the problem is there is no good spot to go to Poitiers in Nantes.
From here you will certainly arrive (i did it a lot of times) in la Haye Fouassiere or Vallet, at the entry of the national road, witch are better spots than here but still it is not really good.
If you are lucky you may arrive in Cholet, but sorry, Cholet is the worst city to hitchhack, i now few people who've got their worst record of time waiting there (me too before it was beaten in Portugal)
After Bressuire everything will go easy to Poitiers-Limoges, from now i take a BlaBlaCar to Bressuire everytime (Cholet is a trauma 😂)

rating: 3/5, wait: 35 min, ride: 6 km →

―cabalkin, March 2025

45.66389, 0.13043

Got a direct ride to Poitiers in 5-10 minutes! Little traffic at that time (1 pm).

rating: 5/5, wait: 5 min, ride: 122 km ↑

―Anonymous, March 2024

45.63745, 0.11946

Huge traffic, visibility and place to stop but only one car stopped after more than one hour and took me 5 kms further (I had a sign for Poitiers).

rating: 2/5, wait: 65 min, ride: 3 km ↑

―Anonymous, March 2024

47.39394, 0.70358

With a sign Bordeaux/Poitiers, we (couple) waited 30min and found a car to Niort. The spot is quite good but not the best for the cars to stop over there (there is a little step between the road and the cyclable road where the car can stop)

rating: 4/5, wait: 30 min, ride: 189 km ↙

―Foulekk23, October 2023