Aire de Bordeaux-Cestas
Very good spot, slow cars, nice big gas stationrating: 5/5, wait: 20 min 🪧, ride: 118 km ↓
―Ellaella, July 2025
très bon spot qui mérite sa réputation, il est parfait pour aller à bayonne / arcachon (et même plus loin genre espagne), les voitures vont lentement et il y a un coin à l’ombre si vous voyagez en plein été
rating: 5/5, wait: 10 min, ride: 176 km ↙
―barish, June 2025
rating: 5/5, wait: 5 min, ride: 195 km ↙
―joni161, June 2024
I didn't even have to look around, I barely had the time to explore the parking area to figure out how big it was or where to stand/turn around, and someone gave me a ride (before I even asked) because they saw my sign for Bayonne.
rating: 5/5, wait: 5 min 💬+🪧
―ggfrite2, June 2024
Didn't have immediate success with cars so tried our luck with the trucks and the first one took us two hours south on the A63
rating: 4/5, wait: 15 min 🪧, ride: 204 km ↙
―Anonymous, April 2024
Good spot, but waited quite long, got taken to the border of spain
rating: 3/5, wait: 90 min, ride: 210 km ↓
―Anonymous, April 2024
Waited for a while with lots of other hitch hikers but did eventually get a lift all the way to Spain. Very busy rest place and good for getting south into Europe.
rating: 4/5, wait: 200 min 💬+🪧, ride: 248 km ↙
―saundy, March 2024
Really big rest area, they can go in both side of the highway, it was quite fast for a random monday at 6
rating: 4/5, wait: 15 min, ride: 168 km ↙
―Anonymous, October 2023
Direction Bayonne. Waited for about 1 hour until I got a ride from someone going to Arcachone. Which I only found out after I got in. Might have worked out if I'd waited a bit longer.
―Pabple, September 2016
First, quite late in the evening we got an offer to go to Arcachon, which is not a very good decision, so we rejected it. The following day after around 2 h we got a ride to Burgos, Spain.
―Ewelinalucy, December 2014
very good spot. after 30 min we found a ride going to dijon.
―Momsen, July 2012
Works in both direction. Excellent one. I had to wait like 45 min with a friend, and less than 10 minutes with my girlfriend when going north. When getting south, never waited less than 15 min
―Ewan gweznou, June 2012
It is a big gasstation, with much traffic. It has also a Hotel if you need one.
rating: 4/5
―Anonymous