Aire de Vémars-Est
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.rating: 4/5, wait: 60 min 💬+🪧
―Artflix, Wed 13 Nov 2024, 09:56
Got on a ride to Bruges, but we wanted to go to Ghent, so thy dropped us of at Kortrijk
rating: 5/5, wait: 15 min 💬+🪧, ride: 242 km ↑
―EorlTheYoung, September 2024
Got an easy and direct lift to Brussels. Pretty much a lot of traffic and place to stop
rating: 5/5, wait: 15 min 🪧, ride: 296 km ↗
―bogdanpanow, September 2024
It's hard to get there from Paris and I don't think it's quite worth it and when you are in Vémars it's really easy to get lost and not find the station. But once you're here it's quite good even though I didn't find so much cars going to belgium as I wanted lots of them where going to Lilles. I wanted to stop at the nearest station before the start of the A2 but the drivers were cool and let me go to the first station of the A2 (Harvincourt) where it's a lot easier to go to Belgium from there.
rating: 3/5, wait: 30 min, ride: 154 km ↑
―Anonymous, November 2023
I don't recommend to come here from paris by bus/train. Took me 3 hours, got lost in Vermars and I payed almost 10 euros to get here. Try others sites do hitchhike out of paris. It took me 1 hour to get a ride direction brussels
―Gustavobretz, April 2014
A good spot. It takes about 25 minutes to walk here from Survilliers-Fosses station, so it might be worth trying to get a lift southbound to the services and then go through the tunnel (ref earlier post, I haven't seen the tunnel myself). 1000 times better than trying to hitch out of Paris.
―Harvestmouse, July 2013
When I was there (late July, 2012) there was construction work going on, but I found a good spot just after the car park.
There is also a good choice of trucks.
I had to walk across a field from Vmars, which was a little muddy even in summer. In wet weather this will probably be pretty bad.
―Anonymous, August 2012
We got a ride Brussels from here in 10 min. There are lots of trucks but first try the exit road for cars, two junkey took us, they were soooo high even sometimes they forgot we were on the back, but they were speaking English.
―Astala27, July 2012
Reasonable spot to go north. Hitchwiki Paris describes how to get here by train. Try to get a lift to the fuel station (e.g. from train station Survilliers-Fosses) and at all cost avoid going here by foot on the eastern side of the highway. There's no street and lots of mud. Believe me ;)
―Kriechstrom, January 2012
Took ~30 min to hitch a ride to Brussles and it happened at 03:00 a.m. so very promising spot!
―Anonymous, September 2011
Service station on the A1. Great spot to get dropped off for hitching further North towards Lille or Belgium, especially while the
Lots of cars passing through, and we got a ride onwards all the way to Liege honestly within seconds of arriving here.
―Anonymous, September 2011