Blockhaus d'Eperlecques
Blockhaus d'Eperlecques
Blockhaus d'Eperlecques
4.5
11:00 AM - 5:30 PM
Monday
11:00 AM - 5:30 PM
Tuesday
11:00 AM - 5:30 PM
Wednesday
11:00 AM - 5:30 PM
Thursday
11:30 AM - 5:30 PM
Friday
11:00 AM - 5:30 PM
Saturday
11:00 AM - 5:30 PM
Sunday
11:00 AM - 5:30 PM
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- Temporarily closed The BLOCKHAUS d’EPERLECQUES is the world's biggest bunker built just across the Channel. Come discover, explore and visit this secret project, its amazing hidden forest location, V1&V2 rocket launch pads and factory-bunker A very interesting and moving experience! Fantastic site well worth the visit.
Duration: 1-2 hours
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AvidTraveler12
Winchester, UK1,819 contributions
May 2024 • Couples
I am a WWII buff and am ashamed to say I did not know much about the site except that it was huge. Huge is an understatement! It was built for the purpose of launching V2 rockets on London. It was designed to launch 36 rockets daily and store 100. Thankfully, continued bombing by the RAF & USAF bombers meant that although not destroyed it was rendered unusable as parts of the exterior shell were ruptured and the railway lines leading to it were regularly bombed.
It is now a museum like no other and well worth a visit just to look at the sheer scale of what was built.
It is now a museum like no other and well worth a visit just to look at the sheer scale of what was built.
Written June 3, 2024
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Cymru63
London, UK329 contributions
Aug 2020
This was a facinating place to visit. The ingenuity and engineering is amazing although the forced labour and purpose are sobering. The sheer scale of the bunker, and the 'tortoise' method of construction was very interesting. The site has various points where you can hear details of the site and its construction and purpose, but they are language specific. If you arrive just behind a different nationality you have to wait for the tape to run to the end before hearing the presentation in your chosen language. There was a German couple ahead of us and hearing the German language being broadcast across the site was quite evocative. It would speed up the tour a bit, and have the capacity for more commentary points if there was a personal headset in each language as at other places of interest. Just an idea. Thoroughly recommended though, and evidence of the scale of the Nazi war machine, if a little chilling.
Written August 21, 2020
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nnmercman
Camberley, UK14,276 contributions
Jun 2024 • Solo
I consider myself a bit of a military history buff and reading the revues I was expecting something awesome. The middle aged couple at reception were offhand and brusque, almost throwing a slip of paper in English on how to get going once you exit through the gift shop . Not sure if it’s always the case but it was self guided for me, which is not a problem but the information panels are a complete jumble of information, some of it wrong and many do not necessarily refer to what you’re looking at. Ok, so there are audio elements in different languages but they’re extremely loud and I found it rather embarrassing listening in English when other language speakers had to endure my session before starting their own (especially as I was solo and they were in groups). I can understand the bunker being in a run down state but everywhere else was overgrown with shrubbery and foliage, historic vehicles and exhibits happily rusting away. Note that everything is outdoors on uneven ground so it will be difficult to navigate with mobility issues. if you have only a limited interest or knowledge in V weapons and their significance then you might think WOW but for me it was time I’ll never get back - most disappointing.
Written June 17, 2024
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Geoff Hudson
London, UK7 contributions
Sep 2019
Start early and trust your SatNav! The location is barely visible until you pass the car park. This is primarily a visit for those who have an interest in the development of the V1 and V2 missile programme. However, there are enough tactile exhibits and outdoor 'on-demand' audio presentations to command the interest of school-age children as well as veterans like me. Take care to follow the signed route around the site, ending inside the remarkable structure. Allow at least two or three hours for the visit and then head just a few kilometres to La Coupole in order to complete a truly amazing day.
Written February 19, 2020
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MNB
Hove, UK78 contributions
Mar 2022
Never seen anything like it. The size just blows you away. Simple, walk around exhibition, nearly all outdoors (so check the weather). Well worth a 1-2 hour visit.
Written March 18, 2022
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Mark Hall
West Malling, UK87 contributions
Aug 2024 • Family
Very interesting place - and we walked around - but simply too expensive for what it is. We did it in less than an hour. The replica V2 rocket just looks fake, and the images inside the building are just that pictures. Would have been better to have gotten hold of a real rocket! Nevertheless interesting for my son. Really over-priced
Written August 10, 2024
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imar11
Buckley, UK106 contributions
Sep 2012 • Solo
Easy to find in the Eperlecques forest. Visited in September 2012 so not to many visitors. The site is very impressive with a good layout. They have audio you can start as you walk around the site which explains the area you are in and also gives a history of the building and attack on the site.
Overall good value for 9 euro and very interesting. i have done a number of sites like this around the North of France and this is a good one.
Overall good value for 9 euro and very interesting. i have done a number of sites like this around the North of France and this is a good one.
Written September 26, 2012
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falconut
UK2,449 contributions
Jul 2011
Just a short 30min drive away from the port of Calais is the Blockhaus, a WW2 German bunker that was to be the site for V2 rocket launches against Great Britain.
Luckily it never became fully operational, and was bombed by allied forces.
The site itself is a fairly somber place, and quite rightly so, because it was intended to be used for such evil purposes, the blockhaus itself is a huge and imposing concrete structure, that still stands mostly intact regardless of the bombing.
There are numerous exhibits, and pieces of information, all in multiple languages, there are also various "story points" where you can get audio commentary on the various parts of the site.
Inside the bunker is a small cinema which gives you an audio/visual insight into the site and the acts surrounding the site.
All in all, its a very interesting place to visit, and well worth an hour or two of your time if you are in the area.
Luckily it never became fully operational, and was bombed by allied forces.
The site itself is a fairly somber place, and quite rightly so, because it was intended to be used for such evil purposes, the blockhaus itself is a huge and imposing concrete structure, that still stands mostly intact regardless of the bombing.
There are numerous exhibits, and pieces of information, all in multiple languages, there are also various "story points" where you can get audio commentary on the various parts of the site.
Inside the bunker is a small cinema which gives you an audio/visual insight into the site and the acts surrounding the site.
All in all, its a very interesting place to visit, and well worth an hour or two of your time if you are in the area.
Written July 18, 2011
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SouthWalesPeter
South Wales, UK140 contributions
Jul 2011
I visited this almost by chance. The presentation seemed a little basic and unsophisticated, but the information points told the story of the sight quite admirably. I hadn't realised the V1 (pilotless plane) was a Luftwaffe project and the V2 (Big Shell) that of the Army. Naively Iat first I did,t realise all the holes were caused by persistent Allied Bombing. The awful atmosphere I sensed was the reult of the brutal aspect of the main building. Like a James Bond film set in scale, and then you remember all built by slave labour. A chastening reminder of what totalitarian military regimes can spawn.
Written August 9, 2011
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Jason & Arlette
Le Mont Felard, UK61 contributions
May 2018 • Friends
Visited this morning as the first in a triple whammy of Eperlecques, Mimeyoques and Batterie Todt.
What a prospect. This place should be awesome.
Having bought our tickets we were told to wait for 10 minutes. We were not sure what for, but were unable to progress past the gift shop. There were some quite interesting instructions on the experience that would follow on the back of the exit door. Sadly, none of this would come to pass.
After a good 30 minutes the assembled group were spoken to in French by a chap who resembled a smaller Basil Fawlty. We all followed him through the door and were again addressed in French.
Many of us were not French.
We were taken into the railway carriage and separated. French on one side, other riffraff on the other. He then extolled at great length the perils of travelling on the Nazi railway. In French. He then handed some paperwork to a Dutch gent and left. It turned out to be a translation, which this chap duly read to his countrymen. Basil returned and we followed him on.
After two further stops it became clear that there were to be no further translations of any sort. Many of us non French began to wander off, reading for ourselves the information boards which were translated into various languages.
This angered Basil, and he rounded us all up again.
By the time we were two thirds around those non French visitors pretty much gave up and ignored him, finally just wandering off on our own.
Such a shame.
The site clearly has the facilities for information to be read aloud in multiple languages. We were not afforded the ability to use these.
We did not want or ask for a tour. It was non optional. Who would want an angry little tour guide who spoke a different language?
We wasted so much time there.
Had we been able to do our own thing, explore on our own, even with an audio guide we would have had a much better experience.
The site is great and the visit could be brilliant. Do not believe what it says on the website regarding visits.
Unless this changes, and unless you are French, I would avoid this place.
Go to Mimeyoques, Todt, or drive an hour north to Raversyde.
So much better.
What a prospect. This place should be awesome.
Having bought our tickets we were told to wait for 10 minutes. We were not sure what for, but were unable to progress past the gift shop. There were some quite interesting instructions on the experience that would follow on the back of the exit door. Sadly, none of this would come to pass.
After a good 30 minutes the assembled group were spoken to in French by a chap who resembled a smaller Basil Fawlty. We all followed him through the door and were again addressed in French.
Many of us were not French.
We were taken into the railway carriage and separated. French on one side, other riffraff on the other. He then extolled at great length the perils of travelling on the Nazi railway. In French. He then handed some paperwork to a Dutch gent and left. It turned out to be a translation, which this chap duly read to his countrymen. Basil returned and we followed him on.
After two further stops it became clear that there were to be no further translations of any sort. Many of us non French began to wander off, reading for ourselves the information boards which were translated into various languages.
This angered Basil, and he rounded us all up again.
By the time we were two thirds around those non French visitors pretty much gave up and ignored him, finally just wandering off on our own.
Such a shame.
The site clearly has the facilities for information to be read aloud in multiple languages. We were not afforded the ability to use these.
We did not want or ask for a tour. It was non optional. Who would want an angry little tour guide who spoke a different language?
We wasted so much time there.
Had we been able to do our own thing, explore on our own, even with an audio guide we would have had a much better experience.
The site is great and the visit could be brilliant. Do not believe what it says on the website regarding visits.
Unless this changes, and unless you are French, I would avoid this place.
Go to Mimeyoques, Todt, or drive an hour north to Raversyde.
So much better.
Written May 11, 2018
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Is there a motorhome touring site near.?
Written January 9, 2017
As previous, Chateau du Granspette, lovely site, within walking distance, but there is ample parking at the attraction.
Written January 10, 2017
Is it open all year want to come October
Written September 13, 2015
The Bunker is open every day (Sundays and public holidays included)
March
April and October
May, June, July, August and September
November : last entrance 3.40 pm
11am to 5pm
10am to 6pm
10am to 7pm
2.15pm to 5pm
Annual closure - December, January, February....
Written September 14, 2015
Is it open all year want to come October
Written September 13, 2015
I'm sure it's open all year. Remember this is northern France so the weather will be pretty much the same as here.
Don't forget as well, if you visit this site you get a discount with your entrance ticket at La Coupole as short distance away, also well worth a visit. The discount applies vise versa. If your also interested there the V3 site also not a million miles away. This is a lesser known terror weapon of the Nazi's, a huge gun capable of reaching the uk. It's situated near Guines on a little back road. Enjoy.
Written September 18, 2015
Alex D
Reading, United Kingdom
Hi,
What time do you open on a Saturday?
How much are adult and child tickets?
Thanks
Alex
Written June 25, 2015
Hi you can go on there website, it will tell you everything you would like know , it is sign posted well, so you should have a problem getting there .
Written June 27, 2015
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