Avoiding French Tolls

[Ruse]

WHS. Avoiding the Autoroutes and using Routes Nationales will give you a very slow journey, because they go through towns.

Hmmm surely Belgium route will take longer than the French A roads
and end up costing as much in petrol costs ?

We're leaving on Wed and aiming to arrive Fri and are booked into camp sites on the way down.

[Clippy]

Day after tomorrow(Wednesday) I am driving with family to visit some friends in Grenoble in France. This is on a very tight budget as I am on the bench.
We have calculated tolls will come to £120 which seems outrageous to me.
French fuel will come to £190.

What I thought would be a very cheap break is starting to add up !


Anybody got any good tips for avoiding French tolls ?

No.

HTH.

[Ruse]

I've had some pleasant long weekends in France avoiding the motorways altogether (OK, I occasionally cheated on the way back).

Currently our journey time in France is about 18 hours, presumable ex-motorways increases by about half ?

[Troll]

Hmmm surely Belgium route will take longer than the French A roads
and end up costing as much in petrol costs ?

We're leaving on Wed and aiming to arrive Fri and are booked into camp sites on the way down.

Now don't get picky... you either want to avoid the tolls or not

[malvolio]

Use the N roads. They're not that much slower and carry a lot less traffic (and a lot less speed checks ... ahem).

[Troll]

Currently our journey time in France is about 18 hours, presumable ex-motorways increases by about half ?

Fook - I've just driven back from Spain in 14 hours!

[Ruse]

Fook - I've just driven back from Spain in 14 hours!

18 hours is a Mappy estimate based on our route with detours for stops at camp sites.

I take it 14 hours is a non-stop motorway route slightly exceeding legal limits

[Troll]

18 hours is a Mappy estimate based on our route with detours for stops at camp sites.

I take it 14 hours is a non-stop motorway route slightly exceeding legal limits

Pee and fuel breaks only - & I must say Europe was free of the more ghastly Brits riff raff this year ... long may the weak pound continue!

[expat]

In Mappy you can tell it to avoid toll roads, and get a time for that.

Using only Routes Nationales (N roads) generally does take a lot longer on a long journey. You can drive quite fast on them on the open road (110km/h vs 130 on Autoroute, 140 quite safely), but they do go through towns and that slows down your average speed.

[Troll]

In Mappy you can tell it to avoid toll roads, and get a time for that.

Using only Routes Nationales (N roads) generally does take a lot longer on a long journey. You can drive quite fast on them on the open road (110km/h vs 130 on Autoroute, 140 quite safely), but they do go through towns and that slows down your average speed.

& they tend to be quite scenic too