French toll prices.
Travelling south in the winter via the French tolls will we have to pay more now that we have changed to a caravan from a motorhome......it's defiantly dearer via the Tunnel.
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The majority of motorhomes are Class 2 the same as caravans so unless you had a motorhome taller than three metres I would expect you would pay the same. The Tunnel is usually cheaper the longer in advance you book and then gets progressively more expensive the nearer you get to departure. We used to pay about £250 on the Tunnel when we had a caravan, would that be more expensive than using Hull or Portsmouth even with a caravan goes free offer?
David
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Class 2 is the same as our motorhome was so hopefully we will be paying same price. Re the ferries, at the time and date we travel there seems to be about £60 difference between the ferries and the Tunnel and to be honest I would rather pay the extra
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The majority of motorhomes are Class 2 the same as caravans so unless you had a motorhome taller than three metres I would expect you would pay the same. The Tunnel is usually cheaper the longer in advance you book and then gets progressively more expensive the nearer you get to departure. We used to pay about £250 on the Tunnel when we had a caravan, would that be more expensive than using Hull or Portsmouth even with a caravan goes free offer?
David
David
Re the ferries, Hull is more convenient for us when going East but considerbaly more than £250.However a selected Portsmouth Caen crossing combined with a Camping Cheque deal cost under £200 (after deducting the cheques) and has the great advantage for us of putting us down in the part of France we want and at the same time avoiding Dover.
Last week what looked like around 150 caravans were on the 8:30 Caen Portsmouth sailing and a motorhomer asked us what was happening, when I explained Caravans were free he was a little put out that he was paying more.
AD he was not alone in being a bit 'put out' as you may know we have complained about this on CT before along with a few other M/H owners. We do use the Caen route like you it puts us in the place we want to be, but cheap it ain't, we were over £200 on our return journey from Caen to Portmouth for a M/H and small trailer, we did get a discount from the CC but nothing like the ones caravans get. If doing the return that you do we couldn't even get the camping cheque deal.
The Hull route used to be our favourite one, but again they have stopped trailers going free now, its only caravans that get that deal.Sorry for going off topic but the OP had his question answered.
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Hi grey, Ive just come back from a month in France, if your the same as caravans which I think you are, the time and fuel you save on the toll roads, AND those bloody high speed humps now in French towns and villages its deffo the way to go, I just took
my ticket at one end, put said ticket in the flashing slot then the credit card in also the flashing slot ,simples..0 -
Oh just thought make sure you go through the barrier with the credit card logo, its like its like a oblong sign cos there is some barriers with just the euro sign, sorry if this sounds a bit vague you'll get used to it,genrally go to the left when you see
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Caravans are Class 2 and cost no more than a motorhome.
See http://www.autoroutes.fr/en/routes.htm for your toll costs, change the "vehicle type" to car and caravan
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On our recent trip, we used a mix of toll motorways, free motorways and N roads when travelling between sites.
The toll motorways were very well maintained, fairly quiet, and had very good aires.
The free motorways were busy, not nearly so well maintained, and had very busy aires. The N roads were slower, quite a few speed humps, but more interesting.
Mainly we used the toll motorways when going a longer distance as they were quick, the N roads were very slow by comparison.
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Consider using the Sanef Liber-T Tag (https://www.saneftolling.co.uk/) - you can use the Telepeage lane - get billed at the end of the month on your debit card ! I only had a problem at 1 Peage station, travelling
to and from the east of France from Caen, last year.
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We have a toll tag too but forgot that the 30 signs are kmh not mph so I was a bit quick going up to the barrier. Plus side seems we were charged just car a few times somehow!
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We have a "pop-top" that is just under 2m so only pay class one, although at manned booths in the past they have seen the caravan sometimes and assumed it's class two. Informing them of the height usually got it reclassed as one.
With the introduction of more automatic tolls we don't seem to get this problem.
Owners of trailers and folding caravans should never have a problem.
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