Sanef tag is it worth it?

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  • KeithandMargaret
    KeithandMargaret Forum Participant Posts: 660
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    edited August 2016 #32

    I decided to get an ATMB Toll tag for this year's trip into France.

    The tags were on offer earlier this year at €3.60 for each month, or part month, they were used and no other payments for any other part of the year.

    We went on the 3rd of July and came back on the 31st so the tag was only being used during one month.

    No more searching for the purse or wallet, card or cash, no more winding the passenger window down to let the rain or the wind in, no pulling the wing mirror back to avoid banging it on the booth approach, no more taking off the passenger
    seatbelt and the driver having to stop within a passenger's arm reach of the machine, no more leaning out of the window and retrieving the card and putting the receipt in a 'safe' place, no more fastening the seatbelt, winding the window up and then down again
    to push out the wing mirror the passenger had forgotten to do, no more waiting in the 'wrong' queue for minutes at a time as someone at the front of the queue struggled to pay - and everything would be tickety boo.

    And it was absolutely perfect at each and every toll booth – straight up to the barrier, a 'beep' sound from the tag, the barrier rises and off we go leaving all those who'd just sailed passed us minutes before waiting to get through the
    booths.

    Here's the video - https://youtu.be/zRosz3EPtGM

  • TheWilkos
    TheWilkos Forum Participant Posts: 5
    edited August 2016 #33

    We got the SANEF tag for the first time this summer, initially the plan was just for my Father to have one as he is a lone caravanner and it would save him having to get out and walk round to the machine, but in the end we and my sister and husband both
    decided to get one too.  Yes there is a charge for each month you use it, but it saves having to hang out of the  window, usually having to try to reach up as we found the machines usually issued the tickets from the top, presumably thinking we were a lorry.
    AND it was great fun going through the 30kmph lanes, knowing that people were thinking we had gone through the wrong lane!! Haha.  No, not essential but did save some hassle but then again I did miss sitting in the queue and watching drivers getting all wound
    up and jostling about changing to a quicker lane, 

  • InaD
    InaD Club Member Posts: 1,701 ✭✭
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    edited August 2016 #34

    How can a free tag from ATMB be a waste of money?

    Having read this thread I may decide to take that offer up.  I was reading about the SANEF tag offer from the CC, but that is more expensive at €5 per month when you use it and of course the €6 annual fee which you don't pay with the current ATMB offer; ATMB offer free subscription for 1 year until the 29th of August.  Link HERE

    The cost is €20 for the pass (refundable) and €1.60 per month when you use it.

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