French tolls

I was just using via michelin and it showed €5.40 or near for a journey when I know its €9+ is there anywhere else you can accurately check toll prices for a journey?

I’ve used this one:

Or the respective websites for SANEF etc. also have toll calculators I think.

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I’d be interested to know that too because when I quote for a dog transport and I can’t avoid peages I have to give a price plus peages and sometimes the payment is only made for the amount seen in the message. As it is for charity I don’t like to make a fuss afterwards so would be handy if I could quote a single figure with some degree of accuracy.

https://www.autoroutes.sanef.com/en/my-journey/price-of-my-journey

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I use Eco Autoroute.

The website is a bit clunky, but it does the Autoroute equivalent of split ticketing. With a few brief off-on diversions, you can easily save 35% on toll costs. My regular 69€ journey costs me just 44€.

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Thanks everyone, I shall take a good lopk later.

Be careful or you could be denied boarding. :smiley:

Not the easiest of sites to navigate but I think I got there in the end

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Just a little! I like the idea - I was trying to find out options from Poitiers to Calais - but came unstuck

Does this help?

TOLL CHARGES POITIERS TO DIEPPE.docx.pdf (81.2 KB)

According to my BipAndGo account I paid €63.60 for Dieppe to Poitiers a couple of weeks ago (that’s in a car).

I joined the A28 at junction 10 Les Hayons and went all the way down to Poitiers-Sud on the A10.

So it should be similar in reverse.

On my trip back I went to Caen not Dieppe so the cost that way was €44.50 as I used less of the A28 and just a bit of toll on the A88.

Dieppe run sounds about right to Poitiers as its about €57 to Chatellerault.

€63.60 as Chris wrote plus €9.60 for the last leg to Calais (ish)

I use www.mappy.fr for route planning.
Put in your start and end points and it will give 3 possible routes. 1 the quickest. 2 without tolls. 3 the least possible distance. For each route it gives the driving time, fuel cost, and tolls if applicable. Sometimes being prepared to take a little extra time can save a lot of money. From eastern Vendee to my mate’s place near Beaune I could do it in 5hrs 51 mins using €51.79 worth of fuel and paying €31.60 in tolls.
Alternatively, I can take 1hr 25 mins longer, travel 71km less, only use €46.30 in fuel, and pay no tolls at all.
So for taking that extra 1hr 25 mins my total cost is reduced from €83.39 to €46.30, a saving of €37.09 or 44.47%.
So I leave 45 mins earlier, arrive 45 mins later, and enjoy the views along the way instead of the stress of a sustained 130kph on the autoroute.
The money I save pays for lunch and a couple of coffee stops along the way.

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And you probably see more interesting things. I’m a big fan of staying away from autoroutes, especially now that I’m a man of leisure and rarely have any urgency on my travels.

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Same for me although I do make cockups occasionally going all the way from Dordogne to Chartres without any tolls at all and got seriously enmired in Orleans a couple of months ago. The return trip cost about €16 I think it was to get round that city, which I didn’t get reimbursed for.

But thanks to all for the useful info, which will come in handy no doubt in the future.

Chartres and Dreux, how come every time I went that way to Dieppe there was always a different number of roundabouts :thinking:?
BTW, from the Creuse it used to cost €13.5 in tolls, mostly between Vierzon and Orleans

Couldnt agree more Mark and the new double roundabouts. A lot of traffic around for our journey back and it did take longer than expected because of it. Next time A28 to Alencon nord then N12 to the N154 to Rouen. Chops off those roundabouts and saves 30mins according to the route planners whilst not costing much on the toll section.

It’s a handy road, the A28. Boring, but handy. :slight_smile:

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Thankfully not as boring as the rest of the motorway run using other roads after N12 and N154.
Used the A13 etc to Pont Flaubert bridge because of the amount of traffic but much prefer the Pont deLarche route D6015.

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