Toll Roads Driving to DLRP Question

[The Law Family]

Hi Guys, We are driving from England to DLRP next week using the channel tunnel and have a couple of questions about the tolls.

It will be the early hours of the morning about 4.30am when we hit France and we were wondering how the tolls work?

How many Tolls are there?

Is there someone in a booth that we pay?

Or do we just put money in a machine?

If its a machine do we need Euro coins or does it take Euro notes?

and finally does anybody have an idea how much it costs?

Many Thanks in advance

 

[Cyrano]

There are tolls that take both cash or cards. The cash ones are definiyely manned.

When you first join the motorway you'll go through an automatic barrier where you take your ticket.
You present the ticket when you exit the toll road at a peage.
When we travelled in the summer the cost was €19.20

 

[crazygunuk]

we have just come back and the price is still the same!

smaller queues at the cash tolls!!

 

[The Law Family]

Thanks for that . So there is just one toll then between calais and Disney , and i assume that there is someone always in the booth day and night?

 

[crazygunuk]

Thanks for that . So there is just one toll then between calais and Disney , and i assume that there is someone always in the booth day and night?

There are numerous actual booths to pay the toll at, but just one 'toll' to stop and pay for on the way to DLRP....assuming you dont drive round looking for others

Its much like the tolls on M6 and M25, several places to pay, some cash, some card etc...they have a UK flag up on the ones who speak English.

And yes, the manned ones are always manned (or have been when we have been anyway)

 

[trublatmill]

At the toll or Peage, you will always see a lane, normally to the left hand side, with a large 't' over it. More often than not there is little or no queue in this lane even when the others are busy. This is the alternative way of going through the tolls - the telepeage.

Simply, you have a little grey box which logs you travelling through the toll barriers at the start and finish of your journey and then charges your credit card each month for the journeys you have made. There is a monthly fee but only at the times you are travelling, not each month.

We applied for one a couple of years ago for our holiday in France which meant a long drive down to the Dordogne. It saves having to queue up or worry about having the right money or having to try and speak French at a toll booth.

Details can be found at www.sanef.com, trouble is it is only in French, though I have instructions on how to navigate through to the page you need if anyone is interested. You register, pay a 30 euro deposit and they send you a small grey box (transponder).

We used it again successfully on our visit to DLRP in October, and it can bring a smile to your face. I am sure that the French driver who was following us thought we were just stupid English drivers and didn't know what we were doing and fully expected us to have to reverse out of the lane, so he swerved over to a cash lane. I would like to have seen his face when he saw the barrier go up for us as we carried on through the peage while he waited in line

We found out there is a bit of a knack to using the transponder, but it works every time and saves a bit of time and hassle, even if you are only driving on France toll roads a couple of times a year.