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[hawke113a]

well me and my brother are planning driving to malaga from leeds......should be fun....getting the chunnel over to froggy land then driving thru france and spain.....just been looking....frogot about the tolls and the other things that are compulsary to have in the car....the tolls are gonna cost about 200 euro altogether....better get saving....

[The Sheriff]

Not in an omega? No..of course not....silly me for even thinking that.....

[hawke113a]

oh yes lol...just having the engine split and rebuilt....and i will have breakdown cover haha...and my trusty tool box with me too...

[Omegatoy]

well me and my brother are planning driving to malaga from leeds......should be fun....getting the chunnel over to froggy land then driving thru france and spain.....just been looking....frogot about the tolls and the other things that are compulsary to have in the car....the tolls are gonna cost about 200 euro altogether....better get saving....

am doing it meself the other way round this week .
done it about a dozen times now.
and going no tolls takes the same time as with tolls!! anywhere between 23 and 25hours non stop
check out newhaven to dieppe, its 39quid much better then the tunnel or dover ferry!

[hawke113a]

its about 65 quid return on ferry...so might be doing that instead of the tunnel

[Omegatoy]

yup more money saved on ferries and tolls the more you have for important things like drinking and eating! Im about 40mins from malaga,
dont like the place though lol, we are out in the campo where its lovely and truely spanish unlike malaga,
if you go calais go eo5 to rouen, then bordeaux then san sebastion, then burgo then madrid then granada then malaga, this missies the fetid hole that is paris!

[05omegav6]

yup more money saved on ferries and tolls the more you have for important things like fuel. Im about 40mins from malaga,
dont like the place though lol, we are out in the campo where its lovely and truely spanish unlike malaga,
if you go calais go eo5 to rouen, then bordeaux then san sebastion, then burgo then madrid then granada then malaga, this missies the fetid hole that is paris!

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[Jusme]

I have always liked taking the ferry to Santander, then near enough a straight run down... Have a great and safe journey and break..

[Varche]

Sounds good when are you doing this trip?

Camping? Hotels?

[Omegatoy]

yup more money saved on ferries and tolls the more you have for important things like fuel. Im about 40mins from malaga,
dont like the place though lol, we are out in the campo where its lovely and truely spanish unlike malaga,
if you go calais go eo5 to rouen, then bordeaux then san sebastion, then burgo then madrid then granada then malaga, this missies the fetid hole that is paris!

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lol well off toll the price is about 25cent cheaper than on it! rip off bastards the french! that why the only tol i do is from rouen to calais after filling up on the n10 where its very cheap! lol

[hawke113a]

thinking about oct....my mum lives in torre del mar in malaga....so hotel not needed...more money for beer.....and tolls lol

[Nick W]

its about 65 quid return on ferry...so might be doing that instead of the tunnel

I'm off to France again in March. My parents have had a property near Cognac for 25 years, and we're going to visit my aunt who lives near Mont de Marsan close to the Spanish border.


My experience of using the tunnel is that it always costs double what the ferry does, and you might save 45minutes. If you've come from Leeds, then you're probably  going to want a bit of a break and some food, which you can do on the ferry, and that easily gives you the time back. I live 45minutes from both Dover and Folkestone, and can time my arrival at Dover so that we normally drive straight onto the boat. Breakfast and a couple of coffees mean I don't need to stop for lunch, which means even more time I claw back.


As for the tolls, if you want to meander through France as part of your holiday, then avoid them and have fun. It's a beautiful country. But if you actually want to get to Spain(or indeed anywhere specific), then you'll save time and money blatting down the motorway. I can do the 725miles from my aunt's house to Calais in ten hours on the motorway; I know friends who can't get to our house in that time as they insist on not paying the tolls As they're a rip-off. I suspect that you'll easily spend the amount you 'saved' on extra fuel, food and farting about. It's also next to impossible to get lost on the motorway; that isn't the case in rural France!

[Omegatoy]

thinking about oct....my mum lives in torre del mar in malaga....so hotel not needed...more money for beer.....and tolls lol

lol she does? Torre del mar is in malaga province but not Malaga! its 35 mins down the road from me!!
im up just past Lake Vinuela!!

[Omegatoy]

its about 65 quid return on ferry...so might be doing that instead of the tunnel

I'm off to France again in March. My parents have had a property near Cognac for 25 years, and we're going to visit my aunt who lives near Mont de Marsan close to the Spanish border.


My experience of using the tunnel is that it always costs double what the ferry does, and you might save 45minutes. If you've come from Leeds, then you're probably  going to want a bit of a break and some food, which you can do on the ferry, and that easily gives you the time back. I live 45minutes from both Dover and Folkestone, and can time my arrival at Dover so that we normally drive straight onto the boat. Breakfast and a couple of coffees mean I don't need to stop for lunch, which means even more time I claw back.


As for the tolls, if you want to meander through France as part of your holiday, then avoid them and have fun. It's a beautiful country. But if you actually want to get to Spain(or indeed anywhere specific), then you'll save time and money blatting down the motorway. I can do the 725miles from my aunt's house to Calais in ten hours on the motorway; I know friends who can't get to our house in that time as they insist on not paying the tolls As they're a rip-off. I suspect that you'll easily spend the amount you 'saved' on extra fuel, food and farting about. It's also next to impossible to get lost on the motorway; that isn't the case in rural France!

lol agree with all that except, sat nav does not get lost,and if going to calais I allow the toll from rouen to calais as its only 13 euro,the rest i have to admit is just blatting down though country roads in rural france,but here is the thing done tolls 3 times,all the rest have been no tolls apart from the aforementioned, and it takes the same amount of time to malaga,part of the reason i think is the blasted queue,s at the tolls when you have to stop get out walk round to pay then get back n,average time at a tol both including quing for me is around 7 or 8 mins,add that up over 1500 mles of driving at about 1 an hour and it soon takes up the time,hence  go no tolls,much less stress,easier to stop anywhere, cheaper fuel,better views and you have to concentrate on the road rather than drone on and on on the toll roads

[TheBoy]

I used to be very pro-tunnel. But you have to be aware they can invalidate your ticket on a whim (and if its a return ticket, that means you are force to pay nearly £200 to get home). Best avoided at all costs.

A longer ferry, say Plymouth-Caen, allows a bit of a relax, even a kip, after the 4-5hr trip from Leeds, and gets you a bit nearer. Best of all, it avoids Calais


I've taken my Omegas over there several times, and its going again in June.

Having suffered a failed crank sensor in France, and the car being delivered back to Blighty several days after I got home, I'd recommend all V6 owners take one .

Don't treat the toll roads like German Autobahns. The local authorities take a dim view, and Brits are easy targets. Off the tolls, the limits are lower (normally 90k, motorways/tolls are 130k in dry, 110k in wet) but you get to see more.