 Poster: A snowHead
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@Nickski, Hull - Zeebrugge is fine if you want to ski in Austria, virtually no tolls all the way to the Arlberg. However, if one heads towards the French resorts the £100 toll costs are almost that each way depending on where one heads to ski.
Not sure if driving to resorts from north of the Watford gap is really cost effective nowadays!
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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However, if one heads towards the French resorts the £100 toll costs are almost that each way depending on where one heads to ski.
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Wow! when I go from Calais they are about 70 euros each way
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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We've been driving to the Alps from Lancashire for the last 15 years, New Year and half term. No longer tied to school holidays so starting to fly more often now.
If you're travelling with children, renting an apartment and going at peak times then it makes financial sense to drive.
Ordinary saloon/estate car. Tend to leave home 6am Friday, early afternoon tunnel/ferry depending on price. Always stay overnight in France, usually around Troyes, but we have got as far as Dijon. Early start Saturday and arrive in resort for lunch.
Return drive to Calais and stay at Suite Hotel near Citi d'Europe, then Sunday morning ferry/tunnel and home mid afternoon.
Done more than 20 trips. Had one delay at the tunnel (4 hours) and one difficult drive with torrential rain all the way to Dijon, otherwise no problems. Needed to use chains about every fourth trip but if you've practiced putting them on it's not a big issue.
Approx cost £800 for tunnel, diesel, tolls, overnight hotel each way and a couple of meals for four of us.
We always splash out on covered parking, 2 hours shoveling snow is no way to prepare for a 10 hour drive!
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| johnE wrote: |
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However, if one heads towards the French resorts the £100 toll costs are almost that each way depending on where one heads to ski.
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Wow! when I go from Calais they are about 70 euros each way |
Calais to Grenoble is 80€ give or take a euro or two depending how you go around Lyon
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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| Sailbad the Sinner wrote: |
We always splash out on covered parking, 2 hours shoveling snow is no way to prepare for a 10 hour drive! |
One year, in Val Thorens, it took us quite a while simply to find the car, so I realised why there were so many ribbons attached to car aerials. Not so easy now that cars don't tend to have visible aerials. Even having found the car (after clearing the bonnets of many cars to find their colour) digging the car took quite a while. Like you, I've tended to use inside car parks ever since.
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