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Taking the 4 wheel route in Dec this year. We be taking the chunnel and heading down to the Dolomites. Any tips and what's the price of diesel of the continent these days? Thanks 
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Fuel Prices here...
http://www.theaa.com/motoring_advice/fuel/
France, Luxembourg and Switzerland will all be cheaper than UK for sure.
edit: don't know how much to trust those figures. I paid €1.02/l for 2 tankfuls of 98 octane last month in Slovenia. The AA has it down as €1.01 for 95 octane in May, and €1.11 in June.
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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 go via Brussels, across to Munich, then Innsbruck and the Brenner. Don't know current prices but Germany is normally more expensive than Belgium or Austria, so if you fill up before the border you can cross Germany without buying any. Potential holdup point is the Munich ring motorway, we drive overnight and it is no problem early morning. Last winter we left Norwich mid afternoon Friday, and got to Ortisei where we stopped to ski for the day by 8am Saturday (in a people carrier, not going more than about 85mph). By arriving in Val Gardena at that time there were none of the holdups along the valley that can happen in the afternoon.
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Mollerski, If you can, fill up at a supermarket in France, as they can be considerably cheaper than the motorway services. In April I paid about €1.08/l on the motorways and only €0.93/l at a supermarket.
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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It's off topic but just comment to andy about Slovenia. Gas prices are regulated by government and they change every 14 days. So it could be, that this page doesn't have most recent ones, so they might not be 100% correct, but at least you get some idea in what range gas prices around Europe are (at the moment 98 octane is 1.129eur/l here in Slovenia, so 1.11eur/l for end of June is not that far off).
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Miss out Brussels and go via Luxembourg. The Diesel is only 86 cents a litre there.
Avoid the Italian Motorways the tolls are very expensive.
Germany is dear for fuel, in May it was 1.4 euros!
Austria is just around the 1 euro mark.
I normally take about 10 1/2 hrs from Calais to Zell am See via the Luxembourg, Munich route. 95% dual carriageway/motorway with no tolls at all.
RobinS Is that you from the NSC race team?
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Cheers for that. Accomm France side of Chunnel, any recommends?
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Just back from Selva area last week (not skiing though)
Tole for Brenner pass 8 euros and rest of motorway to selva 3 euros
You also should also get a vegnetta for Austria
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I was gonna say that the above routes seemed a bit strange, but in fact googlemap does suggest Calais-Reims-Strasbourg-Karlsruhe-Munich-Brenner, and going via Luxembourg is actually not much longer apparently, ie Calais-Brussels-Namur-Luxembourg-Saarbrucken-Mannheim-Karlsruhe...
Bonus of that way is less tolls, and possibility of a tankful at Luxembourg for a few euros less.
As for places to stay en route, I'd try to be at destination by early afternoon, and work back from that. It's going to be at least 12hour journey from Calais.
For s5BB I drove down after work, stopped over in Innsbruck, had late breakfast and then took a relaxed daylight drive over the Brenner Pass and up to Campitello.
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Plugboy, We used to go across via Luxembourg, but the roads are better and faster via Brussels, then Liege, Aachen, and down the A61 before going across to Munich - does miss the cheapest diesel, but we find it a better route.
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RobinS Is that you from the NSC race team?
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I wish! I am down the slope twice a week, but nowhere near good enough for the race team 
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