 Poster: A snowHead
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I am planning a trip at the end of the season, driving to Tignes, then a mid week drive to chamonix and return to the uk from there.
Does anyone have any knowledge of how much the motorway tolls will be on any stretches of this journey??
I havent driven to these resorts before so dont know any of the tolls involved.
Hope someone can help.
Cheers
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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stylbe, as Hells Bells says, 140 Euros return should cover it if you stay on the Autoroutes. Viamichelin.co.uk gives a pretty accurate calculation as well as being a good route-planner.
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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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viamichelin.com is also a very good source of info on all this, including likely journey times and tolls. To their journey times, of course, you have to add the time you'll be stopped.
It's expensive!! 
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You can always take the scenic route via Luxembourg and the Vosges. But it adds about 100miles and a quite a few hours to the journey. And to be practical you still need to pay for a Swiss vignette (SFR40) so you can use their motorways (the alternatives are not worth comtemplating...).
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€74.60
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One of the factors I take into account is that I can drive to the Alps in one day (provided there are no big weather problems) using the motorways from Calais. But if it gets any longer than that (and the Belgium/Luxembourg route has its own hassles, including some appalling road surfaces and, when I did it last year, long slow stretches of road works) then I have to overnight somewhere, which cancels out some of the savings on tolls.
I just put that journey into viamichelin and got 192 euros tolls. 
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| pam w wrote: |
| ... (provided there are no big weather problems) using the motorways from Calais. .. |
Yup,
Biggest thing is weather, good weather, you can do it in 8 hours (or less - depends if you want to pay Gendarmerie extra tolls), bad - depends on how bad, but you can easily double that if you have snow or fog on the way down, it took me 5 hours + (on one occasion) to get from Lyon to BSM
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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pam w, Does it always rain when you drive to the Beaufortain?
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And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
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Does it always rain when you drive to the Beaufortain?
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No.
Next question?
I don't believe it's possible to drive legally from Calais to Tignes in 8 hours, raining or not. There is a slow section up from Bourg St Maurice to Tignes, the maximum speed limit is 130 kph and there are stretches where it's considerably less (regardless of the weather). Even if you are prepared to pee down the leg of your trousers (or out of the window whilst willy waving) you need to stop at least once for fuel and stop/slow down for tolls at least half a dozen times.
I checked the tolls again. Calais - Tignes - Chamonix - Calais came out at 192 euros.
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| pam w wrote: |
I don't believe it's possible to drive legally from Calais to Tignes in 8 hours, raining or not. |
Pleas re-read my post. I did mention the consequences of going.. a little quicker than the gendarmerie would like, but it's quite possible to drive the majority at 130, done it loads of times now. These are fast roads, whilst conditions are good - 8 hours is perfectly doable, OK - not legally all the way, 200kph on long sections is no problem, just keep your eyes open
I've just checked my bank statement, it hasn't changed - still 76.
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You know it makes sense.
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Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
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| Boredsurfing wrote: |
Acurate report of 2012 tolls here - €154.50 from Calais to Albertville
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One way - what were you driving - a tank?
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Poster: A snowHead
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Not long back from a trip to Val d'Isere.
Pretty sure Calais to Albertville was somewhere between 77Euro-84 Euro one way.
Don't have a particularly heavy right foot(80mph is fine), so the drive down from Calais to Bourg st Maurice took about 9 hours 30 minutes, including 2 short fuel and food stops.
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Acurate report of 2012 tolls here - €154.50 from Calais to Albertville
One way - what were you driving - a tank?
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It is has been observed that tanks tend not to pay the toll charges
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200kph on long sections is no problem, just keep your eyes open
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I take no pleasure in saying that i hope you only kill yourself
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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| sanman wrote: |
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200kph on long sections is no problem, just keep your eyes open
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I take no pleasure in saying that i hope you only kill yourself |
OK, you won't do that driving in the day (nor do I have a car capable of that any more) , but at night the whole section between Saint-Quentin and Dijon - perhaps even down to Lyon is pretty well deserted.
pam w is right in the fact that it will take most people at least 10 hours + stops from Calais to Tignes.
Boredsurfing, I did mention the risk in my post above.
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