daniel mason
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| posted on 18/7/11 at 05:18 PM |
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could someone help me plan a route for my holiday to france?
i am hopefully going to be driving to the south of france this weekend but am a bit nervous of planning the route! i will be staying in france from
monday to monday and will be going on euro tunnel from folkestone.
i have done a route planner and it takes over 18 hours so i need to split the journey and not miss too much of the first monday. its about 5 hours to
the tunnel,then 12 hours through france
what time and day would you suggest setting off from cumbria to the euro tunnel?
where to make an overnight stay? (if any)
and we are hopefully going to st maxime, so any inf would be great cheers
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steve m
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| posted on 18/7/11 at 05:27 PM |
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I can not comment on your routing, but our lemans trip in june took advantage of all the toll roads
they do cost a bit, but the journey was very pleasurable, as not much traffic was on those roads
They are aslo silky smooth and very open, so the veiws were very good, a total differnce to our crappy potholed m roads, with tailbacks/roadworks, and
3-4 lanes of carnage, and a view off, grass banks
Steve
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Daddylonglegs
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| posted on 18/7/11 at 05:38 PM |
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But seriously, a mate of mine has a house near the French alps and would know a good route I guess (his wife is French).
I'll drop him a line and see what he suggests.
JB
[Edited on 18/7/11 by Daddylonglegs]
It looks like the Midget is winning at the moment......
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daniel mason
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| posted on 18/7/11 at 05:58 PM |
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we are travelling to ste maxime on the cote d'azur from north lancashire. but i dont think i could do a minimum of 18 hours straight and
arriving there tired.
our first day is monday so in theory i have the weekend to get there if needed. but i was thinking of setting off early hours of sunday morning
(around 5 am) driving a long day to the channel tunnel, and then well into france so that i can start up again early monday, (around 7 am) and
arriving before lunch. but i would obviously need somewhere to stay sunday as the mrs doesnt fancy sleeping in the car.
the only other alternative is to set off later on sunday. get into france after tea time and drive well into the night. stop for a couple of hours
rest on a few occassions and drive through the night when no traffic
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cliftyhanger
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| posted on 18/7/11 at 06:16 PM |
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We have often crashed out at a formula one hotel. Cheapish, usually clean, etc. but can be a bit noisy as they are cheaply built....
Found at every major junction etc in France (well, almost)
Sadly not as cheap as they were a few years ago, used to be just over a tenner.
As to route, if using the motorways (ouch, expensive but much faster) then I would go Reims, Troyes, Dijon, Lyon. We stayed near Frejus a couple of
years ago (I assume you are on the med?) and spent plenty of time loafing about. A boat trip to St Tropez is a good day out, mooch around the harbour,
have a swim from the beach, spot of lunch, see Kate Moss on the beach...................
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splitrivet
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| posted on 18/7/11 at 07:47 PM |
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Just got back yesterday from my hovel in France, driving over there is a breeze, nice smooth empty roads and a sensible speed limit of 80, its the bit
from the tunnel to home thats a ballache.
Premiere classe is a good place to rest your head a bit more civilised than formula ones about £40 quid a room to sleep 3 you can book online here
http://www.premiereclasse.com.
I'd go for the Ille de France region just south of Paris so about 2.5 to 3.5 hours into France.
Cheers,
Bob
I used to be a Werewolf but I'm alright nowwoooooooooooooo
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Volvorsport
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| posted on 18/7/11 at 08:04 PM |
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ive driven to barcelona 3 or 4 times - always take the a75 over the millau bridge to the south towards montpellier/toulouse
going the other way lyon can be a bit far to get to in one day .
getting south of orleans is important , paris is easy , as long as you dont go wrong and stay on the periphique .
www.dbsmotorsport.co.uk
getting dirty under a bus
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daniel mason
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| posted on 18/7/11 at 08:29 PM |
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ill be belting down the motorways mate!i was planning on driving about 8 hours down from calais.getting a rest then completing the trip the following
day!
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adithorp
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| posted on 20/7/11 at 12:25 PM |
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quote:
Originally posted by daniel mason
ill be belting down the motorways mate!i was planning on driving about 8 hours down from calais.getting a rest then completing the trip the following
day!
Just read on another thread that it's this weekend you're going. Bear in mind that as it's the start of school holidays this is a
busy week on the toll roads. At places like "... go Reims, Troyes, Dijon, Lyon..." the tolls bit finishs and around the cities is just
normal motorway. The toll booths are huge bottle necks where this happens at busy times. If you can work it, it's better to travel by night.
Don't be surprised if your sat nav gets lost around Riems. There's a new section of toll road that only opened this spring and isn't
on a lot of systems and it might show you as being in the middle of a field! Ignore it trying to re-route you and follow your nose untill you rejoin
the old road.
"A witty saying proves nothing" Voltaire
http://jpsc.org.uk/forum/
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TimEllershaw
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| posted on 20/7/11 at 12:55 PM |
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quote:
Originally posted by cliftyhanger
As to route, if using the motorways (ouch, expensive but much faster) then I would go Reims, Troyes, Dijon, Lyon.
Just done exactly that on a trip to the Alps last week.
We left Leicestershire at about 6am to get to eurotunnel at about 9am. ( M25 / Dartford crossing a bit slow at that time, but not too bad. M1 around
Milton Keynes - Luton is slow )
Tunnel is great. Just roll-up and get on the next one. No Messing.
We did a further 6 hours from Calais to Beaune, just south of Dijon, via Reims. All toll roads. Quiet, easy driving. With hind-sight, we would have
been happy to push on further south the same day. Stick the cruse control at 130kph and relax 
Following day we went from Beaune to the Alps.
Same on the way back a couple of days later.
In our trip, the hardest(most tiring) section was the M25 and M1 by a long way. Coming back, I had driven all of the 400+miles in France and felt
fine. 30minutes of british motorway and I'd had enough !
I think we spent about £50 each way in tolls. Spent a fortune on food (but it was all very nice, even service station food is good in France).
F1 and Etape Motels can be cheap. Kyriad and Campanile can be a bit nicer.
cheers
tim
http://www.teenagecancertrust.org/
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daniel mason
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| posted on 20/7/11 at 08:22 PM |
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we ars stopping just east of dijon on the saturday. driving to lyon sunday morning for a day and night, and completing the trip on monday
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