Paying tolls in France

[redsturgeon]

I am driving down to the South of France soon and will be on my own in the car. I did this a few months ago and it is a real pain having to stop at the toll booths to get tickets and pay since I am in a right hand drive car. Is there a way to avoid this by get access to the telepeage system?

John

[Watis]

You need an Emovis Tag.

I have one myself, and yes it's great being able to sail through the telepeage lanes.

This referral link will enable you to sign up for a tag.

https://www.emovis-tag.co.uk/subscripti ... 9-2AAA2645

Disclosure: I, and anyone signing up via this link, will receive a €5 discount off our fees, subject to the terms and conditions.

HTH,

Watis

[AF62]

There are lots of companies doing them. Here are another couple of options -

http://www.fulli.com/en/fulli-nomade

http://www.bipdrive.com/en/pay-per-use/

[Tedx]

Just waft the ol' Great British passport under their noses and they'll wave you through no bother.

That's what I've been told anyway.

[Watis]

Just waft the ol' Great British passport under their noses and they'll wave you through no bother.

That's what I've been told anyway.

But that would require stopping and reaching across the car from the driver's seat in a RHD vehicle - something the OP is hoping to avoid.

Watis

[redsturgeon]

Thanks Watis, just what I need.

It was a real pain coming back from the Loire valley in January.

Toll booth coming up. Pick the correct lane. Stop car. Get out. Take ticket/Put ticket in machine and pay. Walk back around to get into car. Wave at French driver behind getting impatient.

Thanks for the link.

John

[Watis]

Thanks Watis, just what I need.

It was a real pain coming back from the Loire valley in January.

Toll booth coming up. Pick the correct lane. Stop car. Get out. Take ticket/Put ticket in machine and pay. Walk back around to get into car. Wave at French driver behind getting impatient.

Thanks for the link.

John

You're welcome, John.

Are you saying that the sight of a British passport is not sufficient to get you through the tolls after all?

Watis

[bungeejumper]

Toll booth coming up. Pick the correct lane. Stop car. Get out. Take ticket/Put ticket in machine and pay. Walk back around to get into car. Wave at French driver behind getting impatient.

You were lucky!

Scroll back to the good old days when french ticket booths didn't always accept British credit cards. You'd be in the right lane, at the front of the queue, and they'd tell you that you'd have to reverse out of the tollbooth and sort it out with the manager, which meant that all the other cars behind you would have to reverse as well. (And no, they didn't like that either....)

Then you'd turn up at a deserted cards-only petrol station in the middle of nowhere and get the same refusal, which was worse because you were totally stuffed.

Ob question: Do any of these auto payment thingies also deal with congestion charges in the cities that impose them? (Paris, Grenoble, Strasbourg, maybe Lyon?)

BJ

[redsturgeon]

You need an Emovis Tag.

I have one myself, and yes it's great being able to sail through the telepeage lanes.

This referral link will enable you to sign up for a tag.

https://www.emovis-tag.co.uk/subscripti ... 9-2AAA2645

Disclosure: I, and anyone signing up via this link, will receive a €5 discount off our fees, subject to the terms and conditions.

HTH,

Watis

Just received mine today I used your link so look out for your fiver!

Thanks

John