should you leave a toll road to get cheaper fuel? (2 Viewers)

[tomgrey]

Hi, Just wondering if someone can give a bit of advice here. I have a long road trip and will use toll roads as I need to get there on time for a wedding! My question is, if I drop off the toll road to get some cheaper petrol and then pop back on, will the toll charges be more and make the minor detour for cheap petrol, not worthwhile? So, for three detours off the toll road, say every 300 miles, would I save money or should I just fill up at the services on the toll roads?

Thanks everyone

 

[Phill D]

not done it in Portugal but the cahrges on french motorways have not been any more that i have noted when i have done that.

you could look up on the motorway network route planner, which give the costs between pay boothes. and compare the costs.

 

[Figaro]

Good question, you could use one of the diesel price apps to compare some prices at different garages ?

This one maybe

Diesel Price in luxemberg

The cheapest petrol stations for Diesel in luxemberg. Find prices of over 55.000 petrol station. Android app available!

www.fuelflash.eu

 

[Dorwyn]

I would say, either pay the higher charges when you have to but don't fill right up, just enough to get to a handy motorway or big town junction where there is always a handy supermarket, or just pay the higher rate anyway. It's your holiday, don't waste the time. With practice, you'll get the hang of finding the balance that works for you.

 

[DandJ]

If we use Spain to the UK (or vice versa) as an example...
If you use the viamichelin website and do, as an example, Perpignan to Calais...it is €84.70 in tolls. Come off at Salbris halfway up France and the two halves of the journey are shown as €41.50 and €44.10....so less than one euro more expensive....but....not all sections are peage so filling up in Spain just before crossing into France will save a chunk for starters, then going by via michelins route, passing Limoges, come off just south at the supermarket complex and pay c #1.73 for diesel as opposed to the likely c€1.95+ on the autoroute.....50 litres...that's a tenner saved on one fill up. With a bit of forward planning...you could easily save £100 on a trip to Spain and back, from the UK. Not to be sniffed at

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[ctc]

Some, I'm told, nip off go round the roundabout then back on to save a few euros. How this works I don't know but you could save with cheaper fuel and a smaller toll.

 

[EuroTrotters]

I find French Motorway Service Stations expensive. But Spain, I find quite reasonable

 

[treblid]

At one time the French motorway service areas were reasonable especially compared to the UK. However, they are now more expensive.
Try and time your fill ups with nightly stops where you will come off anyway. Supermarkets are generally cheapest. Use a fuel price comparison website or app.

 

[dash300]

I just couldn't be bothered with the hassle; as Dorwyn has said just fill up with enough to get you to your destination.
Hunting round for cheap fuel just detracts from the trip for us.
Never had the luxury of a choice with the boat when we had it and we were talking 250 Ltrs per tank!

 

[gus-lopez]

bad enough paying tolls but to then pay an extra 63c over the spanish price for filling on a toll road beggars belief.
Why I carry enough fuel to run through France without filling if I want.

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[MattR]

Hi, Just wondering if someone can give a bit of advice here. I have a long road trip and will use toll roads as I need to get there on time for a wedding! My question is, if I drop off the toll road to get some cheaper petrol and then pop back on, will the toll charges be more and make the minor detour for cheap petrol, not worthwhile? So, for three detours off the toll road, say every 300 miles, would I save money or should I just fill up at the services on the toll roads?

Thanks everyone

You'll probably find that you won't have any occasions when you're driving for 400 miles in one go on peage routes... Most of the journey would be motorways but there would be plenty of opportunities to come off the non-peage sections to refuel etc.

 

[Just smiffy]

Is there a 300 mile toll road…? Just make sure you have filled up before, I can do 2 1/2 fill ups from Calais to Alicante…

 

[suavecarve]

We went right across Italy from France to Trieste. It was over 400 KMs. I think it was 44 euros we paid about 6 years ago. Diesel on the peage was the first 2 euro diesel we saw. I think it was about 1.50 off the motorway. No prizes for guessing what I did

 

[dunnah01]

Just don't do it on the M6 Toll - it will cost you an extra £12.30 for the last few kms - don't ask me how I know

 

[Dolmen]

You should do, although I don’t. Having said that I do normally fill up before hitting the toll roads and only occasionally end up using service station fuel pumps, when I do, I just accept I’m paying for the convenience

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[Toady]

I use GasAll app in Spain and save a load per litre of fuel.
I never pay the high prices charged at Repsol.

 

[chaser]

We have found that there is usually a quite decent road going the same way as the motorways , what we do is alternate between the two , if we are likely to be needing fuel that day ,we just use the other road till we find a filling station then get back to the motorway farther on.
But saying that we have never been in any big hurry.

 

[tomgrey]

I have been playing with viamichelin.com and I think I can now answer my own question. It gives me the toll costs to planned stop and then toll costs from planned stop to destination. I can compare this to tolls without the planned stop and see if there is a difference. And someone has pointed out the whole trip is not on toll roads, so there are quite a few opportunities to dive off none toll roads and top up with no affect on toll charges. Thanks everyone.

 

[leggings]

Just don't do it on the M6 Toll - it will cost you an extra £12.30 for the last few kms - don't ask me how I know

Satnav took us because of road closure. A damn rip off. This country is now governed by rip off merchants…..billionaires.

 

[sedge]

The M6 toll road is now ridiculously expensive BUT the flippin road works round the various junctions between Spaghetti and Jct 11 (Hilton Park services and Jct with M54 without coming off motorway) seems to attract more traffic to the toll rd. Set off earlier, don't specify a specific time of arrival, allow longer for your journey.

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[Barti Ddu]

The French government helpfully provide a price comparison site with mapping showing up-to-date prices of diesel (and Autogas) across the country.

Prix des carburants en France, site gouvernemental

Site du prix des carburants du Ministère de l'Économie, des Finances et de la Souveraineté industrielle : SP95, Gazole, E85, GPL, E10, SP98

www.prix-carburants.gouv.fr