Review my European Road Trip for Apil 2016

[JapFreak786]

I'd like to have my provisional route around Europe checked over please. Been looking at this for a while and want to book the ferry/hotels by the end of this week ideally.

So far, my plan is;

20th Wed - Birmingham to Geneva
21st Thu - Geneva to Nice via Route Napoleon
22nd Fri - Nice
23rd Sat - Nice
24th Sun - Nice to Modena
25th Mon - Modena to Lake Garda
26th Tue - Lake Garda
27th Wed - Lake Garda to Stelvio Pass
28th Thu - Stelvio Pass to Milan
29th Fri - Milan to Lake Como
30th Sat - Lake Como
1st May - Start journey home, route to be confirmed

Any recommendations or adjustments to the above plan right now? Wouldn't mind going through Germany and stopping off in a few places, planning on returnin to Birmingham by late evening of the 2nd May.

During my stay in Nice, be getting the train to Monaco and either train or drive to Cannes too.
In Italy hoping to visit the Ferrari museum and Pagani.

So far, I'm estimating around £1000 of fuel and 3,000 miles. Me and my wife will be sharing the driving and I know the first stint is quite long. Plan is to meet my brother there as he is driving down a few days earlier to Geneva.

Any hotel recommendations please that have secure parking?
Tips on fuel? I'm taking my R35 GTR, planning on filling up when it gets to 1/4 tank.

Finally, any routes to avoid tolls without increasing driving time on the way to Geneva? Thanks

[JapFreak786]

Thank you , yeah the first stint is very long! Plan is to leave Birmingham around 5am with my wife driving, followed by more sleep on the ferry to then head down to Geneva. The other option is to leave late Tuesday evening but it means driving through the night, sadly can't break the journey up at the start apart from pit stops

[JapFreak786]

Thanks for the feedback so far, shame if the pass is closed I initially thought it would be fine in April.
Are there any other roads I should try to visit or avoid? Getting excited as the day comes closer!

[JapFreak786]

Two hotel's booked already for Maranello and Milan, staying at Hotel Maranello Village

Is the Ferrari factory tour that can be brought worth going on? Pagani Tour can't be booked as they are already booked for that day

[JapFreak786]

Thanks for the input folks. My trip has been amended abit and I am no longer going to Geneva, and instead it will the Eurotunnel Wednesday midday, followed by an over-night stop in Dijon before going to Nice.

Question please, where is the best place to pick up Route Napoleon on the drive to Nice, I've read its best to pick it up by Grenoble?

Also going to the 'ring now and planning on going through the black forest, I've got the tab open for a thread from the Germany forum page to read, but any recommendations on where to pick this up while going from Lake Como to Nurburgring?

Staying at the Lakes for the scenery there and some downtime away from driving, but any fun roads avoiding the motorway is much appreciated! Also reading the linked threads on here

Interesting point for planning the route, got a TomTom device I wanted to pre-plan routes on, so will be checking out the route planner linked in here too

Edited by JapFreak786 on Wednesday 13th April 12:16

[JapFreak786]

Got home back from my trip on Monday evening just gone. My car was perfect the entire time, no issues whatsoever and also a lot of fun on the autobahns! Got up to 175mph on the clock, 167mph GPS. Could have gone faster but the motorway wasn't as quiet as I would want and there was a lot of wind noise at that speed.

The TomTom Start 50 that I got could have routes pre-programmed in using the TomTom software downloaded from their site, which was great! I didn't use the pre-planned routes in the end due to various reasons.

We've done about 2700 miles in total, not calculated how much fuel used yet but I'm estimating around £900/1000.

[JapFreak786]

Still need to shift through the photos as most of them are on my wife's phone or SLR, but i'll share some when I can