Fuel Prices in France

[survivalist]

Off to France tomorrow and was just wondering what petrol prices are like on both the motorway and in town? Or am I better off filling up in the uk before crossing the channel?

Thanks in advance.

S

[2 sMoKiN bArReLs]

Cheaper here now, largely due to Euro rate. Best fill up with all your groceries too

[Alex@POD]

I just checked as I'm off to France in a week, it's roughly £1.05/l on the motorways, about 95p in towns...

ETA: Clearly it's best t double check...

ETA again: Just me being thick, I've been looking at diesel...

Edited by Alex@POD on Wednesday 7th July 22:47

Edited by Alex@POD on Wednesday 7th July 22:49

[frosted]

Bout the same as here , in Switzerland it was 150 cent per litre

[2 sMoKiN bArReLs]

Alex@POD said:

I just checked as I'm off to France in a week, it's roughly £1.05/l on the motorways, about 95p in towns...

Doh! I stand corrected! Must have gone down a lot since last year!

[2 sMoKiN bArReLs]

Prices paid (for 98 ron) last year:

1.29
1.26
1.28
1.24
1.08
1.09
1.32
1.34
1.22
1.26

[Matt UK]

I think diesel was cheaper, but UL and SUP were bloody expensive!

[nsmith1180]

1.29 euro paid for Sans Plomb 95 last week 1.49 for Gazole (Diesel).

[nellyleelephant]

Amazed if you saw diesel for 1.49! Thta's very high and sounds more like the super unleaded. Diesel normally hovers around the 1 euro mark, a bit more on motorways.

[bartesque]

91p for unleaded here I am filling up a few extra cans before setting off for Le Mans

[nsmith1180]

nellyleelephant said:

Amazed if you saw diesel for 1.49! Thta's very high and sounds more like the super unleaded. Diesel normally hovers around the 1 euro mark, a bit more on motorways.

That price was a Careforre Marché in berlogne. not running a car ATM so dont know of prices out in the oooolooo. Will look at Carefour Hesdin on the way past on the way to work tomorrow. But remember those prices are Euro:

Sorry for SPAG mistakes, computer just realised its in france:

[dugt]

Just come back from 3000 miles in france, italy, switzerland, luxemburg, belgium and holland

We saw anywhere between 1.15 and 1.58 euros. And diesel is still cheaper than petrol there.

Off the motorways, it worked out roughly similar to the prices here.

[uk_vette]

So back to the OP question,
Does one fill up in Dover?
Or wait to hit France supermarkets fuels ?

'vette

[Bullett]

2 weeks ago, we paid between 1.35 and 1.45, saw it as high as 1.49 for 95.

So about the same on average.

[Dog Star]

I was going to post this back in June but figured I'd just get flamed for buying supermarket petrol, bad punctuation or something. However what the hell...

Petrol seemed to be a similar price (little lower) to the UK in most non-motorway garages and definitely cheaper in supermarkets. *However* what I did notice was that the price of 98 was usually only 1 cent more than 95 and in the big Leclerc in Bayeux there was some kind of petrol promo on and it was the same price.

You can guess what my car was drinking on it's holidays (BTW it's a modern 5.0 V8 and I couldn't tell any difference at all).

Which begs the question - why is 98 so much dearer in the UK?

[nsmith1180]

1.29 95 Ron
1.39 98 Ron

1.19 Gazole.

that was carefore about 10 minutes ago.