French AutoRoute Peage Payment?

[Danesgate]

I plan to drive down to the South of France/Northern Italy in the next few months but will be on my own in a RHD car...

Is there a cheap way to pay for the Peage tolls in advance (the automatic reader lane?) rather than having to reach over and miss the coin catcher each toll both?

The trip will probably be for less than a month and will be the full Calais to Menton return on main roads.

Any suggestions gratefully recieved!

Thanks

[sneaky schnell]

Danesgate said:

I plan to drive down to the South of France/Northern Italy in the next few months but will be on my own in a RHD car...

Is there a cheap way to pay for the Peage tolls in advance (the automatic reader lane?) rather than having to reach over and miss the coin catcher each toll both?

The trip will probably be for less than a month and will be the full Calais to Menton return on main roads.

Any suggestions gratefully recieved!

Thanks

The last time I drove down in a RHD car I was in an S2000 which has quite a high transmission tunnel. I just popped myself up onto it and reached over. I wasn't that big a deal.

Depending on your car, I might not be an issue.

Alternatively, pick up a hitchhiker.

[zcacogp]

Do it the PH-way - handbrake turn to spin the car before the peage, reverse through, do a Scandinavian flick once through to get things pointing the right way again ...

(Easier in RWD, natch!)


Oli.

[ewenm]

You can get an automatic tag (from SANEF I think) but there's a cost associated with it. Alternatively, plan your route on ViaMichelin.com and it will tell you the exact toll costs so you can prepare the right money in advance.

[GC8]

Something like this is the usual method that I use:

http://www.handyhealthcare.co.uk/mobility-aids/hou...

Youll need a plastic cup too, for change.

[DonnyMac]

Not used them, but google found them for me, for you -

www.saneftolling.co.uk

[Gruber]

I've got one of the Sanef transponder things. Had it for a few years.

Saves loads of time at the tolls, avoids the need to have the right money, and just charges the tolls direct to credit card.

If memory serves, there was a 10Euro payment / deposit for the transponder, which (for the ease of use and time savings) seemed very reasonable to me.

[F355GTS]

transponders are great. Sanef did (nor sure if they still do) had a restriction to only supplying those with French bank accounts unless you already had a transponder from them. The solution is to get one from APPR, they re cheaper and charge a lower deposit. Cost is a one off€1.5 per month for any month you use it in on top of normal toll fees

http://www.aprr.fr/fr/souscrire_telepeage_liber_t

[Diamond blue]

F355GTS said:

transponders are great. Sanef did (nor sure if they still do) had a restriction to only supplying those with French bank accounts unless you already had a transponder from them. The solution is to get one from APPR, they re cheaper and charge a lower deposit. Cost is a one off€1.5 per month for any month you use it in on top of normal toll fees

http://www.aprr.fr/fr/souscrire_telepeage_liber_t

+1
They did stop doing this for customers without a french bank account but as mentioned above they now have a UK based site. Well worth it anyway but especially if you are on your own

[iva cosworth]

Danesgate said:

reach over and miss the coin catcher each toll both?

BTW all the booths are manned not baskets to throw coins into as the tolls are variable

as to how far you have travelled from .

[rob.e]

Never had an issue in multiple euro trips in RHD on my own. Just lean over and use your credit card.

[andrewrob]

F355GTS said:

transponders are great. Sanef did (nor sure if they still do) had a restriction to only supplying those with French bank accounts unless you already had a transponder from them. The solution is to get one from APPR, they re cheaper and charge a lower deposit. Cost is a one off€1.5 per month for any month you use it in on top of normal toll fees

http://www.aprr.fr/fr/souscrire_telepeage_liber_t

Another vote for APRR.
I used one a few years ago and saved loads of time not queuing. Approaching most tolls sections there will be a separate lane from a fair way back (always the far left lane) just for telepeage users. Gone past queues of well over 100 cars only having to wait for my brother in front of me for a couple of seconds when I got to the barrier. We were also driving down to the south.

Paid £10 for the unit and as said above £1.50 for the month I used it (plus the toll charges obviously)

[Chris71]

Is the APRR transponder worth it for one trip, do you reckon? I'm thinking Le Mans.

[Bluebarge]

F355GTS said:

transponders are great. Sanef did (nor sure if they still do) had a restriction to only supplying those with French bank accounts unless you already had a transponder from them. The solution is to get one from APPR, they re cheaper and charge a lower deposit. Cost is a one off€1.5 per month for any month you use it in on top of normal toll fees

http://www.aprr.fr/fr/souscrire_telepeage_liber_t

Sanef now do it for UK account holders as per above link

[ewenm]

Chris71 said:

Is the APRR transponder worth it for one trip, do you reckon? I'm thinking Le Mans.

If the figures in the thread are right, it'll cost you £11.50 more for the trip - only you can say whether that's worth the time saved at the toll booths for you.

[Chris71]

ewenm said:

Chris71 said:

Is the APRR transponder worth it for one trip, do you reckon? I'm thinking Le Mans.

If the figures in the thread are right, it'll cost you £11.50 more for the trip.

That's what I was thinking, but I could swear I'd heard people making it out to be far more expensive than that so I wondered if there was a catch?

There again, half the people I hold up by shuffling round to the left hand side of the car during Le Mans week are Brits about to do the same thing, and you only have to do it something like four times (each way) under a covered canopy. I guess I could do with stretching my legs a few times in the trip - the gendarmes don't let you do so when one of them is connected to the accelerator.

[Garlick]

I usually just run around.

[Amateurish]

Bluebarge said:

F355GTS said:

transponders are great. Sanef did (nor sure if they still do) had a restriction to only supplying those with French bank accounts unless you already had a transponder from them. The solution is to get one from APPR, they re cheaper and charge a lower deposit. Cost is a one off€1.5 per month for any month you use it in on top of normal toll fees

http://www.aprr.fr/fr/souscrire_telepeage_liber_t

Sanef now do it for UK account holders as per above link

I just signed up to the APPR version with my UK credit card. Much cheaper than SANEF.

[Little Dave]

You don't want to use the SANEF transponder thing. It makes your car slower and increases the fuel consumption. It is also such a big device it will obscure your vision.

There is no way I would have one in my car, Can you imagine not having to fiddle about with change at each Peage. Where would be the fun if you were not stuck in big queues at the Peage especially in February half term week with all the Alps bound cars. Would it make you happy to if you didn't have to queue with all the cars heading to LM in June, no of course it wouldn't, why would you want to cut an hour or two off your journey?




BTW the deposit with Sanef is 30Euro with a 2 Euro charge each month you use it on top of the normal toll. I have mine charged to a UK credit card and it has been a faultless system. But lets keep it a little secret

[Danesgate]

Thank you for your wealth of knowledge and experience

Are the APRR and SANEF equally acceptable? I mean am I going to find that one is not accepted on some routes?

Much as I like the idea of a quick 180 degree flick, going backwards through the booth at 100kph....