Fuel prices in france???

[cerbylondon]

Just off on my hols and wondered how prices compared to the uk? Do I fill up in england before I go or drive over on fumes and fill up there? Thank you Rob.

[andrewrob]

Which car are you taking? Diesel is slightly cheaper but petrol is a lot more than here.

Just checked cheapest prices in calais,
(euro)
Diesel is .97
Petrol is 1.20

This is a good site for prices,
http://www.prix-carburants.gouv.fr/

Edited by andrewrob on Tuesday 8th September 16:25

[Groober]

Petrol is more, Diesel is cheaper.

[Stig]

Negative - having returned only last week petrol and diesel prices are on a par with the UK

[Marcellus]

Looking at pump prices in the valley yesterday, given the current exchange rate (1.14) then pretty similar as the UK for both Diesel and petrol.

[cerbylondon]

We are going in the diesel X5, long drive down to Cannes.

[dcb]

cerbylondon said:

Just off on my hols and wondered how prices compared to the uk? Do I fill up in england before I go or drive over on fumes and fill up there? Thank you Rob.

Petrol at carrefour calais is running £1.12
and diesel is 90p.

So the diesel is cheap, and the petrol looks expensive.

Expect to pay a little more on the motorway.

http://www.carrefour-calais.com/modulosite2/new-gb...

[Matt UK]

On the motorway I was paying about 1.15 euro for diesel. In Italy it was 1.25 euro in places.

[FamilyGuy]

We did a EuroDisney (sorry, Disney Paris...) trip 3 weeks ago and paid just over 70p/litre for diesel at a supermarket filling station in Bethune (about an hour down the A26) half a mile from the peage.

This would sound really cool and organised if it wasn't that this was where we started to need some fuel on our way back home. I'd come across the channel with a full tank at about 101p/litre

I'm sure the Calais filling stations are wise to the British coming across already acclimatised to insane prices.

[jamie750xx]

1.49 on the french mways 2 weeks back, most were over 1.35 all the way down to spain, even central Toulouse was 1.25 ish so not cheap

[norman156]

jamie750xx said:

1.49 on the french mways 2 weeks back, most were over 1.35 all the way down to spain, even central Toulouse was 1.25 ish so not cheap

:O crickey, most I saw on a French motorway was €1.41 about a month ago, must have gone up again. It goes without saying that you should fill up off the motorway wherever possible. Might be worth looking up the locations of supermarkets just off the motorway to fill up in, intergrate it into your route. When I was in France a few weeks ago each fuel stop was around a mile off the motorway, made it around €0.15-0.20 cheaper a litre, well worth it.

[smack]

Two weeks ago, supermarkets around €1.25, motorway about 10-15 cents more.

On the plus side, all unmanned pumps worked with UK Visa cards - about time you ferking frogs!!!!