Driving from UK to Rome

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Hammyman wrote: »

You say RyanAir are expensive and you need to get there quick. Have you been onto Autoroutes.fr and worked out what the tolls are going to be for travelling through France? I quickly worked out around €70 each way in Autoroute tolls for going the France/Italy way. If you go the Switzerland route, as well as the Autoroute tolls in France, you'll need to buy an annual Vignette, even if you only go on the motorway for an hour, which was €40 the last time I looked. Don't forget that whilst you only need to buy a Vignette once a year, the Autoroute tolls will be in both directions. And don't forget you need to factor in the overnight stops. Then there's whatever the costs are in Italy. Then there's also 1500 miles of fuel in each direction. So...€140 in Autoroute tolls plus 100 gallons of fuel working on 30MPG, so call that £500 in fuel. Then there's the Eurotunnel, 2 hotel stays, then the tolls/vignette for Italy.

It's possible to avoid most or all of French motorway tolls, by going via Luxembourg, Metz, Nancy/Epinal or Colmar to Mulhouse and Basel.

I believe the Swiss vignette is 40 Swiss Francs, not Euros.

In fact, French tolls and the Swiss vignette could all be avoided (though a cheaper Austrian one is then incurred) by going via Ulm and Innsbruck, only about 80 miles and an hour longer

But by other than that route, you may have slightly over-estimated the distance.

If the car is a diesel, and filled up in Luxembourg where the price is €1 a litre, or in France where from €1.11 is possible off the motorway, the fuel cost could be half your figure

lucylucky

Done Glasgow to Northern Italy - only one stop.

No tunnel in those days, so ferry from Hull

Worst bit of the driving was in the UK

~daisy~_2

Phantom_Flan_Flinger wrote: »

Last time I done that journey, the hovercrafts were still running and there were no speed cameras to worry about.

I done Hemel Hempstead (Herts), Calais, Reims, Metz, Strasbourg, Offenburg, Basel, Luzern, Milan, Bologne, Florence, Rome and then onto Latina which is around 30 mins south of Rome.

Back then the hovercraft was £100, cost about £25 in tolls through France and the £15 for the Swiss road Tax. It is possible in a day if you're up to it. I left around 4am and arrived in Latina around midnight. I was over there twice. Once for 7 weeks and another for 11.

I'm not sure which route the travel planners take you these days.

my hubby has done an almost identical route - bedfordshire to latina when his siter moved there about 20 years ago !! funny...

i didnt go so dont know how long it took or anything sorry !!

Phantom_Flan_Flinger

Hammyman wrote: »

By heck, that must've been a while ago. The Vignette for Switzerland is €40 now.

Unfortunately so. These work related trips have long since ceased.

~daisy~ wrote: »

my hubby has done an almost identical route - bedfordshire to latina when his siter moved there about 20 years ago !! funny...

Small world eh? Didn't move there for the NATO training school did she?

~daisy~_2

nope but you probably stayed at the hotel where her hubby was restaurant manager - they always had loads of nato ppl staying
he was italian and lived in latina and she was english

Bob_the_Saver

Yorkshire to Naples via Somerset (don't ask) and Rome. Did it a very long time ago in a 1300cc Spitfire. Back then you got discount petrol in Italy and (I can't remember for sure) either discount or free motorway tolls. I have one piece of advice - use Ryanair.

Phantom_Flan_Flinger

~daisy~ wrote: »

nope but you probably stayed at the hotel where her hubby was restaurant manager - they always had loads of nato ppl staying
he was italian and lived in latina and she was english

Victoria Residence was a choice, but I actually stayed in a villa in Borgo Sabotino for both my times there. Perks of being a civvie. :j

Bob_the_Saver wrote: »

Back then you got discount petrol in Italy and (I can't remember for sure) either discount or free motorway tolls.

I got vouchers for discounted petrol each month.

Edit - .....and apologies to the OP. Didn't mean to hijack your thread.

~daisy~_2

yes that was it - closed down about 4 or 5 months ago now