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Afternoon folks.
Looking to drive from the North East of England to alicante anyone believe what's the best route, Portsmouth _Santander, Dover _Calais, and any idea how much toll charges are, many thanks.
Take care be safe. Tony.
Posted: Tue Jan 5, 2021 4:23pm
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Many thanks for your reply. Honestly thinking about tunnel that's the way, looking at flights prices crazy £500+ in June, July, + from North East so booked tunnel.
Posted: Wed Jan 6, 2021 4:14pm
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tony1956 wrote on Mon Jan 4, 2021 4:08pm:
Afternoon folks.
Looking to drive from the North East of England to alicante anyone believe what's the best route, Portsmouth _Santander, Dover _Calais, and any idea how much toll charges are, many thanks.
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Take care be safe. Tony.
Hi Tony1956
We have 2 tunnel returns booked this year, I have driven a few times down to Villamartin from Newcastle upon Tyne see below route we normally run:
Day 1 Newcastle - Ashford
Day 2/3 Through Tunnel Calais - Abbeville - Rouen - Le Mans - Tours - Poitiers - Saintes - Bordeaux - Pau if I am feeling good will keep driving......
Day 3 Pau - Oloron Sainte-Marie - Somport Tunnel - Jaca - Huesca - Zaragoza - Teruel - Valencia - down A7 - A35 - A33 - Villena - Elche - Follow AP7 down to La Zenia turn off or to miss tolls come off Los Montesinos turn off.
Alternative route;
Day 1
Newcastle - Tunnel - Calais - Abbeville - Rouen - Le Mans - Tours - Poitiers
Day 2
Poitiers - Saintes - Bordeaux - Pau - Oloron Sainte-Marie - Somport Tunnel - Jaca - Huesca - Zaragoza - Teruel - Valencia - down A7 - A35 - A33 - Villena - Elche - Follow AP7 down to La Zenia turn off or to miss tolls come off Los Montesinos turn off.
Regards
Andrew
Posted: Wed Jan 6, 2021 4:53pm
Aspen1992 wrote on Wed Jan 6, 2021 4:14pm:
Hi Tony1956
We have 2 tunnel returns booked this year, I have driven a few times down to Villamartin from Newcastle upon Tyne see below route we normally run:
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Day 1 Newcastle - Ashford
Day 2/3 Through Tunnel Calais - Abbeville - Rouen - Le Mans - Tours - Poitiers - Saintes - Bordeaux - Pau if I am feeling good will keep driving......
Day 3 Pau - Oloron Sainte-Marie - Somport Tunnel - Jaca - Huesca - Zaragoza - Teruel - Valencia - down A7 - A35 - A33 - Villena - Elche - Follow AP7 down to La Zenia turn off or to miss tolls come off Los Montesinos turn off.
Alternative route;
Day 1
Newcastle - Tunnel - Calais - Abbeville - Rouen - Le Mans - Tours - Poitiers
Day 2
Poitiers - Saintes - Bordeaux - Pau - Oloron Sainte-Marie - Somport Tunnel - Jaca - Huesca - Zaragoza - Teruel - Valencia - down A7 - A35 - A33 - Villena - Elche - Follow AP7 down to La Zenia turn off or to miss tolls come off Los Montesinos turn off.
Regards
Andrew
Many thanks for your help andrew, l think l give it a go got tunnel tickets booked today, Tony.
Posted: Wed Jan 6, 2021 11:20pm
Aspen1992 wrote on Wed Jan 6, 2021 4:14pm:
Hi Tony1956
We have 2 tunnel returns booked this year, I have driven a few times down to Villamartin from Newcastle upon Tyne see below route we normally run:
Read more...
Day 1 Newcastle - Ashford
Day 2/3 Through Tunnel Calais - Abbeville - Rouen - Le Mans - Tours - Poitiers - Saintes - Bordeaux - Pau if I am feeling good will keep driving......
Day 3 Pau - Oloron Sainte-Marie - Somport Tunnel - Jaca - Huesca - Zaragoza - Teruel - Valencia - down A7 - A35 - A33 - Villena - Elche - Follow AP7 down to La Zenia turn off or to miss tolls come off Los Montesinos turn off.
Alternative route;
Day 1
Newcastle - Tunnel - Calais - Abbeville - Rouen - Le Mans - Tours - Poitiers
Day 2
Poitiers - Saintes - Bordeaux - Pau - Oloron Sainte-Marie - Somport Tunnel - Jaca - Huesca - Zaragoza - Teruel - Valencia - down A7 - A35 - A33 - Villena - Elche - Follow AP7 down to La Zenia turn off or to miss tolls come off Los Montesinos turn off.
Regards
Andrew
Gents
Thanks for the advice . Would love nothing better than to jump in the car and try option 2, unfortunately I don’t have the confidence to drive the 1800 miles to playa Flamenca via France .
FYI I Would be willing to share the travel costs of the car journey If a forum member was going over in late January to PF.
I am also dual nationality and have been for several years through my parents.So still an EU citizen . With that said do any forum members have any advise on the viability of me being able to catch a train through the channel tunnel and then connect with a train from Paris to Alicante . Any pit falls / advice greatly received
TIA
Mark
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Posted: Thu Jan 7, 2021 11:34am
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many thanks in advance.Hi Bbwhizz, just picking up on your comments,I am not clear on the latest rule, being a non resident in Spain,do you know if I can still enter Spain by road and is France ok to drive through, I was under the impression France was on lockdown and it was also difficult to travel through different provinces of Spain? Any information would be most helpful.
Posted: Thu Jan 7, 2021 12:44pm
Pandp wrote on Thu Jan 7, 2021 11:34am:
many thanks in advance.Hi Bbwhizz, just picking up on your comments,I am not clear on the latest rule, being a non resident in Spain,do you know if I can still enter Spain by road and is France ok to drive through, I was under the impression France was on lockdown and it was also difficult to tra...
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...vel through different provinces of Spain? Any information would be most helpful.
Thanks for the information. Tony.
Posted: Thu Jan 7, 2021 3:09pm
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Gibbons001 wrote on Wed Jan 6, 2021 11:20pm:
Gents
Thanks for the advice . Would love nothing better than to jump in the car and try option 2, unfortunately I don’t have the confidence to drive the 1800 miles to playa Flamenca via France .
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FYI I Would be willing to share the travel costs of the car journey If a forum member was going over in late January to PF.
I am also dual nationality and have been for several years through my parents.So still an EU citizen . With that said do any forum members have any advise on the viability of me being able to catch a train through the channel tunnel and then connect with a train from Paris to Alicante . Any pit falls / advice greatly received
TIA
Mark
Hi Mark
Unless anyone is a resident in Spain then none of us are allowed to leave the country with being in tier 4, plus Spain has a ban on non residents at the moment as far as I am aware.
There is a train service down as you say but I cant help with that one as I have never used it, to be honest best bet would be to jump on a flight asap if you can.
Regards
Andrew
Posted: Fri Jan 8, 2021 2:35pm
Aspen1992 wrote on Thu Jan 7, 2021 3:09pm:
Hi Mark
Unless anyone is a resident in Spain then none of us are allowed to leave the country with being in tier 4, plus Spain has a ban on non residents at the moment as far as I am aware.
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There is a train service down as you say but I cant help with that one as I have never used it, to be honest best bet would be to jump on a flight asap if you can.
Regards
Andrew
Thanks for the advise 👍👍
tony1956 wrote on Tue Jan 5, 2021 4:23pm:
Many thanks for your reply. Honestly thinking about tunnel that's the way, looking at flights prices crazy £500+ in June, July, + from North East so booked tunnel.
We had been lookeng at a ferry crossing to bilbao & it was around 1k for us and our Motohome. This was before the lockdown. Brittany Ferries.
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