Toll Roads in France

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Hi, I am travelling to Normandy next month and trying to plan the journey.

I can see there are tolls on the A16 but cannot for the life of me work out how much thwy cost or how to pay. Are there ticket machines? ANPR?

Can anyone help? Thanks in advance

https://www.autoroutes.sanef.com/en/my-journey/price-of-my-journey

You can just tap a credit / debit card. Ideally one that doesn't charge fx fees! Just make sure you go through the right booth - it's clear from the overhead signs.

You can buy an bipper that means you don't have to stop but you do pay more that way.

If we use a toll we pay by credit card, it’s easy. To be honest though, we tend to avoid them as they are expensive and the other roads aren’t too bad.

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Although if going to Normandy as a one off it may not be worth it if you have someone in the passenger seat who can pay manually.

Brilliant, thank you all. Obviously we will have someone in the passenger seat but that would never have occurred to me!

So long as you make sure you're in one of the queues that accepts car payments the toll roads are really easy. Unless it's changed since we last went, you approach the barrier and take out a ticket as you enter the toll road section. Then as you leave you choose the lane displaying card payments above it, put the ticket into the machine and when it displays the charge just use your cars to pay, very easy.

Hi you will get signs you are approaching the payage station as you are driving along. So you will get a chance to come off the toll road before the toll road starts.
There are sometimes tolls on bridges where there us a one off payment for crossing.

On the autoroute ones you just drive up to the barrier. There will be ticket machines on the left ( European driver side) and a ticket will pop out. Take it - barrier will lift and you just drive through.
Keep your ticket until you either come off the toll road or it has come to an end. Again you usually get at least 1km notice.
When you approach drive up to the barrier, insert the ticket you collected earlier - this calculates the fee and you pay. Im not sure if they are contactless these days - you may need to insert your card. If you need you can request a receipt. Also if you have a problem there is a button on the ticket collection/payment machine that if you press will put you through to a person.
If you are thinking you will do a lot of driving in France you can get toll tags that you can link to your card, this allows you to drive through the telepayage lane and the barrier will lift automatically and charge your card.

If you dont have a Telepayage tag avoid these lanes as you may not be able to proceed without one (there is a big T in a sign over the lane)
If you go on the Via Michellin site I think they will tell you the toll charges for each stretch of the journey.

Just got back from Normandy. Absolutely get a telepeage tag. It's an absolute breeze to go through with one of these

Just came back from France and the peage (tolls) are incredibly simple to use. The worst part was being the passenger on the left hand side and hanging out of the window to reach the ticket machine/place card on the contactless point. It gave a lot of amusement to the French drivers behind!
Some tolls you pay upfront with your card, some others dispense a ticket that you insert when you leave the autoroute.
I was dreading having the responsibility as the passenger, but it was absolutely fine and very straightforward.

For a one off trip I wouldn't bother with a telepeage badge tbh.

You can check prices for routes on the via Michelin site. They will also give you alternatives with no tolls.

Thank you so much everyone. Really helpful 😊

Tap your debit card. You can avoid tolls by using the N or D roads

@JohnPrescottsPyjamas

Try doing it on the motorbike with thick protective gloves fumbling about, especially getting closer to the ports, it's the British who are impatient!

Bear in mind telepeage tags are linked to a bank account and not a car. So if you don't want to get one for a single trip, but know someone who has one, you can borrow it for your trip and then reimburse them the costs. We've lent ours to my parents in the past (they have their own now though).