[Closed] Driving times to Alps?

We did it in about 7 hours (but that was in a mate's Porsche Cayenne averaging 100mph! Awesome way to travel!

To Cham, figure around 9 hours driving at semi-sensible speeds...!

Chamonix to Derby. 2 drivers this summer. Not going mad. 12 hours door to door using the tunnel.

Usually do do Morzine from the tunnel in about 9 hours driving solo.
Reckon chamonix should be roughly the same.

6 hours flat out at 100mph, 9 hours cruising at 75 or somewhere in the middle. It's a very easy drive though, much better than flying imho.

Good stuff, ta.

Quicker to ask the stw hive than to do a search!!

What's all this about driving at a ton up?

I thought the frenchies did you if times between the toll booths were silly short ?

I thought the frenchies did you if times between the toll booths were silly short ?

Complete myth. Never happened, never will.

On the other hand, they're not short of fixed/mobile cameras and they enforce them a lot tighter than in the UK. (Rule of thumb of 10% over in the UK, France is very specific at 5%).

Zeebrugge to Morzine or Samoens (via Cluses) is about 9 hours keeping it at about 80-85mph. That's 2 drivers, a couple of shortish stops at services and Autoroute all the way. Would imagine Cham would be about the same. There's not many places with potential to hold you up - the new A4 round Reims is great and we've been past Geneva on the A40 a couple of times at what would be rush hour in the UK (5-7ish) with no problems.

The days of giving it the beans with impunity on the autoroute are gone, you really stand out going much over 130kph as pretty much everyone else sticks to the limit, and there are quite a lot of gendarmes about. Fortunately the mobile cameras don't seem to follow up UK plates :-/

Complete myth. Never happened, never will.

yup, but they do like to have a speed trap setup with someone walking round at the next toll pulling over noted offenders (I guess this is where the toll myth comes from)

the new A4 round Reims is great and we've been past Geneva on the A40

Hmmm.

Route advice????

Looking at the map - Calais - Rheims - Dijon looks the best route...

But AA route planner suggests Calais - Paris - Dijon as shorter and quicker...

any thoughts? don't really fancy the periphrique

ETA - I'm thinking A26 all the way to Troyes, A5 / A31 to Beaune, then A40

Have always gone via Reims until this summer when we went via Paris.... never again, back to Reims it is for me

Calais- Reims- Dijon is the way we have always done it.

When we lived in UK we always took 8 hours excluding lunch and other long stops from Calais to Lyon.

Not done it in the last 3 years as we live near Grenoble now.

Only done the "Paris route" once, and will never do it again !

As others have said. The Riems/Dijon route is far batter.

we did it this summer from manchester. it took us about 12/13 hours with stops not including the ferry. I would take the Autoroutes which cost about 80 Eur going and as we came back via Geneva and on some of the more scenic roads it was about half that on the remaining auto route to Calais.

Note, if you are going Via Geneva, make sure you don't go in the border queue for the 40chf vehicle vignette. we went in the other queue and no one checked that we had one.

if you are self catering I would highly recommend you stop at the hyper market in Sallanches as the supermarkets in Cham are massivly overpriced!

Go to Poco locos for a burger - you won't be dissapointed!

paris = congestion- avoid.

Calais Reims is probably the least stressful but its 2 lane for a lot of it and mid week you can get stuck behind trucks overtaking trucks which slows stuff down a lot. Its also a bit longer in distance.

The alternative, which is probably quicker but with a bit more traffic around Paris, is Calais>N104 (just south of Charles de Gaulle)>a6 direction Lyon. The N104 is the outer ring road of Paris and is much less hassle than the perepherique. The tolls seemed cheaper as well.

8-8.5 hrs from Calais not gassing it too much.

Thanks all - we're going through the Mont Blanc tunnel to the Aosta valley, so not heading right into Cham...

Can't wait 😀