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Paging them what know Peage
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How much is it gonna cost me to get from Calais to Reims, and do I need
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11 Euros according to ViaMichelin.
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cash or are cards OK?
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Cost as posted by others, cards are good just dont use the automated
ones as they charge you for a car.
Also, dont drop the card down inside the front fairing and lose it, then
drive off hoping to retrieve it after few metres (while being beeped
at by irate car drivers). It WILL snap leaving you only the cash in your
pocket. DAMHIKIJK.....
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Visa seems to be ok, they looked at me oddly when I presented a switch /
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On the run back from dieppe they took my mastercard.
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I've used Visa too.
On a bike, it's a lot easier to hand over a card rather than proffer a
note and receive change.
For the car, get your passenger to sort out the dosh in advance of the
booth.
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mastercard though.
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That's not surprising as Switch is a UK-only system, YTC.
Mastercard is used, but is nowhere near as popular as Visa. The
Mastercard should have been accepted though. I think it is in the
automatic machines.
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Actually I just checked and it's not switch.. It's got Maestro (rather
than mastercard) on the front and Cirrus on the back, and is just my
regular bank card.
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Then you've got no chance. I don't think Maestro nor Cirrus are
accepted in France.
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They certainly are at cash machines, and my old RBS
switch/maestro/cirrus was the only UK card that used to work at some
of the automated petrol pumps, albeit without asking for a PIN...
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Wrong. Maestro should be accepted wherever Mastercard is (IIRC formerly
known as Eurocard) - they've even made the logo similar.
I'm pretty sure I've seen the Cirrus logo on ATMs overseas too.
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No idea, but mine's a bottle of bubbly.
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I'll see what I can do. It is, after all, the raison d'etre of the journey.
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make sure you do one of the tours of the house cellars.
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We're staying at one of the houses.....
Voirin Jumel to be precise.
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I enjoyed the tour around the GH Martel place in Reims. It's close to the
St Remi Basilica so you can have a quick whizz around there too.
Pictured here, but called Maxim's,
It's just a museum and shop now as production is in Epernay. I found it a
pleasant contrast to the corporate style of Mumm. A very good dégustation
of 4 different wines for a modest cost of 6 Euros.
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For a car, yes. 11 EUR for a bike.
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sure - I assumed he was talking about in a car[1]
[1] I reckon most journeys in personal transport taken by posters in
this group are by car[2]
[2] discuss.....
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Probably, but I always assume people are asking about bikes with this
sort of question unless otherwise stated, especially when it's not
posted as [OT].
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If you mean recreational mileage then in my case you're totally wrong.
This might have something to do with me not owning a 4 wheel vehicle
and only going short distances in Adies car because she won't let me
smoke in it.
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Well I do two journeys per day on a bike, and about 2 per week in the
car. I do about 3k miles in the car per year, and about 10 times that
on the bike.
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Count the TWOs, divide by the number of posters.
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I've only ever used cash on the Peage, no idea about cards.
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I've used cards - easier on a bike. They just swiped the card and handed
it back.
There weren't any nasty surprises when I got back.
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Cards are ok but for that amount I'd use cash.
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Not forgetting that if you use the automated booths, then they will
charge you the car rate.
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cards are accepted at the manned booths - no need to enter a PIN or sign,
they just scan it. I find this much easier than faffing about with cash as
you can generally fish the card out of a tankbag pocket with gloved hands.
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Easier in a RH Drive Car as well, one less thing to fall out of my patented
"Peage hand on a stick tool".
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We, as a family, spent a miserable 2 hours at Reims a few years back after
arriving at the Reims Sud peage From Spain expecting to pay by Maestro(1)
and being refused. the staff would accept nothing except the cash and
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Cheers Darsy, just what I need to sort my trip to France next week... good
man!
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wouldn't let us through. Their only suggestion was to borrrow the money from
a passing Englishman. Very helpful. In the end I managed to change some
English change for notes with an English truck driver who had been pulled by
the flic for not having a fire extinguisher. I gave him the one I had in the
car, but the flic reconed that it wasn't big enough.
I believe they now do accept Switch/ maestro but I would check. Or use
Mastercard.
(1) Had been paying cash and had ran out, didn't bother to go to an ATM as
we assumed that they would take Maestro.
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