Just back (yesterday) fuelling using 95 Ron. Highest price was 1 euro 42 cents on Autoroute, lowest was 1 Euro 21 cents at SuperU. A hint; if you have a European mapped sat nav with you, get off the autoroute to refuel, and ask your satnav to find the nearest fuel station (My Garmin's really good at this) Best to leave autoroute at a town (when they become free) and sometimes you can see a Centre Commercial which usually has at least one big super/hyper market to head towards. On a 50 litre fill that's a £9.00 saving, which is not to be sniffed at!
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Elf is the cheapest of the 'name' brands - usually same price or slightly cheaper than the supermarkets.
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But diesel is significantly cheaper
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>But diesel is significantly cheaper<
Not if you put it in your petrol car - see header.
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The French government are quite helpful here. If you go to www.prix-carburants.gouv.fr you will find the location of just about every petrol station in France and their current price for diesel and petrol. This is an official site and is updated daily. If you enter your route it will give you every station on the way; if you enter the town where you will be staying you will find who is the cheapest.
Shouldn't our government be doing the same?
Morganeer
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Depending on how far you are driving in France the best idea seems to be to arrive with a full tank of Uk bought fuel; it seems to be cheaper than in France. If you have to buy in France try to get back to UK on empty and refill at your ferry port. The advice about how to find cheap fuel in France is fine, obviously.
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Saw diesel yesterday at 99 cents in Germany, most at 1.03 Euro
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www.petrolprices.com is worth a look. You have to register, but it's free, and you can search for cheapest unleaded, diesel etc. within 1 mile, 2 mile, 5 mile etc. radius of a postcode. If I'm going on a long journey I usually check petrol prices at both ends and fill up wherever is cheapest!
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For France I have used zagaz.com.
You can translate the first page but it seems to revert to French as you proceed.
It is pretty easy to use.You select a dept. off the map and can then choose a town.
You then get a list of stations and the prices,e.g. Today at St Malo the cheapest UL is Euro 0.976, and Diesel (Gaz) is Euro 1.229.
If you click on "Voir la Carte" you get the map and a flag of the station you chose.
I did this and located stations on my (old) TomTom setup on a PDA before we left home-last year the Elf station was cheapest in the St Malo area-in St Servan near the campsite-went straight to it!
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Absolutely. Also got back on Sunday, echo those thought completely. ?1.169 was the cheapest I paid at a L'eclerc supermarket, about 1 mile off the autoroute, where prices locally were 1.39. And looking at the exch rate applied via my credit card, the cheaper one translated to a UK price of £1.017 per litre. So pretty much bang on the money.
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>You then get a list of stations and the prices,e.g. Today at St Malo the cheapest UL is Euro 0.976, and Diesel (Gaz) is Euro 1.229.<
Other way round I think.
If you're right the XJS will be in front of the unleaded pump this afternoon...;-)
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No,Mike, I have just looked again.
When I posted earlier today I was scrolling between windows to confirm the prices.
On checking just now, I was wrong-cheapest UL was 0.976, cheapest Diesel was 1.219 ( I reported 1.229 this AM- several stations were at this price)
Try looking at zagaz-I reckon it is useful.
Since mobile broadband would cost a bomb to use in France the method would be to look at prices near your ferry port, and places en-route.
If they look OK, memorise them on your sat-nav,or, as I did, put the station in if you find a cheap one if it is likely to be on your return route.
General rule, as in UK, don't buy on the M-way, big hypermarkets tend to be cheapest.
Have passport ready if the pumps don't like your card, the attendant will do it manually, and you sign, but mostly your PIN will work OK these days, according to my ( somewhat limited) experience.
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I am going to Honfleur next week and need diesel; I have done a number of searches including the Zagaz site, and diesel in Boulogne area is between .985 and 1.125 cents per litre. At that price I shall be arriving in France with a low tank and filling up at the first Auchan. 1 Euro a litre is way better than £1 a litre with the exchange rate @ £1 = 1.16 euros
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I am going to Honfleur next week >>
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I went last year for a short break, stayed at the Mercure, just off the harbour.
I would recomend this restaurant:
Le Bréard
tinyurl.com/ngeayh
also Deauville and Pont L'Evique for a visit.
Honfleur must have the most restauants per square kilometre of any town in france !
Enjoy!
J
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Filled up yesterday at that fuel station in the village round the back of the Tunnel entry, 97.9 cents for diesel, all the rest were well above 1 Euro...
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Thanks for that tip jacks. I had found the Breard and it is rated the #1 in Honfleur, out of 75! As you say, plenty of eating out options there!
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Just for the record:
I put petrol in the The Beast yesterday - I seem to do it pretty often - and in spite of what some websites may say (see above) the average price of diesel in my part of France seems to be .97 to just over an euro, with 95 unleaded now down a bit on last week and around the 1.20 euro mark.
The pound is slipping yet again so the sensible advice seems to be, if you are using petrol fill up before you leave the UK and if you use diesel wait until you get to France.
However, when I go to the UK again next month I'll be filling The Beast before I get on the ferry because 98 unleaded is relatively quite a bit cheaper in France - although I guess oil companies would say the French version doesn't contain so many magic ingredients. All I know is that I do get more mpg with 98.
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I do get more mpg with 98.
My 4.5 litre Bentley used to do about 8 in town and up to 17 on the road if you didn't go too fast. No doubt modern engine management is keeping yr much faster Jag's 6 litres down to at least that sort of level mh?
I must say I hope so.
:o}
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16-18 day to day and 22 on a run - haven't screwed up the courage to put it through traffic yet.
It'll do... ;-)
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If you've got an iPhone, E Leclerc have a brilliant little app that both shows you where the nearest E Leclerc filling station is, and the price they are currently charging (I could only get this for diesel). Even better, it works without a data connection.
E Leclerc Carburants
itunes.apple.com/gb/app/e.leclerc-carburants/id435...8
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If you use mobile broadband it will cost you more than any saving you could make with the lower price .. but find free wifi eg MacDonalds, Accor hotels etc and the info is free!
As for passport, I've travelled across a lot of France over they years, never needed to show passport when buying fuel, there was a time some stations would not accept non French cards but nowadays wih PIN cards I've never had problems.
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I know its not on the petrol topic, but having driven extensively in France, finding the cheapest diesel isn't always the best. I noticed that some of the very cheapest supermarche diesel gave my car very poor MPG so the saving was almost elliminated unfortunately. I dont think this would apply to petrol in the same way though.
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Petrol in france is expensive no matter where you buy it
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Petrol in france is expensive no matter where you buy it
Yes if you plan to regularly holiday in France you need a diesel vehicle..
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Managed 1.27 euro for diesel in Vierzon (Intermarche) on Saturday, best price this year.
Tim
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