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Does anyone know if there is much difference between the cost of diesel between filling stations in N.France and S.Belgium?  I know Luxemburg is 'traditionally' much cheaper for fuel but that is out of the way.

My thoughts are, if we caight the Norfolk line ferry to Dunkirk, we would be a stones throw from Belgium.  We could travel on the E42/A25 as far as Lille, before turning South.  On the map, Armentiere looks like it's half in France and half in Belgium.  Just wondered if this would be a good (cheap) place to fill up before heading South to Reims and Chalon.

Never been this way before, and I suspect the fuel prices might even out a little towards the borders.  Don't know what the roads are like either, but a pound saved here is a pound more to spend eventually in Frejus!! 

Not sure what the current situation is but a couple of years ago we stayed in France near the Belgium border and it was a bit cheaper to buy diesel in Belgium.

David

belgium cheaper    lux certainly cheaper      but is it worth the detour to go through the benelux countries just for cheap fuel    wherever you buy the stuff in france it is going to be cheaper than in the uk   so why bother   even when I had to buy on the motorway because of a very long drive I smiled when th plastic came out    and remember  the euro is dropping by the day

enjoy yer trip and divvent be mean

If you dock at Dunkerque then take the road out of the port, at the junction for the motorway go straight across, heading for St Omer, and fill up at the Carrefour supermarket (nearest to Chateau Gandspette at Eperlecques - roundabout and signposted Watten) where diesel on Monday was 109.5 cents.  You can then take the St Omer bypass, and join the autoroute (A26) to the south of St Omer.  No detours, and good easy access fuel.

By the way the new Michelin 2010 France Atlas has fuel stations marked in blue on the N roads - and going through France we checked out some of them.  They all seemed to be 'cheap' (ie supermarket or similar 24/24hr fuel stations) - and none of them we tried were inaccessible to car and caravan combinations, though one was just a little tight around the chicane!

Hi,

We have just returned from France and Belgium on Saturday 4th September and the prices were much the same, as already stated, supermarkets were about £1.05 and service stations about £1.20.  Just do not be tempted to go into Germany £1.48 and we even saw £1.52 could not belive it, luckily we were just on the border of France and drove a couple of miles and filled up much cheaper.

Hope this helps.

Quote: Originally posted by sandram9898 on 07/9/2010

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Hi,

We have just returned from France and Belgium on Saturday 4th September and the prices were much the same, as already stated, supermarkets were about £1.05 and service stations about £1.20.  Just do not be tempted to go into Germany £1.48 and we even saw £1.52 could not belive it, luckily we were just on the border of France and drove a couple of miles and filled up much cheaper.

Hope this helps.

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