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You need to check on toll costs when planning routes.  That way you're prepared with money in your wallet to pay the tolls, or a good map to use routes which avoid them.

If during your holiday planning you use a route planner such as viamichelin.fr or autoroutes.fr it will calculate you a route and give you the fuel costs and toll costs.  You can then choose to select 'no tolls' and it will calculate another route without tolls.  That way you can choose time over money, or money over time.  For some people it's worth paying the tolls, but with a caravan they do soon mount up.

It's ALWAYS possible to get to and from any destination without paying tolls, but the toll-free route may take a lot longer, and involve frustrating hold-ups and slow sections through towns and villages.

The route from Royan to Calais using toll routes is costed as follows on one of those routes.

Quote: Originally posted by sunflowerlady on 07/8/2014

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I hadn't factored in Toll Charges! I wonder if there will be Toll's on my route? Dunkirk to St Malo (Ish)? And what about St Malo (ish) to Disneyland Paris area?

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As you can see from the examples, above, the tolls with a caravan are more expensive.  Usually the cost with a caravan is about a third more than the cost of driving solo. 

I would check again and I'd use viamichelin.fr as the British version is full of pop-ups about Eurotunnel and is very annoying! You have to select 'Rechercher' again after clicking the button for 'caravane'.  Calais to Nice, for example, is €106.90 for a car, but €162.50 with a caravan. Calais to Perpignan is €73.40 solo, but with a caravan is €114.10.

Where are you going from and to?