Best motorhome route through Paris

[3crispies]

Just in process of booking March trip via eurotunnel and planning a route to Spain via Toulouse, used the N184 western route on outskirts of Paris before with no issues but we were in a T6 not a motorhome. Cant remember any height restrictions but it was during the night before and it will be again and have been bed since.
Prefer if we can avoid Paris via Rouen and seems to add an hour which could easily be added with traffic in Paris (on Michelin maps when only 50 miles further !) also tolls via Paris seem so much less assuming we can get in as a class 2 (uplated to 3750kg) @ less than 2800mm.
Have already got a crit air but no angles morts but will carry some just in case, and wont start the discussion on carrying a spare !!!

 

[JB30]

Having been various routes through France over 35 years I would not go anywhere near Paris (or Lyon, for that matter) these days as traffic jams are de rigeur unless you drive at silly hours of the night. If going South West or just South then Rouen/Chartres is our go to route. Then at Orleans go via Poitiers or Clermont Ferrand depending.….

 

[bubble63]

Why?
I avoid Paris at all costs ,the periphery is a nightmare, a coach tried to push me out of a lane , by changing lanes and caught the rear of my car trailer. He blamed me. Solution, I shrugged and drove off

 

[Mad dog]

Yep, Rouen, Chartres, Dreux, Orléans, Limoges, etc. We've did in a car for years, it's fairly cheap toll-wise & it's usually fairly reliable traffic-wise. It's just getting through the tunnels in Rouen that concerns me? We're in Devon now so rarely use Calais & down.

 

[JockandRita]

Why?
I avoid Paris at all costs ,the periphery is a nightmare, a coach tried to push me out of a lane , by changing lanes and caught the rear of my car trailer. He blamed me. Solution, I shrugged and drove off

Not guilty. The last time I drove a coach full of passengers on Le Peripherique was back in the late 80s, when we were really struggling to make ends meet on my wage as a full time Fireman.

I certainly wouldn't want to do that route again in a car or a Motorhome, never mind in a coach full of passengers

Cheers,

Jock.

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[Gillygrim]

Before Covid we went to Antibes every year for fifteen years and every time we went Newhaven - Dieppe, Paris, Lyon, Orange, Aix en Provence, Cannes and Antibes. Not once did we have any hold up through Paris, possibly because I drove overnight, onto the Peripherique, off onto the A6, then stopped for a nap at Lisses Services, about 20km from Paris. Once it was raining so badly I could barely see the road but still no problems with traffic. We went down again in 2022 and still no problems. I know the CritAir makes things more difficult but this year I asked at Dieppe Tourist Office for advice and I found out that the restrictions are relaxed during certain hours, eg between 2000 and 0800 Rouen is fine. My cousin had been caravanning and motorhoming for more than 50 years and never touched Paris until I mentioned it to her. Now she happily uses that route when necessary.

 

[WillH]

Our son lives to the east of Paris and we visit him in the van. It's a white knuckle drive getting to him and when we drive back up to the tunnel. For a number of years we pitched up at Camping Sandaya in Maisons Laffitte, even worse to get to. Unless visiting Paris give it a very wide berth.

 

[garry55]

Our sat nav took us through Paris on our way from Merlimont to Bourges last year - I remember driving up a very wide road with the Arc de Triomphe up ahead - before which we dived into a tunnel and came out of it with the Eiffel Tower on our left. Easy way to sight-see Paris!
Wasn't much of a hardship driving that route, and that was on the 2nd day of our first ever trip in a motorhome.

 

[MGDavid]

Pre-satnav I drove round Paris on the oeripherique on a Sunday afternoon, nightmare!
Always go via Reims now.