Spanish motorways, toll free or not?

[spigot]

Last time in Spain toll booths were being removed.
Now I hear, because of a EU directive, Tolls are being reintroduced on motorways.
What is the truth?
Anyone been driving there most recently who can say what is actually happening??
Thanks in anticipation.

 

[Ziggy123]

However I tried the test payment would not go through using the bank’s IBAN number so I paid that invoice with another card. The app says my badge is Active so I only hope it works when I try it in Spain in a couple of weeks.

I had the same trouble the first time I tried and did the same as you and thought it was fine but it didn't work. Have you added another payment bank now? It may have been nothing to do with that and it may have just been our tag was just faulty, so hopefully yours will be fine. I returned ours when we got home and when we decided to give it another go starting from scratch.

 

[David and Sally]

I had the same trouble the first time I tried and did the same as you and thought it was fine but it didn't work. Have you added another payment bank now? It may have been nothing to do with that and it may have just been our tag was just faulty, so hopefully yours will be fine. I returned ours when we got home and when we decided to give it another go starting from scratch.

It won’t let me add another bank but my other bank is Santander and if I read the above posts correctly they don’t allow foreign DDs.
If it doesn’t work at the first toll I’ll just use credit cards at the tolls.

 

[Ziggy123]

It won’t let me add another bank but my other bank is Santander and if I read the above posts correctly they don’t allow foreign DDs.
If it doesn’t work at the first toll I’ll just use credit cards at the tolls.

Yes it is quite easy to just tap your card to pay. I wasnt going to bother in end but decided to give it another go. I opened a euro account with our bank HSBC in the end and just transfer the money over to pay invoice when need to.

 

[David and Sally]

Yes it is quite easy to just tap your card to pay. I wasnt going to bother in end but decided to give it another go. I opened a euro account with our bank HSBC in the end and just transfer the money over to pay invoice when need to.

Maybe that is it. Our HSBC account is Sterling.