Easiest driving route to DLP

Tinkjon · 24 Oct 18, 10:21 AM

Following on from my other thread (thanks again, SavaSnoopy!) I've just found a file showing the easiest route, but it says this:

"Roads from Calais are... A16, A26, A1, A3, A104, A4"

I thought it was just 2 roads from the Eurotunnel and am a bit scared now! I could look this all up on a map but does anybody know off the top of the head whether this route is the easy '2 roads only' one that people use? I'm thinking that sometimes one road is suddenly called another road but you're not actually getting onto a new road, iyswim?

TIA!

jazzluvva · 24 Oct 18, 01:28 PM

Yep, this is the standard way. You'd only be on the A16 for a few miles, then you'll be on the A26 for a good hour, then the A1 for a good hour. You exit the A1 straight after you drive under the CDG runway (from here you'll begin to see DLP Mickey Roadsigns). Forget about the A3, your only on it as you merge into the A104 (from leaving the A1 you're approx 30-40 mins from DLP...think of the A104 as being a bit like the M25, eventually you'll join the A4. DLP has its own exit. Total journey approx 2.45 hr

sjc100 · 24 Oct 18, 01:33 PM

Yeah, it's basically the A26 and then the A1. The other roads probably make up 10 minutes at the start of the journey and maybe 25-30 at the end (but in this bit you will have lots of clear and obvious DLP signs). Honestly, as journeys in foreign countries go, it is about as easy as you could possibly get.

wycombedad · 25 Oct 18, 07:37 PM

Remember most phone contracts now cover you in France too so if you have Google Maps on your phone it'll give you traffic updates too. We've driven the journey a dozen times and it really is very easy. But those first roads are toll roads, so don't forget to take that into account - 26euros total or about that from memory, but that means they are pretty quiet compared to anything I'm used to over here. Remember speed limit drops when it rains too, the one major difference to us (apart from everything being on the other side of the road of course).

SavaSnoopy · 25 Oct 18, 11:02 PM

Hi it is not that bad really and plenty of signs when you get closer to Disney as others have said.

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sjc100 Gone all Goofy Join Date: Jan 18 Location: Essex, England	Yeah, it's basically the A26 and then the A1. The other roads probably make up 10 minutes at the start of the journey and maybe 25-30 at the end (but in this bit you will have lots of clear and obvious DLP signs). Honestly, as journeys in foreign countries go, it is about as easy as you could possibly get.