As there has been a lot of debate about the costs of French holidays I thought some folk might be interested in our expenditure this summer. We were 2 adults and Max the collie in our Kia Sorento Titan (07) automatic towing our Bailey Senator Arizona (5 series/06).
This is a list of our expenditure for our summer holidays in Brittany. We have to go in the Peak season of July/August as we ae both teachers. We were away for a total of 38 nights, including 2 in the UK from 23 July. We used Lidl for as much Food shopping as possible. We took quite a lot of food with us including some tinned meats, etc for meals whilst travelling. We ate cereal or croissant for breakfast, bagette and cold meats for lunch each day and cooked our own meals most nights. We only ate out once, pizza, and don't go to bars, etc.
We found France a bit expensive for food shopping, meals out and bar drinks but diesel was cheaper than the UK at c£1.14/litre. Our Sorento is a bit of a fuel guzzler. Home and back again we did 2174 miles and used 478.07 litres of diesel an average of 20.67 miles/gallon.
We drove down from St Helens to Folkestone and then crossed to the Continent using Eurotunnel. After 2 nights at Camping La Chaumiere, near St Omer, we drove down to Camping de Port La Chaine in northern Brittany. We stopped at Camping Pont Farcy for one night enroute. After 2 weeks we drove on to Camping Du Letty, Benodet where we spent 15 nights. We then drove back to La Chaumiere for a 3 night stay stopping another one night at Pont Farcy again enroute.
The following gives some idea of our expenditure. We used our Post Office Credit Card(Commission free), took 220€ with us (from the PO in the UK) and took out another 100€ from a cash machine in France (Nationwide debit card) but we brought 40+€ home with us.
Eurotunnel (+Tesco Vchs £190) inc dog £60.00
Red Pennant Insurance £289.50 £7.60 Insurance/Day
Food Shopping £438.70 £12.73 Food/Day
Cider for home use (55 bottles) £73.00
Meals out(Inc Take-aways & ice/cream) £82.06
Diesel £571.00 £15.03 Diesel/Day
Tolls(Inc 2xM6 Toll) £50.04
Vet (Dog's Pet Passport - St Omer) £37.38
Cmpg/Nt
Cmpg La Chaumiere(5) £97.68 £19.54
Cmpg Pont Farcy(2) £19.10 £9.55
Cmpg Port La Chaine(14) £388.08 £27.72
Cmpg Du Letty(15) (+2x30% Dy Mirr Vch) £447.19 £29.81
Wyatt's Covert CC(2) (+£5CC Voucher) £44.42 £22.21
Est cash exp (Not included above) £100.00
Total £2,689.13 £71.00 Overall/Night
£996.45 Campg Total(38 Nts)
£26.22 Campg Average/Nt
I hope these figures may be of interest/help to others.
Tim
This is a list of our expenditure for our summer holidays in Brittany. We have to go in the Peak season of July/August as we ae both teachers. We were away for a total of 38 nights, including 2 in the UK from 23 July. We used Lidl for as much Food shopping as possible. We took quite a lot of food with us including some tinned meats, etc for meals whilst travelling. We ate cereal or croissant for breakfast, bagette and cold meats for lunch each day and cooked our own meals most nights. We only ate out once, pizza, and don't go to bars, etc.
We found France a bit expensive for food shopping, meals out and bar drinks but diesel was cheaper than the UK at c£1.14/litre. Our Sorento is a bit of a fuel guzzler. Home and back again we did 2174 miles and used 478.07 litres of diesel an average of 20.67 miles/gallon.
We drove down from St Helens to Folkestone and then crossed to the Continent using Eurotunnel. After 2 nights at Camping La Chaumiere, near St Omer, we drove down to Camping de Port La Chaine in northern Brittany. We stopped at Camping Pont Farcy for one night enroute. After 2 weeks we drove on to Camping Du Letty, Benodet where we spent 15 nights. We then drove back to La Chaumiere for a 3 night stay stopping another one night at Pont Farcy again enroute.
The following gives some idea of our expenditure. We used our Post Office Credit Card(Commission free), took 220€ with us (from the PO in the UK) and took out another 100€ from a cash machine in France (Nationwide debit card) but we brought 40+€ home with us.
Eurotunnel (+Tesco Vchs £190) inc dog £60.00
Red Pennant Insurance £289.50 £7.60 Insurance/Day
Food Shopping £438.70 £12.73 Food/Day
Cider for home use (55 bottles) £73.00
Meals out(Inc Take-aways & ice/cream) £82.06
Diesel £571.00 £15.03 Diesel/Day
Tolls(Inc 2xM6 Toll) £50.04
Vet (Dog's Pet Passport - St Omer) £37.38
Cmpg/Nt
Cmpg La Chaumiere(5) £97.68 £19.54
Cmpg Pont Farcy(2) £19.10 £9.55
Cmpg Port La Chaine(14) £388.08 £27.72
Cmpg Du Letty(15) (+2x30% Dy Mirr Vch) £447.19 £29.81
Wyatt's Covert CC(2) (+£5CC Voucher) £44.42 £22.21
Est cash exp (Not included above) £100.00
Total £2,689.13 £71.00 Overall/Night
£996.45 Campg Total(38 Nts)
£26.22 Campg Average/Nt
I hope these figures may be of interest/help to others.
Tim
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