Using credit card for French Tolls

I will be using a lot of toll roads within France shortly.

How does the use of credit cards work, do you need to know the password
number as well.

Any help appreciated.


Cheers


Dee

How does the use of credit cards work, do you need to know the password
number as well.

No--any standard world-wide credit card (at least Visa or Mastercard) should
work no problem--you just hand it over, and get your receipt. You do not
need the embedded chip that are sometimes needed at some locations (which
have included unmanned petrol stations, in my experience).

Deebrief wrote:
I will be using a lot of toll roads within France shortly.

How does the use of credit cards work, do you need to know the password
number as well.

Any help appreciated.


Cheers


Dee

When you use a creditcard, you can also use the (usually) faster unmanned
lines. They have signs CB above them.
Insert the card when entering the road, and insert it again when you exit
the toll road. Very easy.
No PIN code is required, just the card itself.

Yorick.

No need to hand it over, just use the automatic lanes
No need for a pin
No time to type in a pin, there are people waiting behind !

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How does the use of credit cards work, do you need to know the
password number as well.

No--any standard world-wide credit card (at least Visa or Mastercard)
should work no problem--you just hand it over, and get your receipt. You
do not need the embedded chip that are sometimes needed at some locations
(which have included unmanned petrol stations, in my experience).

Deebrief wrote:
I will be using a lot of toll roads within France shortly.

How does the use of credit cards work, do you need to know the
password number as well.

Any help appreciated.


Cheers


Dee

I just came back from France

I normally use lanes where a persaon collects charges

just hand yr credit card and you will get yr receit
and

Bon Voyage...

Yorick wrote:
Deebrief wrote:
I will be using a lot of toll roads within France shortly.

How does the use of credit cards work, do you need to know the
password number as well.

Any help appreciated.

When you use a creditcard, you can also use the (usually) faster
unmanned lines. They have signs CB above them.
Insert the card when entering the road, and insert it again when
you exit the toll road. Very easy.
No PIN code is required, just the card itself.

But do they accept non-French credit cards? I've never been brave
enough to try with a British card, not wanting to be trapped in front of
a queue of irate drivers!
--
Richard J.
www.stayparis.net

Following up to "Richard J." :

Yorick wrote:
Deebrief wrote:
I will be using a lot of toll roads within France shortly.

How does the use of credit cards work, do you need to know the
password number as well.

Any help appreciated.

When you use a creditcard, you can also use the (usually) faster
unmanned lines. They have signs CB above them.
Insert the card when entering the road, and insert it again when
you exit the toll road. Very easy.
No PIN code is required, just the card itself.

But do they accept non-French credit cards? I've never been brave
enough to try with a British card, not wanting to be trapped in front of
a queue of irate drivers!

I have not qualms about holding up a queue at toll booths. It's their
system, they should bear the brunt of the anger of delayed drivers.

It's quite amazing how long it can take me to pay a toll when I'm on the
bike, especially when I have to pay the same as a car.
--
Tim C.

Just a precision you have to have a worldwide network's card (Visa,
Mastercard, American Express...). Do not try it with your local saving
and laons withdrawal card!

In some case you will be given a ticket upon entering a toll section.
The exit booth will later requires of you to insert the ticket in a
first slot, then the card in a second one. Receit is sometimes an
option chosen by pressing a button.

No - we live in France and often use a Non-French credit card. When you
are approaching the toll-booth, look out for the correct gate to use.
You get different gates - ones for those using a Toll Pass, others for
those paying cash, some are automatic where you chuck money into a
basket, and others for Credit Cards. These are marked with a sign that
says CB (Carte bancaire) and it is up above the gate. All you do is to
stick the card into the slot, and voilà! the boom opens and off you
go, provided your Credit Card is still valid of course. We also travel
a lot to Spain as we live near the border and the same applies to
everywhere we have passed through there. No problem. Just check that
your bank does not charge a fee for overseas transactions or you could
be paying a small fortune unnecessarily. Some tolls charges are say 60c
and you wont want to have to pay like 50c in bank charges. Susan

I know it seems like a gripe to pay toll charges, but don't forget that
in France, you don't pay any annual road taxes as they do in many other
countries. The toll system works on the principal that the people who
use the roads the most, should bear most of the cost of maintenance.
And if you have paid annual road taxes in say Britain, you have not
really contributed a brass farthing to the upkeep of the French or any
other country's roads. In Austria they have another system that in
fact often works out more expensive. You have to buy a sticker thing
as soon as you cross over into the country. There is a minumum charge
for this sticker, which gives you the right to use Austrian roads,
even though you may only be passing through and spending a day or even
a few hours there. If I remember correctly, the minimum amount of time
you pay for is about 7 days. And if you don't buy one, you face a hefty
fine. There are invariably hordes of polizei waiting not far into
Austria for someone like this :-) Susan