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Going to France and Italy this year (inshallah) and maybe Spain next year. Has anybody used the Bip&Go badge payment system and can give some feedback?
 
I use the ATMB but its only for France billed to home address monthly only in the months you use it. Shouldn,t worry to much about Spain as their doing away with most of their toll rds
 
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Only if you are in a hurry. But really slow down, use the back roads and really see the country. In Spain the back roads are emptied than the motorway and many are dead straight for miles.
 
We have a Libert-T tag and have had one for quite a few years now. Is this different to the Bip&Go? is it a different company? Or a different set up?

As we tour in Spain and go via France, I'd be interested in a tag that could do both.

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I just did some digging and it looks like 2 different set ups to me. The main benefit of B&G is only having one tag as opposed to having two different with emovis I think. I haven't compared the costs as such though.
 
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Going to France and Italy this year (inshallah) and maybe Spain next year. Has anybody used the Bip&Go badge payment system and can give some feedback?
We've got one. Had some mixed experiences tbh. It worked on some toll stations and not on others. For example. On the way back through France in November 2021 It opened the barrier to let me on to the toll roads, but then we had to use the manual payment to get off!

I have an idea it might be that when we registered for the tag, because I said it was a motorhome, it put me at Class 2, but my van, an Autotrail Cheyenne 660, has been up-plated to 4.5 Tonnes and has air suspension and that has raised the back end to slightly over the 3.5 weight limit and 3 metre height limit for Class 2. I'm only surmising this because when I queried it with B&G, their reply was in French and I haven't a clue what it says! There isn't much difference between the two, and there seems to be no way of altering it through the website. But I haven't got round to having a proper look since we got back.

The other issue might be that be the windscreen. It seems motorhome windscreens, from 2007, are heat reflective, (who knew?) and so the tag reader hasn't picked it up. You are supposed to put the tag in the dotted area at the top of the screen, but because of the roof hang over that area isn't available, so It put it in the middle of the screen at the bottom. It does say on the B&G website this is possible. So seeing as it opened the barrier to let me on, I don't know why it didn't let me off. So I'm inclined to believe it's reason 1

All that said, if you input the correct vehicle details, (going off the times it worked), it proved to be very easy to use. It just takes the money from your credit card at the end of the month, and sends you an invoice with itemised toll fees.

Some of the replies here have mentioned using back roads etc when travelling through France, which is a valid point. But be aware the French are going through the road system and as part of their air quality rules, making most roads a 3.5 Tonne weight limit. Some are done already. They are available if you are entering the towns, say to use aires or shop, but not for travelling through. How they police it I don't know, but I'm not going to volunteer to be the experiment! They are also planning to toll ALL motorways, as are the Spanish, so we might not have much choice in the next few years.
 
Thanks for the info.

As I mentioned, we have had a Liber-t tag for a number of years now - first for car use and then for our MH. We are 5t fully loaded and just over 3.0m high so officially shouldn't use the tag but it works 9/10 times I'd say. On the other times I press the button and that usually does the trick after a bit of 'allo 'allo Franglais!

We make use of it when going to and from Spain. I use decent A roads if there is not too much added time/length on the trip (such as between Poitiers and Bordeaux for example) but tbh in France in a wet January, we just want to make distance. In more clement times of the year then we like to have a bimble like most folks.

Re Spanish motorways - I was under the impression that they were de-tolling them currently? Not the other way around....
 
Thanks for the info.

As I mentioned, we have had a Liber-t tag for a number of years now - first for car use and then for our MH. We are 5t fully loaded and just over 3.0m high so officially shouldn't use the tag but it works 9/10 times I'd say. On the other times I press the button and that usually does the trick after a bit of 'allo 'allo Franglais!

We make use of it when going to and from Spain. I use decent A roads if there is not too much added time/length on the trip (such as between Poitiers and Bordeaux for example) but tbh in France in a wet January, we just want to make distance. In more clement times of the year then we like to have a bimble like most folks.

Re Spanish motorways - I was under the impression that they were de-tolling them currently? Not the other way around....
They have been detolling them but I have read there is talk of a U turn !
 
No, just what I have read in local papers not immediately I think but maybe in a couple of years from memory !
 
Remembered something about it as down here in Valencia they have just finished knocking the pay stations down. Typically Spanish to now want to rebuild them !
 
Shouldn,t worry to much about Spain as their doing away with most of their toll rds
Just done a Google on this and although they have done away with some of their toll routes they have plans to introduce a lot more by 2024 So you'll need that Tag for Spain as well Sorry
 
Thanks for the info.

As I mentioned, we have had a Liber-t tag for a number of years now - first for car use and then for our MH. We are 5t fully loaded and just over 3.0m high so officially shouldn't use the tag but it works 9/10 times I'd say. On the other times I press the button and that usually does the trick after a bit of 'allo 'allo Franglais!

We make use of it when going to and from Spain. I use decent A roads if there is not too much added time/length on the trip (such as between Poitiers and Bordeaux for example) but tbh in France in a wet January, we just want to make distance. In more clement times of the year then we like to have a bimble like most folks.

Re Spanish motorways - I was under the impression that they were de-tolling them currently? Not the other way around....
We usually bimble and avoid motorways, but with less time than usual thanks to the B word we want to get down through already much bimbled France and Northern Italy so we can save our bimbling time for the back roads all the way down the Apennine’s to the south and back. Going in early March means most of our favourite Alpine passes will still be off the agenda.

Looked at LiberT, Telepass and Tolltickets, but all seem to attract some pretty dismal reviews.
 
Looked at LiberT, Telepass and Tolltickets, but all seem to attract some pretty dismal reviews.
Well we've not used anything like this before but the ATMB has worked faultlessly for Us for 4 yrs even posted to us in the UK. You only pay the rental for the months you use it and if you use it 3 times in that month it's waived. Fee's are collected by DD after you've received notification by email
 
We're recent converts to ATMB. Apply on line in English, no need to specify the vehicle (they even supply a second holder for another vehicle) and only 16.90€ delivered to your address, of which 1.90€ is for the first month's use! It worked faultlessly on our first dash south in December. No more French roundabouts, 50kph limits at every village, speed cameras, bottlenecks like Nonancourt. And no more leaning out of windows to pay tolls.
Drawbacks? Only one I've found: after the application, all communications are in French! Not a problem to Google Translate, but it's worth pointing out ;-)
 
Sorry . . . Further to the above post, give yourself plenty of time for the pass to arrive. Mine took a little over 3 weeks. And register a fee-free credit card like Halifax Clarity for payment. I notice that the initial payment of 15€ wasn't taken until the month after delivery, and the fee for the first month's use wasn't taken, in spite of being shown on the initial invoice.
 
We've got one. Had some mixed experiences tbh. It worked on some toll stations and not on others. For example. On the way back through France in November 2021 It opened the barrier to let me on to the toll roads, but then we had to use the manual payment to get off!

I have an idea it might be that when we registered for the tag, because I said it was a motorhome, it put me at Class 2, but my van, an Autotrail Cheyenne 660, has been up-plated to 4.5 Tonnes and has air suspension and that has raised the back end to slightly over the 3.5 weight limit and 3 metre height limit for Class 2. I'm only surmising this because when I queried it with B&G, their reply was in French and I haven't a clue what it says! There isn't much difference between the two, and there seems to be no way of altering it through the website. But I haven't got round to having a proper look since we got back.

The other issue might be that be the windscreen. It seems motorhome windscreens, from 2007, are heat reflective, (who knew?) and so the tag reader hasn't picked it up. You are supposed to put the tag in the dotted area at the top of the screen, but because of the roof hang over that area isn't available, so It put it in the middle of the screen at the bottom. It does say on the B&G website this is possible. So seeing as it opened the barrier to let me on, I don't know why it didn't let me off. So I'm inclined to believe it's reason 1

All that said, if you input the correct vehicle details, (going off the times it worked), it proved to be very easy to use. It just takes the money from your credit card at the end of the month, and sends you an invoice with itemised toll fees.

Some of the replies here have mentioned using back roads etc when travelling through France, which is a valid point. But be aware the French are going through the road system and as part of their air quality rules, making most roads a 3.5 Tonne weight limit. Some are done already. They are available if you are entering the towns, say to use aires or shop, but not for travelling through. How they police it I don't know, but I'm not going to volunteer to be the experiment! They are also planning to toll ALL motorways, as are the Spanish, so we might not have much choice in the next few years.
Addition to this message. We used it in Spain and it worked perfectly at every toll booth!
 
Going to France and Italy this year (inshallah) and maybe Spain next year. Has anybody used the Bip&Go badge payment system and can give some feedback?
We've used (the same) BipandGo in both our van and our car over the past two years in both Spain and Portugal. Worked perfectly, very happy with it.
 
We've got one. Had some mixed experiences tbh. It worked on some toll stations and not on others. For example. On the way back through France in November 2021 It opened the barrier to let me on to the toll roads, but then we had to use the manual payment to get off!

I have an idea it might be that when we registered for the tag, because I said it was a motorhome, it put me at Class 2, but my van, an Autotrail Cheyenne 660, has been up-plated to 4.5 Tonnes and has air suspension and that has raised the back end to slightly over the 3.5 weight limit and 3 metre height limit for Class 2. I'm only surmising this because when I queried it with B&G, their reply was in French and I haven't a clue what it says! There isn't much difference between the two, and there seems to be no way of altering it through the website. But I haven't got round to having a proper look since we got back.

The other issue might be that be the windscreen. It seems motorhome windscreens, from 2007, are heat reflective, (who knew?) and so the tag reader hasn't picked it up. You are supposed to put the tag in the dotted area at the top of the screen, but because of the roof hang over that area isn't available, so It put it in the middle of the screen at the bottom. It does say on the B&G website this is possible. So seeing as it opened the barrier to let me on, I don't know why it didn't let me off. So I'm inclined to believe it's reason 1

All that said, if you input the correct vehicle details, (going off the times it worked), it proved to be very easy to use. It just takes the money from your credit card at the end of the month, and sends you an invoice with itemised toll fees.

Some of the replies here have mentioned using back roads etc when travelling through France, which is a valid point. But be aware the French are going through the road system and as part of their air quality rules, making most roads a 3.5 Tonne weight limit. Some are done already. They are available if you are entering the towns, say to use aires or shop, but not for travelling through. How they police it I don't know, but I'm not going to volunteer to be the experiment! They are also planning to toll ALL motorways, as are the Spanish, so we might not have much choice in the next few years.
@Annsman ''because when I queried it with B&G, their reply was in French and I haven't a clue what it says''

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