Driving To Spain

[William]

Anyone drove from the UK to Spain? My dad is a bit of a panzy when it comes to flying and is thinking of driving instead, so has anyone ever been? whats the best way to go ect.? any advice on driving on their roads ect?

Cheers,
William

[Mochachino]

Why you driving there? to stay or just a holiday?

[William]

Just a holiday mate, 2 weeks but obviously we would leave a couple of days before my mum and sister, they would be flying :)

[Mochachino]

Il show iMystikz this thread, her dad does it a bit.

Costs about 600£ irc..

Or can sort someone out who will drive the car for you for about £700 :y:

[William]

Ok mate, cheers :)

[KINGVTS]

Il show iMystikz this thread, her dad does it a bit.

Costs about 600£ irc..

Or can sort someone out who will drive the car for you for about £700 :y:

600 quid to drive to spain? No

[sjk]

can use google maps to work out how many miles it is away, then, from that how much it will cost.

[William]

If we go in the M6 it's 1,524 miles...

[sjk]

If we go in the M6 it's 1,524 miles...

So 3,048 miles all in?

[Tom5190]

Never been to spain but drove down to Monaco with parents and cost roughly £420 in total for there and back. car was a 2.0L turbo Zafira with shit laods of luggage and a full family in.

Not that hard to drive on the other side of the road really, but never drove in mainland spain only majorca so cant help you on that

[bide_furio]

fuck that just drag him on the plane! will enjoy the holiday more then instead of having to stress about 24 hr driving journeys!

[William]

Yeah sjk, bide_furio, i would but he likes driving aswell, and i want to go the road trip aswell haha

[William]

Thanks tom, he has drove in majorca before, it's more laws and stuff that are quite funny and could cost a bit if we where caught breaking them...

[sjk]

I think it would be a laugh driving there, even more so if you can take turns driving.

600 quid to drive to spain? No

if he is going to be getting 30-35 mpg and fuel is a similar price its not going to be far off.

[William]

Yeah, it's a Citroen C3 Picasso we will be in so about 40-50 mpg

[iMystikz]

Alriteeeeeeeee! (driving to spain)

Just asked my dad few questions for you!

Basically we flew back and picked up a BMW 330d estate..

It took us 17 hours to drive back, and we stopped twice for a coffee..
(thats including the underground train to france which took like 1 and half hours)
He drove at around 120mph most of the way though!
And it cost around 500 quid, not sure on the EXACT price but its around 500.
Thats including, money for diesel, tolls & the train :)

WAS A LONG DRIVE! Even though i was passenger, Would do it again though :)

My dad was knackerd! hahaha

[William]

Cheers for the info Courtney :)

[iMystikz]

Cheers for the info Courtney :)

No botherrr fella x

[bide_furio]

i myself have been passenger in spain going from vallencia to just out side alicante, was very boring on the toll roads but was defo much quicker!

[tecwenlovesfood]

thats a long way to drive mate take you a couple of days

[Tontsy]

about an 18 hour drive iirc!

mrs fam does it monthly. and quite a good one too, if your a fan of driving!

but make sure there are no major events going on over there, that will attract the GB reg plates, as the old bill have a field day!

[William]

yeah thats what we where thinking, thats the only thing thats going to worry us, with some of the crazy laws some places have, but aslong as we stay in the speed limits i think we should be fine (i hope) :p

[jonathon5]

could get to barcelona in a day providing your shoe is down.

2 tanks of fuel 1 way.

What about getting the ferry to north spain ?

[William]

it's ibiza we're going to mate, so we need to drive down to either barca or valencia to get the ferry over to ibiza

[jonathon5]

Barcelona to santander 500 miles

[William]

its like a full day or so on a boat though from the uk to the north of spain, it's quicker to drive according to google maps

[shaunsvtr]

fuck that just drag him on the plane! will enjoy the holiday more then instead of having to stress about 24 hr driving journeys!

that made me laff as said just drag him on the plane lol+1

[jonathon5]

give him a B.A burger

"I ain't gettin on no plane fool !"

[William]

drag him on A-Team style, butt of a gun to the head then he wakes up on a beach in ibiza haha :innocent:

[Goodwrench]

Never been to spain but drove down to Monaco with parents and cost roughly £420 in total for there and back. car was a 2.0L turbo Zafira with shit laods of luggage and a full family in.

Not that hard to drive on the other side of the road really, but never drove in mainland spain only majorca so cant help you on that

Sounds like fun!
Did you stay in Monaco and how much should I budget for such a road trip?

[200sxmadz]

i drove to spain from hull to benidorm for somethink to do lol , was about 1400 miles , me and my mate did it in a transit van took us a day n half with stops , we drove to dover got ferry across , drove down to south of france , through andover i think then into spain , the roads from south of france into andover then spain are ace , go for it ule like it , cost us about 400 pound there and back in diesel , burning oil , cooking fat , wat ever we could get our hands on lol we used , was all fun:A:

[William]

yeah mate, it should be fun. it's only a day of driving, but we're going to drive down to folkstone, stay there over night and then get the earliest ferry to callais, then just drive all the way down to valencia, ferry across to ibiza, then to the hotel to get plastered lol

We're planning on videoing the whole driving trip, and im going to do like a blog type thing aswell for my site, so should be good :)

[valencia]

just get him on a plane its only a couple hours on the plane