Paris nightmare?

[malnik1]

Heading off in July, got a choice of Newhaven/Dieppe or Dover/Calais. Heading South West got an 8 hour journey at motorhome speed.
Dieppe ferry times are awful, late afternoon departure gets in at 11pm, midday departure expensive.
Dover/Calais lots of departures, about £30/40 cheaper, quicker but adds an extra 2 hours driving.
Route from Dieppe looks straight forward. From Calais shows driving through Paris! Is that the nightmare it sounds it could be? Anyone done it?

 

[Val54]

Not recommended unless you are travelling through the night in which case it can make sense to use the Peripherique. However double check your vehicle compliance with French city emission zones.

 

[Pauljenny]

Look at Portsmouth- Caen.
If you're not planning to spend much time driving through North France.

 

[runnach]

Never gone near Paris heading SW from leaving the tunnel, are you sure you have not muddled up your route in some way?

 

[andyjanet]

Depending on how far south west you are going, we drive to spain every other winter, from calais there are four choices hang out towards tours and drop down the A or N 10 can never remember which letter, free mostly dual carriageway but lots of roundabouts.
Or head for rouen then drop onto A75 free motorway heading thru massif central.
Third option paris never again , done it early morning , late evening and thru the night , roads close without a diversion route, road signs are hardly illuminated, even sat nag gets lost in the under passes,
A route i have yet to try but is recommended by some friends in the netherlands they come down to calais then head down to Lyon and across the bottom of france to perpignon, hope this helps you make a decision, paris is lovely to drive thru as a passenger janet saw the illuminated eiffel tower at least four times from the same stretch of road whilst i was battling with tomtom twattwat

 

[El radge]

Heading off in July, got a choice of Newhaven/Dieppe or Dover/Calais. Heading South West got an 8 hour journey at motorhome speed.
Dieppe ferry times are awful, late afternoon departure gets in at 11pm, midday departure expensive.
Dover/Calais lots of departures, about £30/40 cheaper, quicker but adds an extra 2 hours driving.
Route from Dieppe looks straight forward. From Calais shows driving through Paris! Is that the nightmare it sounds it could be? Anyone done it?

Paris peripherique is not as bad as you would imagine but , I think , unnecessary

 

[tonybvi]

Lived and drove in Paris for a couple of years a long while ago. In those days it was very much survival of the bravest and he who is the biggest bully wins! Don’t think I’d like to do it in my somewhat more expensive vehicles these days, as we only drove cheap old bangers when we lived there!