Day 1. Saturday Europoort - Hoeven - Dole (FR)

The planning for today is to leave the petrol station near my house at 10.30am, however this all depends on the ferry arriving on time, the disembarkation and the customs going according to plan.

The distance from Hoeven to Dole is 685km/428miles according to the Garmin navigation time that's 6 hrs 44mins non stop, I have allowed two hours for delays and stops and plan to arrive at the hotel in Dole at 6.15pm. As I know this hotel is out of town and I presume we will all be tired so I have booked a dinner table for us all at the hotel for 8.15pm.

Every one tanks at the petrol station near my house. Next planned stop 206km/129miles
A16           Antwerp    petrol 23.5km/14miles NL/B border
A19           Brussels   petrol 78.9km/49miles
E40           Namen/Luik/Leuven/luchthaven (airport)
E40
Luxembourg/Namen/Brussels          * These two are within 200m of each other.
Luxembourg/Namen                           * Basically its the ring road off and then away from it.
E411         Luxembourg/Namen    petrol 129km/80miles
E411         Petrol 206km/129miles Aire de Wanlin REST STOP
                 N50 08.694 E5 04.636 Next planned stop 204km/127miles
E411         Luxembourg/Namen
E25           Luxembourg/Arlon
E25           Petrol 304km/190miles
A3/E25     Metz
A31/E21   Metz/Nancy
A31/E25   Metz/Nancy
A31          Petrol 410km/256miles Aire de Obrion REST STOP
                  N48 51.380 E6 05.348 Next planned stop 233km/145miles
A31          Nancy/Lyon
A31          Petrol 449km/280miles
A31          Paris/Lyon/Dijon
A31          Petrol 497km/310miles
A31          Petrol 541km/338miles
A31          Petrol 571km/356miles
A31/E21   Petrol 643km/401miles Aire de Dijon - Spoy REST STOP
                 N47 25.413 E5 10.171 Next stop = Destination 42km/26miles
A39          Grenoble/Geneva/Dole
Exit 6       At round about 3rd right D973
                At round about 4th right Ave de la Cote D'or
                1km then turn right D354
                1.5km Hotel

Hotel Chalet du Mont-Roland
F-39100 Sampans
0033 384720455

The price for the hotel is €60.00/double room + breakfast €9.50/pp This is the cheapest hotel on our trip so I am curious as to what it will be like.

I have tried to plan the official stops to once every two hours, the reason I planned the last stop so close to our destination is that tomorrow is Sunday and I am not sure which petrol stations will be open.

While motorways are not our first choice they are a necessary evil to get us as quickly to our "start point" as possible.

This is at the start of the holiday season so don't anticipate much in the way of traffic jams.