ADDITIONAL TRAVEL COSTS Please use this page to help you calculate your additional travel costs. All efforts to be as accurate as possible have been taken, but these prices should only be regarded as rough guides to help you calculate your costs.

FUEL This will probably be one of the biggest costs of the tour, but once you get across the Channel the price of fuel drops considerably, especially for diesel, which is still taxed at a lower rate than petrol abroad. In France both are about 66p a liter, but unfortunately the prices in Luxembourg have caught up with the rest of Europe so it's not really worth the detour, apart from the scenery. The same goes for Croatia as fuel prices have practically doubled over the last couple of years in line with EU joining guidelines. it is currently around 65p to 70p a liter.

COUNTRY	DIESEL	PETROL
UK	96	94
FRANCE	72	72
BELGIUM	70	74
LUXEMBOURG	55	55
GERMANY	72	82
AUSTRIA	72	80
SLOVENIA	75	75

ACCOMMODATAION For the budget conscious, throughout Europe is a network of Formula 1 hotels that are about £14 for a 3 bed room with breakfast. Otherwise off the motorway into any town or large village there will be a guesthouse or B+B for approx £20 to £25 a room a night. These are generally of a much higher standard than those in the UK. In Croatia itself we sill be staying in family run B+Bs, a log cabin complex, a horse ranch, costal campsites and at least one night’s wild camping in the mountains. The maximum price for full board B+B is from £12 to £15 per person. For the campsites maybe £4 to £8.

MISCELLANEOUS FERRIES My personal recommendation at the moment is Norfolk Line from Dover to Dunkirk. Single trips can be as low as £19 and you don't have to book a specific ferry, you just turn up at the port and away you go. This is an ideal way to travel back across Europe as you don’t have the stress of having to drive back for a set time. TOLLS There are a couple of long tunnels in the Austrian Alps that require tolls, of £5 and £8 respectively. In Croatia there are a few tolls on the motorways, but these are about £4 a vehicle for a 100 mile drive. INSURANCE My current insurers charge me £15 a go for a Green Card, but previous ones issued them for free. Make sure that Croatia, HR on the card is not crossed off. Croatia is known as a Catagory 2 country, which means that you are automatically covered there third party with you British insurance policy. You will also need personal travel insurance. Some credit cards will cover you, but adequate policies start at about £15 for 2 weeks. Also you are going on a driving holiday and everything we will drive on is classed as a road.

FERRIES Ferries will probably be your biggest expense for getting to Russia and back. There are a few different ways of getting there. My preferred route is Norfolk Line across from Dover to Dunkirk, then a 500 mile easy drive up to Rostock in northern Germany where a 24 hour ferry will take you to straight Helsinki. There are currently 2 companies Superfast and Finnline. Both take approx 24 hours, but the Finnlines boat is a much more modern ship and the food is also included in the price. For those from the north of the UK you could go from Newcastle to Gothenburg in west Sweden with DFDS Seaways, then drive the 300 miles across to Stockholm where you can then get the floating city of a boat to Helsinki with Silja Lines. This boat is an experience itself!!

VISAS The cost of your visas is included in the Arctic Russia tour and the process will be explained to you when you book. One important thing to remember though is don’t loose the bits of paper in your passport or basically you won’t be going home with the rest of us!!

ACCOMMODATION All accommodation is included in the price of the tour. Your hotel in Roveneimi, northern Finland, will be pre-booked for you and you will pay approx £20 a person when you arrive.

FUEL Fuel is so cheap in Russia that you don’t even need to think about it. At about 20p a liter from the best service stations just keep the tank topped up and forget about it.

TRAFFIC POLICE The traffic police in Russia (DPS) will always rush excitedly out of their little roadside boxes at the side of a convoy of brightly coloured foreign 4x4s waving their speed cameras and red lights. They are generally harmless and unless we are doing something very wrong such as driving with alcohol on the breath or doing silly speeds, or perhaps not having all the paperwork they won’t ask for more than £10 of the first vehicle. But, never drink and drive and always have all of your paperwork ready. And I never let on that I speak Russian until I have heard them talk amongst themselves about what they can get away with fining us for.

(In Russia it only costs £12 to fill the tank and two 20 litre jerry cans!!)

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