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There are hotels near many motorway exits: but they are not always easy to find. The hotels listed on this map have been deliberately chosen because they really are close to the exit, and easy to find. Links on the map take you to the hotels' own websites or other booking sites, with online booking and often the best offers available.
NB: "Close to the exit" does not have to mean noisy. All these modern hotels are well insulated and soundproofed.
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Routes from Calais via Rouen are marginally longer (less than 10 km) than routes via Paris, but are cheaper (less tolls) and far easier driving (less traffic, few lorries). At French holiday weekends and other busy periods, they are also usually faster, sometimes much faster.

Leave Calais on the A16 / E402 motorway following signs for Boulogne, Amiens.
The motorway is a toll-motorway from Boulogne to Abbeville
Just before Abbeville, take the free A28 / E402 motorway to  Rouen. Rouen is sometimes a bit slow, but this is the only bit of hassle on the whole route, and the route is well signposted.
At the entrance to Rouen the A28 becomes the N28. Follow on down through the tunnel, then across the Seine. After that, follow signs for Paris and Evreux then Evreux & Orleans . You will join the A13 motorway west of Rouen.
About 10 km south or Rouen, leave the A13 motorway for the A154 motorway, which then becomes the N154 dual carriageway almost to Dreux.
Before Dreux, you have about 10 km on the N12 (straightforward, but sometimes busy). At the start of the town, leave the N12 following the signs for Chartres and Orleans
After Dreux, the N154 is almost all modern dual-carriageway as far as Chartres. Traffic normally flows freely on the relatively straight and flat single-carriageway section of the N154 from Chartres to the A10 toll motorway before Orleans.

After joining the joining the  A10 , it's motorway all the way. There are three possible destinations:

1. Clermont Ferrand (for Languedoc and Spain) via  A71 (toll) and  A75 (free) - not recommended for cars with heavy caravans or in winter, as the A75 after Clermont Ferrand has several long steep hills, and has a long stretch at up to 1100 metres altitude, that can be snowed up in winter.
2. Toulouse (for the Dordogne, central southwest France) via  A20 (free until after Brive la Gaillarde).
3. Bordeaux (for southwest France and western Spain), via A10 (toll).
At Orleans, the A71+A20 split from the A10.
At Vierzon, south of Orleans, the A71 and A20 split.

Overnight accommodation on routes south through France Budget & mid-range hotels very close to motorways and trunk roads

Overnight accommodation on routes south through France
Budget & mid-range hotels very close to motorways and trunk roads