Great recap on your trip! Surprisingly affordable! Definitely a lot of bang for the buck! What an amazing trip and memories worth more than the cost! Thanks for sharing
Cheers, great to hear you found the video informative. I though it was great value too and looking at the bigger picture the experience e was worth every penny 👍🏻
That's very helpful, sort of read my mind. I'd thought whilst sharing your trip how useful a review of costs would be and you went and did it, what a guy, ta.
@@hestonmckenzie6875 that’s great to hear Heston, glad you found it useful. Good luck planning your trip, and if there’s any info I might be able to help with, please drop me a message 😀👍🏻
Enjoyed the tour series, thank you for also putting up your cost's. I am due to head out there on the 26th May, I'm hoping the weather gods allow some of the passes to open early. 👍👍
Hello, great to hear you found the video useful, it really is a fantastic place and I hope you have a safe and enjoyable journey 👍🏻 here is a link to a website that will keep you up to date with the opening of the passes. I used it and it was 100% accurate. alpen-paesse.ch/en/# Have a great trip and please drop back and let me know how it goes 😀 Cheers, Dave
A great job listing all of the costings for this trip Dave, I'm sure it will prove very useful to many people planning something similar. I had no idea what the channel shuttle costs these days, for instance and it was also good to know what the fuel, hotel and toll costs were. A very thorough job, very well presented. Congratulations on a great video to round off the series. Cheers Dave, excellent work. Garry & Ruby
@@nikkij1618 Hi Nikki thanks for watching and leaving a comment. I used the Garmin XT satnav. I tried to plan the passes rides before we went, however as the passes were closed it wouldn’t let me create routes that incorporated the passes which was a bit of a pain, I even tried to plan them on google maps but again due to the passes being closed it wouldn’t route for them. I planned the Routes for our first full day in the Alps when we visited Beatenberg and Grindelwald using the Beeline App and Satnav. On the Thursday (1st June) Grimsel, Furka and Nufenen passes opened so I was able to plot routes using the Garmin. Susten pass didn’t fully open whilst we were there so we were only able to partially ride the pass, it was probably the most beautiful of the passes we rode. I have a folding map of Switzerland which I had used to get a feel for the geography and this really helped when it came to plugging the routes into the Satnav whilst we were there. Hope I’ve answered your question? 😬👍🏻
@@MerciaMoto many thanks was interested to hear how you got on with the Garmin as I keep thinking of replacing my TomTom with one. I went to the Swiss Alps in 22 ride the Susten, Furka and Grimsel passes just amazing. It’s a truly beautiful place and seeing your great videos reminds me I’ve got to go again. Thanks again 😀
@@nikkij1618 thank you for the kind words 🙏🏼 we want to go back to I’d love to ride the whole of Susten, Tremola and Overalp passes. This may be on our 2025 agenda. Apart from the issues with not being able to plug the passes in before the tour, the Garmin XT performed flawlessly 🙂👍🏻
We were a week behind you, 12 days down to the grossglockner, Italy, Switzwerland and back through France. 2500 mi, single occupancy rooms but we avoided toll roads. Came in at £1600 all in
Enjoyed watching the series and it has me looking forward to getting out there during the summer. I`ll be heading for Austria in July and will defo be getting a couple of days in Switzerland on the way back. Great idea to let people have an idea of the cost involved.
Thank you!🙏🏼 Great to hear you enjoyed the series, I have Austria on the to do list at some stage. Thought it might be useful for folks to know the costs. 👍🏻🙂
Hi Dave this is a very good video of the breakdown of the cost of this trip I thought it would be more expensive then this appreciate it. Good guide price 👍🏍️
Thanks Derek, it wasn’t as expensive as I anticipated it would be and hopefully it will be useful for anyone considering doing a similar tour but might be put off by the costs 👍🏻
@@MerciaMoto Yes I agree, Dave. The Euro tunnel was a great way to get to Europe as the road journey from the midlands wasn't excessive. My experiences of ferries isn't really very pleasant - uncomfortable and long. Eurostar apart from the queuing and feeling that I was being treated like an unwanted guest at check in etc wasn't the best either but your ride on , ride off appeared to be almost a pleasure! A great summing up of what must be a wonderful experience for both of you to look back on. I certainly enjoyed it! Thank you both.
Interesting to understand your costs, £1300 is not bad for such a wonderful trip. My trip cost about £2k for a 13 day break, the ferry was way more expensive than Euro tunnel and I was solo so had full cost of hotels. However, the only toll I had was the vignette. Nice wrap up for the tour.
I did a 21 day tour with 17 days in Europe this year and spent around £2000 on accomodation, tunnel and ferry back. I didn't take a note of petrol costs though.. In France I used the motorways and especially the Peage as little as possible using more enjoyable country roads. In Switzerland I never bought the Vignette as there was never any need to use the motorway with so many good non toll roads, I did prepurchase an online Vignette for Austria as I needed to use their motorway on one day on route to Switzerland,. When staying more than one night in one place I booked an apartment, 4 nights in Altmunster and 5 nights in Meiringen, ended up cheaper than a hotel and I could buy food at the supermarket and cook for myself, saved the high costs of eating out in Switzerland. I noticed you didn't mention holiday insurance, this can be quite expensive as you often have to pay extra if you ride a bike over 125cc, I think I was around £250 but this did give £1m medical cover and covered transport home if the bike broke down, did also have AA recovery to recover the bike to the UK.
Thanks Jim, some great info there, really useful when planning future tours. My travel insurance is provided through my bank account so didn’t think it relevant to mention, good call though to consider when budgeting 👍🏻
Thanks mate, it’s good having an idea how much it costs to do tours like these, hopefully encourages folks that are putting off doing a tour because of cost concerns to get out there and do it 👍🏻
Interesting and goid information mate I'm in New Zealand and I'm looking a European Trip when I retire in 2026 question I have is what price roughly would you pay for a goid touring bike in England ...hireage is a fair bit so I'm wondering if it's cheaper to buy something there and resell it when we come back ?
Hello, thanks for watching and leaving a comment mate. I’m not sure how much it would cost to hire a bike over here. I’ve found this link to a hire company who could probably tell you how much it would be. huntsmotorcycles.co.uk/uk-motorcycle-hire/ Depending on how long you plan on spending over her it might be worth buying a second hand bike, there are some great used bikes on Autotrader, probably looking at around £3-4k I’d imagine. 🤔
Very nice of you to break down the cost for people mate. 👍😁
Thanks mate, if folks find it useful it’s worthwhile making the video 😁👍🏻
Great recap on your trip! Surprisingly affordable! Definitely a lot of bang for the buck! What an amazing trip and memories worth more than the cost! Thanks for sharing
Cheers, great to hear you found the video informative. I though it was great value too and looking at the bigger picture the experience e was worth every penny 👍🏻
Thanks for the breakdown of the costs involved and for sharing the stunning views you encountered while travelling 👍😀
Thanks Michael, hopefully folks will find it useful. Paul and my tour of Skye and the West Highlands videos star on Saturday 😁👍🏻
That's very helpful, sort of read my mind. I'd thought whilst sharing your trip how useful a review of costs would be and you went and did it, what a guy, ta.
Thanks for that Alan, hope you found the info useful 😁👍🏻
Thanks m8
This is very helpful to me as I am planning a low budget trip to next year.
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@@hestonmckenzie6875 that’s great to hear Heston, glad you found it useful. Good luck planning your trip, and if there’s any info I might be able to help with, please drop me a message 😀👍🏻
Enjoyed the tour series, thank you for also putting up your cost's. I am due to head out there on the 26th May, I'm hoping the weather gods allow some of the passes to open early. 👍👍
Hello, great to hear you found the video useful, it really is a fantastic place and I hope you have a safe and enjoyable journey 👍🏻 here is a link to a website that will keep you up to date with the opening of the passes. I used it and it was 100% accurate.
alpen-paesse.ch/en/#
Have a great trip and please drop back and let me know how it goes 😀
Cheers, Dave
Thank you@@MerciaMoto
Wonderful conclusion to a marvellous tour 😊 Very reasonable costings 😊
Cheers TAYM hopefully some folks might find it useful 🙂👍🏻
@@MerciaMoto me, trying to ween Mrs TAYM off a fortnight on a beach 😁😂😂😂
@@TAYM Brilliant! 😂 hope it has the desired effect 😁👍🏻
I thought a lot of the costs were unnecessary. There is no reason for a lot of those tolls for a start.
Thanks, very informative. much appreciated. Look forward to your future vlogs!!!
Thank you sir, great to hear you found the video useful 👍🏻
A great job listing all of the costings for this trip Dave, I'm sure it will prove very useful to many people planning something similar.
I had no idea what the channel shuttle costs these days, for instance and it was also good to know what the fuel, hotel and toll costs were.
A very thorough job, very well presented. Congratulations on a great video to round off the series.
Cheers Dave, excellent work.
Garry & Ruby
Thanks Garry and Ruby, praise indeed and very much appreciate the feedback on the video 😁👍🏻
This really helps with my planning for 2024, thought it would be a lot more expensive. Thanks again Dave.
Hiya Mick, great to hear it’s of use, I reckon it’s a pretty reasonable cost overall 😁👍🏻
Great video thanks. Would be interested to hear how you got on with your Garmin sat nav and how you planned your routes
@@nikkij1618 Hi Nikki thanks for watching and leaving a comment. I used the Garmin XT satnav. I tried to plan the passes rides before we went, however as the passes were closed it wouldn’t let me create routes that incorporated the passes which was a bit of a pain, I even tried to plan them on google maps but again due to the passes being closed it wouldn’t route for them. I planned the Routes for our first full day in the Alps when we visited Beatenberg and Grindelwald using the Beeline App and Satnav. On the Thursday (1st June) Grimsel, Furka and Nufenen passes opened so I was able to plot routes using the Garmin. Susten pass didn’t fully open whilst we were there so we were only able to partially ride the pass, it was probably the most beautiful of the passes we rode. I have a folding map of Switzerland which I had used to get a feel for the geography and this really helped when it came to plugging the routes into the Satnav whilst we were there. Hope I’ve answered your question? 😬👍🏻
@@MerciaMoto many thanks was interested to hear how you got on with the Garmin as I keep thinking of replacing my TomTom with one. I went to the Swiss Alps in 22 ride the Susten, Furka and Grimsel passes just amazing. It’s a truly beautiful place and seeing your great videos reminds me I’ve got to go again. Thanks again 😀
@@nikkij1618 thank you for the kind words 🙏🏼 we want to go back to I’d love to ride the whole of Susten, Tremola and Overalp passes. This may be on our 2025 agenda. Apart from the issues with not being able to plug the passes in before the tour, the Garmin XT performed flawlessly 🙂👍🏻
We were a week behind you, 12 days down to the grossglockner, Italy, Switzwerland and back through France. 2500 mi, single occupancy rooms but we avoided toll roads. Came in at £1600 all in
Morning Dave, that’s great value isn’t it for 12 days.? 👍🏻
Enjoyed watching the series and it has me looking forward to getting out there during the summer. I`ll be heading for Austria in July and will defo be getting a couple of days in Switzerland on the way back. Great idea to let people have an idea of the cost involved.
Thank you!🙏🏼 Great to hear you enjoyed the series, I have Austria on the to do list at some stage. Thought it might be useful for folks to know the costs. 👍🏻🙂
Cheers guys, some good pointers here. 👍🏆🇬🇧
You’re very welcome, glad you found it useful 👍🏻
Great information and thanks very much for sharing.
Thank you, for watching and leaving a comment. Great to hear you found it useful 👍🏻
This is really helpful. Thanks
Thanks Adam, appreciate the positive feedback 👍🏻
Hi Dave this is a very good video of the breakdown of the cost of this trip I thought it would be more expensive then this appreciate it. Good guide price 👍🏍️
Thanks Derek, it wasn’t as expensive as I anticipated it would be and hopefully it will be useful for anyone considering doing a similar tour but might be put off by the costs 👍🏻
You could do it a lot cheaper than that.
Really useful, Dave 👍
Thanks Peter, I was going to make this video months ago but never got around to it. I think it rounds of the tour videos nicely though 🙂👍🏻
@@MerciaMoto Yes I agree, Dave. The Euro tunnel was a great way to get to Europe as the road journey from the midlands wasn't excessive. My experiences of ferries isn't really very pleasant - uncomfortable and long.
Eurostar apart from the queuing and feeling that I was being treated like an unwanted guest at check in etc wasn't the best either but your ride on , ride off appeared to be almost a pleasure!
A great summing up of what must be a wonderful experience for both of you to look back on. I certainly enjoyed it! Thank you both.
Interesting to understand your costs, £1300 is not bad for such a wonderful trip. My trip cost about £2k for a 13 day break, the ferry was way more expensive than Euro tunnel and I was solo so had full cost of hotels. However, the only toll I had was the vignette. Nice wrap up for the tour.
Thank Alex, I think it was a pretty reasonable price to pay, considering where we went 🙂👍🏻
I did a 21 day tour with 17 days in Europe this year and spent around £2000 on accomodation, tunnel and ferry back. I didn't take a note of petrol costs though.. In France I used the motorways and especially the Peage as little as possible using more enjoyable country roads. In Switzerland I never bought the Vignette as there was never any need to use the motorway with so many good non toll roads, I did prepurchase an online Vignette for Austria as I needed to use their motorway on one day on route to Switzerland,. When staying more than one night in one place I booked an apartment, 4 nights in Altmunster and 5 nights in Meiringen, ended up cheaper than a hotel and I could buy food at the supermarket and cook for myself, saved the high costs of eating out in Switzerland. I noticed you didn't mention holiday insurance, this can be quite expensive as you often have to pay extra if you ride a bike over 125cc, I think I was around £250 but this did give £1m medical cover and covered transport home if the bike broke down, did also have AA recovery to recover the bike to the UK.
Thanks Jim, some great info there, really useful when planning future tours. My travel insurance is provided through my bank account so didn’t think it relevant to mention, good call though to consider when budgeting 👍🏻
Decent little vid 👍
Thanks Johnny, hope you found d it useful 👍🏻
Great video mukka and costing isn’t bad at all it was about the same as mine I went for 10 days
Thanks mate, it’s good having an idea how much it costs to do tours like these, hopefully encourages folks that are putting off doing a tour because of cost concerns to get out there and do it 👍🏻
@@MerciaMoto yea I mean it’s helpful to have a total costing of the trip
Thanks for taking the time to do the breakdown. What mileage were you getting for your bike?
Thank you for watching and leaving a comment, I wasn’t taking much notice of my mpg on the tour but I think the Tracer was averaging ~50mpg 👍🏻
Interesting and goid information mate I'm in New Zealand and I'm looking a European Trip when I retire in 2026 question I have is what price roughly would you pay for a goid touring bike in England ...hireage is a fair bit so I'm wondering if it's cheaper to buy something there and resell it when we come back ?
Hello, thanks for watching and leaving a comment mate. I’m not sure how much it would cost to hire a bike over here. I’ve found this link to a hire company who could probably tell you how much it would be.
huntsmotorcycles.co.uk/uk-motorcycle-hire/
Depending on how long you plan on spending over her it might be worth buying a second hand bike, there are some great used bikes on Autotrader, probably looking at around £3-4k I’d imagine. 🤔
@@MerciaMoto cool cheers mate
Your big problem will be taxing and insuring a bike as a non resident.
@@davidmatthews3093 Good call David, I could see that being a problem. Thanks for commenting 🤔
1/3rd of a set of tyres? So £150ish to add on?
Definitely worth factoring in.
:)) already had me knife in the slot on the Lecky meter.. THey wow miss a few quid :)🤓💯🙏
Brilliant 😁