What a 14-day road trip in Europe costs to drive in 2026

Findings you can quote

1. From Helsinki, a 14-day round trip for two to Finland's favourite destinations costs a median €437 to drive by car, €669 towing a caravan and €795 in a motorhome — fuel, tolls, vignettes and ferries, before a single night or meal. (Medians of the fully priced trips — 6, 3 and 3 of 6 — so the three cover different destinations.)Source: copilot.travel planner, 13 October 2026; fuel: EU Commission Weekly Oil Bulletin (via fuel-prices.eu); GB: DESNZ weekly road fuel prices (gov.uk), week of 4 October 2026.
2. From Amsterdam, a 14-day round trip for two to the Netherlands' favourite destinations costs a median €599 to drive by car, €857 towing a caravan and €889 in a motorhome — fuel, tolls, vignettes and ferries, before a single night or meal. (Medians of the fully priced trips — 6, 6 and 6 of 6 — so the three cover different destinations.)Source: copilot.travel planner, 13 October 2026; fuel: EU Commission Weekly Oil Bulletin (via fuel-prices.eu); GB: DESNZ weekly road fuel prices (gov.uk), week of 4 October 2026.
3. From Frankfurt am Main, a 14-day round trip for two to Germany's favourite destinations costs a median €459 to drive by car, €733 towing a caravan and €724 in a motorhome — fuel, tolls, vignettes and ferries, before a single night or meal. (Medians of the fully priced trips — 6, 6 and 6 of 6 — so the three cover different destinations.)Source: copilot.travel planner, 13 October 2026; fuel: EU Commission Weekly Oil Bulletin (via fuel-prices.eu); GB: DESNZ weekly road fuel prices (gov.uk), week of 4 October 2026.
4. From London, a 14-day round trip for two to Britain's favourite destinations costs a median €811 to drive by car, no complete figure towing a caravan (no published fare we hold for the Dover–Calais ferry) and no complete figure in a motorhome (no published fare we hold for the Dover–Calais ferry) — fuel, tolls, vignettes and ferries, before a single night or meal. (Medians of the fully priced trips — 6, 0 and 0 of 6 — so the three cover different destinations.)Source: copilot.travel planner, 13 October 2026; fuel: EU Commission Weekly Oil Bulletin (via fuel-prices.eu); GB: DESNZ weekly road fuel prices (gov.uk), week of 4 October 2026.
5. The dearest drive in the pack: Amsterdam → Barcelona & Costa Brava by motorhome, €1,303 for 3,596 km — €976 of it fuel.Source: copilot.travel planner, 13 October 2026; fuel: EU Commission Weekly Oil Bulletin (via fuel-prices.eu); GB: DESNZ weekly road fuel prices (gov.uk), week of 4 October 2026.
6. Fuel is most of the bill: a median 69% of what a car trip costs to drive, 68% towing a caravan and 79% in a motorhome (54 fully priced trips; 33% where a ferry or toll-heavy road dominates, 100% where there is neither).Source: copilot.travel planner, 13 October 2026; fuel: EU Commission Weekly Oil Bulletin (via fuel-prices.eu); GB: DESNZ weekly road fuel prices (gov.uk), week of 4 October 2026.
7. On the same roads, the drive costs a median 52% more towing a caravan (6 trips) and 75% more in a 7 m motorhome (9 trips) than with the car alone; the tolls, vignettes and ferries alone — published tariffs, not our consumption figures — come to 48% more and 34% more.Source: copilot.travel planner, 13 October 2026; fuel: EU Commission Weekly Oil Bulletin (via fuel-prices.eu); GB: DESNZ weekly road fuel prices (gov.uk), week of 4 October 2026; tariffs: the operators' and authorities' published prices.
8. The biggest single jump: Helsinki → Riga & the Baltics and back costs €136 in tolls and ferries by car and €448 towing a caravan — the same crossings, priced by length and class.Source: copilot.travel planner, 13 October 2026; fuel: EU Commission Weekly Oil Bulletin (via fuel-prices.eu); GB: DESNZ weekly road fuel prices (gov.uk), week of 4 October 2026; fares: the operators' published tariffs.
9. Where your euro goes furthest: 1 000 km of motorway in a diesel estate costs €128 in Bulgaria (fuel plus tolls) and €263 in France — 105% more for the same distance.Source: EU Commission Weekly Oil Bulletin (via fuel-prices.eu); GB: DESNZ weekly road fuel prices (gov.uk), week of 4 October 2026; toll rates and vignettes: copilot.travel/tolls/europe-2026.
10. Diesel this week runs from €1.764 a litre in Poland to €2.553 in Finland: €71 between filling a 90-litre motorhome tank in one or the other.Source: EU Commission Weekly Oil Bulletin (via fuel-prices.eu); GB: DESNZ weekly road fuel prices (gov.uk), week of 4 October 2026.
11. Motorway tolls follow the vehicle class: Frankfurt am Main → Barcelona & Costa Brava and back is €167 in motorway tolls by car and €247 by motorhome on the same roads.Source: copilot.travel planner, 13 October 2026; fuel: EU Commission Weekly Oil Bulletin (via fuel-prices.eu); GB: DESNZ weekly road fuel prices (gov.uk), week of 4 October 2026; tariffs: the motorway operators.
12. What we cannot price, we say: 18 of 72 trips have a part we hold no published price for — most often a ferry fare for that vehicle (16) or the passengers on a ferry fare (2) — and those parts are left out of the sums, never counted as zero.Source: copilot.travel planner, 13 October 2026; fuel: EU Commission Weekly Oil Bulletin (via fuel-prices.eu); GB: DESNZ weekly road fuel prices (gov.uk), week of 4 October 2026.

The companion data: tolls and fuel across Europe, 2026

Every country's motorway tolls, vignettes and pump prices for 2026, on one map — the page that reached the front page of Hacker News on 11 October 2026, with the corrections its readers sent fixed and credited. Tolls and fuel across Europe, 2026 →

How much of it is fuel

Median over the fully priced trips (car 24, caravan 15, motorhome 15). Fuel follows the vehicle's consumption: car 6.5 L/100 km, car + caravan 9.5 L/100 km, motorhome 12 L/100 km.

The caravan and motorhome premium, same roads

Tolls, vignettes and ferries only — the part set by published tariffs — beside the car on the same destination, where the planner drove the same roads (within 8% of the distance and 15% of the tolled kilometres) and every part is priced.

Where your euro goes furthest: 1 000 km of motorway

A diesel estate car (6.5 L/100 km) on 1 000 km of motorway: this week's diesel plus the motorway toll — the typical rate on tolled motorway, the shortest vignette, or nothing where motorways are free.

Not ranked: Ireland (plazas), Poland (mostly free; tolled stretches extra), Spain (mostly free; tolled stretches extra).

Pump prices this week

Diesel from €1.764 in Poland to €2.553 in Finland. EU Commission Weekly Oil Bulletin (via fuel-prices.eu); GB: DESNZ weekly road fuel prices (gov.uk), week of 4 October 2026. We store only the latest bulletin, so there is no trend here.

Method

• Each trip was planned by our route planner on 13 October 2026: a 14-day round trip for 2 adults, diesel, about 5 hours' driving on a driving day, the planner's own road there and back.
• Vehicles: Estate / family diesel — 6.5 L/100 km, 4.8 m long, 1.6 m high, 1.8 t; Car towing a caravan — 9.5 L/100 km, 12 m long, 2.7 m high, 3 t; Coachbuilt motorhome (7 m) — 12 L/100 km, 7 m long, 3 m high, 3.5 t. Consumption figures are the planner's class defaults, not measured on these trips.
• Fuel: the litres the trip burns, priced country by country at the EU Commission Weekly Oil Bulletin (via fuel-prices.eu); GB: DESNZ weekly road fuel prices (gov.uk) (week of 4 October 2026); Norway and Switzerland, outside the bulletin, are researched estimates and say so.
• Tolls: the motorway operators' booth tariffs, per-km rates and Norway's toll stations on the road the planner drove, both ways. Vignettes: the shortest pass that covers the trip. Ferries: the operators' published fares for that vehicle and two adults, each way.
• Not included: nights and food — we hold no sourced campsite or hotel prices, only a modelled rate — and anything we hold no published price for, named per trip in the CSV.
• Destinations: the dream-trip catalogue's favourites per country, chosen from national travel statistics and the camping clubs' own figures (Statistics Finland, CBS, Reiseanalyse/PiNCAMP, ONS and the UK clubs).
• Checked twice: every trip's parts were re-added against the planner's total and litres × price, and the whole pack planned a second time and compared.
• Licence: CC BY 4.0 — credit “copilot.travel”. Figures change weekly with the fuel bulletin.