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Budget hotel chains Formule1 and Etap offer good value, basic accommodation when you are travelling, and you can arrive any time as you can swipe your credit card at the door to gain access to your room. This means you can travel further later into the evening, but make sure you pre-book online.

Viamichelin is a useful route-planning website. It has information on the tolls for motorways and speed cameras; it also allows you to print out plans with the motorway signs included, which is of great help to the less confident co-driver.

On a Saturday in school summer holidays a good portion of Europe is travelling through France, and you would be well advised to avoid being part of the masses if at all possible – queues of an hour or more at booths for the Péage (toll roads) are not uncommon. The credit card lanes seem to move quicker.

Flying is also an option and there are a number of airports within 2 to 3hrs of the valley. Lyon, Turin, Chambéry and Geneva are all within striking distance, and the smaller airports offer quick check-in and arrival procedures, so you can be on the road in a hire car in no time.