A Guide to Using the Toll Roads in Portugal

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Using the toll roads is the fastest way to get around Portugal: a drive from Lisbon to Albufeira, for example, would take just under 2 and a half hours on the toll roads but around 3 and a half hours on the non-toll roads.

Speed isn’t everything, though, especially if you’re not in a rush to get anywhere. Driving on the non-toll roads you’re more likely to stop off at interesting towns and cities, and to see slices of Portuguese life that you aren’t likely to see on the toll roads. Of course, sometimes you just want to get from A to B. If that’s the case, this guide will explain how the toll system works in Portugal.

There are two types of toll roads in Portugal: toll roads that are entirely electronic and those that allow other types of payment as well (cash and card).

Top Tip: When renting a car in Portugal, pay a few euros extra to get the toll road transponder. That way, the money for the automatic tolls will be automatically taken from your card, saving you the hassle of trying to work out how to pay for them.

Mixed toll roads (electronic tolls and cash/card payments)

Let’s start with the mixed toll roads because they’re the easiest to understand. There are only two things that you need to know about the mixed toll road.

Via Verde lanes

There are usually one or two lanes that are marked ‘Via Verde’. To use these lanes, you need an electronic transponder in your car. Otherwise, you should go through the normal lanes.

If you’re renting the car, your car rental company will be able to rent you a transponder. If it’s your own car, you can either purchase one or rent one.

It’s very easy to go through the Via Verde lanes accidently. If you do this, you won’t have a ticket, and you’re liable for a fine. You can either exit through the Via Verde lanes and wait for it to catch up with you, or you can try and get assistance there and then.

Have a backup payment

The second thing that you need to know is that non-Portuguese debit and credit cards don’t always work in the toll machines. For this reason, it’s a good idea to carry more than one card or ideally some cash as well. Don’t worry if you forget: most of the petrol stations have an ATM inside the shop.

Electronic toll roads

The electronic toll roads, for example the A22 in the Algarve, are a lot more confusing particularly when it comes to paying for them. You don’t take a ticket. Instead, the cameras record your number plate and the system calculates how much you owe.

You won’t be able to pay straight away, though. After 48 hours (excluding weekends), your journey should show up in the system and you’ll be able to pay your bill then. You need to pay for your journey within 5 days. 

Depending on your car, there are a few different ways that you can pay for your journey. It’s a good idea to read through this before using the motorway, so you can decide whether you actually want to use it.

(One payment option that isn’t mentioned below is Payshops such as newsagents and shops. Although you can pay your tolls here, it’s actually better to pay in the Post Office. The reason being that the system in the Post Office knows your exact journey and the exact amount you need to pay. The machines in newsagents don’t actually know how much you owe, so they just charge you the maximum amount. There have also been some stories of people paying at the newsagent, but the payment not being processed properly and the customer later receiving fines for not paying on time.)

Driving your own car on the electronic toll roads (Portuguese registration plate)

There are three ways of paying for the tolls if you have a car with Portuguese plates:

  • You can either pay afterwards at the Post Office
  • You can pay online.
  • You can pay at the multibanco

Paying online is definitely the easiest way of doing things. Simply head to the portagems payment page on ctt.pt and enter your licence plate number, phone number, and NIF. You’ll then need to login to your internet banking and send the money using the reference provided.

The Multibanco system follows the same steps except, rather than using your online banking to pay, you head to the ATM and pay there using the reference provided. (Multibanco is a Portuguese technology only available with Portuguese bank accounts).

To pay at the Post Office, all you have to do is give over your vehicle’s licence plate details.

Driving  your own car on the electronic toll roads (foreign registration plate)

You may be driving your own, foreign reg, car if you’re driving to Portugal or living here as an expat. If you have a non-Portuguese car, things are slightly more complicated: if you drive a non-Portuguese car on the toll roads, you can’t actually pay for your journey (either online or at the Post Office).

Some people just drive on the toll roads anyway, and many have been doing this for years without ever receiving a bill. If you’re more cautious, however, there are a couple of things that you can do.

You can either:

  • Buy PAYG credit to use your car on the toll roads (note: you can only do this before going on the roads, not after).
  • Register your car at any easytoll station (you can see a list of Easytoll stations here).

Driving a rental car on the electronic toll roads (Portuguese registration plate)

If you want to drive a rental car on the A22, the easiest thing to do is to hire a transponder device to go in the car. Most car rental companies charge €1-2 per day for this device, and you will also need to pay the cost of the tolls as well. 

Alternatively, you could pay your toll fees in the Post Office. This does save you the cost of hiring the transponder, but it is extra hassle as going to the Post Office in Portugal can be very time-consuming. 

There’s also usually a 48-hour gap between a driver using the toll road and the cost of that journey appearing on the Post Office systems. That means that, if you use the toll roads on the last 2 days of your trip, you won’t be able to pay them in the Post Office while you’re in Portugal. Most likely, the car hire company will have to pay it and pass the bill onto you – which will probably come with an admin charge.  

Driving a rental car on the electronic toll roads (foreign registration plate)

If you’re driving a rental car from another country on the Portuguese toll roads, your options are the same as those given for driving your own car: you can either not register the car and hope nothing happens, you can register at an Easytoll station, or you can buy PAYG credit.

It’s probably not a good idea to cross your fingers and hope nothing happens when it comes to a rental car. Not only do you run the risk of eventually getting a fine from the Portuguese toll authorities, but the car rental company are likely to add an “admin” charge as well.

Oh no, I think I have tolls to pay!

The Portuguese toll system is quite messy, and it’s possible that you’ll end up with tolls (or fines, or both) to pay. 

Here are some examples:

  • You’re not sure if you went on a toll road while you were in Portugal. 
  • You went to the Post Office to pay your tolls, but you want to make sure that they were all paid. 

If you’re still in Portugal, go to the Post Office. Or, if you have a friend or relative in Portugal, get them to go. Of all the systems for paying tolls (payshops, online, and the Post Office), the system in the Post Office is the most informative and the most accurate. 

If you’ve already left Portugal, you can check on www.pagamentodeportagens.pt (and https://portal.ascendi.pt/ for certain roads) For some reason, you can only lookup those trips 15 days or more after the trip occurred so be sure to put a note in your diary. 

ASCENDI (for A24/A25/A17/A29/A13/A41/A42/A4-Porto/A4- Túnel do Marão)

https://portal.ascendi.pt/

AUTOESTRADA TRANSMONTANA (A4- Bragança/Vila Real)

http://www.pagamentodeportagens.pt

(Be sure to also read the guide on driving in Portugal, which covers different rules and tips for staying safe and making the most of your time in Portugal). 

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James Cave is the founder of Portugalist and the author of the bestselling book, Moving to Portugal Made Simple. He has visited just about every part of Portugal, including Madeira and all nine islands of the Azores, and lived in several parts of Portugal including Lisbon, the Algarve, and Northern Portugal.

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  1. Not only foreign vehicles that are hardly larger than a small car are classified as Class 2 at the counter of Via Verde. But a Jeep Renegade is not particularly large and I wouldn’t even call the small car an SUV. It was a rental car and I find this behavior simply conscientious! Money making!

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  2. Hi. We have a via verde transponder and linked it to our credit card but no payments have been taken. The website has an icon stating awaiting confirmation. What does this mean?

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  3. I tried to order the ViaVerde transponder for foreigners at https://visitors.viaverde.pt/pt/ but with no success. Both the credit cards I tried, failed. I did however find an alternative: the French Bip&Go also works on all Portuguese (and Spanish) highways. You can buy it online, or (as I did) just pick one up at one of the télépéage service points along the French highway.

    Bip&Go is a bit more expensive. You pay €10 for the transponder (there is currently a promotion where you get the transponder for free) and for every month that you use the system in Spain or Portugal, you pay a 2.50 euro subscription fee. (For the months you drive in France, you pay 1.33).
    The account is linked you your IBAN bank account. French highways are billed the next month, Portugese and Spanish highways only after 2 months.
    https://www.bipandgo.com/

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  4. VIA VERDE CONTRAVENES EU LAW ON EQUALITY – NON DISCRIMINATION & RACISM

    No EU country charges any foreign national vehicle differently for driving its highways. Portugal is different!
    I am a regular tourist in a Spanish registered car with a Via Verde transponder for Portuguese highways. My SUV car model is a Class 1, but Via Verde charge it as Class 2 – a bus! The road tariff is about double that of class 1. Via Verde explained to me in person that it is their practice to “Charge double for foreign registered cars” compared to a Portuguese car. I argued this is in contravention of EU laws on Fundamental Rights. The response was a pleasant shoulder shrug; the short necked syndrome I call it, referring me to IMT for confirmation. I formulated a written official complaint and will enlist the FRA ( EU Fundamental Rights Agency) into pressurising Via Verde to conform, maybe with a fine. Nemesis!

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  5. Hi I have a question.
    We took a rental car from Spain and crossed to Portugal. We had to go on an electric only road, and then registered the car on the easytoll system. We have an identifier but I cannot see my bills on the system.
    We have more trips planned, and we don’t want debts to accumulate- what do we need to do?
    Thanks in advance

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  6. Hi. We are frequent visitors to Portugal and are used to renting a car at LIS and then driving down to our house in the Algarve – cost either with Via Verde around €20.50 for the A2 stretch of our journey, plus the bridge. When we visited in October this (actually now last!) year in our own car ( Swiss plates) and ended up paying about twice the amounts as compared to the rental car. Once the booth cameras have identified the cars origins, the toll charge display changes. Do non EU cars pay a premium? Ideas welcomed.

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    • Mr. Mason, I hope you don’t mind my asking you a question. We are picking up a rental car at LIS from SIXT and I have reserved an electronic transponder.

      1. Is that all I need to go through both the electronic roads only, like A 22 in Algave and take the Via Verde on the other toll roads or is the electronic transponder for the “A 22″ type roads only?
      2. If the electronic transponder is only good for A 22” type roads, what do I need for the Via Verde?
      3. Do I need to load a set amount on the electronic transponder or will SIXT simply charge my credit card with the amount of tols.

      The article above does not clearly explain this.

      Thank you kindly.

      JM Sawyers
      Alexandria VA

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  7. I’ve given up. Tried at least 10 times to find toll I owed or register on the sites for my foreign registered car. Nothing works. No SMS messages. Don’t have Portuguese bank accounts, tax accounts, phone number or anything else they ask for. Physical booths don’t accept any of our non-portuguese debit or credit cards. How hard is it to pay 0.30c road tolls!!

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  8. Thank you! Very useful – we struggled on the CTT website but then I was told to put hyphens in the licence plate number AE-31-EM and it worked! We were able to avoid a trip to the post office.

    Love this blog x
    Moira

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  9. Hi I love Portugal and this is the second time I went back. 2 years ago my partner and I went to Fátima ( Cova de Iria ) and last year September 2019 my mum and I went to Fátima, Leiria, Batalha, Nazaré, Alcobaça and Lisbon. I rented a car in Lisbon and I paid for the Via Verde device. I returned the car and spent one and half day in Lisbon on public transport. Lovely. After 9 months I received a letter from a UK company that collects unpaid tolls charges for Portugal and not only Portugal. They want me to pay because it says I didn’t have the Via Verde. They stuffed up a lot with the calculations of the tolls plus I have to pay the administration sanction for late payment. I emailed the rental company in Lisbon they said the unpaid tolls didn’t get to their office on the day of returning the car and they tried to charge me on the card I used for the deposit however the transaction was unauthorised. I’m very upset about this situation. I still have the agreement and the T&Cs of the rental company says they have to charge me the road tolls the full payment of the value thereof the agreement is in force. What’s your opinion on this guys?

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    • Via Verde sell their debts to a UK company – remember the London quasi -legal clampers . From this point on V Verde cannot claim. The UK debt collector doubles the road fee and claims it from the driver. They have no legal status to sue. Following frustrated attempts they in turn sell it to a German outfit who try the same pressurizing. Again without legal status to sue, only threaten.

      10’s of thousands of Spanish drivers annually use Portuguese autostradas. Many abandon attempts to pay faced with massive inefficient bureaucracy making it impossible. Infringements like yours are very common. The Spanish drivers website “DriveSmart” has this clarification :- In Portugal, not paying tolls is a tax infraction, so it must be the tax administration itself who claims it legally in Spain, that is, through the corresponding judicial claim. Something that, being objective, is unlikely that it happens because the amount to be claimed does not justify the spending on lawyers. After 5 years the debt is time limited by Statute.

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  10. Thank you for the great post. We were able to use the following link to pay our toll fees electronically (we rented a car in spain and drove into portugal so had the foreign number plate and rented car challenge). This website worked great –

    https://paytolls.vialivre.pt

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  11. Of course you should try and pay tolls but if you can’t and drive a car with a UK number plate you are unlikely to get a fine after you have left Portugal, I’ve been told Portugal does not have any agreement for access to DVLA records. I also have unpaid tolls from a visit a few years ago which I tried really hard to pay but gave up in the end.

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  12. I have recently returned from Portugal staying from 02/11/19 to 12/11/19 using a hire car with a hired transponder . When I returned the car they checked it over and said that there were no fines to pay, however as we did use some toll roads and we heard the transponder beep as it should I was expecting the amount owed to be deducted from my credit card automatically. Today is the 15/11/19 and nothing has been taken from my card, is there a time delay for this to happen ?

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  13. We are travelling into Spain for the day and have already registered at the entrance of Portugal when we arrived a few days ago do we need to register again when we enter Portugal even though it’ll be on the same day

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  14. I didn’t realise you could pay online so was really pleased to see on your website that this is possible. Unfortunately when I tried it would not accept my UK mobile number, looks like you have to have a Portuguese number. Is this your experience?

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  15. I have been using GPS and the avoiding tolls option. I was leaving Porto and there were cameras overhead that said Radar 80. It was on A1 near Ponte da Arrabida. Was this a toll? Is GPS reliable if you tell it to avoid tolls?

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  16. I rent a car in Spain

    1.
    and wants to buy a 3 day TollService card
    If you buy this card online, do they still need to register the car somehow? or just that

    2.
    and after 3 days can I buy the TollService card again if it turns out I need to stay for 2 days?

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  17. We mistakenly went thru a toll leaving Portugal and travelling into Spain.
    I had no way of paying once I had left the country.
    I called the Portugal toll office (+351 2128 79 555), and after a wait the lady then sent me the websites that I could use to track my toll and then pay online.
    The website depends on which toll road you use:

    ASCENDI (for A24/A25/A17/A29/A13/A41/A42/A4-Porto/A4- Túnel do Marão)

    https://portal.ascendi.pt/

    AUTOESTRADA TRANSMONTANA (A4- Bragança/Vila Real)

    http://www.pagamentodeportagens.pt

    Cheers David

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  18. Hi.

    We are driving a motorhome through Portugal. We bought a scratch card at the post office & have registered it to our registration number. It shows we have 20 euros credit.

    Today we went on a toll road which was manual. We took a ticket & had to pay when we left the road. So we were unable to use our credit. Should we have driven through the automatic lane or does the card only work on electronic toll roads?

    It’s so confusing, we would help!!

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  19. Hi! A lot of useful info thanks. In case I purchase my own transponder I saw an option on Via Verde website to change a registered plate. Can I use it with a rented car changing numbers each time I rent.
    In other words does system work with many transponders registered to the same plate?

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      • Hi James,
        We read through your article and all the comments and responses. The website provides an error message:
        https://www.pagamentodeportagens.pt/PPP_Portal/PPPHome.jsf
        Also we can’t pay online without an NIM and we leave Portugal before the toll charges will be collated. We’re planning to ask our rental company for assistance. It sure it a tricky system so appreciate your efforts. The pay tolls work a dream!
        Cheers, V&A Australia

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        • Hi Vivian,

          Okay, try https://www.pagamentodeportagens.pt/ (you can change the language in the top right-hand corner). I’ll update the article with the working link.

          Hopefully your car rental company will be able to help but, generally, they’re not very helpful.

          * I would recommend going to the Post Office before you leave to pay off anything that’s in the system. Toll charges normally take 48 hours to appear.
          * You can use the website pagamentodeportagens.pt after you’ve left Portugal to pay off any outstanding charges.

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  20. Is there any way to obtain a history of toll charges with a rental car for the rental period? We rented a car and turned it in on September 27th. We tried to avoid tolls as much as possible but when driving to Lisbon Airport we thought we might have gone through one. When we looked on CTT.pt we saw a toll charge. We went to the post office to pay the bill but were told we owed nothing. They indicated the charge was from September 29. They advised they could not provide us with a statement. How can we prove to the car rental company we have no toll charges?

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  21. I know that “ignorance of the law” is no excuse (although I am not sure that use of toll roads is “law”) but, never having driven into Portugal before (from Spain), I did not know about prepayment for the automatic tolls.
    Although there were four of us in the car, none of us saw warning signs ( I assume that there are some) and we drove past the toll gantries wondering where we should pay.
    Now I find that you cannot pay on line, unless you have Portuguese plates, and you cannot pay retrospectively.
    All I can do now is to try and see what they say at the local post office and otherwise wait for a fine ( in anything up to a year).
    Not exactly tourist-friendly!

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  22. I know that “ignorance of the law” is no excuse (although I am not sure that use of toll roads is “law”) but, never having driven into Portugal before (from Spain), I did not know about prepayment for the automatic tolls.
    Although there were four of us in the car, none of us saw warning signs ( I assume that there are some) and we drove past the toll gantries wondering where we should pay.
    Now I find that you cannot pay on line, unless you have Portuguese plates, and you cannot pay retrospectively.
    All I can do now is to try and see what they say at the local post office and otherwise wait for a fine ( in anything up to a year).
    Not exactly tourist-friendly!

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  23. We rented a car in Spain and entered Portugal in the Algave region where we stopped at the tourist information center. There they advised us to register our car at the stations on the toll road there. They informed us that the car would be registered for 30 days and would see a charge on our credit card after the 30 days and then then the registration would terminate. Not thinking we would only have the rental car for another 3 weeks. We have returned the rental car and now I realize that the car is still registered with my credit card. How do I terminate the registration?

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  24. Hi James
    We hired a car from 17 Sep to 19 Sep 2019. We believe we have 29 Euros to pay in tolls from trips on the A22.
    When we entry the registration is says we owe 41 euros which we assume includes tolls from the previous user.
    It is Saturday and no post Offices are open or CTT shops nearby to pay what we owe. We have been advised by the hire company to pay when we get home. Will we received a big fine do you think? What should we do?
    Thanks Neil

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  25. Great info regarding tolls – we’re spending roughly 5 weeks travelling around Portugal and very much hope we can dodge the tolls. In the past, in other European countries, we’ve been able to tell our GPS (Janis) that we don’t wish to travel on toll roads and we end up on many beautiful scenic routes.

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  26. Just drove from Santiago Spain to Porto Portugal. Along the way picked up a Brisa Concessao toll ticket. Upon arriving in Porto mistakenly drove through Via Verda rather than through pay station. Went to Post Office to pay the toll but they would not accept payment for a Brisa Concessao ticket. What do I do??

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  27. We are going to Portugal in November. Arriving in Santander we will tour northern Spain for just a week & then move to Portugal (in our motorhome) we will travel down to Gibraltar eventually. I would like to register a credit card to ‘pay as we go’ so to speak. Please, how do I do this.
    Thank you, Margaret Young

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  28. Help

    We arrived late last night to visit friends in the hills above Lagos. I’d booked a hire car thru Ryanair and it was goldcar

    We went to the desk and the guy was so unhelpful. First he said gruffly “do you want to cover the excess or do you have insurance” in such an unclear way he convinced me I had to do one or the other – I didn’t! – he then told us we needed to activate the transponder for the tolls. Fair enough. Happy. But refused to accept the debit card i paid on – the one he’d just taken an insurance payment from. I don’t use credit. He also refused a telephone or online payment from me and he also refused both cash and a payment from my co-driver. Leaving us with no way to pay. He then said we’d have to stay off the A22 altogether -leaving two women driving unknown roads at night – and he offered no map or advice to help.
    We simply decided for safety to just take the A22 anyway and the transponder beeped away. How do we ensure we don’t get a fine now and how much is the fine anyway? If we offered to pay and all options were refused surely we shouldn’t have to pay a fine or admin fee?!

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    • Ah, Goldcar!

      So there’s a lot in your comment, but I’ll try and answer it all.

      1) You generally need a credit card to rent a car. Even if you take out your own insurance (either through a site like Rental Cars or take out an excess insurance policy) they want to be able to block a certain amount on your card.

      There are one or two companies that will take the amount off a debit card, so I’ll need to put an article together about that.

      2) I don’t know why they can’t take payment for tolls on a debit card, but I guess they just don’t like accepting debit cards. Probably not a lot that you could have done there, unfortunately.

      3) If you have 3G and Google Maps, when you look up a route under ‘options’ you can set it to avoid toll roads.

      4) I’m not 100% sure what’ll happen to your toll fees and whether or not there is a way of paying them. The best thing that you can do is go into a Post Office with the car registration number 48+ hours after driving on the toll roads. They can lookup if you have incurred any charges or not. Unfortunately, if you can’t pay it in the Post Office then it’s probably being billed to Goldcar – in which case they will probably bill you with an admin charge.

      5) “If we offered to pay and all options were refused surely we shouldn’t have to pay a fine or admin fee?!” While that would seem reasonable, Goldcar (and car hire companies in general) aren’t very reasonable. Best of luck dealing with them.

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  29. Hello, i have a friend who has traveled to Portugal and at two tool gates got tickets and didn’t pay. Now he is in Spain. Is there anyway he or i can pay the two tickets online ? somewhere?
    Thank you,

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  30. You’re amazing James. Thank you for the information but I mostly want to thank you for the time you have spent maintaining this page.

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  31. Thank you very much for this information on the toll roads as it was very informative and was easy to understand. i have a far better understanding of the systems, so again thank you for taking the time to create this page.

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  32. If i buy a transponder for the ” Via verde” is that specific for one car or can I use it regardless of which car I am driving?

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  33. I wish the more I read the simpler it became but I’m confusing myself even more! If I am hiring a car at the airport and staying in Albufeira (possibly visiting other towns/resorts) is it essential to get a transponder? Is it possible to just use non toll roads to get around or is that not feasible?

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  34. Dear,
    Our plates in Morocco are in Arabic letters, I would like to know how can we register them, but the system itself does not recognize the Arabic letters ?
    Thanks in advance,
    Best Regards,

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    • Hi MSaid,

      That’s an interesting question and something I hadn’t thought about before.

      I would recommend contacting the Portugal tolls service for foreign vehicles and asking ( duvidas.portagens@infraestruturasdeportugal.pt ) but it’s quite possible that there isn’t a solution for this and, if that’s the case, you probably won’t get a very helpful answer. That has been my experience anyway.

      If they aren’t able to help, you then have two options:
      1) Avoid the electronic toll roads while you’re in Portugal.
      2) Drive on them anyway and assume nothing will happen.

      Personally, I would just avoid the electronic toll roads (1) but I know all of people in Portugal drive on them with foreign registration plates and so far have never received a fine (2). It’s up to you.

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  35. Hello!

    Are via verde lanes available at both mixed & electronic toll roads?

    We are planning to hire a car at a local Avis office – how does it work with payments? Do we pay the amount the transponder shows to the rental company upon returning the car?

    Thanks!

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  36. Leaving Portugal today we used a toll road. How do we pay for this? Think we have paid for all other usage.

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  37. hi, i have one question, if i have a pre-paid toll card for 40 EUR and used only 8 EUR from it (have been mostly in Lisboa neighborhood where electronic toll is not available) can i get money back from this card as it seems i will not use it anymore
    Regards from Comporta
    Radek

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  38. Hello! Well, we had stopped & registered our campervan when we first arrived in Portugal, a girl speaking very good English said we would be automatically charged tolls as we travelled. Today we then went through a ‘no ticket’ lane, assuming they had our reg no. etc. At the tollbooth sometime later, we were told we had to pay €107.80!!!!!! We tried to pay with our santander credit card, (which was our registered card at the start), & were told we had to pay cash. It sounded highly suspicious, & in the end we were given a print out in Portuguese & told we would have to pay it later? !?!? Help! Many thanks
    Paula M

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  39. Hi
    How long after using a toll road should you receive the charge. I have just received a charge from 2015!! and cannot prove whether it was the vehicle i hired

    Chris

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  40. Hi. I have a transponder with my rental car. But I accidentally went through a non V lane and had to take a paper ticket toll. Will that toll have to be paid separately or will it just be added to my normal bill when I bring my rental car back
    Thanks; Chris

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  41. Hi, if using a rental car, can I pay online? We have been here 5 days- went to post office to pay but nothing on the system so can’t! Should we buy a prepaid ticket? Do they work for electronic only roads?

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  42. I entered by credit card details when entering Portugal in to the machive yet got stopped and issued with a fine on the A6 – confused

    As it would not accept my card to pay and I had no cash they asked me to pay at a post office within 6 days but I am now back in the UK

    How do I pay it

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  43. Is there an English language version of the Via Verde website? Impossible to use the system if the only access is in Portuguese!

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  44. Hi
    A very useful page of information as usually no two sets of information of roads/charges in Portugal are the same or even similar. This covers all you need to know.

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    • We rented a camper in Spain with the advice being to just avoid the toll roads in Portugal ….impractical and not helpful. The electronic system does not appear easy for non locals even if in a Portuguese registered car. Our response was just to not go and instead we spent the time in Spain

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