Orleans Car Rental Guide
This page introduces the car rental possibilities in Orleans and gives you some useful hints for renting and safe driving in the city.
Rental Traditions
Driving Restrictions
The minimum age of a driver is 18 years. Children must be at least 10 years old to sit in the front. If younger than that, they must be seated in the rear and seatbelted or in a child seat. All passengers are required to use seatbelts. The legal blood alcohol limit is 0.5‰.
A flashing red traffic light means “Do not enter”, flshing amber light means “Caution”, flashing yellow arrows mean “Yield”. When you pass bicyclists, you must give them a clearance of at least one metre.
Broken centre lines on the road indicate a section where passing is allowed. If there are three or five lanes, the middle one must be used for passing by traffic. A double-thick white line indicates the mandatory slow lane.
Pay-and-display machines are very common in France. Unless otherwise dictated, parking is free of charge from 7 pm to 9 am and on weekends, public holidays, and in August.
Speed Limits:| Area | Limit |
| Expressways | 130-unlimited KM/H |
| Outside the City | 90 or 110 KM/H |
| In the City | 50 KM/H |
Emergency Numbers
Police/Ambulance Service: 17
Fire Service: 18
Road Tolls
In France, the majority of motorways have tolls. You receive your ticket when entering the motorway and can pay for it with any major credit card. The payment depends on the distance you are driving and also on the type of your vehicle. Trunk roads do not have tolls.
Some useful expressions for tourists visiting France
Car – voiture
Car rental – loyer de voiture
About Orleans
Orleans, famous as the city saved by Joan of Arc, is a major city in the southern part of the Paris Basin. The River Loire divides the town into two unequal parts.
Orleans is an important transportation and communication centre. As a regional capital, it is associated with economic dynamism, quality of life and cultural development.
Area:
Population: 105,000
Country: France
Time Zone: GMT/UTC +1 (Central European Time)
Telephone Area Code:
Monetary unit: Euro
