Driving a motorhome in Belgium

Motorways, tolls and vignettes

What a vignette is: in some European countries you buy a permit before using the motorways, now often digital and linked to the number plate, valid for a set period instead of paying at toll booths.

Motorways are free and no vignette is needed. In Antwerp the Liefkenshoek tunnel is tolled.

The distance-based toll for heavy vehicles (over 3.5 t) applies to goods vehicles: motorhomes are generally exempt.

Environmental sticker, ZTL and low emission zones

Brussels, Antwerp and Ghent have low emission zones (LEZ). If your vehicle is among those concerned, with a foreign number plate it must be registered, free of charge, on the city's website before entering, even if it meets the limits: check each city's rules, fines are high.

Low emission zones in our data

3 zones, including: Lage-emissiezone Antwerpen, Lage-emissiezone Gent, Zone de basses émissions Bruxelles - Lage-emissiezone Brussel.

Official website

Useful rules for motorhome travellers

Outside towns the limit is usually 70 km/h in Flanders and 90 in Wallonia; in Brussels the city speed is 30 almost everywhere.

Wild camping is not allowed without the landowner's permission.