 Poster: A snowHead
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Wow! Drive back to UK was brilliant… until we got to Calais tunnel terminal today. Never seen so many entitled, selfish people in one place.
Some sort of issue with check-in gates and clearly a lot of people returning on Easter Monday, queues back to the flyover. People driving over the roundabout, going the wrong way round it and even reversing the wrong way round!!!! People getting out of their cars to gesticulate with any of the staff present, was like a zoo.
Fair play to LeShuttle, we arrived shortly after 12 noon for a 13:36 crossing and weren’t even checked in by 1pm but they got us onto the train with 5 mins to spare.
Last edited by Poster: A snowHead on Mon 21-04-25 21:02; edited 2 times in total
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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@Specialman, We arrived at 12:15 and guilty of jumping roundabout to access the Flexiplus checkin from the flexiplus approach. We were just following other Flexiplus cars due to cars blocking the roundabout. The issue here lies with the silly system of trying to give priority to FP, by entering the roundabout from the left, and they assume other cars will not queue across the roundabout lane. I don’t see any non-Flexi cars do this and it would have not been easy from the right of the road
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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We've always done drive from resort to Calais on the Saturday, overnight in the F1 Coquelles and then get up early for the train on the Sunday. Did the same this year, it was quiet as anything. And whilst it would be lovely to be away for an extra day, the BH Monday for recovering from the trip was a big plus this year for us.
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On the food bans, we'd not seen that update and brought back plenty of cheese and milk in our boot on Sunday. Hope the Customs police aren't reading this...
And on the way out we always have plenty of sandwiches etc and a pre-cooked (and slowly defrosting) bolognese in the boot. Never been stopped, and tolerate the risk of just having to dump it if the French customs want to inspect our boot.
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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| ... brought back plenty of cheese and milk in our boot on Sunday. Hope the Customs police aren't reading this... |
Does this make you the Al Capone of Mascarpone?
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Clearly it does! (or at least my wife - she's the penny pincher who hates throwing away food as well as hating mountain supermarket prices!!)
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Drive back from Chatel very smooth (so far) arriving at Tunnel 1747 for 1954 booking. No earlier train offered. One of the staff asked me what letter I had as I was clocking who was allowed round. "R" - "OK you can go", though only P had been called. Very thin in the boarding lanes and ended up 2 trains earlier (1924) just waiting to go.
Only M20/M25/East London to deal with now, God help me.
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Daughter and Boyfriend drove out week before Easter in our car packed with both their and our ski kit. Plan to fly out on Good Friday and meet them at Geneva and swap over almost derailed by storm earlier on in the week. Spent Friday evening at Albertville and on slopes at Tignes mid Saturday morning. Decided to full trigger early due to combination of factors including Tunnel closure at Moutier and left late yesterday afternoon with overnight stop in Beaune. Relatively straight forward drive back and wizzed through Euro Tunnel (20 minutes from check in to train departure). I wish all my trips were as painless as this….
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