Anyone else running the Eurotunnel gauntlet this summer?

Going on 28th July the otherway on the Eurotunnel

My car will be too full for any migrant to squeeze into though. :D

Not worried at all.

why worry about stuff like that it either happens or not.

If it does I'll be annoyed as going on a cruise the following day but it still gives me a day to get over somehow and that's why I take out insurance.
 
I'm going to France at the end of September for a motorbiking holiday, with 8 friends. I wanted to go via the Tunnel as it's much quicker and easier but the guy who's booked it all has decided ferry is the way to go as it's cheaper, despite having to secure the bikes and sit on the ferry for an extra hour. Just looked at the prices for our travelling dates and it's only £4 more expensive!
 
Got delayed on the Eurostar last year, if I remember correctly that was an issue related to the migrant crisis. Having said that I experience more delays through plane travel so it's swings and roundabouts really. Not done the tunnel yet but probably more likely when me and the Mrs look to start a family, the migrant situation wouldn't put me off.
 
I'm quite happy for the Daily Fail et al. to keep publishing stories about how Calais/Eurotunnel means travel chaos and migrants and doom, pestilence, plagues of toads etc. Can't remember if it was last year or the year before, but they'd all been saying 'allow an extra three hours just to get to the Eurotunnel terminal, it's all going wrong, why doesn't the government do something'. Dad and I had pretty much our best run ever down to the terminal, got a much earlier crossing than the one that we nominally booked and consequently hit the road in France way ahead of schedule so could have a much more leisurely drive. The roads in Britain were half empty thanks to people believing the scaremongering and changing their travel plans, the roads in France weren't full of dozy Brits barely capable of driving in their own country let alone on the 'wrong' side of the road. Sheer bliss.
 
Hi guys. On Eurotunnel again tomorrow with my young family and just thought I'd check in. Anyone seen the news recently?

According to Eurotunnel, hot temperatures are unprecedented in summer, so I will be waiting circa 5 hrs to board...after check in that is.

My thread and its gripes stand, despite all you Eurotunnel fans claiming I'm exaggerating it all.
 
I used it 3 weeks ago, parked nearby, drove 10 mins on clear roads to get there and waited about 2 mins in the car park before boarding at 8 am. If I were using it for a midday train at the start of the school holidays I'd expect it to be more difficult.
 
Loves Love Island said:
I think the walking dead have moved on no?
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Whilst thousands remain around Calais and Dunkirk the favoured place to breach into the EU is now Spain and her enclaves, and they sure are getting uppity as they have no more facilities and things like this are happening now:


"More than 700 sub-Saharan migrants on Thursday stormed the border fence surrounding the Spanish enclave of Ceuta in Morocco, with dozens injured in an incursion of “unprecedented violence”.

Sixteen migrants and ten officers from Spain’s Guardia Civil received hospital treatment following Thursday morning’s incident, during which the group bombarded agents with quicklime, sticks, stones and bags of excrement as well as aerosols used as flame throwers, the force said in a statement.

The incursion, which comes days after Spain officially overtook Italy in migrant arrivals by sea, occurred at around 6.30 am when the men used angle grinders and shears to cut through the outer and inner layers of the border fence.

The group also bore defensive equipment such as home-made shields and body armour, the Guardia Civil said, and once through the fence continued to attack agents and security vehicles. The force later recovered “Molotov cocktails and bags of hashish”, it added.

The group scrambled over the razor wire fences “all of a sudden, with much violence”, a Guardia Civil spokesperson in Ceuta said."

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/20...s-migrants-storm-spains-ceuta-border-morocco/


Not to worry, despite their illiterate savagery they are doctors and engineers in disguise and will have full time employment and be making a contribution to the EU coffers in days once they breach the borders ;)
 
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