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Quote: Originally posted by scarletsfan on 20/7/2010

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Leave Thursday night and avoid the traffic.  get your head down in the early arrivals fiel till your pitch is empty.

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Head off very early from widnes,no later than 6am... it took me 7.5hrs to get home from Dorset to Preston last friday!!!! normally thats a 5 hr trip for me!!and that was just the start of the school hols, the main one is this weekend!!

Friday may be better for the cornish trip with a lot of people on a sat to sat holiday.

I'll never forget our first trip to cornwall when we set off from here at 3am thinking a clear mway was ours!!....oh no.... M6 was v busy with most vehicles going on hols with DVD screens on in the back...infact the kids were noting what everyone was watching as it was clear to see in the dark!!

I'm coming to Trevornick too - gosh I'm so exicted. Cadac arrived this morning!  I'm leaving on Sunday though - we are doing Sunday to Sunday to try and avoid some of the traffic - no idea if it'll work but we can give it a go.  Route planner says 6 1/2 for us so I'm hoping for just one or two stops this time.

First time we came to Cornwall it took about 13 hours - it was when the floods happened in the midlands and the M5 was closed.  Nightmare getting there, with family members ringing every hour to see how many inches we'd moved but I can tell you it was the best UK holiday I've had.

I'm thinking of setting of really early - glad to hear we can park up somewhere until our pitch becomes available - I'll prob set off even earlier now.

We went to Tevornick in 2007,we decided to break our journey up by stopping over in Burnham on Sea for the night.(we live a stones through from Chemicalville)

That was the worst Holiday of my life,up to now.

The site was alright,but the weather was dreadful.I didn`t come home with a tan,I came home with trenchfoot.

We drove to Trevornick overnight, arriving at early/late arrivals field at about 2am. Got our heads down, and the security man even knocked on the door in the morning to tell us that reception was opening.

Travelling the night before is ok if you haven't had a long old day at work first, and then set off tired.

"Highways Agency spokeswoman Hannah Brookes said: “We will be carrying out works overnight as traffic flows are lower.

“We are aware people will be heading off on holidays, but closures will not be put in place until traffic drops. The carriageway and slip roads could be reopened earlier than we are expecting.” (source: Shropshire Star website, Weds 21st July 2010)

Of course traffic will drop you moron, people will be off trying to find an new route in anticipation of you closing the motorway!!  Der!!

Closing the busiest motorway to the south and west country on the first weekend of  the summer holidays, nice one ...