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I think when travelling long distances you have to make the journey part of the holiday. When I was working we would always prefer to spend a couple of days less at our main destination and have a more relaxed journey. We are about 140 miles from Dover. Our usual intinary would be to leave home around 9.00am in order to get a Eurotunnel crossing during the early afternoon. If we make better progress we can often get on an earlier crossing. We then stop overnight not far from Calais. This allows us a full days travelling the next day and if going to the Alps we would likely stop somewhere near Troyes for another overnight stop leaving plenty of time the next day to get to our main site with enough time to set everything up.

David

Did Annecy last year, and will probably repeat this year as well.

We are 270 miles from the tunnel so took an overnight stop over at Blackhorse farm this side of the ditch.

We then crossed at about 6am and towed as far as Dole for an overnight (about 380 miles).  Carrying on the next day the last 100 miles to our site.

I would suggest being quite fresh for that last 100 miles because once you turn off the the A26 the tow is quite challenging (but thrilling at the same time with the views).

Returning we set off with no plans, only that we had 2 nights until our crossing, and were going to get as  far north as possible.  10hrs late we pulled onto our pitch in Guines near Calais.  It was a long day, but doable, and gave us a travel free day before crossing back.

The only thing we would change this year would be to cross over from this side before stopping.