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19/8/2013 at 6:41pm
Location: midlands
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Just wondering about what happens if we arrive too early at Dover following drive down from Midlands. Obviously we will have to give ourselves plenty of time in case of holdups but theres not many places to stop near and waste an hour or so. Has anyone had any experience of this?
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19/8/2013 at 6:48pm
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We have arrived early - on one occasion very early as OH was working near Knebworth and we brought the caravan down the night before. We were still put on the next available ferry. However, nothing's guaranteed - if ships are full when you arrive then you will have to sit and wait it out.
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19/8/2013 at 7:04pm
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On the one occasion we have been turned away we went up by the railway station and found space to park up there on the roadside. (not the station carpark!) or we once stopped at the top of the hill A2 at the Tesco supermarket, left as you come out of the port and up the hill.
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19/8/2013 at 9:13pm
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I asked this in an email to DFDS earlier this year. The reply was, they will put you on the 1st ferry before or after without charge if there is space.
I turned up for the 10.15am to Calais instead of the 12.15 and guess what, it had been cancelled because of technical problems. They put us on the 10am to Dunkerque no charge.
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20/8/2013 at 2:52pm
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Our modus operandi, is to book a ferry crossing as worse case scenario for the crossing time.
For us it's a 309 mile dive from home down to Dover, and the only time I made that journey in good time is when we set of at 10pm from home!.
This last few years we have used DFDS (aka NorfolkLine) and have always been put on the next boat out, in one case we arrived 6 hours prior to our booked ferry, and even that was not an issue.
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20/8/2013 at 4:09pm
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we went last mon,ferry was 8pm,went to office put us on 2pm ferry,no charge,was prepared to sit it out.good service dfds.
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we went back to Folkstone, through those two little tunnels( we went through only one of them) and went onto the trading estate on the left (travelling north) There's a Sainsbury's down there but if I remember we went up to a DIY place and had a a cuppa, as you do.
