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Don't forget to leave a review of the French and other European campsites you have visited!
Don't forget to leave a review of the French and other European campsites you have visited!
03/6/2024 at 3:17pm
Location: London
Outfit: Lunar Cosmos 524
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Most years a crowd of us do a trip to France for a week or ten day stay, and usually me, but somebody, will do a 'due diligence' costing of the available routes, calculating Channel crossing costs, total mileage fuel costs and journey times, road toll fees etc.
Our start/return point was usually NW London and our ultimate destination Le Mans, often with a detour via D-Day related attractions. Apart from the Tunnel being out on a limb when it comes to mileage and associated costs/journey times, it used in the past to be a close thing on the overall cost of getting to/from France and was given serious consideration on the basis of we could do some 'touristing' en route. But in recent years it seems to have become just stupidly expensive, and became the least attractive option outright, with the right timing even the western Channel ferries were working out cheaper!
Add in some of the horrible delays that now seem to happen on the Tunnel crossing, which in decades of using western Channel ferries, we've NEVER experienced, I don't see us even bothering to consider it in our future 'due diligence' calculations.
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04/6/2024 at 4:50pm
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For many years we used our Tesco vouchers to pay for Tunnel crossings, in the old days we got a lot more points and they were worth more with the original 4x, so we seldom paid any extra. We used to speculate whether we would continue to use the Tunnel without the vouchers, and the answer was yes, probably. And so we do, using whatever vouchers we have. But for our recent trip in May, we had no vouchers so paid in full, it was £214 return for a campervan, booked about 6 weeks beforehand.
On both crossings, we turned up early and crossed immediately, didn't even have time to get out at the terminals. So within 1 hour of arriving at check in we were driving away. And that is the reason we use the Tunnel.
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, saw the two very large buildings they have put up on the French side to do the biometric screening, quite close to the terminal building at the caravan parking side.
everyone had to reverse to the loading door to get off, sorry this is the high carriages.
