Why is Eurotunnel so Bad
Discussion
I always travel before 07:00am and it's never busy.I've had a few problems with Eurotunnel over the years, mostly down to signal and train failures, but I was a little surprised to note before Christmas that the "weatherproof" tunnel was suffering severe delays due to "adverse weather conditions" (ie a few cm of wet snow overnight that promptly melted)so we booked on a ferry instead whilst en route to Folkestone and got put on a boat within 15 minutes of arriving at Dover.
I will be using the boats next time.
I will be using the boats next time.
I went the morning after boxing day (9am)and had to suffer a 2 hour delay.It was very busy but to be fair they did put extra trains on to clear it.
On the way back on the afternoon of the 30th it was very quiet at Calais but we still had to wait an extra hour despite checking in in good time.Maybe they were cramming everyone onto 1 train rather than run 3 partially full ones?
Ive used it a few other times over the last couple of years without any problems at all.
On the way back on the afternoon of the 30th it was very quiet at Calais but we still had to wait an extra hour despite checking in in good time.Maybe they were cramming everyone onto 1 train rather than run 3 partially full ones?
Ive used it a few other times over the last couple of years without any problems at all.
David87 said:
I've used the train a few times and haven't had any problems at all. Always ended up on a train shortly after arriving, whether I was early, late or on-time.
Depends if they are busy or not. Last Christmas we missed our check-in time by 15 minutes due to bad weather across central France and had to wait 7 hours to be put on another train. Coquelles is not much fun at 3am.Which is why next time I will take the ferry, they seem to have more spare capacity at peak times - when the Tunnel starts to go wrong, it clogs up very, very quickly.
Yeah sorry, messed up the quotes
No point really, it just occured to me that I've never had mine checked this side. Fortunately I've not used Eurotunnel at peak times so not experienced any of the problems mentioned on this thread.
I'll be using it again in a couple of weeks but crossing at 06:50 on a Tuesday and return on a Friday at 16:00ish
No point really, it just occured to me that I've never had mine checked this side. Fortunately I've not used Eurotunnel at peak times so not experienced any of the problems mentioned on this thread.
I'll be using it again in a couple of weeks but crossing at 06:50 on a Tuesday and return on a Friday at 16:00ish
CoolC said:
Yeah sorry, messed up the quotes
No point really, it just occured to me that I've never had mine checked this side. Fortunately I've not used Eurotunnel at peak times so not experienced any of the problems mentioned on this thread.
I'll be using it again in a couple of weeks but crossing at 06:50 on a Tuesday and return on a Friday at 16:00ish
French customs don't bother generally - most of their neighbours are part of the Schengen agreement so no border controls at all. UK isn't, but there's no particular threat to France from UK as most asylum-seekers and drug smugglers are going the other way, so there's not much point manning the booths unless they're aware of a particular threat/problem.No point really, it just occured to me that I've never had mine checked this side. Fortunately I've not used Eurotunnel at peak times so not experienced any of the problems mentioned on this thread.
I'll be using it again in a couple of weeks but crossing at 06:50 on a Tuesday and return on a Friday at 16:00ish
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