Eurotunnel flexiplus

[ecsrobin]

Quick one, how close to your booked time slot do you have to be? If we booked a morning slot and arrive late will we still slide through like normal. What if were a day late?

[leyorkie]

For £240 you can turn when you like!
No restrictions that’s what you pay for.
For my £70 I have to be on the booked crossing which is often plus or minus an hour or two.
I once turned up 23 hours late and got put on the next train.

Do what you like your a VIP

[2 sMoKiN bArReLs]

We've only ever been early, but as said as long as there's a slot on the train you are in.

If in doubt ring the customer services, they are very helpful. (We had to rearrange by days rather than hours once or twice)

[ecsrobin]

2 sMoKiN bArReLs said:

We've only ever been early, but as said as long as there's a slot on the train you are in.

If in doubt ring the customer services, they are very helpful. (We had to rearrange by days rather than hours once or twice)

And we’re they flexible with the date change? I assume so as like above it’s why the premium is paid?

[2 sMoKiN bArReLs]

ecsrobin said:

2 sMoKiN bArReLs said:

We've only ever been early, but as said as long as there's a slot on the train you are in.

If in doubt ring the customer services, they are very helpful. (We had to rearrange by days rather than hours once or twice)

And we’re they flexible with the date change? I assume so as like above it’s why the premium is paid?

Yep, no probs at all.

When we had to cancel this year's trip the refund was back on the card within a couple of days too.

That Flexiplus is expensive, but you do get what you pay for. (Apart from when your line bypasses all the queues, but then you need to cut in at the last moment )

[ecsrobin]

2 sMoKiN bArReLs said:

Yep, no probs at all.

When we had to cancel this year's trip the refund was back on the card within a couple of days too.

That Flexiplus is expensive, but you do get what you pay for. (Apart from when your line bypasses all the queues, but then you need to cut in at the last moment )

That’s great to hear. Used it last month but was sticking to timings just booked to the ring this weekend but uncertainties on when we will return means I would like flex but it wasn’t too clear how much flex.

[leyorkie]

Eurotunnel are very flexible compared to the ferries.

One time as a guest of a major car importers we had a model launch around 50 cars picked up at Brands Hatch and the test route was Northern France.
The hoi polloi waiting were not impressed when 50 Flexplus cars turned up at once.
Also had a trip to Volvo but delayed coming back from Friday to Sunday to make a weekend of it.
Flexplus is your friend

[omniflow]

Only used it once, on the way back from Italy earlier this year.

I didn't really know what to expect, but I was totally blown away. The tag you put on your windscreen has some kind of RFID tag on it, and basically you just keep on driving. Barriers open and traffic lights magically turn green and then 5 minutes later you're on a train. 5 minutes after that, and the train is pulling away.

On the outbound, I generally wouldn't bother. You're in holiday mode, and you know what time you've booked and what time you're going to leave the house. Coming home however, it's definitely worth the extra.

[Samcat]

Only used it twice (there and back) but I would recommend it, as its says - Flexiplus, just turn up when you want, green lights all the way. Free sandwiches, coffee, and cold drinks in the air-conditioned terminal building, which was great on the hottest day of the year.

[Puggit]

Best time we ever used it was during the air/con melt down a few years back. Absolute carnage. Upgraded to FP in the queue for 90 pounds and then skipped on to the train we were originally booked on...

...instead of waiting for 4 hours and hoping.

[loafer123]

We usually use Flexiplus and turn up and go...sometimes at the right time ish, sometimes days early.

It all sounds expensive until the st hits the fan, and you jump to the front of a big queue.

That being said, I drove to Switzerland for a business meeting in March (for obvious reasons) Ona. Standard ticket and made a dash for it on the way back as France locked down, and was able to upgrade at the kiosk for £35 to the next train, so they are pretty good generally too.

[ecsrobin]

Just as an update to this, was due to travel to Germany last Saturday, the Thursday after I posted this Germany said if you arrive from Saturday onwards you need a negative covid test to enter so jumped online moved our booking to the Friday (when we originally had planned to leave) and off we went.

Definitely worth the flexiplus ticket and the foods pretty good too. With 2 of us it’s not a significant cost factor but if you were a family the saving made from not buying food in the terminal probably would make flexiplus worthwhile even without the flexibility.