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Please try again - we'd not want you to miss out on the latest offers! Published in: Driving guides. Did you know? Making the "short crossing" between Dover and Calais by ferry is an adventure too. But either can be vulnerable to serious delays. And unlike an ordinary drive - where you can check a map or use your SATNAV to find an alternative route around a bottleneck, once you're committed to the Channel Tunnel approaches, there is no "way around".
The best way to understand what might happen is to consider what has caused cross-channel delays in the past. That depends on where your journey started out. If you live in Britain or France you might want to consider other options. But if you've come a great distance for a once in a lifetime trip - from North America, Australia or the Far East, for example - you'll probably want to try to travel through the tunnel and experience this engineering marvel of the 20th century, driving on in France and driving off in Britain about a half hour later.
Most of the time, your crossing - whether by ferry or tunnel - will be completely uneventful. Thousands of people cross back and forth this way every year. But you cannot just take a detour to a side road at the last minute if problems do crop up. Being ready for anything and having a Plan B is probably a pretty good idea. It may seem extravagant to spend money on extra tickets for another form of transportation when you've already bought and paid for your Channel Tunnel crossing. But this is not about economics, it is about the memorable vacation experience of the tunnel and the bragging rights that go with that when you get home.
And if you are traveling with a family or a full car of friends, it probably won't be particularly expensive. Look at it this way. You've spent thousands of pounds to bring your family - and sometimes your family pet - across the Atlantic, booked rooms or a vacation rental and rented a car. A serious delay at the bottleneck that the tunnel can occasionally become could ruin your whole trip.
Book your alternative travel at the same time as you book your trip for the best prices. Will there be migrants in Calais? It was actually a really simple and sterile experience.
You get off the highway and enter a series of booths to check your ticket, go through customs and get your passport stamped. From there you wait in a line of cars waiting to board the train. The train was one really long, connected train car that all of the cars had to drive through in one big conga line.
Once all the cars are loaded, there are hydraulic doors to separate the train cars that fold in. Europcar prohibited us from taking the car onto ferries and into Eastern Europe.
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