Euro tunnel

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I used it last year during the busy season on a Sunday evening and was delayed 6 hours. No problems with anyone targeting cars although we did observe a few skirmishes.

The problem for us was the horrendous queuing system as it took as 5 hours to get to the ticket booth so there was no way we could get our shuttle even if it was on time. This recent YouTube to bring back a Focus RS depicts the problem at about 7 minutes onwards.

The google maps screen grab below picture below shows that you come off the motorway (going south) towards the ticket booths where there is a horrendous multi lane queue all trying to get down to one lane. You are then diverted right through a gap in the fence towards Hotel Ibis Calais (going west), right again at the crosswords (going north), right along Boulevard de Europe (going east), under the dual carriageway where you were queuing, right into the holding area shown where you wait for hours (going south) and finally (going west) released to go to the ticket booths. After the ticket booths you can wait another 2 hours in the terminal.

They also give out confusing information such as a X hour delay to check in, a Y hour delay in the terminal, a Z hour delay to services. Don't take the highest number as your actual delay as you actually need to add them all together !!!

It seems to me that if you come off the motorway a junction early and head for Cite Europe and Hotel Ibis Calais then you can miss out a lot of the queue. If there is no queue then at worst you have wasted a few minutes but the benefit could be considerable.

@Centurion07 is that you at 8:50 in the SOL video?

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[Centurion07]

Yep. He wasn't the only one taking pics and filming either! Took me 4hrs to get on the train so 4hrs for everyone to gawp! :lol: