Anyone else stuck near to / at Dover?

[Arsewangry]

We are completely gridlocked in four / five hour delays due to border control issues. Kids are climbing the walls already

The Brexit gift keeps on giving

Oh no @Hembria , have you got enough drinks etc? locals have been turned round on the smaller roads too, nothing is moving

How ridiculous! Brexit is about leaving the orbit of EU lawmaking and increasing federalisation. A side effect is having ot get your passport stamped but the people who want to stay in for easy holidays are fools who don't know what they are voting for.

This has been caused by short staffing by French border force and needing to stamp passports. All things that could have been foreseen and overcome if there was the will.

@CockadoodleDoosPooh thankfully we heard the news on the way so stopped at a service station and stocked up.

I feel so sorry for people living here though. The idea of needing to get to a healthcare appointment or pick the kids up from nursery, or even get home from a job. What a nightmare!

Are you going to be ok getting home?

That’s good @Hembria , I haven’t been able to get out today , the roads are gridlocked , there’s a local food festival on too to add to the mix
they are usually very busy but this is ridiculous, bus services have been cancelled too , nobody can get to work in Dover
just hope my children can get home ok
feel sorry for the emergency services , what a bloody mess
have you managed to reach the roundabout yet ?

I feel your pain OP. This happend to is in the summer hols in 2019. We were delayed for hours. We missed out ferry which then ended up eating to our short break at euro Disney. We were given vouchers to use on the ferry as compensation. Hope things start moving for you soon!

We made it! Finally in France and on the way to Paris.

yaaaaay @Arsewangry

Well done op!!

What a pain! When did going away become so incredibly stressful?

As an aside it seems crazy that all this traffic cuts off the locals as well? I suppose special roads have been discussed for it?

We are now in Dover!! We still have to make it from the travelodge to the port but there is hope.

Glad you made it @Arsewangry

Does it look like it's easing?

It’s a very small price to pay for pint stamps on glasses and 16th of inches

How come the French are so keen on passport checks at the UK side of the channel, but don't seem interested on checking the immigration status of people leaving the French ports towards us??

Enjoy your holiday and hope things move on quickly. Blame Brexit.

It took me an hour and a half but im home!

good new @Accountsdept have a large g & t now 😀

We went to France 4 weeks ago via Poole. Passport/ticket checking/stamping took no longer than pre Brexit. Arrived at Poole docks at 7.00 was in the line up waiting to board at 7.10. On arrival in Cherbourg were off the ship and on the road 45 minutes after tying up and we were by no means the first off.

How long was the crossing at Poole/Cherbourg @DoraSpenlow ? Maybe that’s the way forward, stop passenger traffic at Dover, leave that as a trade port and redistribute passenger tread fix along the south coast for France and from Harwich to Belgium/Holland etc?

How is today anyone that is travelling, hope it has settled down a bit must be awful for the locals. We are travelling next week.

Have a nice holiday OP.

It looks worse today than yesterday.

I’ve been looking on twitter and people have been stuck in traffic outside the Eurotunnel for 7 hours!

Glad you got through .

It's awful for the tourists travelling but I also feel sorry for any residents who take an age just to go somewhere like a supermarket

The French are controlling their own border/EU border and are concerned with who enters the EU.
Why would they care about who leaves?

Well I hope there are some bathroom facilities nearby. That's the thing that would scare me about getting caught in long motorway tailback.

At least if you fly or train you have access to a loo, water and food etc.

No bathroom facilities once you are past stop 24 @ouch321 which is about 20 minutes to Dover on a good day so possibly up to 6 hours now
motorway closed to non freight traffic so all local towns and villages are gridlocked and traffic being turned around
busses are cancelled , people can’t get to work
it took 4 hours to do a 15 minute journey yesterday
don’t travel unless its unavoidable would be my advice

ive had a few very large wines at the food festival! did you go?