To cancel my half term driving holiday to France???!!!

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Omg. So been looking forward to this holiday.our plan was to drive quite far south😂 Reading reports of stranded Brits is making me scared. What would you do????

Now the panic buying is over it seems to be back to normal. Where I live at anyway.

Good. Driving down from Calais in the morning. Staying near Vierzon. As long as I get there I am not worrying about getting back!

I took a faerry last night. Have now been driving across France for about 4.5 houra and have stopped 3 times.

Have not spotted any issues at all. We have been keeping the tank topped up just in case, but no isseues as yet and we are nearly at Bordeaux.

Dh has driven from Calais to Paris and beyond to Orleans this morning. He says the motorways have fuel and there are no queues.

Hi I wanted to ask if you have stopped three times for fuel are you using a website that is telling you which stations have supplies? I am driving from Calais to campsite near Dol de Bretnagne in Brittany and feeling very nervous. Car is diesel.

There are no problems getting fuel here today (south of Toulouse). There are some short queues, of people buying tiny amounts of fuel because everyone wants to make sure they have a full tank, but no issues at all with availability.

I think the UK press were just behind the curve on this, they only started reporting about this on Wednesday when the situation was already starting to improve!

If anyone is driving Calais to Brittany today can you update on the situation please.

Dh has driven from Calais today and is now close to the Spanish border. He has had no problems getting fuel all day.

we're going to normandy. Apparently most petrol stations do have fuel, you just have to queue

I'm in the South-East, near Marseille.

It was very, very bad on Monday and Tuesday when the depot at Fos-sur-Mer was blocked; there are still very long queues at petrol stations in many places, but on motorways it's not as bad because the price is higher.

It took me 30mins to buy petrol yesterday, between arriving at the petrol station and driving off again, but I saw a 300-400m long queue at a petrol station in Aix-en-Provence this morning.
I think people are constantly toppping up for fear of new shortages, which doesn't help.

Diesel is harder to find than unleaded.

I don't think you need to cancel, but keep your tank at least half-full.

I'd keep an eye on the French media to see if other action is announced (road blocks, etc.), though Valls has said some bits of the legislation may be tweaked...

For those going Tunnel, there are queues at services in Folkestone, mind you. If you pop into Folkestone itself (junction after the Tunnel) there is a BP on your left which had no queue at all.

You can go back across the m20 to go the the back way to EuroTunnel.

Change your route and keep at least a semblance of a holiday. Come through Belgium and Luxembourg until Strasbourg, then into Switzerland. Where you can stop for a brew at Chez Wally. Petrol is cheaper in CH strangely.

You can drive down into France through switzerland or go to Italy.

I'd vote for Italy. And the weather here is awesome at the mo.

We have travelled overnight from Calais down to Lyon via Rheims, Troyes, Dijon (A26, A5 & 6 ) and there were no queues and plenty of fuel

DH is on his way from roscoff. Will post update later if anyone still interested.

Yes please girloutnumbered.

Any updates today? We are driving to Folkestone as we speak with a very full tank of petrol!

We have been travelling through France since midnight and haven't seen a queue, nor no fuel signs. There a loads of petrol tankers on the road delivering fuel too.

Thankyou for the updates

DH has gone from roscoff to Le Mans so far. No problems, just getting petrol. No queue.

I stopped off the motorway and a-roads. Haven't used an app. Everywhere seemed fine but have kept the tank topped up in case. We crossed to dieppe and have come all the way down to Boyonne with no issues. Local petrol station in the town we are in (just outside the city) is fine.

Sky news reporting that the barricadeshave been removed by riot police.

DH drove to Grenoble today, the only trouble he encountered were two massive hail and thunderstorms, he said were terrifying.

No queues or any other signs of trouble. He is so glad he didn't cancel his holiday.

In France now/plenty of petrol stations with petrol!

Overreaction - it's fine, seriously, don't cancel and enjoy!!

Petrol is fine. Diesel is not.

I friend had to abandon his car by the road because it ran out of diesel as he was going from one station to another.