That works when there's room on the train but how do you explain to other bike owners that their spot on the train has been taken by someone who couldn't be bothered to wait for their allocated train?ollydog wrote:hi ralph we just cut straight across the chappy controlling the queue with a big wave and go straight to the train even when we are early, jan just waves the ticket around and we get in the lane thats moving, bit of a cheek but there not going to turn you around into oncoming traffic-Ralph- wrote:What I have realised in all my channel crossings this year is that I'm no longer paying virtually double for the "speed" of the Eurotunnel.
The train may only take 1/2 hour, but every time I've been through this year passport control and customs has taken 90 minutes or more.
It took a crowd of bikes 90 minutes on Tuesday night only because 20 bikes filtered between the cones from the queue for the overflow holding area and went straight into the queue for passport control. Officials waved their arms in protest but 20 bikes chose to ignore them so they gave up and let it slide. Had those bikes gone to the holding area first it would've been more like 2 1/2 hours.
It's no longer any quicker than the ferry.
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steve
We were bumped a couple of years ago in similar circumstances and got put on a train 2 hours later then given a full refund after complaining. I've sat on the platform and watched cars with the letter after mine board then had the loading team say they may not be able to get us on which brought a few sarcastic comments from both my wife and I but that time they managed to squeeze all the bikes on by having the owners hold them all upright then put them on the side stands at the same time just to make an extra couple of feet :pinch:
