The immigration on the Calais side is far worse, but only once you get to UK immigration. They had about a dozen booths operating when I last travelled at the end of August and still took about 3/4 hour for us to get into the waiting area to board the ferry. Goodness only knows what they were doing! Then just to make the DFDS café more fun, there was only one poor bloke running round trying to serve hoards of passengers before the ferry started to board. Nice sandwich roll though.
Agree about your UKBA staff behaviour who ask stupid questions as well such as why are you going to the UK and etc despite of knowing the reality. But luckily or unluckily I facwd more delays in Dover i travel 5 times in a year because of family reason and have stated all very honestly as I am from EU side.
hi, when you made the appointment at Dover to Calais, did you also give the exact location, not the one that takes you exactly to the location, I also want to go by car, it's the first time, thank you
If you want to travel in school holidays book well ahead in advance to get better price in normal days it's not bad to book a couple of days before. Compare on direct ferries and on carriers website there are 3 carriers P&O, DFDS and Irish. The sequence is also my preference P&O Pioneer and P&O Liberté are best ferries in the market. Adress is always simple just search it in Google maps you'll reach easily. If still any questions don't hesitate to ask.
The immigration on the Calais side is far worse, but only once you get to UK immigration. They had about a dozen booths operating when I last travelled at the end of August and still took about 3/4 hour for us to get into the waiting area to board the ferry. Goodness only knows what they were doing!
Then just to make the DFDS café more fun, there was only one poor bloke running round trying to serve hoards of passengers before the ferry started to board. Nice sandwich roll though.
Agree about your UKBA staff behaviour who ask stupid questions as well such as why are you going to the UK and etc despite of knowing the reality. But luckily or unluckily I facwd more delays in Dover i travel 5 times in a year because of family reason and have stated all very honestly as I am from EU side.
hi, when you made the appointment at Dover to Calais, did you also give the exact location, not the one that takes you exactly to the location, I also want to go by car, it's the first time, thank you
If you want to travel in school holidays book well ahead in advance to get better price in normal days it's not bad to book a couple of days before. Compare on direct ferries and on carriers website there are 3 carriers P&O, DFDS and Irish. The sequence is also my preference P&O Pioneer and P&O Liberté are best ferries in the market. Adress is always simple just search it in Google maps you'll reach easily. If still any questions don't hesitate to ask.