In our 2018 Euro Trip we travelled to France from Black Horse Farm Caravan and Motorhome Club Site via the Eurotunnel or le Shuttle and this video diary is a look at the arrival, checking in, passport control, checking the gas bottles, boarding the train and arriving in France. The Tunnel crossing in 2018 was around £230 return. The train journey is 35 minutes. As this was filmed in September 2018 the cost will be different now. Also it depends when you travel, your type of vehicle and how many passengers and dogs etc. The up to date prices are on the EuroTunnel web site on the Tickets and Fares page. We booked the tickets in advance. We did do a video review of all the costs on the tour here th-cam.com/video/rj6SjY_E3Dc/w-d-xo.html
@@nickhardy8300 ; Interesting My family left Esens Germany in 1956 for California across the Atlantic. My daughter lives in Flower Mound Texas Today is May 26, 2021.
wow...the entrance to the facility was endless, complex, and nerve-racking! so many lane changes and guards and signs and opportunities to get on the train upside down and backwards! glad you made it.
Hi. Love this trip. I used to go to France as a kid pre-tunnel days. I was always so excited! Just quietly, if it's light in the UK it'll be light in France! They're an hour ahead, but the sun reaches them first, no matter the time!
I have no idea how it works that I watched something from 9/11, which took me to a camera attached to a plane filming a flight from LA to Dallas, which then brought me here to read a comment from someone with the same name as me!
Bob, thank you very much for giving us such an nice and elaborate tour through the tunnel sitting thousand of miles away! besides educating how to navigate through once one happens to venture through him/herself. Thanks a lot.
I've been in France for almost 40 times, by car, but never to UK, one of the reasons being I had no information how to proceed. Thank you for this video, quite useful for globetrotters (as I used to be) that prefer to discover the World by car.
Super step by step video! We used the automated check in - purely by accident but it used number plate Recognition so was very painless ...the Euro tunnel Is an amazing concept 35 minutes and you are in Europe 😊
Thank you for this brilliant guide through the tunnel. Things like that make me super nervous, so seeing it step by step is so reassuring for us to take the plunge. Next year, France here we come.
I’m 17 , 18 next year and I’m getting a motor home so I can travel Europe with my mates , this video has learnt me so much even how to turn and get into the right gear , thank you so much x
Hi Bob! I really enjoyed your video. I loved the way you specifically ensured that we saw every last detail on the road. I've never been to the Eurotunnel (or the UK really) but I was able to get a glimpse of the experience through your video. Hopefully one day I can. Cheers and greetings from Kenya! 🇰🇪❤️
at the start of the tour i wasn't keen on the motorhome but after listening and following your tour and your end run through i can now see what a lovely well built quality motorhome it is . Well done Bob Jenny and Poppy .
I throughly enjoyed your trip, it was amazing. I am from Dallas, Tx and I had no idea, how this procedure was, to take the eurotunnel. You mde it exciting, thank you for posting this video
Really great instructional video thank you so much. We are planning our trip for hopefully when the restrictions lift and it's so helpful to have a video like this.
Thank you so much for some much needed information on french crossing..thinking of doing our first journey crossing over to France and then onto Spain..first year with Motorhome.
1:08 - my grandmother used to live in one of those bungalows on the left, just behind the bus stop. Many happy childhood memories in that house. Seems odd seeing it on a TH-cam channel. Great video. Thank you
I agree about the self ticket booth, there is far to little time to make a decision. I have seen a couple of near misses because of people dodging across. Apart from that bit it’s easy to navigate.
Very helpful for us as we're trying the tunnel in January 24 for the first time after bobbing around like a cork in a bathtub on the ferry last January. Cheers guys
If we ever go to Europe, it will be by train, it just looks much simpler and nicer than the boat. Or and it's a train! Excellent video as always Regards Michael
Great video and so informative Thanks for posting . Super tip about not following the van in front closely over the joins - tip woth its weight in gold.
I've travelled over 20k miles in the USA by motorhome, and have been to all the European union countries. im interested in driving a motorhome in Europe as ive seen them in Gibraltar, Andorra and many in Sweden. I always travelled by train or airplane in Europe but it looks interesting! ive been on the eurotunnel a couple times as a passenger. i do love it!
That's very unfortunate. Here in Australia they're encouraging people to do road trips, seeing as we can't travel overseas. Problem is our state borders open and close with COVID restrictions every other day. We can go on a long road trip without leaving our state, as it's 7x the size of GB.
Excellent video, as motorhoming newbies we are looking forward to getting to France in 2022. Especially liked the zooming on the road signs, I think it would be a bit daunting using the Tunnel for the first time without watching this. Thank you.
OK about you using the tunnel. We have used the tunnel and the ferry and also the hovercraft when it was running many years ago. Where we live near Düsseldorf we go through Belgium through the Kennedy tunnel at Antwerp.. Many years ago before the motorways was finished to Calais we used to have to go up to Ostend on the motorway and then do about 40 miles along the coast road to Calais....it took ages !!!!. Safe travels .
Thanks Bob and Jenny , great video very informative especially for us newbies who have yet to venture abroad, have a great trip look forward to your next video 😀👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍
I used to take the Chunnel quite a lot, but now tit has been at least 10 years since I last went. I was always in a car, so I could only guess at how trucks, campers, etc; went.....looks like I guessed correctly. One thing that always struck me about the experience was, on the England end all signage was in English and French, but on the French end everything was strictly in the native language, too bad if non-French visitors got confused. This seemed very 'French' to me, but also surprising, because one would think that part of the cooperative operation would be to assure that the experience would be uniform anywhere within the Chunnel system.
I never really noticed the lack of English signs, I always enjoyed the whole French experience. Commercial trucks actually travel on a different set of semi open carriages train.
Great video Bob Jenny got to say we find your vlogs really interesting and informative by far the best motorhome vlogs on TH-cam keep up the good work top 🍌
Hi Guys thanks for taking the time to video this, it was really useful as we've been across in the car many moons ago and I forgot how much room was in the actual train as we are planning a trip to France in our motorhome so it was nice to see that there's plenty of room inside.
Great video and very informative gives us the confidence to travel to France once we find a motorhome and trade in our caravan, i have an old workmate who now lives in France with lots of land and he has very kindly offered us space to stay for a few days on our travels.
Hello there. I just accidently came across this video through suggestions and I have to say I bloody loved it. Sort of reminded me of my time on the coach on the M6 on the way to London. I miss travelling at the moment. Anyway,... thank you for the video and I have also subscribed and I'll certainly make time later on to watch other videos. Take care.
Really enjoyed the video! Nicely done. I've subscribed. BTW, as a Yank, I always thought it would be difficult to drive on the left side of the road, but at least in England you work in miles. Yet, you get into France and move to the right side of the road but then switch to kilometers! Wow. lol.
Brilliant film Bob and Jenny, after having done that loads of times in a car, nice to see it in a Motorhome. I usually go from Portsmouth or Poole to Cherbourg on the ferry in the car but plan to use the tunnel this year for the first time in the Motorhome
Thanks Bob and Jenny for a very informative video , especially for us newbies who have yet to venture abroad. Look forward to your next video have a great holiday 😀👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍
hi bob and jenny this is very first vlog i watched of yours as i was looking for something on euro tunnel and saw this vlog and been hooked since please keep the vlogs coming
What an extraordinarily informative video! As a veteran of the Holland tunnel (under the Hudson River from New Jersey into lower Manhattan) I had no idea of what a long leisurely trip there would be across pastoral coumtryside. I had not known that the cars were enclosed in trains. That you would not see the body of water you would be traveling beneath!
Hi BoB and Jenny. Done this several times with National Express gone from Lowestoft viaBury st Edmunds to London Victoria coach Station 🚉. Then picked up a euroLines coach and passengers Left London Victoria coach station drove down to the Channel tunnel service 141amsterdam i have several times done a trip to dave west eastenders tobacco and drink warehouse for my passengers other times came back from 🇳🇱Holland Belgium 🇧🇪France 🇫🇷back to London back to Lowestoft. LOOKS LIKE U 👍AND JENNY HAD A GOOD 👍TIME. AND THE BEAUTIFUL 🐕🐶U HAVE PERFECT FAMILY HOLIDAY 👪❤♥. IT WAS A VERY LOVELY VIDEO 📹❤😊U HAVE DONE. THROUGHLY ENJOYED WATCHING THIS VIDEO TUANKS 📹FOR PUTTING THIS VIDEO UP 📹. FROM MOOSE.
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In our 2018 Euro Trip we travelled to France from Black Horse Farm Caravan and Motorhome Club Site via the Eurotunnel or le Shuttle and this video diary is a look at the arrival, checking in, passport control, checking the gas bottles, boarding the train and arriving in France.
The Tunnel crossing in 2018 was around £230 return. The train journey is 35 minutes. As this was filmed in September 2018 the cost will be different now. Also it depends when you travel, your type of vehicle and how many passengers and dogs etc. The up to date prices are on the EuroTunnel web site on the Tickets and Fares page. We booked the tickets in advance.
We did do a video review of all the costs on the tour here
th-cam.com/video/rj6SjY_E3Dc/w-d-xo.html
France
Hi I am from Berlin but left in 1955. We live outside Houston and we are also RV people. Have travel all over the states. Hardy
Fascinating! I've been curious about the tunnel for years. Superb filming etc and most informative.
@@nickhardy8300 ; Interesting My family left Esens Germany in 1956 for California across the Atlantic. My daughter lives in Flower Mound Texas Today is May 26, 2021.
@@aloysiusflartey6122; yes no eatery just restrooms . watch more videos. happy trails .
wow...the entrance to the facility was endless, complex, and nerve-racking! so many lane changes and guards and signs and opportunities to get on the train upside down and backwards! glad you made it.
Yes! I wonder who came up with that design - and who approved it?
Hi. Love this trip. I used to go to France as a kid pre-tunnel days. I was always so excited!
Just quietly, if it's light in the UK it'll be light in France! They're an hour ahead, but the sun reaches them first, no matter the time!
Remembered my days in Italy, Belgium and The Netherlands by seeing the nature, roads and traffic. Gone are those days.
I have no idea why I really enjoyed that!!
Well at least you did!
I have no idea how it works that I watched something from 9/11, which took me to a camera attached to a plane filming a flight from LA to Dallas, which then brought me here to read a comment from someone with the same name as me!
@@danwilson2092 oh yes, a different Dan Wilson!
Bob, thank you very much for giving us such an nice and elaborate tour through the tunnel sitting thousand of miles away! besides educating how to navigate through once one happens to venture through him/herself. Thanks a lot.
Thanks for your kind comments.
Having never travelled on the Euro tunnel that was superb! Thankyou & have a safe journey👍
Hahaha,I have once
When it works. When it oftenly doesn't, a real nightmare.
Love how your dogs react to anybody coming close. Ours does the same when we go through.
I've been in France for almost 40 times, by car, but never to UK, one of the reasons being I had no information how to proceed.
Thank you for this video, quite useful for globetrotters (as I used to be) that prefer to discover the World by car.
Super step by step video! We used the automated check in - purely by accident but it used number plate
Recognition so was very painless ...the Euro tunnel
Is an amazing concept 35 minutes and you are in Europe 😊
Yes it is wonderful thing and I do hope it's not messed up with bureaucratic border checks after Brexit!
Thank you for this brilliant guide through the tunnel. Things like that make me super nervous, so seeing it step by step is so reassuring for us to take the plunge. Next year, France here we come.
Did you go?
@@gereshomeE yes we did, it was easy knowing what to expect.
I'm glad to hear it! ☺
I’m 17 , 18 next year and I’m getting a motor home so I can travel Europe with my mates , this video has learnt me so much even how to turn and get into the right gear , thank you so much x
You're welcome!
Thanks really useful, amazed how much driving there is to do at the terminals.
Hi Bob! I really enjoyed your video. I loved the way you specifically ensured that we saw every last detail on the road. I've never been to the Eurotunnel (or the UK really) but I was able to get a glimpse of the experience through your video. Hopefully one day I can. Cheers and greetings from Kenya! 🇰🇪❤️
Thank you very much.
@@BobEarnshawMoHo Swahili - "Asante sana"
I have watched this SO MANY times and I still get nervous excitement! ☺
So that's why it's had so many views! 😊👍
@@BobEarnshawMoHo Tout à fait exact "EXACTEMENT", monsieur! Bon voyage! 🇫🇷 🇬🇧 ☺
Thank you I learned a lot of good information. I especially liked zooming in on the signs.
This is the best video I have seen travelling in the tunnel. PS the dogs are so adorable!
Thanks
I absolutely loved going through the tunnel with you.
So beautiful drive and city tour thanks for sharing love from Southeast Asia 💕
at the start of the tour i wasn't keen on the motorhome but after listening and following your tour and your end run through i can now see what a lovely well built quality motorhome it is . Well done Bob Jenny and Poppy .
Thanks from Florida
I throughly enjoyed your trip, it was amazing. I am from Dallas, Tx and I had no idea, how this procedure was, to take the eurotunnel. You mde it exciting, thank you for posting this video
Thank you for your kind comments.
Your video’s get even better over time just like a fine wine 🍷. Must be why people go back & watch them again & again. Well i do anyway 👌. 👍❤️
Thank you, we like a drop of good wine. 😁👍👍
Thank you for the video. I was always curious about how the eurotunnel operated. Now I know !
Really great instructional video thank you so much. We are planning our trip for hopefully when the restrictions lift and it's so helpful to have a video like this.
Thanks, hopefully things won't be too different
Great video. Brought back a lot of memories. Thank you for sharing the trip
Nicest couple enjoyed them.
Great. I've never done this, it was informative and helpful. Nice doggies too! Thanks for posting. I've subscribed and I look forward to more.
Thanks for the subscribe!
Thank you so much for some much needed information on french crossing..thinking of doing our first journey crossing over to France and then onto Spain..first year with Motorhome.
Great video. Thanks for all the tips. This video has been so well made, with important information and details.Thanks a lot. Great video.
Thank you for your kind comments.
I live in Louisiana USA and I'm watching this! Hoping to make it to Europe someday. Safe travels.
Thanks for watching
Just arrived at Folkestone. Thanks Bob and Jenny for your video it really helped us.
Thanks, but remember this was over 3 years ago before Brexit, and a few things may have changed!
1:08 - my grandmother used to live in one of those bungalows on the left, just behind the bus stop. Many happy childhood memories in that house. Seems odd seeing it on a TH-cam channel. Great video. Thank you
Thank you, nice that it revives some memories for you.
Beautiful soft gentle accent. Pleasure to listen to.
Thank you
Great.
Thank you for this video! Never seen Euro Tunnel before! This is wonderful!
Very cool ty. Showing us the direction signs get a big plus
Cracking guide for when we finally go thank you
Thank you for sharing this amazing journey. On the ferry to France a few years ago. Loved Paris. Xx
Very interesting! Thanks.
Brilliant, for a first time motor home traveller by the tunnel this was a massive help. Thanks very much. 👍
Well done guys. Great video for first time ET travellers, very informative. One of the best channels for motorhome owners
Thank you very much!
Thanks Bob and Jenny for another informative video,
I agree about the self ticket booth, there is far to little time to make a decision. I have seen a couple of near misses because of people dodging across. Apart from that bit it’s easy to navigate.
Very helpful for us as we're trying the tunnel in January 24 for the first time after bobbing around like a cork in a bathtub on the ferry last January. Cheers guys
Thanks, but we've got a much more recent video on Le Shuttle - th-cam.com/video/1PWncpNonL0/w-d-xo.html
Am trecut și eu pe aici la vamă foarte frumos este 👍👍👍👍
multumesc pentru vizionare
If we ever go to Europe, it will be by train, it just looks much simpler and nicer than the boat. Or and it's a train!
Excellent video as always
Regards
Michael
Thanks, you could say the train suits you!
Thanks once again for the useful video. It’s been a while since we travelled on the train so it was a good refresher.
Enjoy your holiday
Excellent.
What a fantastic adventure 🍀👍🏼🍀 greetings from Brazil 🇧🇷
Thank you!
@@BobEarnshawMoHo you are very welcome! I’m following you! Be safe and happy 👌🏼👏🏼👌🏼
Great video Bob, we’re still to try stepping our toes abroad. So it was a great step by step guide. Thanks for sharing 😊👍
Great video and so informative Thanks for posting . Super tip about not following the van in front closely over the joins - tip woth its weight in gold.
Thanks Ed.
I've travelled over 20k miles in the USA by motorhome, and have been to all the European union countries. im interested in driving a motorhome in Europe as ive seen them in Gibraltar, Andorra and many in Sweden. I always travelled by train or airplane in Europe but it looks interesting! ive been on the eurotunnel a couple times as a passenger. i do love it!
Thanks, perhaps you should give it a go next year hopefully when things are more normal.
Thanks for sharing your experience as we are planning our next trip for next year and the first time with dogs , have a great trip
Great Video Bob and Jenny, look forward to seeing the next one, thanks for sharing.
All seems to make sense. But wow, that is quite a loading maze with a lot of check points.
It’s now 2021 and I’m beginning to forget the pleasure of the Motorhome. Thanks for the vid. Take care all.
Yes I know how you feel.
That's very unfortunate. Here in Australia they're encouraging people to do road trips, seeing as we can't travel overseas. Problem is our state borders open and close with COVID restrictions every other day. We can go on a long road trip without leaving our state, as it's 7x the size of GB.
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It must be your pills time.
Really good video, great to see the journey into the train, very informative thank you booth safe travelling and stay safe.
Thank you, that was the best home video I have watched. Well done !!
Best detailed coverage, Thanks for sharing
Thank you very much
Excellent video, as motorhoming newbies we are looking forward to getting to France in 2022. Especially liked the zooming on the road signs, I think it would be a bit daunting using the Tunnel for the first time without watching this. Thank you.
Thank you
OK about you using the tunnel. We have used the tunnel and the ferry and also the hovercraft when it was running many years ago. Where we live near Düsseldorf we go through Belgium through the Kennedy tunnel at Antwerp.. Many years ago before the motorways was finished to Calais we used to have to go up to Ostend on the motorway and then do about 40 miles along the coast road to Calais....it took ages !!!!. Safe travels .
Thanks Bob and Jenny , great video very informative especially for us newbies who have yet to venture abroad, have a great trip look forward to your next video 😀👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍
good video excellent insight to the procedure and the various gates to pass through much appreciated for our future travels hopefully next year
Very helpful, thank you. I did wonder how it all worked. Won't be so nervous about using the tunnel if the need arises.
I used to take the Chunnel quite a lot, but now tit has been at least 10 years since I last went. I was always in a car, so I could only guess at how trucks, campers, etc; went.....looks like I guessed correctly.
One thing that always struck me about the experience was, on the England end all signage was in English and French, but on the French end everything was strictly in the native language, too bad if non-French visitors got confused. This seemed very 'French' to me, but also surprising, because one would think that part of the cooperative operation would be to assure that the experience would be uniform anywhere within the Chunnel system.
I never really noticed the lack of English signs, I always enjoyed the whole French experience. Commercial trucks actually travel on a different set of semi open carriages train.
Great video for Eurotunnel novices, saying that only done it twice........ in a car!
Thanks guys, never done the Euro Tunnel so this was very helpful 👍🍻
Great video Bob Jenny got to say we find your vlogs really interesting and informative by far the best motorhome vlogs on TH-cam keep up the good work top 🍌
I enjoyed watching this one
Awesome , Thanks for the video
Virtually I pass through an Euro tunnel via your nice video .. {Physically may not be possible for billions , world over.}
Very true, the power of shared video.
Hi Guys thanks for taking the time to video this, it was really useful as we've been across in the car many moons ago and I forgot how much room was in the actual train as we are planning a trip to France in our motorhome so it was nice to see that there's plenty of room inside.
Yes, we will definitely use the Tunnel next time.
From Washington State thanks for the ride.
Thank you for watching!
Oooooo.... Thank you for sharing :) Have fun, be safe :)
Thank's for sharing by the way.
You're welcome
Thank you so very much always wanted to know what this ride was like...hello from northern California near Yosemite national park...
Thanks Bob, we have never done the Euro tunnel the video was very useful.
Thanks, bear in mind things may have changed since we recorded this back in 2018.
i really enjoy watching your trips
Thank you
Great video and very informative gives us the confidence to travel to France once we find a motorhome and trade in our caravan, i have an old workmate who now lives in France with lots of land and he has very kindly offered us space to stay for a few days on our travels.
That sounds great, love France.
Brilliant folks much enjoyed👌👍💗
People are so intelligent. How in the world they were able to build that. I experience passing to the tunnel everytime i go to UK.
I Actually enjoyed that Thank you
This was very interesting; I was wondering how larger vehicles were handled!
Well dun. Thank you. Old German from Texas.
Thank you for all the great information. Planning our first trip next January with the dog 👍
Just bear in mind a lot has changed since 2018 especially with regard to dogs!
Hello. I have seen some drivers come off at junction 11A and you come off at junction 12. Why is this when it looks longer way around.
Remember this is two years ago, but we just followed the sat nav.
If heading North from Folkestone it is 12, 11A is only on Coastbound
Hello there. I just accidently came across this video through suggestions and I have to say I bloody loved it. Sort of reminded me of my time on the coach on the M6 on the way to London. I miss travelling at the moment.
Anyway,... thank you for the video and I have also subscribed and I'll certainly make time later on to watch other videos. Take care.
Thank you, hope you enjoy the other 830+ videos!
Super helpful. Exactly the sort of video that Eurotunnel should have on its website. Will watch again when we need it. Thanks
Thank you.
Bravo Guys.
Really enjoyed the video! Nicely done. I've subscribed. BTW, as a Yank, I always thought it would be difficult to drive on the left side of the road, but at least in England you work in miles. Yet, you get into France and move to the right side of the road but then switch to kilometers! Wow. lol.
I found that very interesting. All those kilometres of roads to navigate.
There gps was in miles.
Lovely Video with Good Information..! Simply Awesome 👍
Thank you so much. A big help for newbies 👍🏻
Marvellous construction during Madam Margaret Thachers who was the Priminisiter of the United Kingdom
It started in 1988 when Margaret Thatcher was Prime Minister, but opened in 1994 when John Major was Prime Minister.
@@BobEarnshawMoHo thank you for updating
Brilliant film Bob and Jenny, after having done that loads of times in a car, nice to see it in a Motorhome. I usually go from Portsmouth or Poole to Cherbourg on the ferry in the car but plan to use the tunnel this year for the first time in the Motorhome
Thanks Bob and Jenny for a very informative video , especially for us newbies who have yet to venture abroad. Look forward to your next video have a great holiday 😀👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍
Have just seen your post !! Found it really interesting. Haven't been to the U.K or France. One day Hopefully !! Best wishes from New Zealand 😊😊
hi bob and jenny this is very first vlog i watched of yours as i was looking for something on euro tunnel and saw this vlog and been hooked since please keep the vlogs coming
What an extraordinarily informative video!
As a veteran of the Holland tunnel (under the Hudson River from New Jersey into lower Manhattan)
I had no idea of what a long leisurely trip there would be across pastoral coumtryside.
I had not known that the cars were enclosed in trains.
That you would not see the body of water you would be traveling beneath!
Thank you very much. I'm not sure I'd like to see the water above!
Hi BoB and Jenny. Done this several times with National Express gone from Lowestoft viaBury st Edmunds to London Victoria coach Station 🚉. Then picked up a euroLines coach and passengers Left London Victoria coach station drove down to the Channel tunnel service 141amsterdam i have several times done a trip to dave west eastenders tobacco and drink warehouse for my passengers other times came back from 🇳🇱Holland Belgium 🇧🇪France 🇫🇷back to London back to Lowestoft. LOOKS LIKE U 👍AND JENNY HAD A GOOD 👍TIME. AND THE BEAUTIFUL 🐕🐶U HAVE PERFECT FAMILY HOLIDAY 👪❤♥. IT WAS A VERY LOVELY VIDEO 📹❤😊U HAVE DONE. THROUGHLY ENJOYED WATCHING THIS VIDEO TUANKS 📹FOR PUTTING THIS VIDEO UP 📹. FROM MOOSE.