Dover Calais Ports

Fireman999
Fireman999 Forum Participant Posts: 12
edited January 2016 in Overseas Campsites & Touring #1

Just read in the newspaper about the french building a camp for 3000 migarants at Dunkirk and with the the other problems at Calais will it be safe to travel through these ports with the risk of being broken in and robbed .We all saw last years so what will
happen  this year .

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  • harryb
    harryb Forum Participant Posts: 1,536
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    edited January 2016 #2

    Disembark, into go and keep going.

    Returning, don't arrive until your ferry time and don't leave the outfit.

    This should take care of your worries.

  • DavidKlyne
    DavidKlyne Club Member Posts: 13,874 ✭✭✭
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    edited January 2016 #3

    I went through Calais twice last year and it looked much the same as it had in previous years. Only difference was a lot more fencing at the Tunnel. I think it easy to over play the concern but most people that travel through the Dover- Calais route experience
    very little in the way of trouble. You are more likely to have problems from French strikers. 

    I wonder if the intention with the new camp is to provide proper facilities and close the unofficial ones? 

    David

  • Graydjames
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    edited January 2016 #4

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  • TheAdmiral
    TheAdmiral Forum Participant Posts: 506
    edited January 2016 #5

    The extra fencing at the Eurotunnel was the same fencing that was ercred on the M4 from Celtic Manor Resort in Newport all the way into Cardiff when the G8 Conference was taking place. we used the Tunnel twice in 2015, we had no real problems apart from
    a hold up of 3 hours in October due to a migrant being killed inside the Tunnel, it was explained to us that the migrants were getting more brazen and were trying to force open the emergency doors on the trains, and guess what one of the doors was in the carriage
    that we were in, normally when loading has been completed you move off quite quickly, in October we were sat on the train for 50 minutes whilst staff checked and scured the emergency doors.

    Admiral

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