Earliest arrival time for check in at Plymouth
Just wondering if there’s a limit on when you can arrive for check in prior to boarding Brittany Ferries at Plymouth. It clearly states at least 60 mins before, but does it matter if you are there, say, an hour or so earlier? I ask because for Santander (for the return journey) website clearly gives details of early arrivals and parking conditions, but cannot find similar for the Plymouth end.
thanks
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I'd ring them and ask. There used to he plenty of space at Millbay Docks but I don't know if that's still the case.
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Once the previous ferry has left you can line up at the check in booths for as long as you like - and if you wish can walk across to The Dock bar restaurant which is upstairs in the marina building. . To find out when the previous ferry departs you should look up the Plymouth - Roscoff timetable - it’s probably at 10pm.on the previous evening.
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I recently arrived at Millbay about 20:30 for 22:00 departure hoping for early embarcation to get a meal. Van was checked through straight away but didn’t start loading until about 21:45 and still left on time. I think you can turn up well before the 1 hour minimum and park in one of the several check in lanes until it opens - vehicle mustn’t be unoccupied. My experience was the ferry (Roscoff) was extremely quiet compared to pre-Covid days, loads of space and catering a bit limited compared to usual. Didn’t have any cheese when I sailed! Brittany Ferries will probably check your vac certs quite carefully.
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Thanks SB all paperwork checked and ready with passport ,ticket and vac certs as we have paper and on phone ones, OH has been checking latest details regularly, fridge quite empty except a few bottles not all alcohol, oat milk and that is it nothing in freezer ending up giving site staff a big lump of cheese as we could not use it all.
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You can lawfully take a limited amount of foods into the EU for personal use and consumption - up to 2 kg per person of meat and plant products. Article 7 of the EU regulations spells this out.
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Yes. EribaMotters deserves credit for revealing and posting about this on 6 April in a thread headed Taking food supplies to Spain after he wrote to the EU office for a ruling.
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No. Read the annex to the regulation which specifically excludes dairy.
https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX%3A02019R2122-20211220
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Thanks for that link. Read article 7 within it.
And read the letter I mentioned earlier which EribaMotters had from the EU office and which he posted on this forum on 6 April.0 -
It would have been nice to read the thread and reconsider our actions when we visit Europe in the near future, BUT a message informs that the thread is unavailable due to a server error.
I wonder where we can get clear advice? Perhaps we could join a membership fee paying club? Is it me?
Could anyone post a copy of the letter from EU which was posted 6th April?
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Euror. No you can't, we're not in the EU now and we have to abide by the regulations formulated between ourselves and the EU which does not allow us to take in certain products to the EU. The articles referred to concern travel within the EU not travel to the EU.
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Really no need to worry about parking at Plymouth Millbay. Always plenty of room , just roll up to the check-in ranks, park at the back and wait. They usually open 2 hours beforehand. Nice little restaurant in the Marina 5 minutes walk away on the quayside. If you sit on the terrace you can keep an eye on your unit. Otherwise plenty of take-aways on Union Street, 10 minutes walk away.
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All went ok for us on Monday night got to the port no problems and not to much traffic thankfully, car was checked over and a lady member of staff check one overhead cupboard in caravan and that was it no problems and quite a few l/vs on board a lot folk going on holiday, got off ferry and had to wait awhile as somebody up the queue had not done all paperwork heyho and we found it was a lot warmer than Cornwall.
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Hi Ian, We too travel from Plymouth and are booked on an overnight . Pont Aven, crossing in June.
The BF ticket says boarding starts at 1800, for a 2000 crossing, however, like others we have arrived much earlier, parked in the lanes and enjoyed a meal at The Dock retaurant.
We prefer to dine on board but use The Dock often anyway and have even seen people parked up in the early evening for a next day crossing.
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Eurotraveller
I have checked this out with the EU regs, Are you absolutely sure? Can you provide a link please?
This is what the regs say - quote:
Rules when travelling from a non-EU country
If you travel to the EU from a non-EU country, you are not allowed to bring any meat or dairy products with you. You can however bring a limited quantity of fruit and vegetables as well as eggs, egg products and honey. Restricted quantities of fish or fish products are also allowed.Here: https://europa.eu/youreurope/citizens/travel/carry/meat-dairy-animal/index_en.htm
The only exceptions are travelling from Greenland or the Faroe Islands.
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Nutsy, I can only repeat that a previous poster on here, EribaMotters, wrote to the Europe Direct Contact Centre for a ruling, and in their reply he was told that taking meat and dairy products if they were for personal use were both allowed. The reply he received is still on here dated 6 April 2022 but many other members on here doubt it. Perhaps you would like to write to that office too for clarification. I am sorry I can give you no more help than that.
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I don't know what the "Europe Direct Contact Centre" is but annex 2 in the link I have previously posted and which is the actual legislation, not someone's interpretation of it is perfectly clear on the matter. Dairy products are NOT allowed as they are exempt from the allowances made in Section 7. If people choose to ignore this it's their prerogative. I accept that checks are probably unlikely but that's no excuse.
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Hi
Last October we sailed from Plymouth to Santander and arrived at the port 4 hours before check in, there's loads of room. There were several outfits already there as well as 25 Maserati sports car! The sound of all those V10's revving up- petrol head heaven!!
JK
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