Channel holiday h ell is only just beginning! Tourists face travel chaos lasting ALL year - as delays spread from ferries and Eurotunnel to Eurostar trains and ex-minister tells people trying to get to France 'go somewhere that welcomes you instead'
Travel chaos in France extended to Eurostar services between Paris and London last night as stranded passengers endured 'bedlam' because of cancelled and delayed trains. It followed similar scenes on the English Channel coast at Dover and Folkestone, where a lack of French border police and other problems including longer post-Brexit passport checking times were blamed for huge traffic tailbacks and delays. Holidaymakers have been warned should prepare to spend for hours in queues at Dover and Folkestone as Channel infrastructure is pushed past its limits, it has been claimed. Local authorities in Kent pleaded for the government to address the lengthy traffic queues at its ports as a 'national problem'. Tory leadership contenders Liz Truss and Rishi Sunak pointed the finger of blame at the French, whom they accused of failing to send enough border staff.
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It's estimated that 70 per cent of families have planned or are planning a break following two years of largely going nowhere due to the pandemic.
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Travel chaos in France extended to Eurostar services between Paris and London last night as stranded passengers endured 'bedlam' because of cancelled and delayed trains. It followed similar scenes on the English Channel coast at Dover and Folkestone, where a lack of French border police and other problems including longer post-Brexit passport checking times were blamed for huge traffic tailbacks and delays. Holidaymakers have been warned should prepare to spend for hours in queues at Dover and Folkestone as Channel infrastructure is pushed past its limits, it has been claimed. Local authorities in Kent pleaded for the government to address the lengthy traffic queues at its ports as a 'national problem'. Tory leadership contenders Liz Truss and Rishi Sunak pointed the finger of blame at the French, whom they accused of failing to send enough border staff.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11044829/Tourists-face-travel-chaos-lasting-year-delays-spread-ferries-Eurostar-trains.html
It's estimated that 70 per cent of families have planned or are planning a break following two years of largely going nowhere due to the pandemic.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11044577/Holidays-mayhem-survive-airlines-ferries-strikes.html