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Hi we booked to go to France before the recent problems.Just wondering if anyone has travelled through eurotunnel recently. I heard there are diversions on M20 due to lorry stacks but how much earlier would we meed to set out. Our booking is 7.50am so should be quieter on the roads. Also is Calais side ok?
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What day of the week are you travelling?


Operation stack basically closes the M20 and turns it into a lorry park.


Ordinarily it occurs once in a blue moon but recently, as a result of immigrants storming the tunnel every night and French ferry workers protesting at the sale of the ex sea France ferry company (owned by eurotunnel but forced to sell due to competition issues), it's occurring @ 5 days a week and has done for the last month.


Sundays and Mondays generally ok.

Saturdays are better since the lorry drivers can't go to France anyway. Only refrigerated lorries are permitted on French motorways at the weekend.


That said, if stack is on immediately before, Saturday is the day they get to start clearing the backlog so it's not tending to be lifted until Sunday.


I would play it by ear depending on what happens the week before and maybe stay over the Friday night. The lanes have generally been OK (but time consuming), avoid any route that touches Maidstone like the plague!!


M2 / A2 seems the least effected of the main routes but the effects back right up to the M25 when it's on - it's ridiculous!


Not sure when you leave but there is huge political pressure so it may well get sorted in the meantime.

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