I too am off. I’m unsure though whether to be counting down the sleeps or terrified……
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I too am off. I’m unsure though whether to be counting down the sleeps or terrified……
Fear not…….
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France suspends extra EU border checks at Dover after hours-long queues
The Port of Dover said the new entry and exit system would be suspended, after travellers faced heavy queues while temperatures soared.
www.bbc.co.uk
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Moved to join the others.
Richard
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Great news,thaks for the heads up. Hopefully still suspended tomorrow afternoon.
I do wonder who decided that it was a good idea to put this in place on one of the year's busiest travel days 
I do wonder who decided that it was a good idea to put this in place on one of the year's busiest travel days
I've wondered how they trialled the whole thing?
I know that it's intended as a Euro zone wide integrated system, but I wonder if they (say) trialled it in one country, then two then.....etc, or did they just turn the whole thing on, in all countries, in April and expect it to just 'work'?
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I do wonder who decided that it was a good idea to put this in place on one of the year's busiest travel days
I don’t think ‘they’ decided to implement it on one of the UK’s busiest holiday days. It’s been implemented (ie. brought into service) since much earlier in the year, with some queues and delays outside of the UK at airports.
Eventually, ‘they’ have to turn it on fully for all the EU nations, irrespective of the niceties of British sensibilities or holiday dates. Until then it can be and is suspended in part.
Does the EU care that non-EU passport holders are maybe inconvenienced? I guess the answer is ‘Yes and no’.
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No problems with this nonsense on the Brittany Ferry routes, just the normal passport checks at the kiosk by border patrol.
I travelled to Faro for a week's holiday and returned yesterday. On the way out our plane load we're dropped off at an annex building next to the baggage hall rather than going through the main arrivals doors and down the stairs to passport control. There were some EES machines in there but only a few were working and unless you had already used EES elsewhere we were directed straight to the long queue for passport control as we were some of the last off the plane due to where we were sitting. Once through there we were straight into the baggage hall where our bags had already been removed from the carasel ready for the next flight, so it was the straight out of the airport. Yesterday on the way back we went through the usual route in Faro of up the main stairs in Departures, there were a load of EES machines in operation before passport control and those that had already used EES again used the EES gates while us plebs were directed to a longer queue but we were through quite quickly which beings Monday Morning was quite busy I thought was excellent. I did pay the extra to fast track through security at Faro on the way back booked via the airports website which had it's own dedicated xray machine so we were through there in just a couple of minutes which I booked to offset any problems there might have been later with EES/ passport control so we had less chance of missing our flight so money we'll spent IMO. We also flew with Jet2 as they allow check in 3 hrs ahead of departure, where as Ryanair and Easyjet are usually just 2.
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With the suspension of EES at Dover it appears that France has all but given up policing effectively the 90 day rule. Going out on the Ferry to Calais last Thursday there was neither any EES nor even any stamps in the passport; on the return through Dunkirk the same was true. No evidence in the passport of a trip to the EU/Schengen area at all. One can only think that they are now relying on computerised entry/exit records (even without Biometrics) than looking at stamps.
They are doing just that I think as the passport chap who let me into Portugal last week without using EES or stamping my passport commented on how many times I'd been to the shitzen area
