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 said extra checks would be suspended, after travellers faced queues as temperatures soared.
www.bbc.co.uk
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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.
Istanbulian
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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
Yes, to question one, as recently as Wednesday, England to France.
No, to the second. The reason why? They haven’t turned the system on yet for the Chunnel.
There was longer than usual review of passports, though that happens sometimes.
No, to the second. The reason why? They haven’t turned the system on yet for the Chunnel.
There was longer than usual review of passports, though that happens sometimes.
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Victor c
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We went out via the tunnel in the car on May 3rd and there was no finger printing or pictures. We had an afternoon crossing and flew through passport checks.
We returned two weeks later via Dunkirk to Dover ferry, mid morning. I had my finger prints and picture taken by the French passport control, but the wife didn’t. It probably added around 1 min to the process and I didn’t have to leave my car. However, the French wanted to look in the boot of my car twice before I got on the ferry. Must have been looking for stowaways.
We returned two weeks later via Dunkirk to Dover ferry, mid morning. I had my finger prints and picture taken by the French passport control, but the wife didn’t. It probably added around 1 min to the process and I didn’t have to leave my car. However, the French wanted to look in the boot of my car twice before I got on the ferry. Must have been looking for stowaways.
There was an increased French customs presence at Folkestone for the Chunnel out on Wednesday. When I went across in May, they were also checking V5 documents for any motorcycles on trailers or in vans.
Flew into Malaga last week. There was not one single airport worker in the EES area but the queues at each machine were short and moving quickly. My turn came and before I could finish a couple of airport workers turned up and instructed us all to leave the machines and 'go to manual' We followed the on floor signs for 'Manual' - this turned out to be the usual non EU resident passport control booths. Then, approximately 100 of us, were hearded off to the EU residents passport control booths. Straight through, no EES, no problem.
On our return I got nattering to a Spanish Jet2 lady. I explained that I hadn't registered on arrival. Her take was that the bods running the airport were doing all that they could to prevent excessive queueing. She said that they were dead keen to shrug off the the bad reputation that the EES and particularly the airport were attracting. We simply exited via 'Manual' and cleared off home.
We've been through Faro and Malaga in the last few weeks and two of our kids have been through Kefalonia and Crete - Non of us have registered (Yes, I know that the Greeks have dumped the EES for Brits)
I'm the preparing type, but in my (admittedly limited) experience, trying to prepare for the EES is pointless, they are quite literally making it up as they go along. Just go with the flow and you'll be fine.
On our return I got nattering to a Spanish Jet2 lady. I explained that I hadn't registered on arrival. Her take was that the bods running the airport were doing all that they could to prevent excessive queueing. She said that they were dead keen to shrug off the the bad reputation that the EES and particularly the airport were attracting. We simply exited via 'Manual' and cleared off home.
We've been through Faro and Malaga in the last few weeks and two of our kids have been through Kefalonia and Crete - Non of us have registered (Yes, I know that the Greeks have dumped the EES for Brits)
I'm the preparing type, but in my (admittedly limited) experience, trying to prepare for the EES is pointless, they are quite literally making it up as they go along. Just go with the flow and you'll be fine.
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If you could break it open it would have frog written all the way through it;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
Similar for me coming back through Faro on my way home a week ago. I arrived 3 1/4 hrs before take off as I was flying with Jet2 who normally open check in 3 hrs before and as usual check in was quick and efficient. I bought fast track tickets for security the night before off Faro Airport's website and we got through security in under 5 minutes and there were staff by the EES machines to direct people to either use the machines or go the manual route through passport control depending if they'd used EES before or not, which we hadn't. It actually ran quite smoothly and we were through and into the departure lounge over 2 hours before our flight.
All quite on the Eurotunnel Folkstone.
Lovely.
Lovely.
