So i've just spent, or actually my wife has just spent the last 4hrs on the Eurotunnel website trying to book our crossings for August. It's well reported across the internet that Eurotunnel.com is under a huge amount of pressure due to the whole country trying to make bookings after the latest news about dropping the 2 week quarantine for people coming back into the UK.
The website issues were very frustrating, getting through the booking system with the dates and times you want, only for the website to crash at the confirmation stage, over and over again, each time you restart the dates and times you wanted were gone. Until finally we managed to get a date that was a day before we were meant to be going, and a return date 2 days before we were meant to be coming back, both at stupidly unpractical times, but it's done now and we are booked.
My main question is this: I've been touring all over Europe for years, but never actually used a French Aire. Our outbound journey gets us into France around 10pm, which obviously means getting a site that late is near on impossible. So we might have to use an Aire for that one night. Has anyone in here used them? are there other Caravans and Motorhomes using them? Daft questions I know, but in all my touring time, i've never been in one at night.
I'm not concerned too much, but i'd feel a little more comfortable if I knew many other Motorhomes or Caravans, Campers use them and we weren't sat there on our own surrounded by lorries.
By the way, the booking system was only a total nightmare because we use a frequent traveller pass at £480 for 10 crossings. If we were prepared to pay over £400 just for a single return ticket, there would of been far more choices. Frequent traveller passes are cheaper for a reason, but this is the first time we've had issues using this method.
The website issues were very frustrating, getting through the booking system with the dates and times you want, only for the website to crash at the confirmation stage, over and over again, each time you restart the dates and times you wanted were gone. Until finally we managed to get a date that was a day before we were meant to be going, and a return date 2 days before we were meant to be coming back, both at stupidly unpractical times, but it's done now and we are booked.
My main question is this: I've been touring all over Europe for years, but never actually used a French Aire. Our outbound journey gets us into France around 10pm, which obviously means getting a site that late is near on impossible. So we might have to use an Aire for that one night. Has anyone in here used them? are there other Caravans and Motorhomes using them? Daft questions I know, but in all my touring time, i've never been in one at night.
I'm not concerned too much, but i'd feel a little more comfortable if I knew many other Motorhomes or Caravans, Campers use them and we weren't sat there on our own surrounded by lorries.
By the way, the booking system was only a total nightmare because we use a frequent traveller pass at £480 for 10 crossings. If we were prepared to pay over £400 just for a single return ticket, there would of been far more choices. Frequent traveller passes are cheaper for a reason, but this is the first time we've had issues using this method.
