Driving to France
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Circular. The circular disc will pull off the square one. I have experience of such passes as our annual parking discs for our country park that we visit uses the same method. FWIW, nobody checked it although when entering the hotel location into Google maps, it warns you that you are entering a low emission zone.
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Interesting. And sounds like Brigadier's was same as mine.
Just had me doubting myself, so I went outside and checked.
A transparent square, with (in my case) a yellow circle within.
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Like my photo? Reassuring that it may not be just me.
Just like the still (of the youtube video) in post #79
Interesting. I too have a purple Crit air sticker with a number 1 on it yet this says a '1' sticker is for a plug in/hybrid vehicle. Mine isn’t! Just a petrol engine. I didn’t day it was - I just sent off a copy of my V5. Strange. Oh, and looking at that list it doesnt say one is needed in Rouen so I could have got away without one.
Edit. Elsewhere it says I do need one. It’s all a bit confusing?
Crit'Air clean air stickers - need to know for driving in France | RAC Drive
With the law change in France we explain what the 'Crit'Air' clean air stickers are, where they're used, how to get one and what happens if you don't
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Mine's petrol too. I just entered the vehicle details and the site came up with the category. Don't remember a problem.Interesting. I too have a purple Crit air sticker with a number 1 on it yet this says a '1' sticker is for a plug in/hybrid vehicle. Mine isn’t! Just a petrol engine. I didn’t day it was - I just sent off a copy of my V5. Strange. Oh, and looking at that list it doesn't say one is needed in Rouen so I could have got away without one.
Edit - had another look at the Critair site and it says Category 1, purple, All gas vehicles and all plug-in hybrid vehicles
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Should people struggling this much with a sticker be driving cars?
Oh, and looking at that list it doesnt say one is needed in Rouen so I could have got away without one.
Edit. Elsewhere it says I do need one. It’s all a bit confusing?
For under a fiver, I wouldn't care
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Probably a daft question, but can't find any details on internet or in the docs I've been sent ...
When driving to either Calais or Dover to get your ferry, is it obviously where you need to go? I see messages saying "get in the correct lane or else!" but nowhere I can find how we know what the correct lane is.
Hopefully obvious when I get there....
And, are there 2 checks, or just one? Eg first desk is that just to check you have a ticket for the next boat, and then the next desk is to check passports etc? Or is it all at the first one then a s3nd French check before you get to the boat?
When driving to either Calais or Dover to get your ferry, is it obviously where you need to go? I see messages saying "get in the correct lane or else!" but nowhere I can find how we know what the correct lane is.
Hopefully obvious when I get there....
And, are there 2 checks, or just one? Eg first desk is that just to check you have a ticket for the next boat, and then the next desk is to check passports etc? Or is it all at the first one then a s3nd French check before you get to the boat?
Short answer: yes, it's pretty obvious. I haven't used the ferry since converting to the Tunnel, but I'd expect to be checked into the port property, then passport control and security* before going into the boat waiting area.
* Be ready to 'enter France' after this, cos that's what happens at the tunnel, not sure in Dover.
* Be ready to 'enter France' after this, cos that's what happens at the tunnel, not sure in Dover.
A basic thing, if you haven't used Dover before - when coming from the M20 you go by Western Dock. Ignore that, you (almost certainly) want the Eastern Dock. Obvious when you've done it a couple of times!
I went a few weeks ago, and first there is French passport control, took about 30 mins. Then the check-in booths are marked for your ferry operator, straightforward enough. There they check tickets and tell you the lane number.
Returning via Calais there's British passport control first. We got stuck behind a Romanian vehicle which took 40 mins to sort out and we only just got the ferry. They didn't have the wit to move it to one side while they dealt with it, and get another bod to deal with the main queue.
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It was a great success. Dover to Calais, day trips to Dunkirk & Museum Dunkerque 1940 Operation Dynamo, Cap Blanc-Nez & Wimeraux, Le Troquet & Étaples Military Cemetery, Bray Dunes & Dunkirk, with an evening walk around the local town, Guines, which seems both proud of its links with Henry VIII, as well as its liberation from same. Lots of good food, and we treated ourselves to Club Class on the new P&O ferry on the way home, which was very nice.
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