'Eurotunnel' 20 years of service today!

Used for the first time this year, not bad and quicker and easier than a ferry. With the camper though it will be ferry though due to gas bottles

 

Why?
We went through with Gas, all they made us do was turn them off?

 

I heard on the news that after 20 years they are just about to break even. Apparently they've had nowhere near the custom they'd predicted.
I've never been on it but my daughter did on a school trip.

 

Yes, several times. It's ace. For seasickness sufferers like me, it's a Godsend.

I was at the Channel Tunnel a few days before it opened. We were sat by the coast listening to the commentary of Formula One race, when we heard Ayrton Senna's crash..........

 

Yeah, who'd have thought, a bit like doing up a campervan.

 

One of the TBM's is now under a casino in Las Vegas.

 

Mrs TW wants to go on it (Euro star) but I think its the champagne bar that is attracting her most.
We do prefer the ferry as I get a break/sleep from driving non-stop and that clonk you get when you drive on to the ferry has always signaled the start of another adventure into foreign lands(bit different nowadays).

 

I forgot to say - we're actually booked to go on it again this summer. It also means we don't have to leave the dogs alone in the bus while we cross the channel.

 

Oh didn't realise that, sure I read that vehicles fitted with a gas tank can't go on. Maybe i thought this because mine is underslung?

 

No, it's not true. Vehicles that use LPG to power the engine can't go on, but for vehicles with gas cooking facilities, it just needs to be switched off at the isolator valve before boarding the train.

 

WHS^^^

 

Guess we will never go on it then as the only time I turn the gas tap off is when changing the bottle(sits back and waits the HS police).

 

Go on it a few times a year. My wife's mum lives in Belgium and it makes it so easy to drive over to visit. And pretty cheap too - normally pay just under £100 return.

Not taken PeasSoup on it yet though...

 

Used the tunnel loads and never paid for it yet

 

http://www.eurotunnel.com/uk/site-information/lpg/

 

We have never had a good tunnel journey usually hold ups due to maintainance cars breaking down in front of us and having to wait for a breakdown truck to re move it,
My sister actually went to France they never opened there compartment and the train came back to England with them on it along with 8 other cars,
Always use the ferries now more relaxed and usually cheaper,
Steve,