How to be in the first wave of departures on 17 May
3 years, 11 months ago

How to be in the first wave of departures on 17 May

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Sign up to Simon Calder’s free travel email for expert advice and money-saving discounts Get Simon Calder’s Travel email Get Simon Calder’s Travel email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Whether that is possible depends on the government’s four tests on the vaccine roll-out and the trajectory of coronavirus – as well as foreign nations being happy to open their frontiers to the British But surges in bookings indicate a significant pent-up demand for travel. Ryanair’s first UK departure is 20 minutes later, from London Stansted to Lisbon at 6.05am. The government warns that the 17 May date is not set in stone: “This decision will be dependent on the global and domestic epidemiological picture, the prevalence and location of any Variants of Concern, the progress of vaccine rollouts here and abroad, and what more we have learned about the efficacy of vaccines on variants, and the impact on transmission, hospitalisation and deaths.”

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The one important rule for travelling to Europe this summer by ferry – according to the Port of Dover boss
8 months, 2 weeks ago

The one important rule for travelling to Europe this summer by ferry – according to the Port of Dover boss

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Sign up to Simon Calder’s free travel email for expert advice and money-saving discounts Get Simon Calder’s Travel email Get Simon Calder’s Travel email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy One week ahead of the summer surge for ferry traffic at Dover, families heading for France …

RAC issues summer holiday travel chaos warning as pain looms for air, rail and ferry passengers
1 year, 8 months ago

RAC issues summer holiday travel chaos warning as pain looms for air, rail and ferry passengers

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Sign up to Simon Calder’s free travel email for expert advice and money-saving discounts Get Simon Calder’s Travel email Get Simon Calder’s Travel email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Drivers are being warned over severe road congestion, with the RAC forecasting that nearly 13 million people embarking on day …

Holidaymakers warned of 90-minute waits at Port of Dover as passengers urged to bring supplies
1 year, 11 months ago

Holidaymakers warned of 90-minute waits at Port of Dover as passengers urged to bring supplies

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Sign up to Simon Calder’s free travel email for expert advice and money-saving discounts Get Simon Calder’s Travel email Get Simon Calder’s Travel email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. As bank holiday getaways begin, a walkout by security at Heathrow Terminal 5 has After people were left stuck on …

More frustration at Calais as hundreds caught up in queues for hours
2 years, 7 months ago

More frustration at Calais as hundreds caught up in queues for hours

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Sign up to Simon Calder’s free travel email for expert advice and money-saving discounts Get Simon Calder’s Travel email Get Simon Calder’s Travel email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy Hundreds of people travelling to the UK had been held up in queues for many hours …

P&O Ferries Dover-Calais sailings unlikely to resume this Easter after vessel detained
2 years, 11 months ago

P&O Ferries Dover-Calais sailings unlikely to resume this Easter after vessel detained

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Sign up to Simon Calder’s free travel email for expert advice and money-saving discounts Get Simon Calder’s Travel email Get Simon Calder’s Travel email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy In a further blow for UK travellers, P&O Ferries looks increasingly unlikely to resume Dover-Calais sailings …

What travel is possible from 29 March?
4 years ago

What travel is possible from 29 March?

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Sign up to Simon Calder’s free travel email for expert advice and money-saving discounts Get Simon Calder’s Travel email Get Simon Calder’s Travel email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. In its place is the government’s official advice to “minimise travel” while the coronavirus crisis eases. English Heritage announced that …

New competitor on Dover-Calais ferry route
4 years ago

New competitor on Dover-Calais ferry route

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Sign up to Simon Calder’s free travel email for expert advice and money-saving discounts Get Simon Calder’s Travel email Get Simon Calder’s Travel email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy With Brexit and the coronavirus pandemic drastically reducing the amount of traffic across the Channel between …

France quarantine: Day of travel chaos as Britons race to beat 4am deadline
4 years, 7 months ago

France quarantine: Day of travel chaos as Britons race to beat 4am deadline

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Sign up to Simon Calder’s free travel email for expert advice and money-saving discounts Get Simon Calder’s Travel email Get Simon Calder’s Travel email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy As tens of thousands of British holidaymakers raced to beat the quarantine deadline, a ferry captain …

How British travellers stranded abroad can get back to the UK
5 years ago

How British travellers stranded abroad can get back to the UK

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Sign up to Simon Calder’s free travel email for expert advice and money-saving discounts Get Simon Calder’s Travel email Get Simon Calder’s Travel email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy Many British travellers are stranded abroad and struggling to get home as air routes continue to …

Surprising starts to some of Britain's most beautiful train journeys
6 years, 11 months ago

Surprising starts to some of Britain's most beautiful train journeys

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Sign up to Simon Calder’s free travel email for expert advice and money-saving discounts Get Simon Calder’s Travel email Get Simon Calder’s Travel email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Rail guru Mark Smith will guide you to the Bosphorus and beyond, but as “The Man in Seat Sixty-One”, he …

Travel question of the day: Simon Calder on flying to Corsica
8 years, 7 months ago

Travel question of the day: Simon Calder on flying to Corsica

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Sign up to Simon Calder’s free travel email for expert advice and money-saving discounts Get Simon Calder’s Travel email Get Simon Calder’s Travel email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Russell Kennedy A To investigate your question, I first looked at all the flights this summer from the UK to …

This is the weekend for... Staying at home
14 years, 8 months ago

This is the weekend for... Staying at home

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Sign up to Simon Calder’s free travel email for expert advice and money-saving discounts Get Simon Calder’s Travel email Get Simon Calder’s Travel email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. The number of Britons heading abroad has seen its sharpest drop since the 1970s and, with the annual tide of …

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