Chauffeur Services in Dover

Dropping past Shakespeare Cliff into Dover, the A20 is the road that matters for the port, while the A2 carries you in over the downs from Canterbury and is usually the calmer way into the town itself. Freight queues build on the A20 whenever crossings are disrupted, and lorry traffic management schemes now and then alter the run into the docks. Rather than assume, we look at the picture on the morning, and an extra half hour goes in whenever a ship is sailing.

Hundreds of arrivals land inside a short window when the Western Docks handle a cruise turnaround, and that leaves the terminal approach far busier at nine in the morning than it will be by two in the afternoon. Should your schedule allow it, take the later slot; we will suggest as much. Flying out, what makes a Dover to Gatwick run difficult is the M25 between the Sevenoaks junctions and the M23, above all on Friday afternoons and over bank holiday weekends. Margin, not optimism, governs when we leave.

On a long journey, Britain's weather does more damage than its traffic ever will. Winter afternoons close in early, and that matters a great deal when the final leg is a single-track road. Highland and moorland routes can run substantially longer than any summer estimate suggests. Those allowances go into the timings from the start, rather than being discovered together halfway up a glen. Where a departure hour makes the schedule uncomfortable, we propose a better one.

Demand tracks the calendar closely. Bank holiday weekends fill fast, so do the weeks either side of Christmas, the summer wedding season and those university terms that all begin and end together. The further from London a journey runs, the sooner a car wants committing to it. Midweek travel in the shoulder months, by contrast, is the easiest thing in the world to arrange.