Another said: “Sat in lanes waiting to get to border control. Zero movement.”
A rail manager had to pay £400 to travel to Germany with his elderly mother amid long queues.
John Till, 45, and his mother Edna Johnson, 87, were due to travel to the port of Dover this afternoon from west Dorset, but reports of long travel queues there prompted him to make other plans
He told the PA news agency: “I saw that people had already been queuing for four hours. I’m taking my elderly mother to see some friends in Germany, so I have a very long journey to the other side when we arrive
“I couldn’t risk being stuck in a queue for four hours with no toilets and the horrible journey to the other side, so at half past four this morning I made the snap decision to rebook the journey with Brittany Ferries and travel from the port of Poole, which is much more expensive.”
He said the changes cost him £400 but he “had no choice” but to make them because the trip had been “a long time” in the making and there was “no way I was going to let my mum down”. “.
Ferries sail without passengers
The bottleneck at border controls with France left ferry operators with no choice but to sail with almost no passengers on board.
“Canterbury pride virtually empty,” tweeted Ian Hartwright.
The chaotic scenes at Dover will heap fresh misery on UK travelers, who have endured months of disruption at airports. Strike action on the trains, more of which will take place next week, has ruined the plans of many.