The Things You Are HAPPY About Thread.

[Paul]

Was expecting a nightmare in Rome last month

Arrived, got shuttled down the Third Country line....electronic gates...that worked well....then the worlds most disinterested border control staff member stamped the passport. All done in less than 10 mins

 

[Johnny75]

Was expecting a nightmare in Rome last month

Arrived, got shuttled down the Third Country line....electronic gates...that worked well....then the worlds most disinterested border control staff member stamped the passport. All done in less than 10 mins

Took us nearly an hour to get through Faro two weeks ago and the same when we got back into Brum. Queuing at both sets of gates too which pissed everybody right off.

Happy to hear that about Rome I'm off there in September.

 

[Kenny]

Faro was nightmare when we were still in the EU (or was when I visited)

Birmingham is a nightmare right now as half of it is closed as they install the new very clever scanning machines that will end the requirement for liquids etc to be in a little bag. So all traffic through 1 section.

 

[Paddingtonwolf]

Really? That was all dealt with when I went through Heathrow in late Feb

 

[leedswolf]

Really? That was all dealt with when I went through Heathrow in late Feb

Not all UK airports have the latest generation machines installed at their CSAs yet.

 

[Kenny]

Really? That was all dealt with when I went through Heathrow in late Feb

The new scanners?

Airports have until next year to install them. Some are ahead of others so Brum have only started this year

 

[Wolf Hunting]

£82

Fuck!!!
Mrs WH got her new one about a month ago, 'Special delivery' and all of that and she paid around £180!!

 

[sycophantia]

Fuck!!!
Mrs WH got her new one about a month ago, 'Special delivery' and all of that and she paid around £180!!

Benefits of Brexit aye it.

 

[Elephant Pyjamas]

Fuck!!!
Mrs WH got her new one about a month ago, 'Special delivery' and all of that and she paid around £180!!

To be fair, yours are worth a lot more than ours now...

 

[Sniffer]

British passport?

 

[Trips]

It'll feel like 3 days getting through passport control.

Don't! I'm only going Dublin for 3 days

 

[Wolf Hunting]

British passport?

Yes, so will mine be...

 

[Sniffer]

Don't! I'm only going Dublin for 3 days

Do you need a passport for that?

 

[Kenny]

Don't! I'm only going Dublin for 3 days

Don't check your passport in Dublin do they?

 

[Wolf Hunting]

Don't check your passport in Dublin do they?

Yes they certainly do! There have been times when there have been 3 or 4 people manning the booths instead of about 10 or 11 and the queue has been several hundred long! Though I think that has been sorted now. They always scan it in .
Mind you, we're going over to the UK in November and the ferry is going from Belfast to Cairnryans so they don't check passports because it's UK to UK....

 

[Kenny]

Never had my passport checked going to Dublin via plane or ferry.
Coming back by plane you go straight to luggage collection and skip the passport line (unless that has now changed of course)

Last year via Ferry we drove off, got stopped and asked what Country we lived in and then waved through.

 

[Wolf Hunting]

Never had my passport checked going to Dublin via plane or ferry.
Coming back by plane you go straight to luggage collection and skip the passport line (unless that has now changed of course)

Last year via Ferry we drove off, got stopped and asked what Country we lived in and then waved through.

Mind you, when we went to the UK last time we went through the 'From Ireland' door and that was it...

 

[pagey]

As a kid we travelled by coach to Italy, through France, Germany and Austria. Day before we travelled my mum had her handbag stolen containing our passports.

Got there and back without anyone checking, was asked to fill a form in as our ferry landed in Dover, then waved on.

 

[Paul]

As a kid we travelled by coach to Italy, through France, Germany and Austria. Day before we travelled my mum had her handbag stolen containing our passports.

Got there and back without anyone checking, was asked to fill a form in as our ferry landed in Dover, then waived on.

Back in the day, your kids names were just written in the back of your passport, could have been anybody's kids

 

[North Shropshire Lad]

Never had my passport checked going to Dublin via plane or ferry.
Coming back by plane you go straight to luggage collection and skip the passport line (unless that has now changed of course)

Last year via Ferry we drove off, got stopped and asked what Country we lived in and then waved through.

They were checked at the weekend at the boarding gate and on arrival