Off Topic Holidays
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You gotta go there and complain, lots of people doing it. 48 hours before you fly go there and demand they print it for you.How you gonna go get it if its not done?
My mrs been waiting 8 weeks for hers
Take proof that you are due to travel.
I'll let you know how I get on.
Good luck mate.
We had to pick ours up from Liverpool a few years back.
We only got sorted because the wife broke down in tears at the front desk. If I’d gone on my own we’d have been ****ed.
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I renewed my passport back in October last year, sure I didn't have to wait long back then. Although I did go through the post office to do it, don't know if that makes it any quicker.
I renewed mine back in March and had no bother at all, 2/3 weeks I waited max.
She sent hers off about 2 months later in May and still waiting..
Im.sure she'll get it before September so not too worried
Why not just pay the extra and get it done in person on the day. I normally pop down to Liverpool in the morning, drop the application and my full passport off and then the new one is ready by 3pm in the afternoon. Costs a bit more (just checked its 100quid more but you only have to do it every 10years or 1-2 in my case) but I don't have time to **** around waiting for it to get done.
Only down side to the process is having to spend half a day in Liverpool.
They are so behind they are saying not to visit the sites but people are having no choice.
It's a ****ing shambles, but if you think that's bad, my partner who's French, has been trying since April to get hers renewed, and now finally has an appointment at the French embassy in July.
You will be pleased to know they are failing globally then, not just in UK. 6 month single entry tourist visas for UK have gone from taking 2 weeks to 6 weeks (indicated) and then turning up after 8 weeks. They are almost expiring by the time the tourists get their passports back. Everybody here seems to think I am to blame as well.
Checked ours, I think I need to renew most of ours before we go away next summer. They are all ok for the next winter holiday though.
Go away this year four weeks on Friday. I almost literaly can't ****ing wait.
I don't want to write July off or anything, but am really looking forward to getting over to France for summer. Can taste the food, taste the beer and wine, feel the sun on my back already. It's ****ing autumn here ffs.
Go away this year four weeks on Friday. I almost literaly can't ****ing wait.
I don't want to write July off or anything, but am really looking forward to getting over to France for summer. Can taste the food, taste the beer and wine, feel the sun on my back already. It's ****ing autumn here ffs.
Off down to Biarritz area, then back from Spain.
Go to St Malo, have booked one night stop off before Bordeaux on the way down.
Then down to a place called Contis Plage on the Atlantic coast for a week, surf and SUP type place, there's a water park on the site for the kids.
Then down for another week in Bidart near Biarritz, will be the sixth (and last probably) time we've been there. It's bloody fabulous, really do love it there.
Then back home on a cruise ship from Santander to Plymouth.
Go to St Malo, have booked one night stop off before Bordeaux on the way down.
Then down to a place called Contis Plage on the Atlantic coast for a week, surf and SUP type place, there's a water park on the site for the kids.
Then down for another week in Bidart near Biarritz, will be the sixth (and last probably) time we've been there. It's bloody fabulous, really do love it there.
Then back home on a cruise ship from Santander to Plymouth.
We've done that coast 3 times now, then go into the Pyrenees, about an hour in from the coast, stayed just outside a place forget the name of the town but on what they call Coast Corniche, done the Spain sailing back too, lovely beaches in Northern Spain. We were going to the Camargue again this year but events have gone against us, so looks like next summer, but we get to do 4-5 weeks 
We've done that coast 3 times now, then go into the Pyrenees, about an hour in from the coast, stayed just outside a place forget the name of the town but on what they call Coast Corniche, done the Spain sailing back too, lovely beaches in Northern Spain. We were going to the Camargue again this year but events have gone against us, so looks like next summer, but we get to do 4-5 weeks
St Jean de Luz? Or Hendaye?
For all the times we've done this trip, we've never been to St Sebastian, which is a scandal. We've always known the kids would just moan like **** if we had them eating Michelin Star quality food, it would be wasted, plus the Spanish sites don't let you book for a couple of nights, you've got to just turn up. Have stayed a couple of places along the north Spain coast though - Zarautz and Joyel.
Plan to do this next year though; sail to Bilbao, travel down through the Rioja region towards Barcelona, via Pamplona. Couple of weeks on the med coast of Spain, then back up again.
Will probably just go back to France though knowing us.
St Jean rings a bell, last time we did it, we stayed on a site between Bilbao and Santander right on the beach,we did book it, just for 3 nights too. Little supermarket on site, wine was as cheap as chips. Rioja and down sounds fab, one we'll most likely do when kids stop coming with us.
I'm fairly certain it was this place.
https://www.eurocamp.co.uk/campsite...qARtYDtEf9VcHmA8LZQaAm79EALw_wcB&gclsrc=aw.ds
https://www.eurocamp.co.uk/campsite...qARtYDtEf9VcHmA8LZQaAm79EALw_wcB&gclsrc=aw.ds
Yeah, we've been there.
It's really nice, the beach is stunning, but the town is ****e, eh? **** all of any note in the town, it must be absolutely desolate out of season.
Got into the little bottles of Vol Damm there, from the shop.
Tbh, don't remember the town, we did mornings out and afternoon/ evenings on the beach.Yeah, we've been there.
It's really nice, the beach is stunning, but the town is ****e, eh? **** all of any note in the town, it must be absolutely desolate out of season.
Got into the little bottles of Vol Damm there, from the shop.
