Queues are expected on the roads and at the Port of Dover as people make the most of the long weekend and the hottest weather of the year.
Roads are expected to be busy and ferry passengers have been warned of queues at Dover as people head away for the bank holiday weekend.
Drivers across the UK are expected to make 19.2 million leisure car trips between Friday and Monday, according to estimates from the RAC, with theJourneys on some stretches of the M25 could take up to three times longer than normal, transport data company Inrix has warned.Ferry passengers through Dover are being advised to allow two hours to complete border controls and check-in.
DFDS ferry company tweeted:"Please be prepared with refreshments & use facilities before arriving at the port." The Port of Dover said delays at French border control were due to"IT issues" with"high volumes of tourist and freight traffic on Port approaches". A traveller in the queue at Dover told Sky News they believed the"sticking point was French frontier control".
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