Never travel midday on a Saturday in High Season if we can help it. If we are off down the M5, we wait until late Saturday afternoon before setting out when the mad rush has already gone off in front of us. Get down to Somerset, stop overnight and make a really early start Sunday. Do the same journey in reverse to come home. We always book our main 2 weeks holiday Sunday to Sunday. This way we also get "extra" days tagged on to the holiday, once going out and again coming home and it makes for a leisurely journey!
Our experience is that while all of you are on the road early we are in bed getting a good rest. We set out around 10am when the early rush hour has gone we have a steady drive with a couple of stops and are set up before tea time feeling relaxed for the next day. We find if we go early we are too tired to do anything on the first proper holiday day. Oh and if we are going away for 2 weeks we never ever travel on a Saturday.
When traveling to Lowestoft,leave around midnight (Found Motorway at its quietest between 1am and 5am) and you can maintain a steady speed,have a couple of breaks,and a short sleep if needed, Find night driving better as you do not get cut up by other motorists,has only happened on one occasion,empty motorway for miles, one car behind me 1/2mile, nothing in front, car overtook me and cut me up 2ft in front of me,(mindless), I prefer the over night driving as,no jostling for parking,an dis a much more relaxing drive. On a two or three hour drive leave between 9am 11am, depending on location and route.
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Quote: Originally posted by bobsbabes on 22/4/2011
Can't believe you wait till 4am lazy bones we go at midnight if going to cornwall
Both lazy - when we went to Cornwall last year we set off at 7.30pm on Friday night to get there for Sat pitching.
(they were closing the M6 for roadworks though so we wanted to avoid having to do A roads). We did get there at 4.45am but were allowed on pitch at 8am
when we go down to the south coast we set the van up the night before and get going as early as possible the following morning usually 6.30 or 7 ish.
Usually find we have a clean run down,the odd time we have needed to stop to refuel when we had an LPG car ,when we got back on the M5 down by Bristol the masses had overtook us ! so we must have been just ahead of the lot of it all the way down.
Always like an early start to beat most of the traffic.
Gary
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Topic: am I unique in leaving early ??
