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We're off on our holidays on Saturday. Two weeks in the New Forest!!!

I'm wondering whether we should follow the prescribed route involving the A34 or possibly using the M25/M3. Does any one have any recommendations or recent experience which would help with this decsion.

We plan to leave around 08:00am and include a couple of food & comfort breaks for the children along the way.

Thanks

Personally I like the A1, M25 and M3. A1 is certainly quieter than the M1, much less stressful when towing. There is a decent service station at Peterborough. Take the short cut at Hatfield and come onto the M25 at junction 22. The M25 is usually OK. M3 is generally pretty good. Last time I used the A34 it was very slow going due to the volume of traffic. Came back M25/A1 a couple of weeks ago from Dover, and most of the time I was on cruise control.

I know I will get shot down for this with choruses of "not the M25", but we've always found the going "steady", which is OK with a caravan on the back.  I used to live close to that part of the M25, and never found it as bad as is sometimes made out, it is the rush hour periods during the week that are really bad. 

We have recently returned from the New Forest. Found the A34 to be trouble free but apparently that is not always the case.Problems can arise when it meets the M3.But there are often problems on the M3 at the same junction.