YES you can DRIVE from AMSTERDAM to LONDON! Here's how! | The Eurotunnel

Many people don't realize that it's possible to drive from Amsterdam to London, and generally that you can drive between the UK and continental Europe. I did this with the Eurotunnel and that's what I'm going to cover in this video.

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Chapters:
00:00 - Intro
00:30 - It's common and easy to spot people who drive between the two
01:27 - there are many ways to drive between the two
02:24 - driving on the wrong side of the road
03:25 - how to book a ticket with the Eurotunnel
04:28 - your ticket covers up to 9 people
05:45 - check-in, terminal, passport control, and boarding
07:04 - Boarding the train
09:08 - during the crossing while on the train
09:56 - leaving the train, in the UK
10:58 - closing, leave a comment below!

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[Kerleem]

Let me know what you think about the Eurotunel below!

[dean-does-stuff-]

I love how this is aimed for the us viewers. I am English living in the Netherlands, and when I first moved, I still had my old business in the uk, so I was commuting weekly. I used to ride my motorcycle for the journey and go on the euro tunnel. It was about 7 hours door to door. (Gouda to Surrey)

[gmcminitruck]

Nice video Kerleem.
Haven't been to the UK for many many years. By Eurotunnel maybe 15 years ago, it's a nice experience.
Last time I sat in my car on/in a train was three years ago in Switzerland. Which I found to be nicer than the Eurotunnel.

[indetermite]

I was born in the UK and still live here. I would and do support a switch from m*les to km. We get a lot of foreign drivers, especially lorry (truck) drivers. It's common to see lorries from Romania on British roads.
Despite that roads are in y*rds for short distances (e.g. extent of a hazard) and m*les for longer distances, metric is still used in some areas for motoring:
- Petrol (gasoline) is sold in litres.
- Weight restrictions are in tonnes.
- Width, height and length restrictions are in metres (with f**t and *nches). (This change was only made in 2015, older signs may have imperial-only indications)
- Ordnance Survey (OS) use a km-based grid.
- NOx and CO2 emissions are in g/km.
- Fuel economy can be in L/100 km, but m*g is still commonly used.
- Speed limiters are in km/h.
- Stopping distances are in metres.

You're expected to know how many y*rds there are in a m*le, or fractions of a m*le. However a survey done by YouGov in 2013 found that 76% of respondents could not answer this question in 10 seconds. 43% could not say how many metres there were in 1 km, they were given the same time limit of 10 seconds. Can you see how dangerous that is?

If you hate imperial units as well, you might want to check out the UK Metric Association. They have a website: ukma.org.uk . They were founded in 1999, and they have since been a big name in this imperial vs metric debate in the UK, which is not that big unfortunately.

[buddy]

10:00 That concept actually exist, there are multiple car (sleep) trains driving trough Europe. Direction Switzerland, Austria and south of France are pretty popular. 
You obviously don't stay in your car and sometimes you have a sleep cabin. It for people who don't enjoy driving the long distance but do want to drive their own car at the destination.
I wouldn't be surprised if it is getting more popular with EV's because it bypasses the whole range issue.
Even Amtrak has this service between Florida and New York, also with sleeper cars.

[moodylifewithhfi]

Thanks for guidance 😮
I'm planning to go to London from belgium, watching your video helps a lot. Specially converting km-miles, right to left hand system in gps. thumbs up 👍

[captainchaos]

There used to be hovercraft as well, in my youth. I went on one a few times, which was very cool.

[axisboss]

There is a planned tunnel from the German Baltic Coast to Copenhagen to cut down driving times to the Nordic Countries from Central Europe which is supposed to be similar to this.

[Interceptor]

I did some driving in UK and driving an RHD car for the first time, it was weird with things like where to look but I got adjusted eventually. 9:19, that is a really cool feature.

[TheEulerID]

I suppose to be technically accurate you aren't actually driving to the UK if you take the train or the ferry; your car is being transported for you. However, it is possible to really drive from France to England and vice-versa and some do it fairly regularly. However, it's not an option open to the vast majority of people, because you have to drive down the service tunnel of the Channel Tunnel, something only those involved with the operation an maintenance of the tunnel get to do.

[funkypaul]

Cool video! Fifty years ago one could go on holiday with the "auto-train". Which meant that your car was traveling with you on the train on specialized carriages while you where sitting in sleeping carriages. There was also a restaurant carriage and a bar carriage. You could go to Spain, the South of France, Switzerland, even Italy. Once arrived at your destination, you took your car and started your holiday. After your holiday, your car came back with you on the train. But when air travel started being affordable, this way of going on holidays died off.

[InTeCredo]

I have no idea that you could reconfigure the headlamps for the left- and right-hand rule of road on the fly in the modern cars! It used to be cutting up the plastic shields to the specific shapes and pasting them on the headlamp lenses.

[kaybe]

Always such a cool experience to drive in England.

[ss]

Great video! Bit expensive but I guess you save with having your own car

[RogersRamblings]

Dover to Calais ferry is about an hour and a half while Dover-Dunkirk (almost on the border with Belgium) is about two hours.

Travelling via Dunkirk saves less than 25 miles.

[Awesome_Aasim]

Amtrak has this cool thing called the Auto Train. I think if they expanded it it would be really awesome as it would save people the hassle of a rental car. Of course the US is far more car dependent than Europe.

[bkk]

Hey, thanks for the informative video. Do we need to register the plate anywhere in the UK? I also have a fully electricity car. Would LEZ be a problem for me?

[jolanvreys]

I once took the ferry from Dunekirk (scince it was cheaper than from Calais, and also closer to Belgium where I live) and from Dunekirk to Calais was about 30 mins, and from Calais to Dover was about one hour.
But I've also taken the Eurotunnel a couple of times and it's way more convenient I think.

[captainchaos]

Nice that you can just change the light pattern like that. In most cars you have to mask your headlights manually when you go to the UK.

[jobue]

The austrian ÖBB has some routes. (ÖBB nightjet car & motorcycle)