Earliest arrival time for check in at Plymouth

I'd ring them and ask. There used to he plenty of space at Millbay Docks but I don't know if that's still the case.

Once the previous ferry has left you can line up at the check in booths for as long as you like - and if you wish can walk across to The Dock bar restaurant which is upstairs in the marina building. . To find out when the previous ferry departs you should look up the Plymouth - Roscoff  timetable - it’s probably at 10pm.on the previous evening.

We are due to leave Monday evening on the 10pm sailing and will be there about 8 to 8.30pm so hope there will be somewhere to park as we do not want to leave the club site to late.

I recently arrived at Millbay about 20:30 for 22:00 departure hoping for early embarcation to get a meal. Van was checked through straight away but didn’t start loading until about 21:45 and still left on time. I think you can turn up well before the 1 hour minimum and park in one of the several check in lanes until it opens - vehicle mustn’t be unoccupied. My experience was the ferry (Roscoff) was extremely quiet compared to pre-Covid days, loads of space and catering a bit limited compared to usual. Didn’t have any cheese when I sailed! Brittany Ferries will probably check your vac certs quite carefully.

Thanks SB all paperwork checked and ready with passport ,ticket and vac certs as we have paper and on phone ones, OH has been checking latest details regularly, fridge quite empty except a few bottles not all alcohol, oat milk and that is it nothing in freezer ending up giving site staff a big lump of cheese as we could not use it all.

You can lawfully take a limited amount of foods into the EU for personal use and consumption  - up to 2 kg per person of meat and plant products.   Article 7 of the EU regulations spells this out.

Really? Thats useful to know. Does that include dairy products?

Yes. EribaMotters deserves credit for revealing and posting about this on 6 April in a thread headed Taking food supplies to Spain after he wrote to the EU office for a ruling. 

No. Read the annex to the regulation which specifically excludes dairy.

https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX%3A02019R2122-20211220

Those sort of documents make my head spin😂 

We are just going to go empty and shop when we get there.😀