Not quite as bad, but we have driven from the midlands to Southampton, Crawley, Dunstable, and Liverpool (and back home each time) over Christmas and New Year, and covered about 900 miles.
One thing I will say, is that although traffic has been busy, we've had some of our easiest journeys these last two weeks, whereas I would have expected the M6 in particular on Christmas Eve/Boxing Day to be absolutely full and bogged down with jams. Not sure if its down to the suspension of roadworks or something else, but the journeys haven't been nearly as bad as I thought they would be.