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ka4564
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Posted: 13 Jul 10 at 18:05 |
hi guys
looking for some advice as regard the best and cheapest way to get to Europe this August, avoiding Dover if possible. Plymouth would be my preferred option but I'm sure i can get a week in Barbados for that price!
any advice appreciated as always.
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simon bartlett
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Eurotunnel with tesco vouchers
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Caravelle 174 SE ( Towing a twin axle Burstner caravan 2000kg (Sorry))
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Berisford
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. Yep, about the best thing in the Tesco voucher catalogue.
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Tony M
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Here's my Tip. Watch your headroom. I lost the roofrack of my T2 as I got off the Zakynthos to Killini ferry in Greece in 1990. It's a bugger when you have to find room for suitcases and stuff in an already full up van.
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fozzy T5
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if you take a ferry book early its normally alot cheaper, bit late now i know..
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simon bartlett
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If you know anyone who is a member of the caravan club they do good offers and you can see all the prices in one place with the different prices for different times.
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andysam
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You can't use Tesco vouchers for any Channel xing now except the short bit. However! Use the vouchers to book one or two nights touring at a SIBLU holiday place and book the ferry through them and you can pay for the Plymouth/Portsmouth ferry with the vouchers ;-) Simples.
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Liquidfreak
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depending on how long you are going for it might be cheaper to book two trips, one for going out (get an overnight return ticket from the uk) and one for the return (overnight return ticket from france)......make sure you do the return from france though as if you do it from england, you effectively miss the journey and it makes your ticket void. - found out the hard way
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peej61
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I do this 2 or 3 times a year to visit family.
I have found that the Poole / Weymouth to Saint Malo crossing via the Channel Islands with Condor Ferries is usually a fair bit cheaper than Brittany Ferries from Plymouth - the exception being the one I have just booked for next week! - summer prices! The overnight ferry from Plymouth to Roscoff is a very nice crossing and the times are good can drive down in the evening and arrive early morning. Edited by peej61 - 15 Jul 10 at 07:36 |
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trenchfoot
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On this subject how do ferry companys and the tunnel class T5's size wise. I have a caravelle would it come under MPV/4x4 or van?
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ragged
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We just drove to Finland in the multivan and all the ferrys classed us a a "large car" upto 5m length and under 2m high i think
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a11y
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I wonder if they'd actually check the extra 10cm a LWB T5 is over the 5.0m limit on length?
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ragged
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I wouldn't think so tbh, no one even looked at the van or what was in it at all and that was 3 ferrys
Now I've said that we will be stoped at every port on the way back lol Edited by ragged - 15 Jul 10 at 13:41 |
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Marv
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To Ragged - which way do you go to Finland? Mrs M is from there and I have a trip over next year Ta. Marv |
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a11y
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LOL yeah probably jinxed yourself now! Whenever we're doing ferry crossings it's the Hull-Zebrugge/Rotterdam option for us. Dover is such a long ballache of a drive for us, takes almost 2 hours just to reach the Scotland-England border. Hull's <5hrs and the overnight crossing breaks up the journey nicely. Worth the extra cost IMO. More importantly for us: we're usually heading for the Alps area, so we get to enjoy the better roads down through Germany rather than get robbed on the toll roads in France We have got Rosyth 30mins drive from the house but those crossings are a waste of time: costly and slow... |
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ragged
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we have to drive from the isle of man to Dover then it's calais,Germany,Denmark,Sweden,Finland
2450km in 3 days, glad I have the 174 |
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Ex-car bloke
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When we took the van to Norway we declared it as sub-5m length but more honest souls would have correctly classed it as over 5m because of the towbar. Of course, no-one checked!
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Fast[Plumber
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Ive joined the Brittany Ferries owners abroad scheme.
Costs about £ 80 to join the first year, and about £40 the next years.
gives some good discounts - saved about £150 on the Le mans trip, and had a cabin both ways - they chuck those in for free,- great if were away with the kids, secure base for all the stuff and a clean shower and toilet!
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caravelle is classed as car rates on a ferry so thats what we call the Kombi, saves confusion and hassle and its cheap
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