Getting to Ostende ( not in own boat )

[Habebty]

All being well, I am hoping to take Habebty to Ostende in May. But Mrs H doesn't do out of sight of land, what is the best rail sea route to Ostende so she can meet me there? i.e. as a foot passenger from say Arrich or Dover?

Thanks

 

[sailorman]

All being well, I am hoping to take Habebty to Ostende in May. But Mrs H doesn't do out of sight of land, what is the best rail sea route to Ostende so she can meet me there? i.e. as a foot passenger from say Arrich or Dover?

Thanks

Flight London City > Oostende ????

 

[benw]

It feels like this and other very recent posts are encouraging a start list for Oostende in May or is it just me getting ahead of myself?

 

[LittleSister]

Mrs H doesn't do out of sight of land

Tried blinkers?

 

[Stork_III]

Ramsgate to Ostend via Transeuropa Ferries, but you have to take a car, I believe.

 

[MoodySabre]

Mrs Moody is the same. A couple of years ago when we were going to Holland via Ostend I sailed over with somebody else's wife and her husband brought Sheila over by car and took his wife back home. I paid the ferry from Ramsgate to Ostend and back and it was loads more than the Dover crossing and the drive from Calais is fairly short. I was trying to make it simple because not only had she not sailed offshore but he had never driven on the continent!

There were no foot passengers allowed on the H'wich - Ostend ferry.

 

[Habebty]

Flight London City > Oostende ????

Nice one......didn't know about that

 

[Habebty]

Tried blinkers?

Try tranquillisers as well !!!! Not that says anything about my sailing

 

[jerrytug]

If you go down to S Foreland and cross towards Calais,then come up E of the Sandettie,you can take her with you! (in ok viz) or have I missed the point?

 

[MoodySabre]

Nice one......didn't know about that

Nor do London City Airport. Flights will have to be to Brussels and then train. Eurostar ticket to Brussels includes onward to any station in Belgium - that would be nicer than a flight.

 

[sailorman]

Nor do London City Airport. Flights will have to be to Brussels and then train. Eurostar ticket to Brussels includes onward to any station in Belgium - that would be nicer than a flight.

He might get special rates too

 

[Koeketiene]

Tried blinkers?

Try tranquillisers as well !!!!

You need...

 

[philiphurst]

It feels like this and other very recent posts are encouraging a start list for Oostende in May or is it just me getting ahead of myself?

... which reminds me. Must return my registration form for Oostende voor Anker. You never know who you might meet there ;-)

 

[philiphurst]

Ramsgate to Ostend via Transeuropa Ferries, but you have to take a car, I believe.

Son and friend used this route for OvA this year. Expensive, length passage, ferry was scabby and food appalling apparently. Dover/Calais and an 80 minute drive is one option. Ferry/rail looks like a bit of a non-starter.

 

[bluerm166]

joining vessel in ostende

Agree entirely with comments about Transeuropa.Parts of interior would make an immediate set for a Poirot film.I think same staff marshalled the car,produced toast with a single faint seared line across the white surface,manned the 'cafeteria' and saw us off the boat.
Dover Dunkirk much better but you need a vehicle.
Get an obliging/doting ? offspring to make the drive.Doable in a day.DFDS day return cheap.

 

[bluerm166]

Ostende

DFDS ferry takes bicyclists on Dover/Dunkirk.
Folding bike from Harwich possible ?

 

[philiphurst]

DFDS ferry takes bicyclists on Dover/Dunkirk.
Folding bike from Harwich possible ?

Dunkirk and then a taxi to the start of the tram line? It runs all the way along the coast into Oostende. To check where it starts, go into Google Earth/Layers/Other, enable railways under Transportation, wait a while and the line appears.

PS: I've just had another look and the 'line' is incomplete. The tram starts/terminates at de Panne. Looks like appx 20 miles from Calais

 

[philiphurst]

Agree entirely with comments about Transeuropa.Parts of interior would make an immediate set for a Poirot film.I think same staff marshalled the car,produced toast with a single faint seared line across the white surface,manned the 'cafeteria' and saw us off the boat.
Dover Dunkirk much better but you need a vehicle.
Get an obliging/doting ? offspring to make the drive.Doable in a day.DFDS day return cheap.

That's pretty-much as it was described to me!

 

[sailorman]

http://www.londoncityairport.com/travelandbooking/TimetableFor/ANR

London > Antwerp
there must be a train Antwerp > Oostende

 

[sailorman]

Eurostar
Norwich > Oostende looks the cheapest option & no check-in 2 hrs before departure