Getting back from Cherbourg

[MartinGPerry]

I am planning a trip over to Cherbourg next Bank Holiday weekend I thought I might leave my boat there for the week after and then return the following weekend to bring her home.

I have just looked at the Ferry prices and have decided P&O have gone mad - its going to cost us £62 each way for two of us as foot passengers, a couple of years ago we did it for about £12 each

Does anyone have any tips for getting a lower cost crossing - other than hiding in the back of a lorry?

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[zefender]

Suggest you go on-line and key in your planned travel dates (if you haven't already done so). Oddly, a return is often cheaper than a single so book the whole thing as a return for the two of you and see what the quote comes out at. I tried it and it came out at £35 return for 2 people.

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[robp]

My wife went into the Ch. terminal to buy a single last year (Which was about £65). The guy behind her was having to pay £40 extra because his wife, who was on his ticket, had decided not to accompany him back on that trip!

Realising too late, he said "you could have sat in her seat and we could have saved £105 between us"!

Book it online from here if you can - not in the terminal. It will probably be difficult to use only a return (budget) ticket, as you will be listed as a "no show" from the outward journey. See what the site says.

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[Sybarite]

Somebody should start a budget shipping company. TCM ??

John

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[A_7]

Surely there will be loads of Scuttlebutters crossing back. Why not hitch a lift?

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[jhr]

Cheap Channel crossings

A second generation of tcm entrepreneurs: the launch of Easyjetrib.

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[Sybarite]

Re: Cheap Channel crossings

OH dear oh dear...

Look at that lovely calm water and the boats moored over on the left...

John

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[aran01]

Someone is doing an "easyjet" style ferry...
See http://www.speedferries.com/

To Boulogne thou.......

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[AndrewB]

Prohibiting footpassengers! How yottie-friendly is that?

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[AIDY]

I think you would need to book sooner than later rather than leaving it to the day.

Lots of people going across on ferries that weekend for D day. Is it 60 years this year ? (could be wrong, history not that great). This is one of the reasons that P and O are now running a Fast Cat service to Caen / Ouistreham as well as Cherb.

Think all the marinas are going to be busy lots of yatties / stinkies doing normandie beaches, bank weekend and following week.

Whatever you decide to do have a good trip across the puddle.

5th June - Brittany Ferry Flagship ‘Normandie’ and other ferries in convoy with the Royal Navy, Allied warships, an RFA Auxiliary Oiler, RFA Wave Knight and other historic boats sails to France to symbolise the crossing made by so many craft 60 years ago on the 5th - 6th June 1944 .

If anyone is about in the morning might be worth having a look at in pompy harbour.


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[Oldhand]

You have just missed the Bournemouth Echo offer of £5 return for 2 foot passengers from Poole with Brittany Ferries on the Condor Vitesse and/or Barfleur. I could sell you my vouchers. On second thoughts as I have already made a booking I will need to keep them.

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[janeK]

Re: Cheap Channel crossings

Why is the child not wearing a bouyancy aid or lifejacket?

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[jhr]

Why no lifejacket?

Hi; it's not my child, so I don't know.

I lifted the pic from the section of Boatone's site dealing with the first voyage of tcm's Leopard, so I assume it's one of his kids and that the photo was taken somewhere off Antibes, in the South of France. If that's the case, (a) the water's a lot warmer than it is here, hence no hypothermia and (b) he won't fall within the scope of the new regulations in the Irish Republic /forums/images/icons/smile.gif.

I have to admit that when I was a kid of 12, I could be spotted mucking around in a Dory, without a lifejacket, in cold UK waters. I'm not sure I'd be so cavalier now, and at the moment I make my kids (and SWMBO & myself) wear lifejackets in the dinghy and when we're in open water on the boat - but my kids are a bit younger!

I used to go boating in the SOF and have to admit that my main precaution against falling in was to put on a pair of swimming trunks......

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[mhouse]

Re: Cheap Channel crossings

Yet another rib keeping to the 6 knot limit on the Orwell !

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[Mizzenrabble]

Apparently the going rate for a ride in the back of a lorry is over £300.00....If you're an asylum seeker.

However I'm reliably informed that no-one is cheaper than Norfolk Line....If you want to use a legitimate route.

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[claymore]

Poor wee laddie

Bears a frightening resemblance tae his Faither - whit a shame!

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Claymore
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