ferry prices

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lazarus · #1 Post by **lazarus** » Wed Mar 05, 2008 10:13 pm

fancy a bike trip on the continent. before I've always used the MCN special discount offer but have not seen one this season. Anyone aware of any special ferry deals? ideally P&O or Britanny.

BikerGran · #2 Post by **BikerGran** » Wed Mar 05, 2008 10:27 pm

LD Lines tend to be the cheapest but I think they only run Porstmouth - Le Havre.

I like Brittany Ferries best cos the boats are so great, I reckon the holiday starts as soon as I get on board!

The only special deals I've seen are for cars.

graham0071 · #3 Post by **graham0071** » Wed Mar 05, 2008 10:43 pm

Depends where you are going to, but I travel accross the river a lot on business and we find that Norfolk lines are consistantly good( Dover-Dunquirk) or Europa ferries Ramsgate to Ostende are ridiculous prices...trouble is these are all further up the coast!!

FlyingKiwi · #4 Post by **FlyingKiwi** » Wed Mar 05, 2008 10:52 pm

The chunnel is cheap enough if you travel at the right time of day.

lazarus · #5 Post by **lazarus** » Thu Mar 06, 2008 7:39 am

really wanted the portsmouth / bilbao or plymouth / santander. live in Wales so I dont want to go near the SE ports if I can avoid doing so.

fastasfcuk · #6 Post by **fastasfcuk** » Thu Mar 06, 2008 8:34 am

i'm doing poole cherbourg in june with brittany £120 return.

woody · #7 Post by **woody** » Thu Mar 06, 2008 10:49 am

BikerGran wrote:LD Lines tend to be the cheapest but I think they only run Porstmouth - Le Havre.

I like Brittany Ferries best cos the boats are so great, I reckon the holiday starts as soon as I get on board!

The only special deals I've seen are for cars.

I've done that one a few times, if you do the late crossing it's 8 hrs instead 5 and you have to have a cabin which bumps the price up a bit

Fausto · #8 Post by **Fausto** » Thu Mar 06, 2008 5:52 pm

Although MCN do often run 10% off type offers fairly regularly I don't recall seeing them for the Spanish routes.

Friend of mine once sent this link - may be of use but I haven't looked closely.... http://www.motorsport-travel.com/

sidestand · #9 Post by **sidestand** » Thu Mar 06, 2008 9:25 pm

There's six of us going down on the Plymouth to Santander ferry on 11th may this year
I got us booked for £165 each one way - all got bikes & sharing 2 berth cabins this trip takes about 20 hours
We sail at 4'.30pm on sunday & dock at 12.30 p.m the following day

I know it seems expensive, but you have to consider an eight hundred mile blast through France (mainly boring Autoroutes), with at least one night's hotel stopever, petrol, tolls, & tyre wear. Then it seems like a bargin

We're doing 2 days in the Picos, then the Pyrenees from West to East, then a couple of days on the Med coast/Andorra, then up through France via the A75 & Millau Viaduct

Will post pictures upon our return

Gio · #10 Post by **Gio** » Mon Mar 10, 2008 7:53 am

I go P&O, I paid £45 return last time (October '06) which was a 2 week trip.

On the 3 times we've been by car in the last year they've averaged £30 return.