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10/2/2025 at 4:47pm
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I can believe the tunnel would be those sort of prices but the ferry should be nowhere near that.I buy a P&O season ticket each year and 3 return crossings for my MH comes to around £170 each return trip. The standard return is more than that but far short of the price you mentioned.
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10/2/2025 at 4:53pm
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Just looking at P&O for your dates, a car, a MH, and passengers comes to £450.
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10/2/2025 at 5:06pm
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Newhaven Dieppe on that date car + Caravan +2 people price is £160 to £185 single depending on time of day . Deduct 20% if over 60.
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10/2/2025 at 7:02pm
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I got a discount code for the Shuttle in the New Year for trips up to the end of June. Concentrated our minds re dates, but we booked and saved £150.
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11/2/2025 at 7:50am
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I've just checked on the dates quoted above. DFDS with a longer caravan, Dover/Calais/Dunkerqaue is, as said above, around £300 outwards. However, if you remove the caravan the prices drop to around £100 or less. We started to store our caravan in France when prices rose years ago, and it costs us just €180 euros a year (outdoor storage). That is less than the additional cost of taking a caravan ONE-WAY across the Channel.
The better news is that Newhaven to Dieppe (with DFDS) is £159 for car and caravan, and with a 20% over 60s discount that is around £127. (NB You have to phone DFDS to get the discount).
Sadly those are the prices we're now having to pay. Gone are the days of 'competition leading to price cutting' on those routes. Costs HAVE gone up but not by as much as prices, and I suspect that as we are a 'captive audience' in the UK (ie we have to use a ferry/tunnel to cross the Channel) the ferry companies have now decided to cut competition for traffic and just increase prices!
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11/2/2025 at 8:42am
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With the fare to Dieppe at £127 it hardly seems a price fixing monopoly to me,
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It is worth bearing in mind that, if you are getting on in years and have any medical problems, then travel insurance gets eye wateringly expensive.
We found that Eurotunnel offer very cheap {relatively) insurance with no questions asked when booking a return trip.
In our case the bundle of crossing+ insurance saved us over £400.
Unfortunately we had to use the insurance on the last trip and the service was seamless.
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11/2/2025 at 10:04am
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I obviously misunderstood your original post when you said a car, a van and 2 people. I didn`t realise that by van you meant caravan. Those dates on P&O are £518 - - strange that a car and caravan is £50 more than a car and a motorhome.
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