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10/11/2006 at 10:01am
Location: Knebworth Hertfordshire
Outfit: Vauxhall Insignia SE
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I've just spent the last few days going up and down the "ferry" wicket trying to find the best deal for my holiday in Southern Brittany next June.
Conclusions? In rising cost order Norfolk Line Dover/Dunkirk was the cheapest by a country mile, then P & O Dover/Calais and the Channel Tunnel. These three are fine if you don't mind a drive of over 400 miles on the other side to your destination with the additional fuel that you'll use not to mention wear and tear on the outfit AND yourselves, toll fees that you'll incur and an overnight stop each way that we would require.
Next was Transmanche Newhaven/Dieppe. This seemed to be a fair bet except that they don't appear to have timetables beyond the end of next March and they seemed unable/unwilling to divulge information regarding cabins etc. So I ruled these out on the basis that if Norfolk Line, P& O and Channel Tunnel can, why can't they?
Next in the price climb came LD Ferries Portsmouth/Le Havre. We are now at the £260.00 return mark and bearing in mind that Norfolk wanted £144.00 there's only a differential of £116.00 so far and that by going on LD you're saving at least 180 miles each way not to mention the additional fuel costs, tolls etc. Sadly their return sailing times didn't fit in with our needs.
Then we arrive at what is ostensibly the "funny farm" when you look at Brttany Ferry costs. I was quoted via the internet well over £500 for Portsmouth/Caen. This is our most favoured route, but when I added in site fees, insurance etc, this little excursion was going to cost me 850 smackeroonies.
I had done all this investigation because I had heard and read that it was cheaper to handle all this yourself than book through a booking service and that it was more fun doing it this way. I had wound up frustrated and disillusioned. So before I gave up the ghost completely, I thought I'd give my friends at Select Sites a bell and see what they could come up with.
Surprise, surprise! 13 nights at Camping de la Baie on a full service pitch, one night in each direction just outside Ouistreham at Camping les Haute Coutures with electric, daytime ferry crossings in each direction Portsmouth/Caen with booked seats and the top insurance all for the princely sum of £583.00. This by my reckoning was about £30.00 over what my total would have been booking everything myself, using any of the Dover routes except Norfolk Line and it was only the same sort of dosh more than Brittany wanted to charge me just for the crossing.
"Result!" I screamed.
I'm not that hard up for £30.00 and I can rest assured that everything is taken care of first class, so Select Sites got my business.
Cheers,
Vic
Post last edited on 10/11/2006 14:46:24
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