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Quote: Originally posted by matthew burns on 15/8/2014

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What's more relaxing than a steady drive to Portsmouth to catch brittany ferries crossing to st Malo nice drink in the top deck bar as the ferry leaves then retiring to your cabin,then getting up for a free breakfast then a 3 hour drive to vendee and on your pitch . And the Same for the return using Cherbourg,st Malo or Caen.
Or taking 2 days to get to the vendee struck traffic around m25,tolls ,extra fuel,overnight stops,wear tear,totally exhausted when you get there .Then doing the same on the way back.
Brittany ferries is more expensive but I think it's Worth paying for and provides a good service.
Matt

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Not quite so relaxing when the 'steady' four and a half hour drive to Portsmouth takes you more than eight hours, with a complete stop on the motorway, then when you arrive you are told by 'the nasty check in clerk' in your booth that you are too late for your booked sailing even though you can see it loading.  You have two small children in the back, and you and they burst into tears when you are told you will have to wait until Tuesday (it's now Sunday) for the next 'Caravans go Free sailing'.  Eventually the nice check-in clerk in the next booth radios through, and you are shuttled quickly on to the sailing you booked to the disgust of the 'nasty check in clerk'. 

Far better to face the M25 knowing that regardless of whether you're early or late you'll be put on the next ferry!  

In order to guarantee catching your Portsmouth sailing from where we live you have to have an overnight near Portsmouth, so for us you may as well save hundreds of pounds, have the overnight in France instead and be on holiday one day earlier.

Quote: Originally posted by BobCat10 on 18/8/2014

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We paid £700 this year just Hull to Zeebrugge with a car...but we are dining and we have a CLUB cabin. I dread to think how much it will be next year.

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