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Hello,

Just been trying to book a crossing on Brittany Ferries fast craft from Poole. We usually travel with our bikes upright on top of the trailer which gives a height of about 2.3m, our car is a Multipla - so putting bikes on the roof of that would need a ladder!

The BF website/booking line allows you to take a car up to 2.6m high and trailer up to 1.83m high, but not a car of 1.83m and a trailer of 2.3m. Now, it can't be that the bikes would get knocked off the trailer - otherwise the 2.6m high car would be in big trouble, so does anyone know why the restrictions?

I could possibly stop outside the port and lay the bikes down on top of the trailer and/or car and drive carefully onto the ferry, or hope the check-in person turns a blind eye, does anyone have any experience of this?

Thanks in hope

Val,

your answer is the common sense sort of approach that I would have expected to exist. I was actually booking through the Camping & Caravan club travel service and the assistant there did make a couple of calls to BF to clarify the situation on my behalf and was told that it would be ok to have (say) kids bikes on top of a MPV up to 2.6m and adult bikes fitted between the car and trailer (i.e. low down), but it was not allowed to have the adult bikes upright on the trailer above 1.83m, even though they would still be well below 2.6m.