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Quote: Originally posted by markh1 on 04/10/2013

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The problem will arise if you've told them you're 2.4m and you're sent onto a deck with 2.4m clearance, you're at 2.5m and you wreck your bikes, then its your problem

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Quote: Originally posted by ayjay on 04/10/2013

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if caravans go free at weekends, why does the price change with length and height?
Normally they don't bother about bike height if you are pulling a caravan, usually you are on a deck next to artics which are a bit higher.
if anyone says anything get someone to push the bikes alongside you, they don't charge for width.

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Do they check? Yes they do, if you watch when they're shuffling the vehicles around for loading at least one of the chaps will have a little laser type measuring device to double check which row vehicles should go into. Where they put you is not determined by the ticket, you're sorted by eye. Where you might get checked against your ticket is at the check in kiosk, some of these have measuring devices.

You could always put the bikes in the van for the crossing? In the past when we've not been able to get a booking for a car with top bike rack (I always seem to leave things to the last minute) we strap the bikes flat onto the top of the trailer tent before we book in, then put them back on the top rack as soon as we arrive at the other side. It's not ideal for either bike or TT cover even with padding and it probably puts us over the payload of the TT but it's only for a few hundred yards of driving.

Failing that phone up and ask, most ferry companies don't charge for both elements of your unit when you're over height, just the higher one.

Quote: Originally posted by unseen on 22/10/2013

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Our turn to go and the chap directing everyone pointed us at the ramps for the upperdeck!! Mild panic set in with OH saying "We'll never get this up there" while I was thinking if I get stuck I'll have hundreds cursing me! Thankfully he took pity and put us on the lower deck!! So in theory they WILL put a folding camper on the upper decks with the 2.4m restriction...

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