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Be grateful you're not on the infamous 'Vomet Comet'.........brought to you courtesy of Condor ferries.

They use a similar catamaran style as the dover ferries  but on a much longer western crossing via the channel islands. It was the sickest ferry experience weve ever had. I pittied the bloke whose job it was to wander around with a bucket and mop for the entire journey. It was like one of those zombie films where everyone gets instantly infected!

Never ever again. 

I remember, a few years ago, going on a New Year Eves Cruise to St Malo (I think it may have been from Portsmouth) and was supposed to have a 4 or 5 course meal on board going out to celebrate New Yeasr Eve.

It got out to sea and started getting rough. Everyone started out in the dining room for the meal and it was full but the boat was starting to heave a bit.

The first course was served and then a few people left to dining room. We had to wait quite a while before the second (fish) course was served. Once that was over we sat and waited again for quite a while as more and more people disappeared.

I turned around to the, once full, table behind and there was only one bloke left on his own ....... he looked over raised his arm and had a sniff at his armpits and said "Must be the BO eh".

After 2 hours from the start of the meal the thrid (main) course had still not been served they decided it was now too rough for the waiters to continue so the rest of the meal was cancelled and we had to find somewhere to sit that was still clean and free of ill people.

The best comment I heard was, next day after looking around St Malo, we came back to the boat and over heard 3 young ladies taking and one said "You know, this must be the first year for quite a while that I have been sober on New Years Eve ... and I was still throwing up all night"

The way back was quite a it calmer and I bet the boats cleaners had a lot of work to do that day.