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Dover Group Booking (DFDS Seaways) To BIG"E" Good Afternoon Thank you for your email and your call today. The fare we can offer you for your request will be £81.00 per car and up 4 passengers. Please see below the available sailing times for your request. Dover to Dunkerque 24/05/2013 at 0800 Dunkerque to Dover 28/05/2013 at 2000 Our standard terms and conditions do apply to this fare; therefore if you wish to amend dates and times a £10.00 amendment fee will apply, per amendment, and all bookings are non refundable. Payment must be made in full at the time of booking. I am able to hold this fare for you until the 29th March 2013; therefore all bookings must be booked and paid for by then. After this date, the fares are subject to change. Please advise if you wish to go ahead with the bookings and I will forward you a booking form. Space is limited and cannot be guaranteed until a booking has been made. If I can be of any further assistance please do not hesitate to contact me. Best Regards / Med venlig hilsen Samantha Coach and Group Sales Co-Ordinator BU Channel Well what do peeps think ?? They would not give me any more than 10% because its a Bank Holiday Weekend |
I'd pay the £10 extra and get the tunnel but then I'm not going with you so ignore me!
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Don`t want to be Billy no-mate`s at Dover.:-P |
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So they give a 10% discount but its still over £20 more than last year? Thanks for trying though Ian :ok:
What do people think? Boat is currently £81, tunnel is currently £98 based on roughly the same travel times. |
I do like the boat as its far more social, but it does always take 30 mins more than the published times. My last trip was a good hour quicker including the drive from Calais to dunkirque. I guess it comes down to whether you like it social with a breakfast or much quicker without. My preference is the boat, but I know someone at eurotunnel if you'd like m
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I was starting to lean towards the tunnel, but the fryup for breakfast on the boat has just swung it back the other way ;)
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Does it then give time to stop for breakfast in France?.. will they look at us all funny when we ask for a full english? :-? Im easy either way quite like ferry's but never been through the tunnel :o |
Tunnel is not affected by weather......... Just a thought.
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Like I've said it makes no difference to us as we're travelling on our own due to work/children preventing us from travelling the same times as you guys.
To give an example though, we left Littlehampton at 4 UK time first time and were at the hotel by 11 (10 UK time) |
Boat is better for a fry up and a good chance for the 1st of many social interactions. But the price is getting a bit silly.
I could probably use my Tesco points on the Tunnel. Whats the Dover Calais boat route costing ? as this is quicker then Dunkirk. |
Ferry is currently £90 Dunkirk or Calais
Tunnel is currently £98, for which I can triple my Tesco points for. With the points I have at the moment it will cost me about £40. TBH I would prefer (and have always wanted) to get the Tunnel back as the Ferry seems to take forever on the way home. |
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If everybody is that worried by a few quid Big "E" has the perfect money saving diesel that i'm using at the mo! :drive:
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It seems the 7.30am outbound from dover to calais is fully booked. This could just be a temporary issue with their website? The next one is 10.15. Its £94 return for this route. I guess theres more demand so they can charge more.
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Been over a few times with the bike on the train. Much quicker. Breakfast can be had once we are over there. :drive:
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Right then!!!!
This is the event organizer here.. I think we ought to get the ferry outward and the train to return. This way we can the best of both worlds. On the way to the ring our mini holiday is starts so lets make it nice and relaxed, by having a good breakfast, chat and general chill time, you can even take some good pictures of the white cliffs as we wave goodbye to good old blity. You can even have a nice relaxed crap! We will meet as in previous years at the Shell service station Junction 11, M20, at 06.45 to depart @ 07.00. Then onto the ferry port for 07.15.:doubleup: |
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It better be a bright sunny departure though 'E' or I'll be puking in ya hoodie. |
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Good call Ian, happy with that as long as my driver is too!! |
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From £81 return to £120, for 2 X singles trips So we are back to plan A Ferry return trip 24/05/2013 @ 08.00 (outward) 28/05/2013 @ 18.00 (homeward) Slightly earlier for those that dont want to get back to late. I do hope this meets with the majorities approval. :doubleup: |
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28/5 return ferry to be booked for 20.00 as normal? As above says 18.00?
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With regard to booking the ferry. To qualify for the discounted price we need to book on a booking form which I can get from DFDS. At the moment we need one more vehicle to get the discount.!!! Scooby Stu Tomma Jura are you yet in a position to confirm yet ?? |
Your right the 18.00 is easy & no problem. The reason we have booked 20.00 is just in case. The ferry company don't mind us tuning up early. They do however charge if your late & can make you wait many hours. So giving the group a little comfort zone with the 20.00 booking. :drive:
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We need just one more to qualify for the discount...:deadhorse: |
Have we thought about Calais return? A nice hour on the ferry back is always nice. This is what I have done last two trips:wave:
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According to DFDFs web site the difference in time is 30 minutes and that is how long it takes from Dunkirk to Calais. The least time I spend driving in France the better. For the last four years I have done this trip, everything has worked like clock work :doubleup: |
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Good point :doubleup: |
If you buy a Garmin unit they have got around it by not having speed cameras in the database for France, they have accident black spots!
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Alternatively, knowing what the French rozzers are like, drive at the speed limit on a bog standard sat nav and wait until Belgium. Problem solved.
You'll have to tie BigE to someone else's car though, to slow him down enough :angst: :wink: |
you can tie him to my car as i'm going to have problems keeping up in mine.
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