Eurotunnel Day Trip tickets back

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ecsrobin said:

It’s all irrelevant really, you either choose to pay it and travel with them or you don’t.

I am pretty sure people reading this, who have been using this service for decades, would probably already be aware they have that choice.

All anyone preferring to travel on the single deck carriage has to do is add a roof box to their ticket. The system then automatically allocates the single deck carriage, subject to availability. So suggesting that people would welcome the recent changes for that reason is nonsense, that option has always been available to anyone willing to pay for it.

Regardless of that, you do not have to go on the upper deck if you would rather not anyway. You just tell the staff by the loading door you want to go on the lower deck instead and they wave you on to the second loading door, done it myself many times.

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ecsrobin said:

981Boxess said:

I am pretty sure people reading this, who have been using this service for decades, would probably already be aware they have that choice.

You’ve responded to me and others like you’re the only one who has used the service for years.

Really - is that how that reads?

ecsrobin said:

Although it’s very clear from your posts that you have an axe to grind with eurotunnel yet continue to use them.

I live on an island with only two ways to drive off it, tunnel or ferry. If it suits me to use the tunnel I will pay whatever they want to charge and will continue to do so.

Do I think Eurotunnel are a good company to deal with, no, I think they have no concept of what good customer service is.

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andyA700 said:

Just done some random searches for daytrips on Le Shuttle, mostly midweek to keep the costs down - so I thought.
They are all coming out at £130, so they can shove that where the sun doesn't shine.

£43 return:

https://www.poferries.com/en/routes/dover-to-calai...

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paulwirral said:

A few of us have just booked the tunnel for a ring trip in May , 2 of us in an Audi and Mercedes are on the standard double deck carriages and the Porsche c4s travelling with us was automatically booked onto the single deck carriage , we all booked at the same time for the same crossing and were all paying the same price .

Which is how it should be.

The only problem is that with Eurotunnel they are more likely to have put the price of the 'normal' cars up, than the price of the 'high' car down.

May 2 07:50 out
May 4 18.50 return

£15.00 supplement in current sale for having a Porsche v normal/low car.

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mikef said:

Well I did the day trip today, paid £96 for the tunnel day return, and was reminded what a great product it is, worth the extra over the ferry

No queues on the way out (this is a couple of days before the Easter break), straight onto the 9:18 train, in France in time to get some cheese and veg shopping done in Boulogne, than back for a great lunch in Peuplingues not far from the tunnel (but could be a nice village anywhere in France). Carrefour in the afternoon, saving around £300 over UK prices on drinkable wine and Belgian beer, plus shopping for those groceries we don’t easily find in Tunbridge Wells.

Back home by five thirty (it was raining, so not ideal for a walk on the beach); the nice lady at check-in put us on the first crossing, departing in 40 minutes.

I really wouldn’t consider the ferry again for a day trip

This morning I tried to book with Eurotunnel for this Saturday, so admittedly short notice, £508 - ridiculous.

P&O £48 + £24 for priority, so £72 (also short notice), sounded a lot better than £508 so that is what we are doing.

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mikef said:

Let us know how that goes. Last Easter weekend there were 15-hour delays at Dover, which has most likely pushed holiday traffic to use the tunnel this year

I am hoping if that was a year ago it may have cleared by Saturday

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mikef said:

Let us know how that goes. Last Easter weekend there were 15-hour delays at Dover, which has most likely pushed holiday traffic to use the tunnel this year

No silly queues, looks like the P&O are leaving as scheduled, no problem at all.

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mikef said:

Yeah, the weather is cooperating - Thursday looked bad for cancellations

They had 5 lanes open for border control yesterday. Any delays are being caused by the French, everything else in the port is running like clockwork.
They take your passports, have a chat, then look at them, have another chat, then look for the stamp and have a chat, then return them. Basically they do not give a stuff if the queues get longer.

My last 8 recent crossings with P&O have set off to within minutes of their scheduled time.
Didn’t P&O sack all their French staff last year and replace them with staff from the Philippines?

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ecsrobin said:

981Boxess said:

My last 8 recent crossings with P&O have set off to within minutes of their scheduled time.
Didn’t P&O sack all their French staff last year and replace them with staff from the Philippines?

981Boxess said:

I stopped using ferries a while back not so much for the time it takes but for the exposure to my car. People who see cars as equipment rather than P&Js dragging buggies etc down the side of my car wasn’t worth it. I then started asking to be put on the lorry deck, safer but even more off a faff.

Thought you stopped using ferries?

Nice try - but things change, as has the service P&O offer today, compared to in the past.

Added to that I am not willing to pay what Eurotunnel now charge for day trips, especially as they are now taking the piff even further by now classing (and charging for) my car (Boxster) as a high vehicle.

Eurotunnel wanted £508.00 for my trip yesterday, P&O £72.00 (priority both ways).

But I have no problem with others paying whatever number Eurotunnel come up with next, if they are happy to do it. If crossing with Eurotunnel suits me I will do so, if P&O suits me better on occasions then that is what I will do.

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Another alternative for those of us whose cars have grown recently, DFDS Day Trip £39 return


https://www.dfds.com/en-gb/passenger-ferries/duty-...

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Kev_Mk3 said:

All Staff not just french.

Ok - not sure what drove that but remember at the time thinking it was a bold move.
Whatever the reason my recent experiences with them would suggest the service seems to have improved from a few years ago.