Fast ferries / cats to France?

[Chrisgr31]

I think they have all shut down.

It also seems to me that the car ferries take a lot longer to cross the channel than they used to. I think the P & O crossing time these days is 1 1/4 Hours. I thought that when competition was at its height with SeaCats, Hovercraft etc the ferries were taking around 55 minutes to cross the channel?

[M-J-B]

We're going on a cat to France in a couple of weeks from Portsmouth to St Malo.

Takes about 3 hours, but saves us driving to the chunnel.

[fatboy b]

M-J-B said:

We're going on a cat to France in a couple of weeks from Portsmouth to St Malo.

Takes about 3 hours, but saves us driving to the chunnel.

We did that a few years back - really good service, and you're right, it saves that awful drive. We came back a couple of weeks back via the tunnel, then promptly got stuck on the M25.

[M-J-B]

fatboy b said:

M-J-B said:

We're going on a cat to France in a couple of weeks from Portsmouth to St Malo.

Takes about 3 hours, but saves us driving to the chunnel.

We did that a few years back - really good service, and you're right, it saves that awful drive. We came back a couple of weeks back via the tunnel, then promptly got stuck on the M25.

It also means we can fill the kids up with breakfast, stick on a DVD once we're back in the car and drive 600 miles in peace (hopefully!)