Eurotunnel Day Trip tickets back
Discussion
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.
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
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
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.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
P&O £48 + £24 for priority, so £72 (also short notice), sounded a lot better than £508 so that is what we are doing.
981Boxess said:
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.
Crikey! We are going Hull-Rotterdam on the May Day holiday weekend and it’s cheaper than that. P&O £48 + £24 for priority, so £72 (also short notice), sounded a lot better than £508 so that is what we are doing.
The horrific journey down south, days extra travel each way, potentially awful queues for the tunnel/ferry is why we don’t do Dover any more.
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
We went on the Dover Calais boat last year (for the first time in years) on May Day Saturday as we had just got married in Tunbridge Wells and after the news reports we were expecting the worst - in fact from arriving at the roundabout outside the terminal to getting out of the car on the ferry was less than ten minutes. The problem last Easter was reportedly coaches getting through both sets of passport checks, up to half an hour per coach. I don't think you;d get as many of those at May Bank Holiday
It will be interesting to see if they have sorted out the systemic failings that led to last Easter's debacle
It will be interesting to see if they have sorted out the systemic failings that led to last Easter's debacle
mikef said:
The problem last Easter was reportedly coaches getting through both sets of passport checks, up to half an hour per coach. I don't think you;d get as many of those at May Bank Holiday
It will be interesting to see if they have sorted out the systemic failings that led to last Easter's debacle
Depends, as Eurotunnel as they are actively prioritising car ticket sales over coaches, which has a knock on effect for the ferries, but this weekend is a very heavy one cross channel for coaches....It will be interesting to see if they have sorted out the systemic failings that led to last Easter's debacle
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?
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?
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? 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?
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? 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.
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-...
https://www.dfds.com/en-gb/passenger-ferries/duty-...
981Boxess said:
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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