Are we going to have to pay more for ferry crossings?

[Spriddler]

No increase at £223 return for me and my 6m motorhome with 20% over 60's discount and I live only 20 miles from Newhaven port.

 

[glenn2926]

My motorcycle crossing in May is within a couple of pounds the same as two years ago. £109 return.
How Rae some of us getting crossings at around normal and others paying crazy money?

 

[Northernraider]

My motorcycle crossing in May is within a couple of pounds the same as two years ago. £109 return.
How Rae some of us getting crossings at around normal and others paying crazy money?

Its a motorbike

I think motor homes are dearer.

 

[glenn2926]

Its a motorbike

I think motor homes are dearer.

They undoubtedly are but if I’m paying the same for my bike as last time why are SOME motorhomes paying a lot more than their last time. School holidays? Public holidays?

 

[glenn2926]

As I asked above, why are SOME paying crazy prices when most of us are paying around the same as last time?

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[busby]

I am sure ferries are cheaper now than 20 years ago in comparison. Can remember paying 175 pounds one way Calais Dover..Seem to remember that cheap Dover Bologne ferry brought the price of the established carriers down.BUSBY.

 

[Kenp]

I have to say ive used the tunnel the last 3 years both directions to Europe as it eas easier but this year returning to uk the price quoted was horrendous.

Even booking 6 weeks ahead i was quoted between £148 -£178 for a 7 metre van ... depending on times. The cheapest being at 6am which requires an overnight stop at calais .
To cross at 6pm it was £178

Add to that 3 dogs at £22 each thats a horrendous price.

So i crossed with dfds instead 6pm crossing £94 ...and with 3 dogs £142 with a free meal on board.

I turned up early and got a 1.15 pm crossing straight away at no extra cost.

If the tunnel keeps going up in price ill be taking the ferry.

Why not shop at Tesco or use Tesco Credit Card and get Tunnel at a third of the price.

 

[EuroTrotters]

Why not shop at Tesco or use Tesco Credit Card and get Tunnel at a third of the price.

we used to. But its an arse in the world to get to

 

[Kenp]

No increase at £223 return for me and my 6m motorhome with 20% over 60's discount and I live only 20 miles from Newhaven port.

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Still 3 times the price of using Tesco points for the tunnel.

 

[WESTY66]

I am sure ferries are cheaper now than 20 years ago in comparison. Can remember paying 175 pounds one way Calais Dover..Seem to remember that cheap Dover Bologne ferry brought the price of the established carriers down.BUSBY.

I’m sure they’re not, Hull-Zeebrugge 2002 for a bike £136 return
2017 £436 return
Hull Rotterdam for moho this june inc breakfasts and double bed £668

Unless of course you are talking cross channel ferries of which I have no knowledge as I’ve never used one

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[Jonno1103]

Both Brittany Ferries and Transmanche use French seafarers who earn above any U.K. minimum wage anyway plus the regions of Brittany, Normandy & Seine-Maritime own the ships. All DFDS & BAI do is operate them.

The price of the tunnel is irrelevant, the thread is about the ferries.

 

[John Barrett]

I’m sure they’re not, Hull-Zeebrugge 2002 for a bike £136 return
2017 £436 return
Hull Rotterdam for moho this june inc breakfasts and double bed £668

Agreed. When I kept my sailing boat in Cherbourg 20 years ago the Fastcat from Portsmouth was only 25 quid!

 

[EuroTrotters]

The ferries have increased prices. But I still think they are on par with anything else.

Water
Bread
Fuel
Rice
Pasta

HOUSE PRICES !

 

[VXman]

Just booked Dover Calais with Irish ferries for June. £127 one way - could have got a cheaper @ £97 but this was fully flexible for possible cancellation/alteration. Large motorhome and 2 passengers. Also used Tesco vouchers so actually cheaper than that.

 

[Jonno1103]

I’m sure they’re not, Hull-Zeebrugge 2002 for a bike £136 return
2017 £436 return
Hull Rotterdam for moho this june inc breakfasts and double bed £668

P&O had always employed Malaysian staff on the Hull-Zeebrugge sailing, they'd spend 6 months aboard. It didn't stop the price rises and ultimately didn't stop the route being closed and the ships sold to GNV in Italy.

Irish Ferries did the same as P&O just over a decade ago, hasn't stopped their Dublin-Cherbourg route being expensive.

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[Spriddler]

Still 3 times the price of using Tesco points for the tunnel.

I CBA'd with loyalty cards (nor credit cards) of any sort.
My point was really that surprisingly those fares haven't increased since pre-pandemic.

 

[glenn2926]

Why not shop at Tesco or use Tesco Credit Card and get Tunnel at a third of the price.

Perhaps like us. There isn’t a Tesco near us. Down south there are all these shops. In the real world we have a supermarket. We don’t have a choice which supermarket. Southerners don’t seem to understand this.

 

[denisejoe]

Perhaps like us. There isn’t a Tesco near us. Down south there are all these shops. In the real world we have a supermarket. We don’t have a choice which supermarket. Southerners don’t seem to understand this.

It’s been pointed out already that you don’t need to shop at Tesco. Just get the credit card and use it to buy everything and then pay off at the end of the month.

We get more points from the money spent in places other than Tesco than what we spend in Tesco.

 

[POH]

I’m not, we use the tunnel.

That will also rise due to demand because a lot of people won't pay the higher ferry cost.

 

[glenn2926]

That will also rise due to demand because a lot of people won't pay the higher ferry cost.

You hope for that. I’ll hope it doesn’t rise. Can you see the difference in us?

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[glenn2926]

That will also rise due to demand because a lot of people won't pay the higher ferry cost.

I don’t know how many times i have to show my booking for September being no more expensive than last year. If you want it to be more expensive I’m pretty sure they’ll let you pay more. In the real world it’s around the same price.
Let’s hope real people take absolutely no notice of you and your kind.

 

[Vipar]

Shortage of anything causes price increases

 

[WESTY66]

You hope for that. I’ll hope it doesn’t rise. Can you see the difference in us?

Yes ones a realist, the other an optimist

 

[POH]

You hope for that. I’ll hope it doesn’t rise. Can you see the difference in us?

Typical Yorkshire man as tight as a fishes ar*e and that's water tight!!!!!!

 

[Lenny HB]

No increase at £223 return for me and my 6m motorhome with 20% over 60's discount and I live only 20 miles from Newhaven port.

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That seems expensive I've only paid that much around D Day week.

I am sure ferries are cheaper now than 20 years ago in comparison. Can remember paying 175 pounds one way Calais Dover..Seem to remember that cheap Dover Bologne ferry brought the price of the established carriers down.BUSBY.

25 - 30 years was over £300 for car & caravan, I had P&O shares so got a 50% discount.

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[glenn2926]

Yes ones a realist, the other an optimist

Have you looked at my booking for this year? I very much doubt it. It’s a whole £4 more expensive. Yep £4. Let’s bleat and moan and complain about a whole £4 increase eh?
Pathetic, yep pathetic. Moaning about a £4 increase. Honestly these people make me embarrassed to be a motorhome owner.
I really do not want to be affiliated with these wingers.

 

[Soycd]

Hmm, if you don't like the price don't buy a ticket?

 

[cruiser]

We ave booked to go Portsmouth To Spain In august And back in oct It is cheaper this year At £1085 return with meals. Than it was 4 years ago. Lucky me.

 

[WESTY66]

Have you looked at my booking for this year? I very much doubt it. It’s a whole £4 more expensive. Yep £4. Let’s bleat and moan and complain about a whole £4 increase eh?
Pathetic, yep pathetic. Moaning about a £4 increase. Honestly these people make me embarrassed to be a motorhome owner.
I really do not want to be affiliated with these wingers.

Show me my post where I’ve moaned about any £4 increase!!

In fact show me a post on this thread where I’ve said anything other than about frequent traveller tickets relating to Eurotunnel!

 

[POH]

Let’s hope real people take absolutely no notice of you and your kind.

MY KIND, what do you mean? I was only saying the demand for the tunnel will rise due to the ferry companies putting up their prices and as we all know market forces will prevail like or not, oh and just to inform you I am not a whinger of any description.

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