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Ferry deals to France - Summer 2015
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Paddydriver as I've never travelled by ferry before I don't know much either but it was the cost that influenced everything.
We booked IF Rosslare to Cherbourg on a Monday for €280 and will return home sunday to Rosslare with Stena for €260. We booked the 4 berth inside cabin. We are travelling with 2 & 3 yr old so they are basically free.
We booked the dates that suited us, really not pushed how we get there. The cabins can't be that bad ? hopefully as kids are young they'll sleep for most of it, I'll bring the ipad & portable DVD player to amuse them. We'll get to see both ferries next year which may make a difference for future holidays - guess will just have to wait & see
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Stena line offering 25% reduction in prices with offer from ploughing championships for bookings made until Sept 29 for travel in 2015. Use the link below.
https://www.stenaline.ie/showoffer
We had already booked our trip home with them and they just refunded us the difference- €40 !
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aquarius10 wrote: »Stena line offering 25% reduction in prices with offer from ploughing championships for bookings made until Sept 29 for travel in 2015. Use the link below.
https://www.stenaline.ie/showoffer
We had already booked our trip home with them and they just refunded us the difference- €40 !
Thanks Stena
Thanks for posting the offer Aquarius.
I just checked this offer Vs Irish Ferries (who aren't giving me an option to use the FRANCEC15 discount code any longer :mad:) and going out Thursday July 9th returning July 31st on Stena with a 2.25m high MPV and a 4 bert cabin with window is €726 Vs €1,252 on Irish Ferries with the only exception being we'd be coming back Irish Ferries on Saturday the 1st of August as they don't sail Friday July 31st.
That's a saving of €526 which is pretty good actually. Nowhere near as good as the €600 I paid last year for LD Lines Rosslare to St Nazaire on the way out and Irish Ferries Roscoff to Rosslare on the way back but the LD Lines fares were clearly a once off which we won't see the like of again!!
I'm tempted to book the Stena offer but wonder if Irish Ferries won't be launching their own discounts shortly once their current promotion campaign for getting the last out of the 2014 season is over.
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aquarius10 wrote: »Stena line offering 25% reduction in prices with offer from ploughing championships for bookings made until Sept 29 for travel in 2015. Use the link below.
https://www.stenaline.ie/showoffer
We had already booked our trip home with them and they just refunded us the difference- €40 !
Thanks Stena
You are the man! Glad I didn't book yet. Was looking at Dublin <> Cherbourg on IF but now back to Stena for €300 cheaper on Rosslare <> Cherbourg.
Looking good for booking this. Thanks a mil aquarius10!:D0 -
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aquarius10 wrote: »Stena line offering 25% reduction in prices with offer from ploughing championships for bookings made until Sept 29 for travel in 2015. Use the link below.
https://www.stenaline.ie/showoffer
We had already booked our trip home with them and they just refunded us the difference- €40 !
Thanks Stena
Thanks for that, have just checked and can get €824 for our dates, first 2 weeks in July (what it was when I first checked early August, but had gone up to €1100 last time I looked).
Has anyone booked with Stena and paid just the €100 deposit? I see you have to phone up to avail of this option, so do they quote the same fare or is there an uplift for doing the transaction with a real person?100412.2526@compuserve.com
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Eldest will be just gone 4 next year. Tbh we like doing family things when on holiday. This year we went somewhere different every day. Even year we went to siblu we went somewhere most days. Found the clubs got in the way as we had to be back at certain times etc.
Also seems to me that some use clubs as a way to.pawn kids off for a few hours. I work a lot during year and think this is my chance to spend time with them which I love.
Exploring places is great fun and kids like it as well.
The happy medium for us is a day which goes as follows:-
Get up around 8am and cycle to the boulangerie with my (now 9 year old) daughter whilst her 13 year old brother and my wife sleep on. We could go to the camp site shop but we enjoy the 10 minute cycle each way and always have a great chat along the way plus she gets to practice her French asking for the croissants and pain au chocolat etc.
Get back and prepare coffee, fruit and cereals before waking the sleepy heads and having a family breakfast on the deck. Doesn't matter if it's overcast or even raining as it's a covered deck.
By 9:30 breakfast is over and the kids get ready for camp which is from 10 to 12 noon.
As they head off around 9:45 myself and my wife put our cycling gear on and head off for a two hour 35km cycle on the excellent bike paths which take us along the coast and in through woods etc. We're back by 11:45 in time for showers.
Kids get back from camp around 12:15 and we decide, based on the weather or how we feel or increasingly depending on arrangements the kids have made to meet up with their new friends at the pool etc what we're going to do for the afternoon. Sometimes it's a BBQ at the mobile and we head for the pool afterwards where the kids are meeting their new friends or we head out to find somewhere for lunch and perhaps spend the afternoon on the beach or exploring new places. It all really depends on how we're feeling and we make it up as we go.
There's always a few things on a list we "have" to do during the holiday such as zip wiring, pony trekking, go karting, water park etc.
One of the best things we did this year was driving over Le Passage du Gois (http://www.vendee-guide.co.uk/passage-du-gois.htm) at low tide one evening.
Evenings are family dinner around 6:30pm either BBQ or eat out (probably BBQ one in three days) and then let the kids off up to the entertainment where they hang out with their new friends until 10:30pm for the 9 year old and midnight for the 13 year old which is way later than they'd ever be allowed out at home but it seems everything in France starts and finishes later plus the site is so safe and secure it doesn't really feel like they are "out". They are only 300m away in a very controlled environment plus as the responsible father I make an effort to go up to the entertainment for an hour mid way through the evening keep an eye on them whilst having a couple of beers
The kids generally don't bother with the afternoon camps and that's how we feel we get the best of both worlds.0 -
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The happy medium for us is a day which goes as follows:-
Get up around 8am and cycle to the boulangerie with my (now 9 year old) daughter whilst her 13 year old brother and my wife sleep on. We could go to the camp site shop but we enjoy the 10 minute cycle each way and always have a great chat along the way plus she gets to practice her French asking for the croissants and pain au chocolat etc.
Get back and prepare coffee, fruit and cereals before waking the sleepy heads and having a family breakfast on the deck. Doesn't matter if it's overcast or even raining as it's a covered deck.
By 9:30 breakfast is over and the kids get ready for camp which is from 10 to 12 noon.
As they head off around 9:45 myself and my wife put our cycling gear on and head off for a two hour 35km cycle on the excellent bike paths which take us along the coast and in through woods etc. We're back by 11:45 in time for showers.
Kids get back from camp around 12:15 and we decide, based on the weather or how we feel or increasingly depending on arrangements the kids have made to meet up with their new friends at the pool etc what we're going to do for the afternoon. Sometimes it's a BBQ at the mobile and we head for the pool afterwards where the kids are meeting their new friends or we head out to find somewhere for lunch and perhaps spend the afternoon on the beach or exploring new places. It all really depends on how we're feeling and we make it up as we go.
There's always a few things on a list we "have" to do during the holiday such as zip wiring, pony trekking, go karting, water park etc.
One of the best things we did this year was driving over Le Passage du Gois (http://www.vendee-guide.co.uk/passage-du-gois.htm) at low tide one evening.
Evenings are family dinner around 6:30pm either BBQ or eat out (probably BBQ one in three days) and then let the kids off up to the entertainment where they hang out with their new friends until 10:30pm for the 9 year old and midnight for the 13 year old which is way later than they'd ever be allowed out at home but it seems everything in France starts and finishes later plus the site is so safe and secure it doesn't really feel like they are "out". They are only 300m away in a very controlled environment plus as the responsible father I make an effort to go up to the entertainment for an hour mid way through the evening keep an eye on them whilst having a couple of beers
The kids generally don't bother with the afternoon camps and that's how we feel we get the best of both worlds.
To be fair I think we will go back to campsites when kids are a few years older. Let ye know next year how gite worked out lol.0 -
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Cianmcliam wrote: »Just did the same, thanks for the tip on the FlexiFare.
Seems like the cabins are going up in price by €5 every 12 hours or so.
same here, thanks for the tip Aquarius10 , owe you a pint ......saved €83
booked for €559 - june 18th departure - early july return, rosslare - cherbourg.
went flexi so arse covered if a better deal pops up elsewhere, although can't see it happening. Checked IF for same dates and they want €1126 ...price gouging shower, nothing ever changes with them.
tip - to pay only a booking fee with stena (€100 booking in my case), you must phone them, the website looks for the full amount.......but ring them, and tell them of the "ploughing match" offer, and they are happy apply it it over the phone. Very good customer service indeed it must be said.
so, thats boxed off........:pac: Something to look forward to. 0 -
same here, thanks for the tip Aquarius10 , owe you a pint ......saved €83
booked for €559 - june 18th departure - early july return, rosslare - cherbourg.
went flexi so arse covered if a better deal pops up elsewhere, although can't see it happening. Checked IF for same dates and they want €1126 ...price gouging shower, nothing ever changes with them.
tip - to pay only a booking fee with stena (€100 booking in my case), you must phone them, the website looks for the full amount.......but ring them, and tell them of the "ploughing match" offer, and they are happy apply it it over the phone. Very good customer service indeed it must be said.
so, thats boxed off........:pac: Something to look forward to.
When I checked this it seemed the €100 deposit for phone bookings was non-refundable, even for FlexiFare, is that not the case?0 -
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