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SusanC10 wrote: »

What days are the Sailings from Dublin to Cherbourg and return ?
Can't seem to get into the IF website.

Thanks in advance

I'm having issues getting back in onto the website again too. The dates I was looking at were as follows

ex Dublin on the 4th 6th 8th 10th etc of july leaving at 16.00 and arriving 11.00 the following day
ex cherbourg on the 19th 21st 23rd 25th 27th July leaving at 1700 and arriving back at 10.15 on the following day

Regards

D

Will IF run the Oscar Wilde to/from Rosslare on other days ?

Any info on the WB itself, so used of the OW I know it like the back of my hand.

Booked Stena as a contingency with their recent sale. Like for like to book travel on the same dates with the current 10% off applied and the €150 discount the booking would still work out at 30% more expensive than Stena.

Irish Ferries becomes ‘Best Ferry Company’ for the 12th consecutive year

26 Nov 2018 26th November 2018 – Irish Ferries has been named the ‘Best Ferry Company’ for the 12th consecutive year at the annual Irish Travel Trade Awards, which took place in Dublin over the weekend.
The highly prized Irish Travel Trade Awards recognise and reward excellence in product and service as voted by Irish travel agents, North and South.
The accolade means that Irish Ferries continues to hold the two leading ‘Best Ferry Company’ titles from the Irish travel trade, having also been awarded the top honour at the 2018 Irish Travel Industry Awards earlier this year.
Irish Ferries is the leading ferry operator to and from the Republic of Ireland. Over the last number of years, it has invested over €450 million in new fleet and port facilities and has the most modern fleet in Europe.
Accepting the award, Dermot Merrigan, head of passenger sales at Irish Ferries said:
“We are honoured to receive this award, which we believe is an acknowledgement of a strong partnership with the Irish travel agent sector, which independently voted on the award.
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:mad::mad::mad:

Over 1100 euro for us for June. We usually pay 600 max on OW.

Time to start a new relationship with Stena I think.

Irish ferries website seems to have crashed.

SusanC10 wrote: »

I booked IF yesterday evening. WBY had our exact dates so no need to change the Campsite plus Dublin is much closer to us than Rosslare or Cork. Also, we have so many Tesco Tokens as we didn't go to France last year that we were only going to be paying the €100 in cash anyway. And we won't be going on the Ferry in 2020.

Btw - the 4-Bed Cabin with Window was showing as €169 for me both outbound in June and return in July.

As you were using the Tesco vouchers, were you able to avail of the discount?

Je_suis_Jean wrote: »

I think they are starting off by setting/establishing their desired pricing. Some people who are keen to try the new ship and/or don't have much wiggle room on dates and/or are nervous about not having their ferry crossing booked already will accept the higher pricing and book but once that initial rush of bookings is complete and assuming IF still have plenty of spare capacity on the WBY it wouldn't surprise me to see some time limited offers or flash sales.

Much as I'd like to try the new ship I'm not going to pay a significant premium over Stena or Brittsny Ferries to do so.

Spot on, it’s yield management. They have only put WBY on sale first at a high price and now OW. People who have to /really want to will pay the top prices. If they don’t sell enough they can drop prices, if demand is high keep the fares high.

They don’t care about the issues this year or the late release for 2019. If they can get 1500 per return they will.

nirvana78 wrote: »

Good to know they're allowing the Tesco vouchers and the discount. I'm not bothered about sailing on the WBY so I'll hang on to see what the OW comes in at. Glad you got yours booked though SusanC10!

If we didn't have all those Tokens I would be waiting too tbh. We didn't go this year and I think there is a real jump in price since 2017 for roughly the same dates.

nirvana78 wrote: »

I was thinking that maybe the prices are dearer because it's a newer ship and a bit fancier?? Hope that's the case and then the OW would be cheaper

I would imagine so.
Friends of ours are going roughly at same time as us. They are going to wait for OW. Only concern is the Dates and not matching with the already-booked campsite.

IF will force peope into flydrive and hire bikes.

They are charging extorionate prices. AS people have said, testing the demand and then dropping the fares for Rosslare route?

nirvana78 wrote: »

I was thinking that maybe the prices are dearer because it's a newer ship and a bit fancier?? Hope that's the case and then the OW would be cheaper

Well when they sold tickets for it last year they were the same price as the OW. I've priced under 800 for Stena and brittany.

Not booking at these prices but just checking the prices.
My sailings in late June (out) back (early July) are 575 each way + 139 for cabin each way + 5.40 admin fee = 1,433.4.
When I go to the next page where extras are added in, the running total has jumped from 575 each way to 639 and the 5.40 fee to 6.00. A discount now appears of 10% = 156.20 giving a new total of 1,405.80

What's behind the 54e increase each way from 1 page to the next!!! A glitch in the system?