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France Ferry & Campsite info (use Search function) mod warning post 1

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  • #11402
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 0 ✭ [Deleted User]


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122609966#Comment_122609966

    Agree, its a lovely drive and you can stop off at nice towns along the way. San Sebastian being the obvious big one.



  • #11403
    VM Varga
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 94 ✭✭VM Varga


    Anyone know when the Eurocamp discounts (between 5 and 20%) begin to fall away? Apparently Yelloh bookings don’t go live until October so we’re trying to decide whether or not to wait until we see their prices.



  • #11404
    webpal
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,380 ✭✭✭webpal


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122618502#Comment_122618502

    They don’t, group schemes one always works for me



  • #11405
    Heroditas
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,709 ✭✭✭Heroditas


    Regarding booking directly with Yelloh, are they fairly rigid with check-in/departure days like Siblu, i.e. Saturdays only during high season?



  • #11406
    Sixtoes
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 728 ✭✭✭Sixtoes


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122618673#Comment_122618673

    Depends on the site. They are all independently run.



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  • #11407
    VM Varga
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 94 ✭✭VM Varga


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122618584#Comment_122618584

    Thanks. Can I just check what group schemes ones are?

    I’ve tried and failed to search within post. Have done a few Google searches of boards with no avail.



  • #11408
    webpal
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,380 ✭✭✭webpal


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  • #11409
    VM Varga
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 94 ✭✭VM Varga


    cheers



  • #11410
    spuddy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 850 ✭✭✭spuddy


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122579108#Comment_122579108

    There are none on the bottom bunks, we usually bring a bedrail for our youngest which does the trick though. Here's a pic of the top one.

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  • #11411
    BullBauld
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 862 ✭✭✭BullBauld


    Thinking of the Rosslare - Bilbao route next year to get us into northern Spain and southern France. My wife will be hard convinced though with the extra ferry time. Is it very noticeable?



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  • #11412
    Baybay
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,204 ✭✭✭Baybay


    Not having done the route to Bilbao, though tempted as we always travel to the south of France, I’d think the hardest bit for me would be being awake for so long on the boat. Not being the world’s best sailor, the OW to Cherbourg is ideal - embark, cat settled, something to eat & then bed. By the time I’m up & ready next morning, it’s time to get off. Cinema, bars etc or whatever other facilities might be missing or present wouldn’t really matter much to me as much as being awake on the water!



  • #11413
    Heroditas
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,709 ✭✭✭Heroditas


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122625507#Comment_122625507

    We're planning it too but if you get the Friday night crossing, it leaves at midnight so you'd be going to bed straight away, getting up at 8 or 9 and then you have the whole day and night before arriving at 7 or 8am in Bilbao.

    Contrast with Cherbourg where you still have several hours after breakfast before you arrive in the port. Bar the first night of sleep, the difference isn't that much



  • #11414
    Fann Linn
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,044 ✭✭✭Fann Linn


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122625507#Comment_122625507

    Booked for 2025 again having done it a few times already. Not too bad really considering you're only getting going at mid night. A few drinks and into bed and before you know it you're well underway.

    I always bring a couple of books and my wife takes her knitting, Saturday can be a long day in fairness, but if you don't get up till about 10.00/11.00 you can easily keep yourself amused with a few hours meandering around the ship etc.

    Saturday night has the entertainment and a few more drinks should settle you down nicely for a Sunday morning 8.00 am disembarkation in Bilbao.

    If you can keep yourself amused on the Saturday you won't have a problem.

    Go for it.



  • #11415
    the_amazing_raisin
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,988 ✭✭✭✭the_amazing_raisin


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122627932#Comment_122627932

    I guess it's a bit like a day stuck at home, if you can manage that and entertain yourselves without killing each other then it should be fine

    "The internet never fails to misremember" - Sebastian Ruiz, aka Frost



  • #11416
    the_amazing_raisin
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,988 ✭✭✭✭the_amazing_raisin


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122620914#Comment_122620914

    Yeah I wasn't too impressed with the bed rails on WB Yeats. I ended up taking a top bunk with the kids sharing a bottom bunk and my wife taking the other one

    At one point during the night I nearly rolled out of the bunk. It seems pretty easy to miss the bed rails and roll headfirst over the edge

    Can't say I'd trust a 7yo to sleep up their without getting injured

    "The internet never fails to misremember" - Sebastian Ruiz, aka Frost



  • #11417
    Fann Linn
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,044 ✭✭✭Fann Linn


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122636789#Comment_122636789

    Exactly. 😂 Lol



  • #11418
    browne_rob5
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 497 ✭✭browne_rob5


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122523325#Comment_122523325

    Clarys plage are renovating the whole pool area for 2025 as per their post on Instagram. Good they have taken the feedback on board.



  • #11419
    spuddy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 850 ✭✭✭spuddy


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122636920#Comment_122636920

    We found the top ones fine, although the crossing was calm so they didn't get tested! We took the Stena Vision on the way back, now their bed rails were totally useless, you wouldn't want want to be on the top bunk in rough seas. The ship itself though was great for the kids, shame its gone for next year.



  • #11420
    Pepp1989
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,640 ✭✭✭Pepp1989


    For those who have travelled on the amorique - Brittany ferries - cork - roscoff.

    For two adults and a baby in a cot, what accom works best? The 4 berth would be too tight by the pics unless one of the bottom ones folded. Maybe the 2 berth would work better for a cot?

    Thanks for anyone who has experience.



  • #11421
    manshay
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 223 ✭✭manshay


    The AA offer a discount code to their members for eurocamp.ie. If you are a member it's 25AAIE01 and it gave me a c€100 extra discount after current deal and loyalty discount.



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  • #11422
    beggars_bush
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,894 ✭✭✭beggars_bush


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122668588#Comment_122668588

    The bottom bunks always fold up



  • #11423
    rex_turner
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 118 ✭✭rex_turner


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122669576#Comment_122669576

    I don't think they do on the Amorique - that's the boat that sails on a Wednesday. We've sailed on it a few times and the bunks are always down (on the Pont Aven they are folded up) - having said that I haven't tried to fold them back but definitely worth checking - I'd give Brittany Ferries a call to see if a cot fits. We haven't needed a cot when we've traveled on the Amorique but we have used them on the Pont Aven in both 2 berth and 4 berth cabins, the cots they supply are narrower than normal travel cots and they usually have them set up in advance for you.



  • #11424
    Fann Linn
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,044 ✭✭✭Fann Linn


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122668784#Comment_122668784

    Thanks for that, I booked in August for 2025 and rang up Eurocamp today with that code. On top of my other loyalty codes etc she added this one today and I got a further €40 reduction.

    Every little helps 👍



  • #11425
    CuriousCucumber
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 432 ✭✭CuriousCucumber


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122673866#Comment_122673866

    What did you say when you rang them up?
    "Hi, I've a booking made, and now I have a loyalty code I want to add"?

    I've my booking for next year already made.
    Not an AA member, but if I can get €100 off my booking, I'd be very happy

    Edit

    I jus went on to the live chat, and asked them to apply the discount code to my booking. They did it without any issues. Nice one



  • #11426
    Heroditas
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,709 ✭✭✭Heroditas


    For anyone looking to book with Yelloh! their campsites appear to gradually be opening up for 2025 bookings now.



  • #11427
    Candlel
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 88 ✭✭Candlel


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122636920#Comment_122636920

    put a blanket over the bed rail so there’s no gap for the children.



  • #11428
    Schrodingercat
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 139 ✭✭Schrodingercat


    Hi
    Has anyone any experience with ms-vacances specifically Les Brunelles or le Trianon in Vendee.
    Eurocamp seems to have lost a lot of the sites it used to have.

    I know it can be luck of the draw, but would anyone know are there many English speaking kids in the Kids Club?

    Thanks



  • #11429
    Peckham
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,591 ✭✭✭Peckham


    I was in Les Brunelles in August. Fantastic, but entirely French in terms of kids club, entertainment etc. Approx 80-90% of the site was French holidaymakers, so to be expected.

    I understand that there are a lot more Irish earlier in the season.



  • #11430
    Doug Stamper
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 207 ✭✭Doug Stamper


    We stayed in Les Brunelles in July, no Irish kids were in the kids club the 2 days the children went. Only one staff member spoke English to them. That said, site was excellent. Would happily go again.



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  • #11431
    Schrodingercat
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 139 ✭✭Schrodingercat


    Thanks for the advice. Les Brunelles looks like a great site. I've booked it for 9 nights at the start of July, and will do les Ormes for a few nights at the end. I like a shorter drive to the ferry.

    Making friends at kids club is now part of the trip for the kids, and they can hang out with them at the pool after, so they will be at least guaranteed that in Les Ormes. They got on fine last year mixing with French / Dutch speakers, once a staff member can help explain the rules of the games.



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