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

If I add gomoworld as an eSIM on my phone can other phones tether of it?

Their terms say it's supported anyway.

2.11 Tethering (Personal hotspot) is supported.

ah thanks for that. I’ve just signed up for them before I saw your post. Too late for referral. Darn it.

Im heading to France in July for 3 weeks (boat into Bilbao before crossing over into France and then a boat home from Cherbourg, might be able to make use of that referral code as I assume one of those tags will be useful for me!

No worries, when I get home from work this evening I'll check through my old emails 👍

https://www.simoptions.com/prepaid-sim-card-france/

Orange Holiday Europe is the one I've got previously

pick up a SIM card there. I got an orange sim last week for 13 in a tobacco shop and topped it up for 275gb data for 25.

In relation to the Commodore lounge do you believe it is actually good value for money? Heading over myself on that route in late August and have also done that run in the past but never availed of the C Club lounge.

It's only my wife and I travelling this time so I was thinking about it, however it's an extra €100 approx per person per sailing.

I don't think I'd even spend €200 in the a la carte on board the ship in normal times so just looking for some recent feedback as there are so many different opinions and reviews on various sites.

Thanks.

Can I ask what you think of Chateau des Marais so far? It's on the list of places we are considering for next year.

I have stayed in chateau de les eaux before. We got a bad old mobile in a poor location. We didn’t get on with the site but got off to a bad start. Pool was very busy. And the weather was cold during our stay. Online reviews are good though.

The sites we go for are usually small independent natural type sites. But we also love centerparcs. I’ve never stayed in any of the 5 star sites commonly mentioned here so can’t compare with those.

I thought it was good value and depend if you see the ferry as part of the holiday or something to just get over with and get to Spain. I see the Ferry as part of the holiday always one of the highlights.

If its just yourself and the missus then I would say its worth it, yeah you would might spend less maybe in the a-la-carte and the food might be better but thinking about it, we got two breakfasts, two lunches, a dinner, snacks and drinks all day, about a dozen glasses of wine (if not more for me alone😎)….but its more than that. Its a nice relaxing spot to be, when I ventured out into the rest of the ship is was busy, entertainment, kids clubs, lads having pints etc etc but the C-Club lounge was quite and relaxing. Myself and my missus just read our books, listened to some podcasts, we had our flat white coffees and chilled San Pellegrino some pastries all day long. Lunch and dinner then came and we had the wine with that (as much as you want in the 3 hour period) but we didn't do the dog on it. The day flew by.

If I was going on the Friday Ferry which leaves late at night (around 11pm I think) then you only have the full day the next day Im sure. You get in very early on the Sunday Moring, the Wednesday trip I think might be better value as you you have 1.5 days use, also I think you can have those extra few glasses of wine and not worry about getting up at 6am.

All in all if its just the two of you then get it, there were no kids in there (well there was this one couple who had a new born baby but they were grand) Finally food was nice, nothing amazing but I liked it.

Has anyone been to Domaine des Ormes in Brittany before?

It’s been recommended to me by two different people recently and I’m looking to go to a campsite next year.

They both also mentioned getting the ferry to Cherbourg and then driving down to the campsite- works out cheaper than flying into Nantes airport and transferring etc.

Also the ferry looks to be a mini destination in itself for 19 hours 😆