Brittant Ferries Height Price Bands
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Nobody gets “banged up”. Here’s a quote from Brittany Ferries about life on board their ships,,” Whilst there is plenty of room on board to roam, a cabin will offer you your own personal space during the sailing”.
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Yes. We always now go on the overnight sailings and have a cabin. It's so much more civilised and gives us effectively an extra day at either end of the trip as we don't have to leave home till 6pm or so on the outward journey and are back before lunch on return. Yes it's expensive but a trial booking gave me almost exactly the same price for June this year as we paid for the same in 2019.
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It’s an overnight cabin everytime for me. Why would anybody want to be wandering around a ship in the middle of the night feeling like a zombie next day when you could be tucked up in bed refreshed the next morning with the whole day and open road ahead?
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Before I posted in response to obbernockle I read, and reread my post to avoid sounding critical because, as I said, there are many different opinions, and we all think ours is the correct one!
There is no comparison between the tunnel and a longer sea crossing and for many that will mean the tunnel is best but for us, and it seems others, an overnight crossing with a cabin, giving a full first day from onward travel is a better bet.
In previous years this was often cheaper, including the cost of the cabin, than a day crossing and, yes, the word civilised sums it up.
I am curious though about the comparison of 2019/2022 prices as ours is £300 more for an identical crossing.
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We only ever did a night crossing without a cabin once. Many years ago with our young sons, we booked 4 club class seats on a Townsend-Thoresen night crossing to Le Harve. The main reason was that they were a lot cheaper than a cabin and we were on a budget. OH said “there is no way we are doing that again” and we have had a cabin ever since. These days commodore class if we can get one.
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Back when the children were smaller, we had club lounge recliners for the late night sailing. Being fifteen minutes or so from the ferry, it gave us all day to prepare and a meal at home before setting off although, like AD, I had a short nap mid-morning. Now I'm older and retired with time being less critical, I go for a day/afternoon sailing.
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One big advantage of the Plymouth-Roscoff crossings is that we use the Pont Aven. A departure time of 2030 is perfect for us at it allows the whole day to get ready-Jean has a set in stone routine-and means you are sitting down to eat at a not unreasonable time.
For many routes a day time crossing is fine, but for BF it invariably means arriving late evening and then having to get to a site.
We have traveled overnight in reclining seats and its a trip that still ranks among our worst.
It was with Stena from Newhaven and outbound a coach got stuck while unloading and we were all there for a couple of hours, meaning our planned site was out and fuel stops closed however coming back was worse as during the night our daughters friend said she was getting wet and it turned out we all were as, what we thought was water, was dripping on ot us.
It turned out to be stale beer, from the bar above, leading to a very smelly journey home in the car.
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They’ve just changed my April overnight Plymouth - Roscoff arrival time to 06:30. Can’t remember what it originally was (tickets amended many times in past 2 yrs) but a bit early for my tastes given that’s at least a 05:30 start to the day. ☹️
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Switch to Saturday night Bill. Departs Plymouth 10 pm., arrives Roscoff 1015 a.m Leisurely breakfast on board.
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Great idea..I’ve done exactly that. Cost me £3.16 extra! Only down side is arriving in France on a Sunday, will need to get a wiggle on buying essentials before everything closes at noon.
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Hi Bill, As we are now definitely going via Harwich had missed the arrival time which is quite a bit earlier than when we last crossed.
Certainly far more open on Sunday than used to be but, for example, the Geant at Morlaix doesn’t open till 9am so we would be looking for a combined coffee & shop stop after 2 hours driving-so around 9am!
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William, Leave Roscoff port towards Morlaix, take the first right at the first roundabout. Casino supermarket is on the left in a few hundred metres. Ample parking. It’s not Harrods food hall but has enough to see you through the day. They close on Sundays at 12.15. but fuel pumps are automated all day .
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Bill, Google maps can help.
Plan a route, I have just done Roscoff to Nantes, then along the top of the page you will see options for 'fuel', 'service station' etc.
'Groceries' is an option, you may have to click on the 'more' button to access it, and then all the places show on the map and you can narrow it down to one that suits.
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Yes, I often use it to get sat nav coordinates, (48.7142250, -3.9849759) in this case for the Casino at Roscoff which should be ok assuming no delays on disembarkation.
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Glad I now have built in sat nav using Google maps!
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