Brittany Ferries - rant

[Aidey]

I went to France for a short break beginning of December. I booked the Portsmouth - St Malo crossing as you get more sleep and not turfed off the ferry at some ungodly hour. A few days before sailing they phoned me and asked me if i would switch to the Caen crossing as they were taking the ferry out of service for maintenance work. They said they would rebate my credit card with ?35 + ?15 contribution towards fuel costs for the longer drive I would have to do. As of today, 20 Jan, I am still waiting for this to happen, despite repeated phone calls to them and their promises that it will happen.
Strange how they can get my money immediately, but when it's the other way around it's nigh on impossible. Lets get Jaws to run the ferry company, at least then you would get some decent service.

 

[Allan1]

How about this

Went to book a crossing with P&O, car, wife, 2 kids, trailer and Black Bird, Dover to Calais - ?358.00 return, told em to shove it, far too much


Looked on Speedferries web site, the same conditions except crossing Dover to Bolugne on a SEACAT (and crossing is on 50 mins instead of hour and half) ?88.00 return.

Bloody madness.

So now I'm travellling down the night before, staying 3 miles from Dover in a Travel Inn, all for less than half the price of the orginal crossing fee with P&O.

Any wonder they are going out of business?.

Buzz

 

[Codbasher]

Believe me Buzz, P&O have been told about it by many potential passengers, they seem to be in self destruct mode at the moment!

Really cant work out why they are doing away with the flagship (On that route anyway) Aquitaine.

 

[Rolfy Dave]

I reckon...

Speedferries are the water equivalent of Easyjet/Ryanair/Thomsonair....

Good luck to em I say:bow:

Best wishes,

Rolfy
:beer:

 

[osprey03]

If you have never been on the Seacat, it is a great exprerience.
The only "problem" is that it tends to rock a bit if the water is choppy, so if anyone suffers from motion sickness, they're stuffed.

 

[PurplePup]

on TV

I think it was speedFerries that was on TV last night. A documentary about the owner and his attempt to make a go of it. Their maiden voyage was a bit of a disaster but the guy was upbeat and seemed an ok bloke.
Hope it catches on and he makes a mint (from reasonable charges of course).
Its about time (...nope, mustn't start a rant...) we had a few new entrepreneurs to challenge these huge money sucking companies in this country.

:violin: :violin: :bow: :bang:

So has anyone else used them ?
Anyone taken a bike over?
Whats the verdict?

 

[D.S.]

E U R O T U N N E L :bow: :bow: :bow: :bow:

 

[Aidey]

Eurotunnel is a good choice Joe. However Bath to southern Brittany is better on the ferry, for me anyway. And I like the ferries,especially in winter when theyre empty and devoid of screaming brats - and as for their children, don't get me started about kids on ferries. :rant: