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Rating from Jimmi5bellies 5 Stars ()

Advantages Great, Friendly, Relaxing, Casino, Bars, Cabins, Restaurants, Cinema, & more.

Disadvantages None unless you are sea-sick or rough seas !

I would like to tell you about one of the many sea trips i have experienced going from Hull to Zeebrugge and return trip with P & O Ferries. I cannot rate them high enough.

For anybody looking for a short break, maybe to shop in the city of Brugges or to travel on into France to look for some cheap beers and wines, this is the trip for you. That is providing you are not of the travel sickness kind.

We had done the Dover to Calais route 3 times and found that for the price we was paying (well we just turned up at Dover at midnight and asked for a 24 hour shopper trip, paid on credit card as they would not accept cash the cost was anything from £25 to £100). We got fed up of that method as it meant we only got 90 minutes break from travelling. I live a good 6 hours drive from Dover. I decided one day to have a look at P&O web site to compare prices by booking over the internet. I was quite shocked in my opinion to find them pricey and also noticed that when you tried to book online

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there was either a problem with the booking page or the "offers had either run out "or was fully booked even though the web page clearly said places available. Not to be outdone i decided to ring the company direct.

I was looking for the special 2 for 1 deals that i had seen advertised on the web page. That was 2 adults sharing one cabin for the price of 1 adult. A fuel surcharge for the car was additional and worked out that by taking your own car would only cost an extra £6.00. Taking your own car has greater advantages if you dont mind or dont get confussed with driving on the other side of the road. I was given a reference number by an operative and a quote for £95 for the both of us and the car. I told the operative i would get back to her as soon as possible.

Now ive got to admit, i am a little bit of a scrooge sometimes and if you can get things cheaper i will follow all routes. I decided to hot-foot down to my local travel agentsto see what they could do. I honestly expexted there to be a bigger price difference but as i say, you have to explore all avenues. I was, needless to say, left with my jaw resting on the floor with the quote given to me by the local travel agent. The quote they got for me was a good £30 cheaper than booking direct with P&O. Amazed ???? I booked right away for the crossing the day after. So, my advice is to shop around and dont always believe that the quotes you get from the internet are the cheapest.

Right, back to the trip itself. To go by Hull for us means only a 1 hour car journey. You have to be at King Georges Dock between the hours of 2.30pm to 5.30pm to go through passport checkin. Sometimes they do search your car before you board. This is a good thing and not a negative, they are only looking for free boarding passengers and security risks. We tend to get there earlier rather than later as we like to watch the ship being loaded. If you are early, Hull does have a self service cafeteria (vending machines for coffee, pop, chocolate and crisps, that sort of thing and toilet facilities).

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  • Phoenix7891 19/02/2007 21:06
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  • torr 25/10/2006 17:38
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    Sounds pretty good value given the distance involved. Living in Kent I'm a frequent crosser Dover-Calais and would definitely agree that it's worth shopping around. Duncan

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