Brittany Ferries Portsmouth-Santander - Cabin/Non Cabin advice please?

[IJGser]

What about a shared cabin? You need to phone them as its not available online but if I remember correctly its no more than the 'seat' but you get a bed and shower.

Some one will be along soon saying they wouldn't share with a stranger but as a billynomates it certainly introduces some company. Last time I took a strong travel sickness tab and slept for 12 hours.

 

[Rasher]

Great way to cross, used it a few years back. We got on, had lunch, saw a movie at the cinema, then it was tea time, then beers and cabaret time.

With the Mrs so a Cabin was the only option, but I would probably take a deep breath and pay up for a cabin if solo unless money was really tight.

The Cabin was small and the beds not massively comfy, but it was a nice private area, handy to get changed into something comfy and the shower was amazing, powerful with wonderfully hot water. Nice to have your own crapper as well.

On the flip side I have done a number of 12+ hour flights where your stuck in a chair far less comfy than those on the ship so can't see it being completely out of the question, but would not want to have a long day at the other end.

 

[Roberto]

Thanks for the replies.. I'm sensing a definite theme

There are some good points; I'll perhaps dip a toe in tomorrow to find out how much an amendment might be.

On the subject of rough weather I love it, it gives me no trouble at all.. lucky old me.

 

[Greg Masters]

Channel Tunnel; gentle cruise across France; a nice boutique chateau hotel with a double bed and crisp white sheets; a rare (horse- ) steak and bottle of wine to wash it down.

Probably cheaper and quicker than your fairy.

 

[Yellow Peril]

Now if you had the new LC, you'd want to ride down instead of going by boat

Right and stop every 200 miles for fuel on a 900 mile trip lovely give me a GSA any day with its meer 450 mile tank range

That little blast from Santander to Calais almost put me off bikes for good, it is so boring let the ferry take the strain and few whilst your ass gets sore on the toilet

 

[Roberto]

Channel Tunnel; gentle cruise across France; a nice boutique chateau hotel with a double bed and crisp white sheets; a rare (horse- ) steak and bottle of wine to wash it down.

Probably cheaper and quicker than your fairy.

Well, if you can do all that in one day for less than the £118 what I'm currently in to the tune of, for the boat, you go ahead and knock yourself out..

 

[Roberto]

Now if you had the new LC, you'd want to ride down instead of going by boat

Have you been further than Waitrose on it yet?

 

[Timolgra]

Get a cabin there's always plenty of single grannies up for it.......or don't get one and use their's

 

[Greg Masters]

Well, if you can do all that in one day for less than the £118 what I'm currently in to the tune of, for the boat, you go ahead and knock yourself out..

The place in the picture is €110 for a room with breakfast - a bit less than the £100 you're contemplating for a cabin. God only knows what your breakfast will cost you.

But it's your trip - you must do your thing, not mine.

 

[Nutty]

Have you been further than Waitrose on it yet?

Yep, I've upgraded to M&S now Its another mile down the road.

 

[Roberto]

The place in the picture is €110 for a room with breakfast - a bit less than the £100 you're contemplating for a cabin. God only knows what your breakfast will cost you.

But it's your trip - you must do your thing, not mine.

I certainly hear you Greg, but Calais round to the Picos is 800 miles plus, and that doesn't include getting across on the train. I don't do Motorways when away, so it wouldn't be an overnight affair for me personally to get down there.
I'll absolutely be doing more of France at fairly short order.. I love it. Oh, and I do like the look of that place..

 

[Roberto]

Yep, I've upgraded to M&S now Its another mile down the road.

Not fair, 'LC rider with sense of humour' alert. I'm getting confused

 

[Blackal]

I booked a cabin both ways on Portsmouth - St Malo for May.

I wondered about this sharing malarky - so asked:

Got word from Brittany Ferries - that if you book a cabin (singly) - that cabin is yours alone.

Cheap as ships.............

I was fcukin' scared in case they put me in with a vomiting Pedo (sorry - "vomiting Pedro" )

Al

 

[Deleted account 231002001]

Always get a cabin and it's worth getting your own.

 

[Belper phil]

Correct dishing

Portsmouth - St Malo.
Got word from Brittany Ferries - that if you book a cabin (singly) - that cabin is yours alone.

It is Al - did this twice last year with my own cabin and a bottle of red

 

[Roberto]

Well..

This perfumed ponce just changed to a cabin..

Pretty damned decent really.. only £74 extra, so all in £192. Actually cheaper than the original quote which I remember was £218

Get hammered in the bar, trudge about in my undercrackers, sleep in late. Ace.

 

[Harv]

The joys of modern ferry travel and inexperience.... my first trip on this tug was many moons ago chugging South to North.... having heard of high winds and choppy seas in the 'bay' I went to a Chemist in Biarritz and in my best schoolboy French ordered the Mal de Mer tablets and read the literature within, again with my vast knowledge of 'froggy-speak'...one tablet every four hours for up to 24hrs'

Well... Im a big fekker so I thought 'Im not risking it....thats gotta be TWO tablets every 4 hours.... Im not puking'

Well, I was ill.... I was ill for a week in fact.... and then my Auntie...a pharmacist...had a squint at the packet and said 'you took how many?'

This actually states 'one tablet 4 hours before travelling .... do not repeat in less than 24hrs'

Needless to say I now drive down ....with the bike in a trailer....

 

[Yellow Peril]

... you're sailing from Portsmouth? The Pont Aven 'normally' sails out of Plymouth. I've crossed from there to Santander on it thrice. Cabin every time BTW.

CoGS

Another amazingly stupid BF idea that Pont Aven now sails from Plymouth to Santander and then returns to Portsmouth mad really makes sorting a 14 nite trip hard work,

 

[Belper phil]

Another amazingly stupid BF - really makes sorting a 14 nite trip hard work,

Tell me about it - had to re-write and re-organize 2 trips cus the bastards just cancelled sailings that where on this years original timetable

 

[cookie]

Another amazingly stupid BF idea that Pont Aven now sails from Plymouth to Santander and then returns to Portsmouth mad really makes sorting a 14 nite trip hard work,

but there's always the other boat - the Cap Finistere