LeShuttle Prices

[Jacal]

Mods if this is in the wrong place, sorry and would you please move...Cheers

I'm away to Germany and will be in Adenau for the 20th of June for a few days and wondering what the prices are like without pre booking the train, ie just turning up or pre booking the day before, I'm sure they will be significantly higher BUT has anyone got info by how much.
Reason for asking is I may fancy a couple or three days ether side of my stay doing a bit of touring round Wallonia region.

 

[Wapping]

Much will depend on the time of day and relative demand at the time.

Why not book yourself a ticket and amend it as you near the date? Cost to change? I’d say anywhere between free, a tenner and thirty quid by experience.

 

[Mr Bean]

Why not book yourself a ticket and amend it as you near the date? Cost to change? I’d say anywhere between free, a tenner and thirty quid by experience.

That's what we did after spending 3 days with non-stop rain - amended the booking on the morning we came back. It was a reasonable charge at the time, but it was a long time ago.

We also did it the way the OP mentioned and just turned up - our first trip, without much planning... I can't remember exactly how much extra it was, but I recall it being significantly higher (a multiple) than pre-booking.

 

[ChasMill]

Having last travelled at Easter, it seems that the operators are trying to replace humans at the check in with machines. I’m not sure if those machines can take a booking and payment. By pre-booking, you remove the need to have human interaction and therefore make life easier for the operator. To make this even more attractive, I would imagine that to dissuade you from rocking up without a booking, the operator would then punish you by extracting your wallet via your rectum?

 

[Jacal]

Thanks guys for the kind help

Just looked at booking now and it came in at a respectable £134 including insurance ....Cheap as chips! BUT that's for the exact dates and more than likely not changeable.....Might have to look at changing my plans to make it a longer stay....Bugger

 

[Wapping]

Having last travelled at Easter, it seems that the operators are trying to replace humans at the check in with machines. I’m not sure if those machines can take a booking and payment. By pre-booking, you remove the need to have human interaction and therefore make life easier for the operator. To make this even more attractive, I would imagine that to dissuade you from rocking up without a booking, the operator would then punish you by extracting your wallet via your rectum?

There has always been more automatic machines than humans, manning the booths. That said, last time I came back, it was all machines in operation. I guess you use the call button, should you wish to buy a ticket.

No doubt further automation will follow with the new checks which are due to come into play.

 

[Deleted account 250722001]

Thanks guys for the kind help

Just looked at booking now and it came in at a respectable £134 including insurance ....Cheap as chips!

Djeeez
That price is neither 'respectable' nor 'cheap as chips' IMHO for a 30 minute journey + having to wait until all the cars etc have loaded before they cram motorcycles at the back...
No shelter provided either as you Q to load. If its bucketing. it's tough love.
Loos are ALWAYS out of order too.
Trains looking very old now, last used few weeks ago, metal plates loose... did not inspire any confidence.

 

[Wapping]

Thanks guys for the kind help

Just looked at booking now and it came in at a respectable £134 including insurance ....Cheap as chips! BUT that's for the exact dates and more than likely not changeable.....Might have to look at changing my plans to make it a longer stay....Bugger

£134 return (including insurance) is pretty good at what is the beginning of summer. It was more than that when we bought our tickets for the Le Mans crossing closer to the 10th June. Supply and demand as usual.

The Shuttle is pretty good at changing 'non-transferable' 'non-cancellable' tickets, or at least they used to be.

Me? I'd buy it as at least you then have a crossing to and from. Then see what happens nearer the time. Also have a look at a ferry crossing. For while though, the ferry prices and the Chunnel were tracking each other, so no direct competition.

Yes, the rolling stock is getting old (it's well over 25 years in operation) but, it's a sort of freight carrier, designed to carry cars, most of whose occupants sit in the vehicles and do whatever it is they do to pass the 35 minutes. It's not the Vienna Express. I guess the Chunnel just doesn't recognise the sensitivities of bikermates?

 

[Jacal]

Djeeez
That price is neither 'respectable' nor 'cheap as chips' IMHO for a 30 minute journey + having to wait until all the cars etc have loaded before they cram motorcycles at the back...
No shelter provided either as you Q to load. If its bucketing. it's tough love.
Loos are ALWAYS out of order too.
Trains looking very old now, last used few weeks ago, metal plates loose... did not inspire any confidence.

T'is cheap has chips considering the alternative to catching the ferry from Hull and being charged over £400 WITHOUT any insurance.
(Robing barstewards)
Got no other way of getting over there but to grin and bare the ferking long haul down the motorway

 

[theoneandonly]

try something different ,DFDS , Newhaven to Dieppe . do the night crossing , there and back , ride some different roads ,
b/ford to n/haven 284 mls , dieppe to adenau 345 or 380 mls depending how you want to travel.
leave home on 17th 23.59 boat out , back on 24th 23.59 sailing , kip in a big chair £75 return .

if you turn up at any dock without booking you will get raped !

i don't know if it still works , if over 60 , ring the french number and you get 10% of sailing cost !

b/ford to Dover 285 mls, Calais to adenau 285 or 308 mls depending on route .

 

[Tinytim]

T'is cheap has chips considering the alternative to catching the ferry from Hull and being charged over £400 WITHOUT any insurance.
(Robing barstewards)
Got no other way of getting over there but to grin and bare the ferking long haul down the motorway

Yea but, yea but it's a bloody long day getting down there and out the other side for an owd bloke like you Jacal, rather than stump up the money and get off refreshed in the morning....
AND you'll miss Biker Ranch for snap.
No pockets in a shroud Jacal..
gerrit spent ffs's 70 miles for you to Hull...194 to Shittle.

 

[Jacal]

Yea but, yea but it's a bloody long day getting down there and out the other side for an owd bloke like you Jacal, rather than stump up the money and get off refreshed in the morning....
AND you'll miss Biker Ranch for snap.
No pockets in a shroud Jacal..
gerrit spent ffs's 70 miles for you to Hull...194 to Shittle.

Yea but, yea but I was thinking about doing the 6 country's in a day run Tim and the superb suggestion from 'theoneandonly' could get me a couple or three days to re visit Reims and Nancy
Hmmm some serious contemplating to do.

 

[theoneandonly]

the longer route from Dieppe took in Bastogne

 

[Tinytim]

Yea but, yea but I was thinking about doing the 6 country's in a day run Tim and the superb suggestion from 'theoneandonly' could get me a couple or three days to re visit Reims and Nancy
Hmmm some serious contemplating to do.

I see where you're coming from Jack
We're off to Cochem on the 11th and praying we don't get soaked like we have the last 2 times in Germany. This is Germany's last chance. If it pisses down again they can fekk right off and then some. I can stop at home stood under a hose pipe all day for fekk all and it couldn't be any worse than the last 2 trips over there.

 

[er-minio]

I normally boom the return ticket a day or two in advance when coming back on the motorbike. Prices are not massively higher (at least not on off-peak) than normal.

Otherwise, as Wapping suggests. Rebooking fees are decent.

 

[albatross]

Turning up without booking is a non no no as they will charge you most expensive option.
By prebooking you are able to amend as needed online quite easily.
Last time had the car over the change of booking was free as the timing was right, otherwise it will be some extra costs.

 

[Jacal]

I see where you're coming from Jack
We're off to Cochem on the 11th and praying we don't get soaked like we have the last 2 times in Germany. This is Germany's last chance. If it pisses down again they can fekk right off and then some. I can stop at home stood under a hose pipe all day for fekk all and it couldn't be any worse than the last 2 trips over there.

Oh so you're going over on the 11th....You'll do owt to get out of buying me a pint

Has for all the rain, I remember you staying in the Big Nose hotel in Adenau and you and your party went one way for a ride while we went t'other, you got pissed wet through while we rode in sunshine....D'ya think Germany might be trying to tell ya somert

 

[Hairnet600]

book it and its 10 quid to change it online 20 if you ring them up
going belgium end of may and tunnel is 144 return 80 quid for place to stop on the way and on the way home (for the car)
hull rotterdam is 360 quid one way

 

[Tinytim]

book it and its 10 quid to change it online 20 if you ring them up
going belgium end of may and tunnel is 144 return 80 quid for place to stop on the way and on the way home (for the car)
hull rotterdam is 360 quid one way

£330 return.

 

[Jacal]

book it and its 10 quid to change it online 20 if you ring them up
going belgium end of may and tunnel is 144 return 80 quid for place to stop on the way and on the way home (for the car)
hull rotterdam is 360 quid one way

I've been travelling on the Hull ferries since the late 70s BUT not again unless I'm sharing a cabin which obviously means half the price.
The prices have got ridicules over the last couple or three years....Robbing basterds fleecing us and the crew!