Save up to 30% on Brittany Ferry crossings to France and Spain

[Wapping]

By booking one hotel night during your holiday.

I have created this sticky based on a contribution from Wessie:

Just made a booking for us to go to France in September. Overnight crossings with cabins came to £907 online, 2 bikes, 2 cabins. Out via St Malo, home from Le Havre.
I found a hotel in Saumur on the Brittany website that will do for our last night and rang the holiday line (can't book hotels online).
Cost of booking 2 rooms in the Best Western on the island in the Loire at Saumur, including breakfast, came to an extra £4.
This has made what was an initially expensive ferry pretty decent value. Other hotels will probably be booked direct where possible as likely cheaper. As stated above, you only need to book one night with BF to get the 30% off.

The website has an interactive map as they will ask for the hotel code when you want to book. The call handler was happy to compare two hotel in or near Saumur before I booked.

This is not the easiest page to find on the website but once there, use the map to locate hotels

Cross Channel Ferries to France & Spain - Brittany Ferries​

Sail direct to the best holiday destinations in France and Spain saving you miles of driving, fuel costs and tolls as well as giving you more precious holiday time
www.brittany-ferries.co.uk

 

[wessie]

I just checked the Best Western price for our dates and 2 rooms with breakfast for 3 adults is £235 for 1 night. That reduces the cost of the return crossing to a notional £672, including 2 overnight cabins each way. £336 each bike.
If we compare that to the tunnel, a return crossing is £108 on our dates. We would also need a hotel after travelling from Mid Wales, somewhere towards Rouen for onward travel to La Rochelle. Plus another hotel on the return leg. A cheap Ibis Budget is around £50 now. That puts the tunnel/hotel combo to £208 per bike, more if we use a better hotel. Then factor in an extra hour travelling via the M25/M20 to get to the tunnel and 225 more miles in France getting across Normandy etc.
The Brittany Ferries price does not look expensive now, and we have a leisurely 200 mile trip down through Brittany rather than a motorway slog over twice the length.

 

[Ectopic]

A Facebook group of which I'm a member - UK Bikers Touring Spain or something like that - has featured several posts where people have found the cost of a crossing and one hotel booking is significantly cheaper than just a crossing. (This is on the longer crossings from Portsmouth/Plymouth to Bilbao/Santander.)