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I am planning a trip to St Amand le Petit, nr Limousin in central France next year. Any advice on the cheapest time to go re ferry prices ( bearing in mind that I would like some nice-ish weather)? And anyone travelled that way and used LPG gas? Any help welcome. Cheers.

you got gas now
mike

Not sure that they are the cheapest, but I always use LD lines for their quick 3 hour crossing Portsmouth to Le Havre. Gets you a little further down than Calais for a start.

We went down the center 2 summers ago, Dover-Calais and either through Rouen or Paris, we chose the latter, BIG mistake still, the girls got to see Paris close-up and personal as we crawled through St.Denis which was being rebuild at the time.

We stayed on a France Passion cider farm near Montargis (2 hours south of Paris) the first night

and a F.P. Cote de Rhone vineyard an hour or so further south on the second night.


Ian

went Dover Calais in late August. went with P&O at a cost of £45 each way (with a offer of a free Disney ticket worth £50) It's best to wait for the online deals. They all do them, Sea France, P&O etc. As said above avoid Paris, but that's easy enough if you use sat-nav, We always use the toll roads too. Portsmouth Caen will take you further down, but at a cost. we were quoted over £600 for that trip !

At the moment the ferry companies are pushing cheap autumn/winter fares, they havn't got round to sending out details of 2012 discount codes, yet. Without a discount code it would cost around £135 to take my T4 from Dover to Calais & back next May/June with Sea France. The outward crossing costs £50 & the return crossing £85. I reckon that it will be another month or so before next year's discount codes are sent out.

out of interest I just had a quick look on their site, in nov we can go ret £76 2 of us, in my 2012 same journey £102 without codes so not bad considering how we get reamed on the irish sea
M

thanks everyone. Keep any suggestions coming! Where might I find any discount codes?

Last year's Sea France discount codes were out in January IIRC.

Ian

Well I'll go to the foot of our stairs! Sea France have just sent me a discount code for summer 2012. The main condition is that my booking has to be made by 31st October 2011. The code is ''EBOMOTOBVP'' & this reduces my fare from £135.00 to £109.50 for the journey described in my previous post.

We save our Tesco clubcard vouchers and then cash them in for Eurotunnel (1/3rd the price of a normal booking).

As long as you book far enough in advance or avoid the peak times, there should be a high vehicle space available, but I think they charge about £10 for taking a campervan rather than a high car with roof box. It means that you get on last, though, as that's where they put vehicles with gas cylinders.

Bowton Lad wrote:Well I'll go to the foot of our stairs! Sea France have just sent me a discount code for summer 2012. The main condition is that my booking has to be made by 31st October 2011. The code is ''EBOMOTOBVP'' & this reduces my fare from £135.00 to £109.50 for the journey described in my previous post.

they must read this site then, but you got to book in a couple of weeks,
m

metalmick8y wrote:

Bowton Lad wrote:Well I'll go to the foot of our stairs! Sea France have just sent me a discount code for summer 2012. The main condition is that my booking has to be made by 31st October 2011. The code is ''EBOMOTOBVP'' & this reduces my fare from £135.00 to £109.50 for the journey described in my previous post.

they must read this site then, but you got to book in a couple of weeks,
m

Their computer obviously noted that I had been on their website looking at 2012 fares & churned out a discount code. Do I book now or do I hold out for a better deal? Last year I paid around £85.00 but this time it's £109.50. Descisions, descisions.

Slightly off topic but, how does it really stack up in terms of cheap ferry v longer driving to get where you wan to go..........

I thought it would be cheaper to get a ferry further down the coast - St Malo/Caen etc - than Calais then drive until one quote came back near on £1000!!!!

I'd really like to go to France next year, I'd really like to go a bit further south than Normandy for some nice weather I don't have LPG and I seemed to spend several hundred pounds in fuel on my fortnight's tour of Devon & Dorset this year.

Seems to me I'd be spending a lot on fuel to get to the region I want tour unless I can get a REALLy good discount code!!

Sarah

I'm currently trying to work this out to Sarah... It's a tough call lol.