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Need to book a return next May. Anyone here use them regularly and if so are there ever any 'offers'? Its looking like £250+ for a car and two people which seems steep to me but maybe I'm clouded by memories of £9.99 returns to France!
Dunno about that but my Gran lives in Holyhead and it's always busy I think.
There's even talk of needing tunnel:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-north-west-wales-30014563
That's about right tbh, you might get a discount for £20, or one passenger free but that's about it.
A couple of things to consider:
1. If the weather is rough the fast ferries get cancelled at the drop of a hat, if you have be somewhere at a certain time (wedding etc) book the slow one.
2. Busy periods like bank holiday weekends, half-term can be horrible and you sometimes struggle to even get a seat. Book the first class lounge for a bit more cash, then eat and drink your bodyweight in free food and coffee to get your money back 🙂
Bugger - it will be the first BH in May! Looks like I need to stump up then!
V8 - Irish Ferries talk of Club Class and free drinks and snacks - is that what you meant by first class?
Stena did some sort of deal for first time customers - might have been on facebook/like type thing. It was 20% IIRC.
V8 - Irish Ferries talk of Club Class and free drinks and snacks - is that what you meant by first class?
Don't, just DON'T
I once made this terrible mistake on a St Malo ferry.
It was FULL of nouveau retired cockney cabbies and their hyacinth bucket wives reading the daily mail whilst complaining about the poor language skills of eastern European builders.
First / Business Class needs to be significantly more expensive to weed these sorts out.
Snob moi? 😀
Ahh, well, apparently you didn't get invited into the Premiere Class lounge, geoffj. Hmm. Maybe there was a [i]whiff of giro[/i] about you and the purser didn't quite think you were PLU?
how long are you going for? might be cheaper to fly with Ryanair & hire a car. quicker too
flying not an option as we're golfing including in north wales on the way out. ALso picking others up in Dublin so need a big car, which tends to be pricy from hire places.
The club class on the dublin/holyhead route is not full of cockneys.
£250 return sounds great to me, you can get it cheaper by converting tesco vouchers (used to be 4:1, might only be 2:1 now) to ferry vouchers.
Where are you going in Ireland? look into Dun Laghaire (sp), it might be running then and unless you are going north ireland (dundalk/belfast etc), it's generally quicker than getting the slow ass ferry into dublin port. They run it slower nowadays due to fuel costs (99 mins was brill), but it's still faster. From Dun Laghaire to the N11/M50 is very quick too.
You can use Tesco clubcard vouchers on both Stenna and Irish Ferries.
My experience is there are never material deals on peak times/holidays on the ferries as they will always sell out
ha! you might have that reaction when you get on board too! 😀is that what you meant by first class?
but yeah, that's it.
There is if you phone up and point out how many times you have travelled with them in the past.
But not something that is an option to the OP.
OK, will use the Tesco voucher option 3:1 and maybe even go "club class", I have quite a capacity for peanuts! Heading to Dun Leary - won't even bother with the real spelling!
Thanks all