Trip to Ireland BUT.

[GWAYGWAY]

I was looking to travel back to Ireland again but when I got an email from the Seatruck ferry company I noted after speaking to their booking office that the price has risen to £209 from £99 each way, the last time two years ago.
The reason we went with them was it was CHEAP but not now. It took 10 hours in a rough hulk smelling of diesel and nothing to do but look at mist and murk out of a dirty porthole. But it was CHEAP. now the prices are up to the passenger ferry company rates and they are FASTER and more comfortable.
Does anybody have any suggestions for a more competetive rate to get there and back for what is nearly the whole rate for 'frequent traveller' on the Channel tunnel block of tickets. I have a feeling I will not be going again although we really liked it last time.

 

[Theonlysue]

I go from birkinhead to belfast.
10.30 am at a weekend. 8m mh, roughly £95 each way.

 

[tacr2man]

Stena line keep bombarding me with special offers 25% off etc .
might be worth a look here https://www.hotukdeals.com/vouchers/stenaline.co.uk
GWAYGWAY

 

[RogerThat]

I go from birkinhead to belfast.
10.30 am at a weekend. 8m mh, roughly £95 each way.

Who's that with? Do you know if they allow dogs on deck?

 

[Theonlysue]

I leave dog in mh, with food and water.

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[Ernesto]

Have to say, Eire is somewhere I'd like to visit, but the ferry prices are ludicrous compared to cross channel prices. My girlfriend is Irish and is constantly pointing out how costly day to day living is in Eire, compared to here but still....

I know there's tons more competition and volume across the channel but if I were the Irish government, I'd be subsidising the ferries at every opportunity to get tourists over there spending money ??

 

[Kannon Fodda]

Ferries to Ireland have always seemed extortion prices. Seems strange given that I've yet to see close to a full ferry on the Pembroke Rosslaire route on a number of September trips.

Only way I've made them affordable is use of Tesco Clubcard vouchers on Irish Ferries. Effectively you're paying the full tarrif, but if you are using the Clubcard conversion thing that gives you £15 of fare for a £5 voucher, it can become affordable if you save up.

 

[Minxy]

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I leave dog in mh, with food and water.

Isn't the price you've shown just for the outward journey on 6 July?

 

[Lenny HB]

Have you got any airmiles, when we went cost £12 return plus airmiles on Irish Ferries.

 

[Bart]

£230 return with 2 adults, 1 pet and a 7mtr motorhome in the 1st week of August.. Hardly expensive as long as you are flexible with times.

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[Minxy]

We did an early morning crossings on one holiday to/from Ireland, 3.00 am I think, never again ... it took us ages to recover!

 

[Theonlysue]

Not sure. I rarely pay over £200 return.

 

[Westerham Womble]

You think that’s expensive, we’re going to the Isle of Man in late August then on to Dublin and that cost me nearly £400??
The return from Belfast to Liverpool which goes past the IOM cost us £120.

 

[2657]

I booked liverpool - Dublin P&O day crossing with cabin for £120 in September through the CMC.

 

[GWAYGWAY]

£ 209 each way, for a cruise on a rust-bucket, filled with Trailers for 10 hours, I wonder if truckline know they are going over the prices of proper passenger ferries. I will not be doing it again at those prices, smelled of diesel fumes for two days afterwards.

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[Lenny HB]

We did an early morning crossings on one holiday to/from Ireland, 3.00 am I think, never again ... it took us ages to recover!

Don't do silly o'clock knackers me for days.

 

[Kannon Fodda]

Silly O'clock is only practical if you book the cabin. But even worse is when you take the evening crossing and get off the ferry at past midnight and then still have to get somewhere, closest I've been to crashing on the M4 having been blissfully unaware that I'd zonked out at the wheel

Crossing to Ireland seem to be cheapest Tuesday, possible Wednesday, no idea why

 

[mojo]

We return on Sat from Larne with 8 mtr van for nearly £400 return.

 

[Bart]

All you's pussys that shy away from the night sailings, you's would think that you's were traveling by car and unable to pull in and sleep.

 

[Kannon Fodda]

All you's pussys that shy away from the night sailings, you's would think that you's were traveling by car and unable to pull in and sleep.

But I was travelling by car, I'll admit to being a pussy. Pitching a tent in a layby, frequented by all those smelly HGV drivers who don't have the luxury of an on board toilet somehow doesn't appeal.

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[Lanerboy]

When I was lorry driving I used to get a truckline ferry from Poole to cherbourge and I remember we used to climb down a ladder into what seemed like the engine bay to get to our cabin and that used to stink of diesel and was unbearably hot must be a truckline trademark then reading your post