Eurotunnel/POFerries-comedy pricing…

[gtidriver]

Hi fellow travellers, im a frequent pre-covid traveller on Both the above methods of transport to France, I thought id have a look to see how much it would cost me to go on a day trip next week(Wednesday) well the tunnel came in at a £214 and the boat with P&O is £69 return. Are the good old days of £60/£30 day trips over?? both companies quoted covid when I called up, surely you can only hide behind that curtain for so long now.. Eurotunnel are not releasing any day trip tickets for the foreseeable future, surely getting bums back on seats is the way to go... I miss my days off to France/Belgium.

[Paft Dunk]

Any Tesco Clubcard points you can use? Takes the cost of the Tunnel right down if someone in the family collects them. Agree costs are high though.

[Tabs]

Went Eurotunnel last Friday, returned today. Quiet on Friday at 8.20, and absolutely dead today at 17.20. More staff than customers in the duty free, and just a couple of people in the cafe. Second in the queue to board. Really, really Quiet.

[K50 DEL]

I've found the same OP, have been wanting to go either a day trip or a long weekend for a while now but I refuse to pay the crazy prices that are being asked.
I assume eventually market forces will prevail and the fact crossings are empty will lead to price reductions but until then I'll not be going.

[gtidriver]

P&O used to charge£11 to go into the club lounge, now its £24, I asked if that included food now, you can guess the answer... apparently its because of covid that the price has risen.....

[matrignano]

Covid is the standard excuse for any product or service increasing in price and/or decreasing in quality.
Customer service in particular has become horrendous across the board.

[hidetheelephants]

Bear in mind P&O employ staff who are sufficiently incompetent to leave a vessel drifting for an hour with no power, you pay your money and take your chance.

[ChocolateFrog]

I don't get the logic when the tunnel is so quiet.

Can't be operating at more than 20% capacity. Was dead both times I used it last week. Drove straight from passport control on to the train without stopping.

Edited by ChocolateFrog on Wednesday 27th April 22:08

[gtidriver]

matrignano said:

Covid is the standard excuse for any product or service increasing in price and/or decreasing in quality.
Customer service in particular has become horrendous across the board.

Ive got a complaint going on with Lloyds Bank, that could take up to 8 weeks to be even looked at because of Covid, in the mean time my wife as a dentist
is working a couple of feet or less from the general publics mouth.. sick of the bull st covid excuses now..

[gtidriver]

Oh, when I called the Eurotunnel I was invited to write a letter of complaint about the pricing, the letter would be responded to in 28 days, when I asked why so long, it was because not as many staff where in the office due to....... yep you've guessed it, the rest are working from home..

[ChocolateFrog]

gtidriver said:

matrignano said:

Covid is the standard excuse for any product or service increasing in price and/or decreasing in quality.
Customer service in particular has become horrendous across the board.

Ive got a complaint going on with Lloyds Bank, that could take up to 8 weeks to be even looked at because of Covid, in the mean time my wife as a dentist
is working a couple of feet or less from the general publics mouth.. sick of the bull st covid excuses now..

TBF I only managed to get my first dentist appointment since covid started last week so from the general publics perspective it feels like dentist's have been doing FA for years too.

[gtidriver]

ChocolateFrog said:

TBF I only managed to get my first dentist appointment since covid started last week so from the general publics perspective it feels like dentist's have been doing FA for years too.

Nope we opened back up, with full restrictions mind late may/early June 2020. We are private though, I know NHS furloughed a lot of the dentists, an NHS one in the same village as us didn't open for months after us. We also opened during lockdown to give out prescriptions, at £10, not the £90 another local dentist was charging...

CF Glad you got to see a dentist though..

[Nemophilist]

gtidriver said:

Hi fellow travellers, im a frequent pre-covid traveller on Both the above methods of transport to France, I thought id have a look to see how much it would cost me to go on a day trip next week(Wednesday) well the tunnel came in at a £214 and the boat with P&O is £69 return. Are the good old days of £60/£30 day trips over?? both companies quoted covid when I called up, surely you can only hide behind that curtain for so long now.. Eurotunnel are not releasing any day trip tickets for the foreseeable future, surely getting bums back on seats is the way to go... I miss my days off to France/Belgium.

These still seem so cheap in comparison to what I am looking at paying.

To go in May half term the ferry crossing is coming in at £200 return and the tunnel £400

[aturnick54]

I've noticed the tunnel has shot up in price lately. So much so that I've now booked on a ferry instead and saved £140.

Usually no issue with paying a bit more for convenience, but not paying £290 return when the ferry is only £150.

[QJumper]

Booked Eurotunnel for the summer for £250, late night crossing. Ferry wasn't much different when I looked (twice what I paid last time). Either way the extra's worth it for being in my own car for half an hour, rather than a couple of hours of mixing with the walking dead.

[gazza5]

Just paid for our little trip to munich - going to bmw museum, do a bit of the alpine route, stop of at nurburgring then home.

£171 return, going on a saturday to tuesday.

[Evoluzione]

Surely the real reason is fuel prices?

[soad]

QJumper said:

Booked Eurotunnel for the summer for £250, late night crossing. Ferry wasn't much different when I looked (twice what I paid last time). Either way the extra's worth it for being in my own car for half an hour, rather than a couple of hours of mixing with the walking dead.

Apt username.

[WyrleyD]

anonymous said:

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Not been on those ferries before but am booked on the 10am from Newhaven later this month. Usually go with Brittany Ferries but found out yesterday that the main restaurant on the Normandie and Mont St Michel are both closed until further notice (they've been closed now since early 2020), was always nice to have a meal in the A la Carte but can't do that any more and have to queue for ages at the self-service where the food is not as good; cancelled and re-booked with DFDS. Any advice for a first-timer on these ferries?

[K50 DEL]

anonymous said:

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Take the 1st exit off the roundabout signed E Leclerc and Centre Comercial and it's about 200m along the road.