EuroTunnel 2023

[Rosscow]

Wow….. this is looking pricey

Summer holidays return with normal car and trailer… £760.

[Deesee]

Checked my dates for Easter, May half term and August, normal prices tbh..

(No trailer)..

What are you pulling (how long)? & do you have a larger than Normal car?

[Rosscow]

Normal car, trailer tent.

Paid £440 last year.

Ferry is looking like £550. I paid £190 for a ferry with a twin axle caravan in 2020!

[Deesee]

Just checked looking like £220 each way for you in summer (July/Aug). 24th out 14th back.

£100 (ish) each way for me (no trailer)..

[Rosscow]

We need to go on the 21/07 and return 06/08.

£761. And they’re not even the most expensive times of the day!

[Deesee]

Trailer is pushing it up almost 3x, do you really need it?

Or trim dates..

Eg,

[Rosscow]

Yeah, unfortunately our trailer is our accommodation!

And we’re fixed with dates due to availability at work.

It is what it is, we can save a couple of hundred quid by using the ferry.

I miss 2019 prices!!!

[QJumper]

Funnily enough I just booked the tunnel for next July (normal car, well SUV) and it was similar to last year, at about £130 each way.

[andyA700]

Rosscow said:

Yeah, unfortunately our trailer is our accommodation!

And we’re fixed with dates due to availability at work.

It is what it is, we can save a couple of hundred quid by using the ferry.

I miss 2019 prices!!!

If it is any consolation, earlier in the year we were looking at hotels in Scotland on the West coast. The best we could find was over £2K for two weeks. We ended up booking a lovely apartment in Brittany for two weeks - £980. The Eurotunnel crossing was £249. You have your readymade accommodation, so just go and enjoy, you are making real hidden savings already.

[Deesee]

Rosscow said:

Yeah, unfortunately our trailer is our accommodation!

And we’re fixed with dates due to availability at work.

It is what it is, we can save a couple of hundred quid by using the ferry.

I miss 2019 prices!!!

Ahh! I see, can't leave the accommodation at home!

DFDS have been reasonably competitive over the last few months, might be worth a try!

[surveyor]

I have saved far more than the caravan club membership fee each year on my ferry crossing.

If you go down this route, you can buy 5-night site vouchers. This makes it a package deal, and saves you more again, even if the vouchers sit in a drawer unused.

ETA Dummy booking £442 using Ferry.

Edited by surveyor on Wednesday 7th December 10:27

[Bluetec350]

We use our Tesco clubcard points 1 for 3 to buy Eurotunnel

[ecsrobin]

21st July is when the schools break around south for summer holidays. That will be what’s driving the price up.

[Sn1ckers]

Bluetec350 said:

We use our Tesco clubcard points 1 for 3 to buy Eurotunnel

This. I’ve never paid for the Eurotunnel. Ever.

£1 of Tesco vouchers translate to £3 for the tunnel. Bargain!

Not much use if you don’t shop at Tesco / have a Tesco credit card though.

[vikingaero]

The other thing people haven't pointed out is your car - a ghastly, overweight, overheight, overlong 4x4.

Only kidding! But they charge different prices for a Fiat Panda, to a Golf and to larger cars such as your Q7.

[Rosscow]

My car isn't an A7, thanks!

And for the record, the difference between a Ford Fiesta towing a trailer and an Audi Q7 towing a trailer on the dates we need is..... £69!

Think we're going to go via P&O ferries and use our Tesco vouchers, so should get if for around £340.00.

You'd have to have £260 worth of Tesco vouchers to pay for the £762 Eurotunnel, that's some going!!!

[Rosscow]

ecsrobin said:

21st July is when the schools break around south for summer holidays. That will be what’s driving the price up.

Yep, and it's the same dates we go nearly every year (wife is a teacher, kids at school). Big jump from last year and the years before.

No matter, ferry it is!

Thanks all.

[Deesee]

vikingaero said:

The other thing people haven't pointed out is your car - a ghastly, overweight, overheight, overlong 4x4.

Only kidding! But they charge different prices for a Fiat Panda, to a Golf and to larger cars such as your Q7.

Oi!

Thats my family car to ferry the kids down to the Med in and back & to see the wife's family in Italy..

& with the air suspension its under 1.85m (lol)..

110 litre tank, v8, 350bhp, 4 wheel drive..7 seats, perfect for cross continental journeys...

[Rosscow]

anonymous said:

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Yep, I do remember. But unfortunately I'd rather have £200 in my wallet

[vikingaero]

Just a little heads up on passport queues:

They've installed a lot of Jake The Snake lanes to accommodate extra capacity on the approach to passports

We had one group return a day early on Sunday at around 7-8pm. They had a 2 hour wait for passports with weekend leisure traffic.

We got there for 7-8pm on Monday and it was very quiet - drive up, check, drive through.

This summer is going to be bad...........