Ferry booking - leaving Sunday night

[sahajesh]

Hi

Anyone else have an issue with the Brittany Ferries site - thinking of getting a ferry to LM and back.

The booking site lets you select a return ferry on Sunday night but you don't get to choose the cabin/seat as it says it's full already - I'll call them but surely they'd just stop offering that crossing if there are no cabins or reserved seats?

Is this normal for Brittany?

[Arlen]

sahajesh said:

Hi

Anyone else have an issue with the Brittany Ferries site - thinking of getting a ferry to LM and back.

The booking site lets you select a return ferry on Sunday night but you don't get to choose the cabin/seat as it says it's full already - I'll call them but surely they'd just stop offering that crossing if there are no cabins or reserved seats?

Is this normal for Brittany?

The seats and cabins are just extras you do not have to book, don't select any and just click continue. There will be plenty of non-allocated seating available.

When the sailing is full you cannot book it.

[sherman]

Cabins and reserved sleeping seats are an add on.
Theres about 500+ other spots for additional walk/drive on passangers.
You dont even need a cabin on an
Aberdeen -Shetland ferry and thats 13 hours over night.
They dont care where you sleep. Curl up in in a chair wherever you can.
People lie where ever if its a rough crossing. Even the walkways.

[TwinKam]

Not as I understand it, I have had (and just got) the same message... I've always understood that you must book either a cabin or a recliner for an overnight, certainly on the Portsmouth runs.

Edited by TwinKam on Monday 18th November 10:05

[NoBrakesWC]

I take the Caen - Portsmouth ferry back. Yes, you do need to have at least the reserved seats on the crossing has forced me in previous years to select them unless a cabin is selected.

[sahajesh]

So what's interesting is that the ferry crossing (11pmish on Sunday, I think) shows as being available, but when you go to inbound seat/cabin etc, it says sorry nothing available, per the other post here.

It lets me pick an outbound cabin fine, it's just the inbound cabin where it says nothing left - likely a quirk of the crap booking system.

We'll try a different route on Sunday, or we stick with the Tunnel as planned.