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Anyone know much about booking cheap ferries?
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Wed Jan 28, 2009 11:30 amby colm_mcm
Trying to get good prices for the Rising Sun festival in May 9th/10th
Does anyone have any contacts in the business. I was looking at maybe going over late on Friday and back either late Sunday or very early monday morning
Prices are running at around €250 on Irish Ferries, that's without a bed.
If anyone can find cheap ferries, can they let me know. at this stage we can be flexible on times, there's no point in getting a cheap ferry at an inconvenient time and then have to pay for accommodation because of the time.
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Wed Jan 28, 2009 12:19 pmby d_dan
irish ferries do a special that they dont advertise. its a 24 hour return crossing. for car and driver where you much return back to ireland within 24 hours of leaving. thats what i got when i was getting the turbo bits
cos me ABOUT €180 CAR 2 ADULTS return
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Wed Jan 28, 2009 12:30 pmby colm_mcm
No good for us, as rising sun is a 2 day event
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Wed Jan 28, 2009 12:46 pmby d_dan
ahh in that case thats the going rate
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Wed Jan 28, 2009 1:01 pmby colm_mcm
...hense the thread
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Wed Jan 28, 2009 1:10 pmby CJ
I know the IT Director in ICG (Irish Ferries) but the level if discounts he can get is insignificant.
Have you compared costs between IF \ P&O \ Norfolk Line \ Stena Line ?
CJ
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Wed Jan 28, 2009 1:58 pmby colm_mcm
The main problem is that they all sail at different times, and the timetables are all over the place. Will have to look at it in depth tomorrow evening and try and get some prices together.
Would booking through an agent be an option? is there scope to save money that way?
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Wed Jan 28, 2009 3:28 pmby Mustang
Colm you will find that, with the exception of the fast ferry, they all tend to sail at around the same time, out of necessity -as the tide effectively dictates the time.
The price of ferries is a joke, I'd imagine it's typical Irish pricing mentality -business is down lets put the price up to make up the shortfall.
The ferry is only (relatively) cheap if you go on as a foot passanger
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Thu Feb 05, 2009 7:20 pmby scottledeuce
I'm pretty sure I remember reading somewhere that you can book thorugh Irishferries.co.uk or stenaline.co.uk and there is still quite a difference in price when you take into account the GBP exchange rate.
It may be that you can only book one way at a time as a round trip would be to Ireland and then back to UK but it might be worth checking out.
Afraid I don't know any more than that
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Thu Feb 05, 2009 8:11 pmby Bernard
I have a 'valued customer' card for Irish ferries, probably makes no difference but you're welcome to use it if you like...