The timetables for the various crossing options are on the company’s website.
True, but when a boat docks, and when you're on the road, seem to vary dramatically.
The timetables for the various crossing options are on the company’s website.
We're due to make our first trip to Spain, by ferry, at the end of June.
Portsmouth to Santander on the good ship Galicia.
The documents state that we need to be checked in 60 minutes before departure - which is fair enough.
Here's the question: How early do Brittany Ferries let you board, please?
Departure is due to be at 21.30 and I'd be more than happy to get on the ferry looong before that....
Bags??!! One top box, one inner bag. Bag out, helmet gloves and Sat Nav in box, lock it, alarm off. Head up to room, dump stuff, rush to nice restaurant and book a table!! Relax. And don’t forget ear plugs for all your room mates who claim they don’t snore �� ……
Garibaldi = squashed flies. Takes me back to my days at boarding school, happy daysYour question about when you are possibly going to be loaded, was answered just recently:
https://www.ukgser.com/forums/showthread.php/578240-Ferry-Newbie-question
You’ll maybe not remember but you contributed to the thread quite expertly:
As to food, assuming you don’t dump your bags and rush to the restaurant. Take a sandwich. Break into its triangular box in the event of an emergency. Take a bottle of pop to suit. Biscuits, biscuits are good. I recommend Garibaldi, better known as squashed flies. They pack down small, leaving you plenty of room in your humongous panniers for other stuff.
Enjoy your holiday.
Garibaldi = squashed flies. Takes me back to my days at boarding school, happy days
Garibaldis are also flat so ideal for efficient packing.
Enjoy the trip.
True, but when a boat docks, and when you're on the road, seem to vary dramatically.
If Galicia is the new boat from Portsmouth I do believe that a meal is now included
Panic over
But what if you are wrong in your belief?
Panic then ensues. Hunger gnaws at the soul and a holiday is maybe ruined, even before it’s started.
Allow 30 minutes? Unless you are parked behind a gaggle of 20 bikermates, who faff about at every opportunity or engage each other in banter, instead of looking for their passports which they’ll need within a few yards of wobbling off the ferry. If it’s then 45 minutes, it’s not going to change your life, I guess. If it’s 20 rejoice!
It’s certainly not going to be hours, unless they can’t get the doors open or the customs blokes have gone for a siesta or to a bull fight.
Thanks for confirming. This is a great sight.