Cheapest route Bournemouth to France

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Hi all looking to expand our Motorhome horizon
Looking to go from Bournemouth to France.
Looked very expensive return on Brittany ferries Poole-Cherbourg £470
Any costs or tips folks appreciated and where to book it.
Les
 
GMJ said:
How does the Tunnel stack up?
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Just started looking we are in Bournemouth so tunnel and back down is a trek,just looking for costs from people who have done similar on here
Thanks
 
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We have always used the tunnel, largely because we always had a dog. Living in Lancaster it was always a trek but we would use the trip down as part of the holiday and park in the Park and Ride 'aire' in Canterbury for an early start to the tunnel the next day. The crossing, with the dog in the cab, is fast and (usually) trouble-free. We have sailed from Newcastle to Amsterdam and Southhampton to Santander with a dog-friendly cabin, but these are unreasonably expensive! No dog now, so we will be looking at all the options again next May.
 
Its going to be £270 for a motorhome on the tunnel so you have £200 to get to tunnel and back plus driving down towards Cherbourg. If you want to visit the Cherbourg peninsular I would go from Poole it would cost about the ame as the tunnel
 
myvanwy said:
If you shop at Tesco, you can use loyalty points to discount tunnel fee. (y)
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Yes trebled up...so every fiver is worth 15 quid off (y)

We normally get 1.5 'free' trips courtesy of saving all our Tesco points as we use the Tesco CC for everything we can (paying it off monthly of course).

I'm just waiting on March 2023 crossing times to come out so I can book our January trip out to Spain
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northman said:
We have always used the tunnel, largely because we always had a dog. Living in Lancaster it was always a trek but we would use the trip down as part of the holiday and park in the Park and Ride 'aire' in Canterbury for an early start to the tunnel the next day. The crossing, with the dog in the cab, is fast and (usually) trouble-free. We have sailed from Newcastle to Amsterdam and Southhampton to Santander with a dog-friendly cabin, but these are unreasonably expensive! No dog now, so we will be looking at all the options again next May.
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We always use it too. Mrs GMJ isn't too great on ferries especially in winter! We drive from west Wales so usually stop in Cirencester en route and then Folkestone the night before. All part of the fun/trip/holiday for us too.
 
Dodgybee said:
Hi all looking to expand our Motorhome horizon
Looking to go from Bournemouth to France.
Looked very expensive return on Brittany ferries Poole-Cherbourg £470
Any costs or tips folks appreciated and where to book it.
Les
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DFDS, Newhaven-Dieppe is worth a try. If you're over 60 book by phone for discount.
 
The laird said:
I was 119£ with discount Newhaven dieppe ferry
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I always use them, but can't quite get it that cheap! Always the cheapest. Over 60's 20% discount
Newhaven is a sleepy old town and Dieppe Port too. It's just the slow trip along the A27 Traffic that I hate from the westcountry
 
If you're planning to go further south, look at Portsmouth to Caen/ Oistreham 5 hours,
No need for cabins and good roads.
 
GMJ said:
Yes trebled up...so every fiver is worth 15 quid off (y)

We normally get 1.5 'free' trips courtesy of saving all our Tesco points as we use the Tesco CC for everything we can (paying it off monthly of course).

I'm just waiting on March 2023 crossing times to come out so I can book our January trip out to Spain
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Do they still do this? I thought they were phasing out points?!!!
 
Pauljenny said:
If you're planning to go further south, look at Portsmouth to Caen/ Oistreham 5 hours,
No need for cabins and good roads.
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But watch out for the Low Emission Zone getting into the Port supposed to be one clear rd so don't deviate
 
Carrerasax said:
Do they still do this? I thought they were phasing out points?!!!
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I hope not :eek:

I've not heard anything about that and successfully got my voucher the other day after converting my points. I think they did some pruning of options relatively recently but I didn't take much notice tbh as the tunnel wasn't affected.
 
You have to consider fuel costs to get to U.K. ports from Bournemouth, and motorway tolls if these are being used in France, together with increased travel distances in France if heading for west coast or Brittany from eastern U.K. ports.

We always use Poole/Cherbourg for western France but we are Club Voyage (Spanish) members so obtain discounts on ferry crossings. Western French motorways north/south generally are toll free down to Nante.

Diesel in France about £1.70 per litre at the moment depending on exchange rate.
 
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