Dover seafront parking

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Since when have the ferry companies run the ferries for our benefit, I can see the problem if they park on the front during the day, 9pm to 9am should be okay, but I have stopped using Dover and go from Portsmouth/Poole that bloody drive down from the Wirral was a nightmare the same going back and I agree that chippy is awful, used to be okay, but we had some 2 years ago and it was terrible.
 
Looks like we will have to stay elsewhere than dover then? Stayed overnight on the seafront several times before, had no problems. It won't be on a caravan club site though for the short time we need!:cool1:
 
What a flipping shame,be it all who said the place was a dump I've found our times there suitable for the cause ,how sad their council people are,pity they don't read these posts and their views may change!
 
Now boycotting Dover whenever possible, not because I ever wanted to stay there anyway, but just on the principle. Booked Newhaven Dieppe and would have booked Portsmouth Le Havre if it wasn't so ridiculously priced.
 
We usually use the Dover ferry to cross to the mainland but I am not planning to do so again. Even before the news that started this thread, I had decided to use Newhaven-Dieppe next time. The reason was that we wanted to do some food shopping prior to boarding the ferry and couldn't find anywhere to park the motorhome - we couldn't even get it into the supermarket car park (the entrance to which was deliberately angled to make life difficult for large vehicles). I eventually found a bus bay in a car park (the only spot large enough) and paid my ticket while Jenny strolled off to do the shopping. Inevitably, a traffic warden came up and, after my tirade about it making no bloody sense, she rather disarmed me by saying "I'd go somewhere else if I were you - this place is a dump" - and she wasn't being sarcastic!

Apart from anything else, I am told you can park overnight at Newhaven!
 
Its no great loss really. Let em get on with it. We used to stay the night before but it was always noisy and not a great place to start your trip.

Its a 320 mile journey down to Dover for us so thats why we used to stay. I dont know why we bothered. Now I just get a 4pm or 5pm ferry, leaving the house mid morning which usually means we avoid most of the peak rush hour traffic in the worst places. We then drive for up to an hour or so into France. Much better IMO. To be honest I cant get out of the UK fast enough and spending a further 12 hours or so in a place like Dover is not high on my list of trip hot spots.

If I can do it in one day then most of you should be able to.
 
El Veterano said:
Anybody have any suggestions for overnight in Newhaven please?
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Sorry - I didn't make myself clear. I meant to say that I am told you can park overnight at the ferry terminal if you are catching a ferry the next day. You can no longer do this at Dover.
 
Why oh Why? Ponce about with Dover or anywhere near it?

Get an afternoon or evening ferry & stay the night on the other side, (there are so many places), then you can start off nice & fresh for the journey south or wherever.

Mind you, Calais is not too clever at present, my missus couldn't get out fast enough when she saw all those hundreds of African & East European gyppos living in bin bags.

We normally drive to Boulogne, stop at Auchan & stock up on diesel, LPG & shopping, then spend the night at Equihen Plage, costs 5 euros if the bloke turns up.
 
spigot said:
Why oh Why? Ponce about with Dover or anywhere near it?

Get an afternoon or evening ferry & stay the night on the other side, (there are so many places), then you can start off nice & fresh for the journey south or wherever.

Mind you, Calais is not too clever at present, my missus couldn't get out fast enough when she saw all those hundreds of African & East European gyppos living in bin bags.

We normally drive to Boulogne, stop at Auchan & stock up on diesel, LPG & shopping, then spend the night at Equihen Plage, costs 5 euros if the bloke turns up.
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I fully agree with you, but on this occasion our ferry is at 10:15 in the morning on a Monday. So rather than battle the M25 on Monday morning we thought we would drive down Sunday night and stay somewhere. There were other ferry times available, and normally we would get one at about 7 or 8 pm and stay the other side. On this occasion our ferry has cost £144 return, which I think is quite enough already - to go at another time started at £175 which is way over the top.
 
El Veterano said:
I fully agree with you, but on this occasion our ferry is at 10:15 in the morning on a Monday. So rather than battle the M25 on Monday morning we thought we would drive down Sunday night and stay somewhere. There were other ferry times available, and normally we would get one at about 7 or 8 pm and stay the other side. On this occasion our ferry has cost £144 return, which I think is quite enough already - to go at another time started at £175 which is way over the top.
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HOW MUCH?? what on earth have you got??, A bloody great Concorde??
 
spigot said:
HOW MUCH?? what on earth have you got??, A bloody great Concorde??
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7 meter Chausson that's all. Dover Calais was around £100 and we took the next cheapest ie Newhaven/ Dieppe (both of which also in my opinion are not cheap). Portsmouth Le Havre was between £200 and £300. And the offers were flying off the shelves. A few that were a little less money were already gone last night. Going 20th Oct coming back 26th. Check it out for yourself.
 
El Veterano said:
7 meter Chausson that's all. Dover Calais was around £100 and we took the next cheapest ie Newhaven/ Dieppe (both of which also in my opinion are not cheap). Portsmouth Le Havre was between £200 and £300. And the offers were flying off the shelves. A few that were a little less money were already gone last night. Going 20th Oct coming back 26th. Check it out for yourself.
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Apologies, I didn't notice the return bit.

I only think in terms of one-way as I never know when I'm coming back!
 
Dover parking

Following a flurry of emails with a very informative young lady in DDC she has confirmed that parking overnight is permitted on the Esplanade - to the east of the town. You can see why - there are no flats overlooking the area - so no local indignation. Same rules apply to any wild camping spot - leave it as you would expect to find it!
I'll be there in two weeks time so, fingers crossed!

Diplodicus
 
spigot said:
Apologies, I didn't notice the return bit.

I only think in terms of one-way as I never know when I'm coming back!
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Although I am flexible on the time of my return. I always book a return with an educated best guess at a date very likely to be after the date I actually arrive portside. I then just amend the booking, rarely pay a fee and when I have it's been £10 provided the sailing is in the same time zone of course.

I find this sidesteps the likely price hike if booking on arrival, or similarly, if booking up online a few days in advance. That booking software the ferry co's. employ seems to sniff out punter vulnerability, get 2 quotes an hour or 2 apart for the same sailing and the price invariably seems to go up.
 
Over night stay

I've decided to stay at the drum inn at Stanford Kent which is a pub/ campsite and is 14 miles from port, we normally do stay on the esplanade but not sure by the time may comes you will be allowed , they keep changing there minds or will they????? We've never had problems there but partner doesn't sleep to well there. The pub stopover is on the site at the cost this year is £15 and does get busy booking is essential.
 
I mostly agree with comments about Dover though I am never comfortable about parking in front of somebodies house . I think we should all support councils etc who support us . Canterbury is a perfect example
 
waiting at dover

waiting for your ferry at dover with a mh will still be easy whatever they do with seafront parking.......theres unrestricted 24hr parking on top the cliffs either side of dover........and theres a road over the hill with similar which runs from the higher roundabout at western end up over hill and back down in to town centre (north and south military roads).......just an 8 minute walk to sea front from there, and then theres snargate street alongside western docks the same unrestricted parking (chippie there)..........and then of course you can enter the ferry terminal hours before your crossing (I usually ask for the cheapest night crossing they can do me usually around £35 most of year), because all they do is shunt you into a lane to wait your crossing.........where you come across all these mh restriction signs, simply make sure you do not add to the local economy whatever your buying............and where you see `no overnight mh parking` although a nuisance just park up till 0100 or thereabouts, and shunt to the next one then......then you never stay overnight........good luck....steve bristol
 
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