Got this thing with the balance in the ears,its the small hairs inside the ear canal,kind of make a calm crossing a bad one,is it best to have a large meal an hour or two before departure,then lay flat on the bunk.Pills make me too tired after docking. 
use the train!
Went on the train a few years back,what is the food like,heard it was packed lunch style for drivers,do you get hot meals,or just a snack|?
Toby,
the best tip for seasickness is to sit under a tree in a fieldâŚyou dont get many fields at sea.
the only thing i would recommend is dont eat a large meal. have quite a light meal, if you have a large one the motion sickness will make your stomach contents want to escape at a vast rate of speed. a light meal will sit better in your stomach. also eat a bar of chocolate after your meal (it wont do anything but it will make the vomit taste better.)
the best cure i found while crossing the bay of biscay or going round the top of scotland chasing russians in the winter was to either, lay down with a pillow or rolled up towel either side of you to wedge you in and stop you rocking as much or if you cant sleep go up top or sit by a window and watch the waves, at first (for about 10 minutes) this will make you feel worse but your mind will get used to it and eventually your unknown body movements will go in sync with the motion of the sea and you WILL feel better after about 15-20 minutes.
another point is try to be in the centre of the ship, it will be a lot more stable than at either end of it (not always possible though)
luckily i was only seasick for about 6 months on my first ship but then got used to it, but i do feel sorry for people that do get seasick, there is no way of avoiding it and no getting away from it!
toby1234abc:
Went on the train a few years back,what is the food like,heard it was packed lunch style for drivers,do you get hot meals,or just a snack|?
Last time I went on it (couple of months back) they werenât doing any food at all, not even the trolly dolly with the coffee etc.
Food on the trains is similar to airline meals, never eaten one, the smell was always enough to put me off.
I used to get the Friday evening ferry from Harwich Navyard to Turku in Finland, and that was rough in the Winter across the North Sea. The boat, the MV Garden, was a Class 1 icebreaker and you could feel it smashing through the floes as you went along.
Some drivers just had to stay in bed for the whole crossing but I found that spending three and a half days on the pop was enough to ward off seasickness 
nice one harry a man after my own heart,just get bladderd you can rock with the boat,works a treat
yes. put some sugar on the floor. you will get loads of ants then toby.but how to get them seasick i guess you would have to take some with you and look. lol 
look at the topic then laugh 
Get out or near a window and watch the horizon or other ships out there.
The rocking motion â â â â â up the âbalance detectorâ, watching something stable provides the brain with useful extra info to evaluate the bodyâs motion.
Thankfully I have never suffered the âmal de merâ even on the roughest crossings of Biscay, although I really sympathise with those that do. A driver I know wears some wristbands he got from somewhere in the UK which stop travel sickness and he swears by them.
I reckon a big meal does me more good if it is rough. whether on a ferry, fishing cobble or a 3 masted schooner, it works for me 
And so does teasing anyone who is going slightly green with a big creamy pudding.
what ever you do, don,t be sick in into the wind, you,ll get your own back.
I ate fried dog and a rat,on a train in Thailand,small bones,allthe rage out there.can see it catching on at those caravans in the UK laybys,cocker spaniel sandwhiches,doberman pie with chips,roland rolly poly,poodle pie,St bernard stew with dumplings.German sheperd pie,collie flower and cheese.
toby1234abc:
I ate fried dog and a rat,on a train in Thailand,small bones,allthe rage out there.can see it catching on at those caravans in the UK laybys,cocker spaniel sandwhiches,doberman pie with chips,roland rolly poly,poodle pie,St bernard stew with dumplings.German sheperd pie,collie flower and cheese.
Hello, he`s off again, off into Tobyland!!!
Toby. WTF has any of that got to with the question you asked about seasicknessâ â ?..did you eat all that (zb) on a boat or somethingâ â ? :wink
Yes, I was wondering that!
bullitt:
toby1234abc:
I ate fried dog and a rat,on a train in Thailand,small bones,allthe rage out there.can see it catching on at those caravans in the UK laybys,cocker spaniel sandwhiches,doberman pie with chips,roland rolly poly,poodle pie,St bernard stew with dumplings.German sheperd pie,collie flower and cheese.
Hello, he`s off again, off into Tobyland!!!
Toby. WTF has any of that got to with the question you asked about seasicknessâ â ?..did you eat all that (zb) on a boat or somethingâ â ?
He could be describing the food on TransEuropa.
the collie flower and cheese got me.
milk is good for stopping sea sickness. drink a pint about an hour before you board. or get â â â â â â â
limeyphil:
the collie flower and cheese got me.milk is good for stopping sea sickness. drink a pint about an hour before you board. or get â â â â â â â
You see quite a few on the Cotentin getting â â â â â â early on then disappearing to their cabins to hopefully sleep through the crossing.
Mind you it does roll about a bit even in the slightest sea.
limeyphil:
the collie flower and cheese got me.milk is good for stopping sea sickness. drink a pint about an hour before you board. or get â â â â â â â
Was the collie fried like tobyâs?
toby1234abc:
I ate fried dog and a rat,on a train in Thailand,small bones,allthe rage out there.can see it catching on at those caravans in the UK laybys,cocker spaniel sandwhiches,doberman pie with chips,roland rolly poly,poodle pie,St bernard stew with dumplings.German sheperd pie,collie flower and cheese.
You sure you were in Thailand? I lived there for two years and never so dog or rat on offer, and just asked the wife who is thai and she said she doesnât know any thai person that has or would eat dog or rat.
As for the original question. I use sea legs. Two tablets before I get on and that does me for the whole crossing, but I only use them on the Poole Santander crossing cause thatâs the only one I have ever been Iâll on