switchlogic:
Blimey, best bow to your superior knowlege Pat. I’ve only sailed between Portsmouth and Santander on Brittany Ferries 4 times this year. The fact each time it took 24/25 hours must be a fluke. Maybe you best tell Brittany as well as their timetable is clearly wrong too-
Little tip for you, it’s super easy to check facts like this out before posting. Always handy to save you making yourself look silly.
I appologise … I am getting old mate. After a nights sleep I now remember it was 24 hours from Plymouth and 36 hours from Portsmouth as you say… Please accept my sincere appologies.
I will now go and crawl into a hole (I am old you know)
I used to work on the Stena ships as a steward and cabins are alway sheard unless the receptionist got on with the driver then if it was possible we would give you a cabin to yourself. So when you moan to the cooks about the food remember it gets back to the front desk and it will be noted for next time. Now I have started driving if I ever go on the ships I hope I can pull a few favors in to get my own cabin ! and if not there is always the master key I forgot to give back haha
as for p and o p/mouth/bilbao midweek was 24/25 hrs but sat nite was longer getting in monday morn thats why it was called mini cruise for the weekend ■■■■■■■■■ many good times en route to morrocco good ol/days
switchlogic:
Just a shame the Stena Nordica has the worst food on the Irish sea!
I worked the Irish Sea for 4 years so you obviously never tasted my cooked grub then
When i was doing irish work i very rarley went upstairs opting to jump in bunk and sleep or if i did go upstairs i would normaly be found sleeping on the lounge floor
stena Belfast/Birkenhead can best be described as 8 hours of prison with the option of drowning…2 find a English speaking victim in the queue,give him your ticket,and tell him to get your cabin key for you,and that he will have the cabin to himself…kip in your bunk,as soon as you feel the captain dropping the clutch,set your alarm for 7 and 1/2 hours. DO NOT MOVE OR SITUP IF THEY START HAMMERING ON YOUR DOOR TO SEE IF YOU ARE CABBING IT. they don’t know if you are,but if you move then they will catch you and ■■■■■■ you off the deck,if your brave,then turnabout at the top of the stairs and just walk back down to the cab again,otherwise you will have to explain why you cant find your cabin with no key.wakeup halfway up the Mersey as the Taliban deck crew are taking the chains off the trailers…great nights sleep…or the option is to go to bed as the grubs minging,wait till midnight till some cretin bounces in ■■■■■■■ and going for a shower/dump,then listen to some scouse ■■■■■ that likes the sound of her own voice yakking on the tannoy every 5 mins,get woke about 4a.m when cretin goes for a pee,then wait till 5 when scouse ■■■■■ starts yakking again…come off ferry at 7a.m.completely shattered…I was on the stinking boat twice a week for 4 years and was upstairs 4 times,twice was when they put on new boats and I assumed they would be better,how wrong was I… cairnryan stena,and p&o have decent grub.birkenhead ■■■■■,as does the Dublin boats for food,but then its all free,so beggers cant be choosers.
Pat Hasler:
Last time I did it the trip was only 3.5 hours so why the cabin ?
Surely you are well aware of the answer to that?
No, actually I am not aware of the answer to that ? Things have changed since I lived there or drove a lorry on that ferry, i didn’t give a toss where I sat on ferry crossings when I lived there but if it was a long overnight crossing then a cabin was expected. As for the Portsmouth to Bibao crossing mentioned, things must have sped up a bit because it was 48 hours each way on the Pride of Bilbao.
I use the cab split curtain to hide behind when sleeping in the cab on ferry crossings to Le Havre/Dieppe and Cherbourg.
There is a bad smell below decks and the ships engines but that is better than being disturbed in the cabin.
If you get the top bunk in a cabin and want the loo in the night,you have to be Houdini to get down and up the top bunk and end up waving your bollox in the face of the driver below who is pretending to be asleep. However quiet you try to be, you make more noise.
Why do they not do that? 