nltrainer
Traveller
1478 comments
Posted 14 years ago
NO more lone foot pax on this line. Only with vehicles (an old scrap bike will do though!
Flying is cheaper, or the eurolines bus or eur**train to Lille. The only remaining ferry to stll allow foot pax on is the P&O (like pando.com or so) to run Dover-Calais( the port far away south-needing a very secret bus into town/trains).
Last season the cheapest was a day return from any SOUTHEASTERN station (not Ch-Cross!) to Calais- no advance booking needed and any train allowed-must pay for bus train-> Ferry in Dover though. Unknown if this will come back next year.
Utter stringent measuers on illegal migrants and all that make it far too costly-that is what they claim- for the ferries to make much bother for foot-pax.
nltrainer
Traveller
1478 comments
[quote]What speciality made this route popular..[/quote]
maDe-as maKe is not poss. anymore. Well, daft easy: cheap shopping, esp cigs and booze/wince in FR for Brits. There is really not that much to see in either Calais nor Duinkerken
nltrainer
Traveller
1478 comments
No- the busy route is Dover-Calais, by ferry and underwater via the tunnel.
And READ former notes-and specify if you want to go by own vehicle or not- as a FOOT pasenger you canNOT even use this ferry anymore-only the daytime the P&O Dover-Calais.