*** Dover to Calais - Food Travel Help!! ***

[Deleted User]

i am traveling on coach from a local pick-up point to dover and then getting either the ferry or eurotunnel to calais before getting on a different coach to get to paris.

as we are going for 4 days and will be b&b are we allowed to take any food over the crossing? (we dont have alot of money so would want to take some with us just for lunch on those days and then we can pay for our evening meals) maybe just something like pot noodles and some things to make sandwiches with (bread,cheese spread etc)

any help asap would be very much appreciated as its quite urgent as we may have to cancel our trip due to lack of money for food.

any ideas of what other foods would be good to take would be appreciated - we are not picky eaters.

many thanks

matt

dzug1

As far as the ferry/bus company is concerned you can take just about what food you like/can carry. The French won't be interested. Even if there are regulations as long as there isn't a mad cow or similar scare on they won't be looking out to enforce them.

Your B&B may not like you 'cooking' in the room. You might need to be circumspect about it

[Deleted User]

so it sounds like i should be ok to take some bread and various different sandwich fillers to make my lunch with for a few days...

any other thoughts on the rules and other things i could get away with taking are much appreciated.

MrSmartprice

As far as I'm aware you can take food into France on the ferry. We usually take sandwiches for the journey. We do take a coolbox to bring back French goodies too.

You may, however, be interested to know that they do have rather good supermarkets in France, where they sell excellent produce. The bread is particularly good! There really isn't much worth taking as it is all available there.

McKneff

Take your fillings by all means but buy your bread fresh daily in France.

Like Mrsmartprice says its particularly nice, especially fresh.

Tarry

McKneff wrote: »

Take your fillings by all means but buy your bread fresh daily in France.

Like Mrsmartprice says its particularly nice, especially fresh.

I agree there with you, fresh baguettes are lovely. You can take food onto the ferry, I have done, but last time I went on a ferry I felt too rough to eat anything.

PolishBigSpender

Why on earth would you want to buy food in the UK when food is much cheaper in France?

(not to mention the fact that British food is, on the whole, vile)

McKneff

PolishBigSpender wrote: »

Why on earth would you want to buy food in the UK when food is much cheaper in France?

(not to mention the fact that British food is, on the whole, vile)

Where you you get the idea that food is much cheaper in France then.

Last time i went a chocolate eclair cost me 4 euros.:eek:

SwissLe

McKneff wrote: »

Where you you get the idea that food is much cheaper in France then.

Last time i went a chocolate eclair cost me 4 euros.:eek:

I went to London and spent £9 on a can of coke in the hotel. It doesn't mean ALL cans of coke in London are that much

Carrefour are cheap, clean and offer some really good produce.

sunshinetours

PolishBigSpender wrote: »

Why on earth would you want to buy food in the UK when food is much cheaper in France?

(not to mention the fact that British food is, on the whole, vile)

Paris is not generally particularly cheap (especially the touristy parts) and even less so with the Euro rate so poor for us. I would however agree about buying fresh bread each day as its lovely

Also British food on the whole is not vile although I assume that part was at least partly tongue in cheek!

laurel7172

It's surprising (shocking) how much you can spend on a picnic in Paris. The bread is great, though.

If money is really critical, you could consider taking high calorie density foods like dried fruit and nuts and biscuits/cereal bars. Lunchtime fuel to keep you going until the evening meal. It's what I usually do when I travel anyway-saves tracking down vegi food twice a day.