2 night Mini Cruise Break to Denmark £84 for 2

c45arlo

The usual sort of price for a DFDS mini-cruise and they have been at a similar level for quite some time.
Having done many of these mini-cruises over the years I regard them as excellent value when you take it as two nights accommodation plus transportation. Compared to many hotel chains that don't include meals in their prices ( Premier Inn breakfast circa £7.95 ) in the UK, I think their pricing/value isn't that far "adrift"

meandi

DFDS have been doing these for a while now. Good deal for a short break. Went last year and they have new boats now. The price of food has gone up a bit, but £224 for 2 people 2night bed breakfast and evening meals is good. Breakfast is buffet style so you can keep on going up and i have seen people taking food to go back to cabin. Evening meals nice as well, drinks expensive, but again we go as a group and take some drinks and food with us. Once on shore not too many things to do a few attractions, but good bars and get on the back street ones and prices not bad.

Doc_N

Droop wrote: »

Why are people complaining about the amount of time onboard 'v' that on shore.

It is a CRUISE - that says it all. If you want to see Denmark you don't go on a CRUISE you fly (or drive if that takes your fancy).

You go on a CRUISE to enjoy the 'floating' hotel, but that said I agree with what someone said earlier about the ropiness of the ships DFDS use.

I used to use them a lot but haven't for around 20 years so they could be better (or a lot worse).

I'd agree with you about the cruising point.

These are in no way cruise ships, though. They're just glorified car ferries aimed fairly and squarely at people who want, or need, to take their cars to Scandinavia. We used to use them for just that purpose, but the ships became so scruffy, old and downright unpleasant that we gave up. We used to enjoy the crossings when the ships were new or at least properly maintained, but that changed and crossings became an unpleasant ordeal.

Don't expect a cruise ship - expect a car ferry.

savykate

I went with DFDS to Bergen, Norway in 2008 on a similar offer! Myself and 3 friends paid £60 each to do orca whale spotting along the Norwegian coastline and a BIG buffet was included. Unfortunately you do only get very limited amount of time in port, so we spent about 4 or 5 hours in Bergen itself, but it was enough for what we wanted to do. It was more about the adventure of it!
Be warned that you pay a FORTUNE for food on the boat, so take packed lunches/breakfasts, heck take dinner too!
Also be warned that it's not for the easily claustrophobic, as we were put in a tiny cabin with no window.
Even though you don't get much city time, I'd recommend doing one of these trips as you'll never see the ocean/coastline in the same way

Dahlia_Girl

We did their legoland one last year. It seemed good value as included 2 meals, hoever sea was rough, and a large proportion of those booked on the 'mini-cruise' spent all night throwing up:(, then didn't eat the included breakfast the next morning. Unfortunately, they wouldn't transfer this to the next morning before our lego land day trip. We'd paid extra for breakfast on the last morning - and felt this was pricey, but was buffet style and very nice!

We took lots of snacks on board to avoid paying the restaurant prices;). There's a big supermarket next to the terminal (morrison's?) which had a cafe. Our evening meal on night of departure was also included, but not drinks and 2 x coffee and 2 x sm coke were £12:eek:

It is, as others have said, basically a car ferry - which we hadn't realised when we booked. Having said that, we paid for a window cabin, which was en-suite, and we were very pleased with it. I think we were on one of their new ships.

So overall we were pleased, paid around £450 I think for four of us, three nights on board (2 at sea), an afternoon in Esjberg, coach to Lego land for day, one evening meal and one breakfast on board.