Rip-off ferry prices

Lifesaver

freddie wrote: »

Worth noting to to get a stena extra card (dont know where we got ours from but its a free thing!) and it gives you free stena plus seats. I think these are brilliant and used to pay 5 pounds each for them as part of a tesco deal. They dont do that anymore and the seats are much more expensive.

Brilliant for free though!!

You have to spend £1000 a year to get the free Stena Plus benefits http://www.stenaline.co.uk/ferry/stena-line-extra/

robpw2

http://www.seat61.com/Ireland.htm

A.L.D.A

yorkie98 wrote: »

It's about time a road link was established between Ireland (north or south) and the UK mainland,

Difficult to justify the cost of a road bridge or tunnel, but I would imagine if you built between Antrim and Scotland and included 20 miles of tidal generators instead of investing in Nuclear you would generate a serious amount of electricity.

The Irish Sea is a very expensive stretch of water. The charges seem ridiculous and the effect that this has on the NI economy is considerable. I would be well placed to work in Southern Scotland, but the cost of travel would make that unattractive.

dmxdave

robpw2 wrote: »

http://www.seat61.com/Ireland.htm

For some reason I cannot get any prices from Belfast to London with this

Golden_Anemone

Scroll down the page a bit and it says

"London ► Belfast, Sligo, Galway, Limerick, Cork, Tralee...

Travel to Dublin as shown above, then hop on an Irish inter-city train as follows:

For Belfast, take the daily 19:00 'Enterprise' express from Dublin Connolly station arriving at Belfast Central at 21:10."

dmxdave

Thanks, they do have a NI bit http://www.seat61.com/NorthernIreland.htm but I just cannot get a final price :mad:

Douzeper

Lets pester P&O for a reason why it's so expensive? )

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Douzeper

Reply from P&O reference why it is so much more expensive from NI to UK Mainland than England to France...

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In the past on our continental routes we had Duty Free shops which made a great deal of profit for our company and as such we could discount the cost of tickets on these routes. Since EU restrictions were introduced we no longer have Duty Free shops onboard, however the customers who use these routes are accustomed to paying very low amounts for the tickets and will simply use the competition if we no longer discounted them. On the Irish Sea routes there is much less competition and our customers are accustomed to paying much higher prices for tickets. While I can appreciate your comments in regard to the price difference for similar duration crossing I hope that you can appreciate that as a business we will apply a price which we feel is sustainable and profitable for the route.

yorkie98

So in summary... We'll charge you high prices cos we can and you will pay..

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yorkie98 wrote: »

So in summary... We'll charge you high prices cos we can and you will pay..

Up to a point. Although they don't have Duty Free, they do sell alcohol and tobacco on board at French prices which are generally considerably lower than in the UK. I'd guess that their non-fare revenue per passenger is quite a bit a bit bigger on the English Channel than it is on the North Channel.