FREE Amsterdam mini cruise when booking France ferry crossing

sjg666

Free when you book a return ferry crossing on our Dover-Dunkirk or Dover-Calais routes for a car and up to 4 people. Simply book before 25 August for travel to France between 9 September and 13 December 2013.

Remember to use offer code: EMINIC when booking your crossing to France and we'll send you details on how to book your free 2-night mini cruise to Amsterdam.

T&C's http://www.dfdsseaways.co.uk/ferry-offers-and-deals/ferry-to-france-offers/return-crossing-offer-free-mini-cruise/?trackingurl=4a47e052-31c3-441f-a158-89b9597ad661&utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_content=484907&utm_campaign=UK_EC_20130815_FOCMiniCruise_NorthPostcodes&gbi=a0b6423e-5f316e94-53b95ee0

Tarry

Sounds interesting, I need to book a crossing in September for France.

Gratis

Bear in mind that the qualifying crossing sails from Dover and the freebie sails from Newcastle. They’re 350 miles apart.

More importantly, the freebie is for one person, without a vehicle. If you travel alone, you’ll have to sleep in “a shared single sex en suite cabin”. Taking someone with you costs “from” £79 (although that way the two of you do get a cabin to yourselves).

Perhaps if you book two Dover crossings you could get a free trip for two of you to Amsterdam with your own cabin?

Could work if you live in London, drive to Dover and and train it to Newcastle on a cheap Early-Booking fare with a discount Railcard. The timings make that a feasible option.

But, once you compare it with cheap P&O deals for Dover and for Hull to Amsterdam (via Rotterdam) it doesn’t look so shiny.

(Unless, perhaps, you’re looking for an exciting new experience with a same sex stranger. :happyhear :eek: )

Tarry

I would rather have the opposite sex

lol

sjg666

You can add more people to the booking though - You can add up to 3 people to your booking (from £79 for 1 extra person, from £90 for 2 extra people and from £96 for 3 extra people) and if you do this you’ll stay in a private 2-berth or 4-berth en suite cabin.

Gratis

sarahjgent wrote: »

You can add more people to the booking though - You can add up to 3 people to your booking (from £79 for 1 extra person, from £90 for 2 extra people and from £96 for 3 extra people) and if you do this you’ll stay in a private 2-berth or 4-berth en suite cabin.

Yes, I realise that. And please don’t think I’m criticising you for posting the offer; don’t take it personally – I was the first one who Thanked you for it!

It could work in the way I pointed out, too.

It might also suit those who live locally to Newcastle and need to make a trip to France anyway. (Although they might prefer to go Hull to Rotterdam or Zeebrugge overnight, rather than drive to Dover and back.)

But you do have to compare the offer with what’s obtainable by other means.

To be honest, it’s always seemed to me that DFDS’s "special offers" on its Newcastle to Amsterdam route are usually just crafty re-workings of its regular deals.


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Tarry wrote: »

I would rather have the opposite sex

lol

But would they rather have you? :eek:

Tarry

Shut up xx

lol

Tarry

Well I have someone finds this their ideal of fun ;)x