Free Minicruise Giveaway from Newcastle to Stavanger (Just pay £6 Fuel Supplement)

durham_girl

If anybody has booked for the begining of september and decides not to go, I would really appreciate it if you could let me know, as its my first wedding anniversary and we're too skint to go away! We didn't have a honeymoon either cos of lack of funds, so I'm gutted I missed this!Thanks in advance!Louise x

Horlock

antenna wrote: »

No duty free,only 90 minutes ashore,force 9 gales,12 pound breakfast,22 pound dinner,4 pound pints,1.50 crisps,1.69 coca cola,gambling on board,oooh,you are a lot of money saving experts.........oh i forgot, travel to newcastle,park at 4 pounds a day,all that petrol,lose 2 days work,so if you have any spare tickets.....leave me out...........

Where did you get the half price parking?

Horlock

durham_girl wrote: »

If anybody has booked for the begining of september and decides not to go, I would really appreciate it if you could let me know, as its my first wedding anniversary and we're too skint to go away! We didn't have a honeymoon either cos of lack of funds, so I'm gutted I missed this!Thanks in advance!Louise x

I know you've missed this offer, but they have others on now, cheap to Amsterdam I believe - and from what I'm told it's even better.

I went on Sunday and it was great.

I loved it.

OK so it's not the QE2 but then we saved over £1000 if you look at it that way.

It was comfortable, pleasant, we only paid for one dinner, which was very nice, we treated it as the little luxury of our summer holiday and didn't mind forking out £50 as a one off.

We also took one of those mini drinks fridges (cost about £10) and a travel adapter - don't forget it, it was great.

Thoroughly recommend it. If going to Norway don't go for the destination (we were delayed and only had 45mins) go for the experience, and you wont be disappointed.:money:

antenna

So it's a Honeymoon cruise now...........if you want your marriage to last longer than a year,then give this cruise a miss..............last year i was thrown overboard and had to swim home....saved a few bob anyway.....

antenna

Horlock wrote: »

Where did you get the half price parking?

Sorry........perhaps i was making it all sound too good to be true......................i'l get me coat...........

bestyman

A few questions please to anyone whos been already .
When we get off at Norway is there an ATM or better still a bar that takes visa or maestro?
Is it cold there?

Good tip about the fridge, Im taking a plug in coolbox . I might look a wally but I`ll be the one drinking cold beer .

Cheers

Mark

Horlock

bestyman wrote: »

A few questions please to anyone whos been already .
When we get off at Norway is there an ATM or better still a bar that takes visa or maestro?
Is it cold there?

Good tip about the fridge, Im taking a plug in coolbox . I might look a wally but I`ll be the one drinking cold beer .

Cheers

Mark

We didn't get cash or a bar that takes credit cards - though I strongly suspect they existed - anyone else. There were hotels about with Visa signs, with bars, but as we didn't actually try I wouldn't like to guarantee that the visa applied to the bar and not just to the rooms. We just weren't looking for one, plus there isn't really a great deal of time, we just went for a little explore.

As for cold - we got there and it rained pretty heavily, still I didn't find it particularly cold. Probably 16-18 degrees I'd guess, not exactly sunbathing weather granted, but pleasant enough to not wear a coat - but I wore a sweatshirt and carried and umbrella.

glo1967

bestyman wrote: »

A few questions please to anyone whos been already .
When we get off at Norway is there an ATM or better still a bar that takes visa or maestro?
Is it cold there?

Good tip about the fridge, Im taking a plug in coolbox . I might look a wally but I`ll be the one drinking cold beer .

Cheers

Mark

I do believe there is an ATM on board. The ship takes sterling as well as NOK.
The temperature is normally around the same as here in the summer months, sometimes a little cooler.

durham_girl

Horlock wrote: »

I know you've missed this offer, but they have others on now, cheap to Amsterdam I believe - and from what I'm told it's even better

Cheers, will look into it!

mobilecat

Hi everyone. We have just returned from the freebie from Port of Tyne to Stavanger. Here is a mini report for anyone who is interested.

Hi everyone. We did this trip and returned today and it was fine. We drove past the entrance to the port and carried on down the road to where there is a new housing estate (not on the maps). We parked for free on the street and nipped straight into the passenger entrance via a little entrance right by the roadside, so that saved us parking at £8 per day.

The boat left and returned on time and we got about 100 mins in Stavanger. The cabins were clean and tidy and the staff were generally very polite and friendly - mainly norwegan but some English and all the Norwegans had excellent English Language skills.

We booked breakfast and dinner and took our own travel kettle and for for lunch and snacks and late night drinks etc. The breakfast is superb - well worth getting as there is an abundance of food - hot and cold - and stuff to take for lunch if you need to. Dont touch the dinner buffet of you are a veggie as there is nothing to eat - and I really mean nothing and if you are not keep on fish then avoid it. Apart from that we had a good time.

There isn't heaps to do but we went to the cinema both days, played scrabble and read etc. and although the first night was a very bad crossing leaving us feeling pretty awful in the morning the second was better and we slept like logs. Any questions please ask.