ferries from plymouth to rosscoff

ann3340

hi, am looking for any advise to get cheap ferry from plymouth to rosscoff at the end of may 08 to beginning of june 08 - i am taking myself and five children for a weeks holiday and have been quoted £355 by brittany ferries - any one know of any other options available and do you think the price will be cheaper the longer i leave it or dearer. Any comments would be appreciated. thanks

Poppycat

You would get a better response if you posted in right forum this is the referral forum

There is a specific forum for this below. Thanks

Travel, Trips & Holidays

geordie_joe

To be honest I haven't got a clue about ferry prices, but in my experience "booking tickets" at the last minute can save money as they will reduce the price to fill up empty seats.

However there is no guarantee there will be empty "seat" when you want to travel, so it is a risk.

If I were you I would "go through the motions" of booking the ferry for the same journey at the end of Jan, Feb, Mar and then do it again each week to see if the prices go down the nearer you get to the travel date.

geordie_joe

Poppycat wrote: »

You would get a better response if you posted in right forum this is the referral forum

Oops! Almost told you that you were wrong and this was the Anything Else Moneysaving board. Then I checked and it wasn't you that was wrong.

Browntoa

I'll move it over to that part of the forum for you

wileycat

http://www.quidco.com/cheap4ferries/
Thats the only quidco offer as far as I can see, 6% cashback on bookings

Browntoa

whoops , me bad , moved it to motoring and transport by mistake

can't correct it now

dzug

Apart from any discounts from using quidco or cashback credit cards and the like, that's the fare you will get whether you buy it from the ferry company or any of the 'cheap' ferry companies - they are all selling the same product.

The ferry companies tend to have January sales which may continue into February after which prices will rise. They don't tend to rise as often as discount airlines so they may well be then static until near departure date when they will almost certainly rise again. I don't believe the bit about cheap tickets at the last minute - they are more likely to sell them at premium prices to those who 'have to' travel.

vikingaero

Are you going during the day or overnight?

If you go during the day then you could risk booking later but I guess you'll be going over half-term when demand will be higher. If it is a night voyage then you might miss out on a cabin and be stuck with the reclining seats.

hartcjhart

try this number I use them ,and they are usually the cheapest,they do all routes

0845 300 3838

plane_boy2000

They are the only operator that operate that route, so the price is pretty fixed, although I can say as someone who has used it a few times the service is good.

As a tip take a look at the timetable of the brittany website. They use 2 idfferent vessels on that route - one is called the pont aven which is their flagship, and is used for the plymouth to santander route, but does roscof about once a week. Its bigger, and only about 3 years old so has really good facilities, but you may also find that its cheape as they have more capacity to fill on those days.