Get your Christmas Booze with Seafrance.
- 21 October 2010 08:0175848Stock up and save for Christmas with SeaFrance
Save around £2 per bottle comparing French to British prices !!
Despite fluctuating exchange rates and changing EU laws, savvy British shoppers today still save on wine prices by buying in France, and autumn is a great time to head over the Channel to stock up for Christmas, and make the most of low autumn ferry fares.
Wine in France is cheaper for the simple reason that it doesn't have UK duty applied, saving £1.69 per bottle on still wine, or £2.16 per bottle on sparkling wine. Add to that the saving you'll also make on the VAT, and most bottles of wine will be at least £2 cheaper in France than in the UK.
Getting there is great value too, and SeaFrance operates up to 30 daily crossings on the Dover-Calais route. Fares for a car and up to five passengers start from just £25 each way (£50 return, or just £10 return per person) online for any duration and from £19 return for a day trip, (less than £4 return per person based on five in a car). There's no limit on alcohol brought back, as long as it's for personal use only.
Take a trip this autumn and make it a day to remember, perhaps also stopping off at Restaurant Aqua'Aile (www.aquaraile.com) in Calais, where the food has this month been described by Olive magazine as "sensational", or popping in to Les 2 Caps (www.2caps.fr) artisan brewery to try their Noire de Slack stout, perfect for winter nights in.
For more information or to book your crossings visit seafrance.com or call 0871 22 22 500*
-ENDS-email: dover7@msn.com - 21 October 2010 11:3475873And what about the none drinker what can he or her pickup in the way of saving.
- 21 October 2010 11:3575874Alas without an indate passport I shant be able to go anywhere.. so much for a borderless europe...
- 21 October 2010 11:4375876I have just got anew Passport it only takes two weeks to get a newone.
- 21 October 2010 11:5075878trouble is one never knows when industrial action will strike with that carrier, plus the additional worry of further strikes in france affecting the sailings.
- Brian Dixon
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 23 Sep 2008
- Posts: 23,940
21 October 2010 14:2575887howard,thats the bonus,one nights free bed and breakfast curtasy of the nice french niebours.
- Jan Higgins
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 5 Jul 2010
- Posts: 13,931
21 October 2010 18:1675928"one nights free bed and breakfast curtasy of the nice french niebours."
Maybe I should renew my passport after all . I wish we could still use those Day Passports that were available years ago.-----------------------------------------------------------------------
I try to be neutral and polite but it is hard and getting even more difficult at times.
------------------------------------------------------------------- - 21 October 2010 19:5975958Alas if you are a traveler with sea France you might not get back there toilets don't have any paper in them and there food well we cant talk about the food it might cause a strike. the most unfriendly ferry firm on the Channel.
- 21 October 2010 20:5975964that is my experience alan, the last time i used them the toilets were covered in graffitti, the only snack in the bar was curried tuna in pitta bread and the bar staff were surly.
the ships are well appointed and designed but that is all i can say in their favour, i much prefer p & o with their creaky vessels that have well trained staff and acceptable food. - Brian Dixon
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 23 Sep 2008
- Posts: 23,940
22 October 2010 07:2776018now let me see,seafrance v p&o.seafrance pasenger friendly ships with most of the restuarant reasonbly good but forget bar snacks.p&o the most unfriendly to rassenger ships going,its chips with everything in the reasturant snacks from the bar are less desirable.but do i need to go on,there is one touchy subject i could mention but wont. - 22 October 2010 07:3676020Its odd isnt it but I have the exact opposite view to Howard and Alan there...which just goes to show how subjective these things are. I gave up P&O something like 10 years ago after a miserable smelly and overcrowded voyage home from Calais one time. One foot onboard and I was almost flattened with the pong from the loos. Well..it was a hot day.
But somehow I opted thereafter for Seafrance both on foot and with vehicles and always had good service. Even staff who put up with the vagaries of a daughter who wouldnt eat this and wouldnt eat that..so always found them very good.
email: dover7@msn.com
