I know most of you avoid DFDS like the plague but we are travelling with them this week and I was wondering what the rules would be if we arrived early enough for an earlier than booked sailing? Would they allow us to travel if there was room? Anyone had any experience?
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September
Middle Hills Farm - Matlock
August
4 Vents - Crèvecoeur-en-Brie
Camping Emeraude - Saint-Briac-sur-Mer
July
School Field - Manchester
2013
July
Callow Top - Ashbourne
School Field - Manchester
2012 and prior
Various sites in Anglesey, North West UK and several music festivals
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We've crossed lots of times to Dunkerque, sometimes early (on one occasion very early) and have been put on the next ferry. BUT the timetable isn't hourly, so you need to be quite a bit early to get on the earlier ferry. Check the timetables in case you have to hurry over the last few miles to make sure you get on the earlier one.
Yep no problem with DFDS, we always get an earlier crossing than booked.
This year July, outgoing booked for 4pm Monday we got the noon crossing, and coming home we were booked on the Friday noon crossing, but they let us on the 10am crossing.
weve used dfds afew times and also will be this week and weve got on earlier ferries the past couple of years, weve just turned up and theyve putus on it providing theres space of course
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Great! Thanks all. Might try and get there for the 6am crossing instead.
It says allow 1.5hrs at busy times...would getting there at 5am suffice do you think?
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September
Middle Hills Farm - Matlock
August
4 Vents - Crèvecoeur-en-Brie
Camping Emeraude - Saint-Briac-sur-Mer
July
School Field - Manchester
2013
July
Callow Top - Ashbourne
School Field - Manchester
2012 and prior
Various sites in Anglesey, North West UK and several music festivals
Yep no problem normally in getting on an earlier crossing.
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Only once have we not been able to get on a ferry 2 hours before the one booked. ( There had been a strike the previous day and they had to clear the backlog of lorries)
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We always use DFDS as well, I don't know of anyone who avoids them. Last year we got on a ferry 2 hours earlier than planned, and to Calais, not Dunkerque, which suited us perfectly.
we came back sun morn 6am ferry gave our documents etc,the lady said we cant let you on you are not on our system,as we booked through cc in oct and had no trouble going out you could say we was a bit upset.she said no we could not travel.so we asked to see the manager nice chap,said we would have to ring cc,we had red.so was going to ring we was 20 mins last one in booths.then we came up on the system the dozy woman put an a instead of a e in our last name.may give them a wide berth next yr and go back to p/o no we are sorry.
Sadly there's no point trying to ring the Caravan Club on a Sunday as there is no one there to answer your phone over the weekend! We had a similar problem when we weren't able to get to our booked ferry crossing because of a death in the family. We rang DFDS and they said we would have to speak to the Caravan Club. We tried, it was a Bank Holiday weekend and we couldn't reach anyone until Tuesday! However, when we did get through they were very helpful.
I'm surprised that you had problems though - we've turned up 'without our booking documents' (don't ask!!!) and the system recognised our car number plate so we had no problems.
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Out of curiosity, whats up with DFDS? We just used them Dover-Calais return and it was fine; slighltly shabby interior but its only an hour and a bit. As to OP, we arrived silly early for our 6pm return sailing and the woman just put us on the earlier 3.30 pm without even mentioning it so all good
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Topic: DFDS Dover - Dunkirk
