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Don't forget to leave a review of the French and other European campsites you have visited!
Don't forget to leave a review of the French and other European campsites you have visited!
Don't forget to leave a review of the French and other European campsites you have visited!
Message posted by Monty1523/9/2021 at 4:55am
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Quote: Originally posted by badger54 on 22/9/2021
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I was just looking at the season ticket prices for car and caravan, and their pricing does seem a bit odd. If you tow a `van between 6 and 8 metres long the price for the car is £56 each way, yet the `van is another £112 each way. Why would towing a caravan treble the cost of the crossing.
Two things come to mind, all others things being equal, a car and decent sized caravan is occupying a similar amount of deck space as nearly 3 cars would, but unlikely to have the same passenger numbers as 3 cars (think on board sales, bar, food, shop etc!), maybe 2 adults plus 2 kids max, as opposed to 6 adults plus 6 kids for 3 cars, not to mention any charge per head for passengers and per vehicle.
There is also the logistics of loading the ship, caravans can't go on the mezzanine deck as solo cars can (if the ship has one! - not been on a Dover crossing with current fleet so not familiar with ships, but other cross channel ferries do!), that means they occupy the limited space on main deck that potentially may be occupied by what I'm sure is a far more lucrative HGV vehicle!
Typically there is a definite cost structure to different vehicle types, high roofed vehicles (vans etc.), vehicles with roof racks/boxes etc. which obviously don't occupy any more deck space than a low roofed version cost more because yet again, they can't go on the mezzanine deck, they have to go on the limited space of main deck. The cost structure is fixed on anticipated vehicle types and optimum use of deck space, if they only had caravans, high topped vehicles and HGVs booked, they'd have an empty mezzanine deck and significantly less ticket revenue for that crossing! It's a commercial enterprise, they've got to operate at a profit and cover costs on a general/averaged load expectation.
At the end of the day, they are selling the crossing on a occupied deck area pro rata rate with expected on board sales per head basis. A caravan is a almost undesirable vehicle, as high deck space occupancy with very low passenger head count!
Often done the western Channel crossings with a high vehicle and trailer and the ticket price is eye watering, but when you break it down to square footage occupied, it's roughly in proportion to a ordinary car cost.
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Topic: P&O Dover
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