Ferry Bookings...

[instigator]

Just a quickie.

I booked my ferry arrangements yesterday to go away on Monday. I now need to make a change. It's £25 minimum for an amendment apparently, but it's only £24 to get a single ticket with sea france for the desired time I want to set off.

Can anyone see any problems with not taking my original set-off time with NorfolkLine and going out with sea france instead...?

Yeah, yeah, £1 saving and all that but I don't agree to paying amendment fee's - principle of the matter and all that. All of this because I want to get a cigarette socket adapter for the bike so it can power my gps...and theres nowhere nearby that sells them.

[Itchy]

Delaying cus you want a cigarette adaptor for your bike? ,

Maplins sells the parts you need ,

https://www.maplin.co.uk/Module.aspx?ModuleNo=1056&C=Maplin&U=SearchTop&T=cigarette&doy=31m8

cut the ends off solder or connect the ends to the battery using M7 solder tags add in an inline fuse and jobs a gud un , if you want to made it a bit more advanced stick a relay on it,

Or pay the £9 for a HG one

Or stop in a town with a HG on the way out and fix it to the bike takes 5 minutes and a screw driver.

If you were anywhere near manchester you could have mine off the CBR
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[instigator]

Never knew HG do them, I'll phone them now.

Maplins online stocks them, their (shite) shops don't tend to.

[instigator]

Sweet, sorted, HG have one in stock, going to collect now. Cheers Itchy. You just saved me a bit of money.

[Phoenix]

I don't know where you live but Towsure sell them for less than £9, same as the waterproof covered maplins ones which are good. If not nearly all caravan shops sell them, again probably cheaper than HG.

[nautilus]

Last summer we booked the cheapest non amendable tickets with speed ferries at £15 each one way. At that price we thought it worth the risk. In 10 years travelling have never missed a ferry but guess what.....nasty accident, a multiple pile up in fog, on the A20 & we were kept there for nearly three hours by the police. At the ferry port were told we could by a new ticket there for £40 but it was cheaper on-line. Rang son who booked us two single tickets on the next ferry at £19 each. Ok we lost money but it wasn't too bad. Next year we plan on heading to MacDonalds, Dover for the free wifi, with the laptop & book onto the next available ferry. There's enough ferries out of Dover so why book months in advance?
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[magpiemale]

So if you miss your ferry time you cannot go on a later ferry ? or do you have to buy a new ticket.
Buying another ticket would be so no good esp after you paid up front in the first place for a ticket.
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[nautilus]

We had to buy a new ticket as the original wasn't transferab;e. With Speed Ferries if you want ta ticket you can alter you have to pay about £10 more for it to start with! As I said at £15 a ticket we thought it worth taking the chance. I think on the Chunnel and other ferries you can get put on the next available ferry without buying a new ticket but there may be an admin fee. We happen to like Speed ferries cos its a quicker crossing than the others ( apart from the train) and generally cheaper.
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[Phoenix]

I used Norfolkline and was able to use a prebooked ticket to get onto an earlier boat on the way back. We also nearly missed our outgoing boat due to horrendous jams all the way down the M40/M25 and M20, getting the next boat didn't appear to be a problem but we were just in time to jump on the one we booked. They're rarely full, especially for bikes so can't imagine it being a problem usually, and there's a ferry every hour.

[Kris]