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We recently took a trip over to Bruges for the weekend on P&O's Hull-Zeebrugge ferry. Zeebrugge is only about half an hour from central Bruges so it is possible to have a worthwhile day in Bruges even if you don't choose to spend a night there. Bruges is more motorhome-friendly than you might … [Read more...]
P&O's new ferry, the Spirit of Britain, has arrived in Dover. The Spirit of Britain and its sister ship the Spirit of France will serve the Dover-Calais route and have been designed to 'Dover Max' size - the largest ships that can be accommodated using the existing port facilities in Dover and … [Read more...]
P&O is preparing to launch its newest ferry, the Spirit of Britain, which is currently scheduled to make its first sailing from Dover to Calais at 0415 on the 23rd January, 2011. One of a pair of new ferries for the Dover-Calais ferry route, it has almost twice the carrying capacity of the … [Read more...]
I've mentioned this before (many months ago) but this is your final reminder that the P&O Ferries Portsmouth-Bilbao service will cease to exist on the 27th September, 2010. You can see the official P&O news release here. The only UK-Spain ferry route that will remain in operation from … [Read more...]
P&O Ferries... Until recently, all of my channel crossings have been with P&O Ferries. It's always seemed a reasonably decent and competitively-priced service, albeit with the same criticisms that seem to apply to all ferries these days: Lack of outside space Lack of indoor seating … [Read more...]
I've written about the whale-watching delights of P&O's Portsmouth-Bilbao ferry service before, but today P&O announced that they will scrap the service at the end of September 2010. Apparently, the current ship, the Pride of Bilbao, is reaching the end of its charter and as the service … [Read more...]
Our final stop after leaving the "Romantic Rhine" region (as the guidebooks call it) was Cologne. This large city, itself situated on the Rhine, was both worth a visit and ideally located for our final day's drive up to Rotterdam and the P&O Ferries terminal (which is at Europoort, just outside … [Read more...]
By far the most popular ferry route for motorhomes crossing into Europe is Dover-Calais, followed (I think) by most of the other, longer Channel crossings and the Channel Tunnel. However, for anyone living in the north of England or Scotland, Dover and the south coast is a long drive - about 290 … [Read more...]
Leading ferry operator P&O Ferries has ordered two new ferries to replace the Pride of Dover and the Pride of Calais on the Dover-Calais channel crossing route. The two new ferries, which are being built in Finland, will be the largest ferries ever to operate in The Channel and have been … [Read more...]
