Hoverspeed Fast Ferries Reviews

I travel regularly to Europe on business as wells as for holidays. Generally this means about 12 channel crossings a year. I tend to prefer the Eurotunnel service for my business trips when time is the most important factor but I have also used the Ferries frequently and over Easter 2001 used the new SeaCat service which has replaced the ...  Read the complete review

Sea Cat has re appeared in Greece as Speedrunner One doing the run from Pireaus to Milos via Serifos and Sifnos. I discovered this last week when stepping onto the ferry and sensing a strange sense of deja vu. I havn't travelled on her since the early nineties but she is not easily forgotten. Still going strong and nicer to travel ...  Read the complete review

This is the message that greeted me on Sunday morning (19.02.2006) when I klicked onto the Hoverspeed website in order to research this particular review: Hoverspeed Announcement Hoverspeed ceased operations on the Dover - Calais route on the 7th November 2005 Click here for the press ...  Read the complete review

The most recent review of Hoverspeed was from 2001 so I decided to perpare one that recounts a slightly more recent experience... We were traveling to Poland for the Easter week and as the whole trip was to be for about 10 days; we needed a cheap ferry crossing. While it is very easy to find one for a day or ...  Read the complete review

Whilst travelling about on an Interrail ticket last October, I decided to travel from Dieppe to Newhaven, to visit a mate in Brighton. I didn't have a ferry ticket, so when I arrived at Dieppe Train Station from Paris, I was eager to get to the ferry terminal asap, in case there was no space left. As there was a bus outside ...  Read the complete review

It was about 18 months ago, my husband and I decided that we were spending far too much on cigarettes and tobacco. As he is a shift worker he has quite a few days off during the week, dependant on what shift he is on, so we decided we would abscond to the continent for duty free stuff every couple of months. We saw an advert in our local ...  Read the complete review

In my lifetime, I have been on about 30 ferries I think. Various trips to the Continent and Ireland have taken me on loads of different companies and types of boat but none can rival the SeaCat out of Newhaven, Sussex. In 1987 I went to Spain with the school on a trip and we had to go by coach. We went from Newhaven to Dieppe which took about ...  Read the complete review

I haven't used Hoverspeed yet, but will be doing shortly. As a driver of a Smart Car I can travel for the price of a motorbike and two people. Up to half the price of an ordinary car apparently. Smart themselves have negociated this deal with Hoverspeed. The logic backs up the offer, a Smart Car is half the length of an ordinary car (about ...  Read the complete review

Do you like riding on Rollercoasters? If not, the SeaCat might not be for you – unless you take a travel tablet first! I recently travelled to France via the SeaCat, which sails between Folkstone and Boulogne. I have travelled on the large Sea France ferries before, but as they are now charging extortionate ticket fares this year, ...  Read the complete review

Having just returned from a week’s trip to France, I thought that some of you might be interested in one of the slightly more unusual ways to cross the channel – the SeaCat. Like most people taking their car to the continent, I usually use one of the ferry services but have also been on the hovercraft and via the channel ...  Read the complete review

I decided to go to Calais. So I rang Hoverspeed and booked a day ticket for the next day (3 people & car for £75). We arrived at the terminal, waited around for a bit and then the hovercraft arrived. What an impressive sight that is! Shortly after arriving we could board. Since the craft is not that big it did not last long for everyone to ...  Read the complete review

I wanted to go shopping one Saturday and didn`t fancy spending £40 to take my car from The Isle of Wight just to end up parking it it the other side so I decided to try the hovercraft. What an experience! The crossing time was around 13 minutes as opposed to 40 by ferry and the cost was much cheaper than too. Boarding the vessel ...  Read the complete review