sea france: the no risk russian roulette ro-ro ferry (SeaFrance Ferries)

Member Name: patr!ck

Product:	SeaFrance Ferries
Date:	18/05/01 (114 review reads)
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Advantages: fast, friendly, cheap, comfy, adventure

Disadvantages: strikes are regular and sometimes completely unexpected, cruise takes 90 mins only

Having read in a title that Seafrance was unreliable, I expected some more spicy stories about their unreliability.
I have travelled with them well over a hundred times and it's my favourite cross channel ADVENTURE. You're never sure if you'll arrive on the other side of the Channel in due time: The Calais fishermen, the crew, any other strike in or around the harbour, weather (rather unlikely to cancel crossing for rough seas, as vessels and crew are up to the job) and some reasons one never realises (lorry stuck to deck when embarking e.g.) are all part of the Seafrance will-I-get-there-today-adventure.

Then, when you finally sail, say cruise, the experience is just too short. 90 minutes later one drives on the wrong side of the road, remembering the friendly French crew.
And fish & chips. With wine.

(the other way to cross the channel is by train: WHO ON EARTH travels in a dark & drafty SUBWAY, when you can cruise in a Cafe Parisien with the white cliffs of Dover as a natural painting on port side...0

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