Celtic Link Ferries - two thumbs up!
Posted: Mon May 24, 2010 12:30 pm
I've been meaning to post this for a while, so here goes.
Celtic Link Ferries rocks!
With the ash cloud shenanigans in April, we ended up taking the ferry from Cherbourg to Rosslare to get home from Corsica. We travelled with Celtic Link Ferries and it was great. It's a newish ferry company (five years old apparently) and seems to style itself as a Ryanair-type operation. I'd never heard of it before but the service was excellent. It usually deal with truckers and a handful of foot passengers, but after the volcano episode the ferry was wedged with foot passengers. Lots of hassled business men, tired and grumpy families, and five smelly kayakers.
At Cherbourg the staff were really helpful loading up our boats onto a little truck, when we got to Rosslare a bunch of the ferry workers helped up carry our boats off the ferry and across to the terminal building and out into the car park. We hadn't asked for help or anything, they just came over to us and offered to help.
Anyway, with European paddling season on the go, I thought I'd let you all know that there's a very helpful and friendly ferry company on the go. It's cheap too, so give it a look if you're travelling.
http://www.celticlinkferries.com/
Jim.
Celtic Link Ferries rocks!
With the ash cloud shenanigans in April, we ended up taking the ferry from Cherbourg to Rosslare to get home from Corsica. We travelled with Celtic Link Ferries and it was great. It's a newish ferry company (five years old apparently) and seems to style itself as a Ryanair-type operation. I'd never heard of it before but the service was excellent. It usually deal with truckers and a handful of foot passengers, but after the volcano episode the ferry was wedged with foot passengers. Lots of hassled business men, tired and grumpy families, and five smelly kayakers.
At Cherbourg the staff were really helpful loading up our boats onto a little truck, when we got to Rosslare a bunch of the ferry workers helped up carry our boats off the ferry and across to the terminal building and out into the car park. We hadn't asked for help or anything, they just came over to us and offered to help.
Anyway, with European paddling season on the go, I thought I'd let you all know that there's a very helpful and friendly ferry company on the go. It's cheap too, so give it a look if you're travelling.
http://www.celticlinkferries.com/
Jim.