How to reach Dover

Arriving at Calais and seeing all the roads that leads to the ferries towards England is like entering a dish of spaghetti straight with your head. I cant remember seeing such a mess of lanes and gates.

Since we hadn’t booked any tickets and at the point of our arrival didn’t know that we would bring the car we were led towards the ticket office which was situated in the middle of a big parking lot, where you also could find other operators. I don’t know why we chose this one, but we did! I had checked the prices of the tickets on the internet and they can be way cheaper than you can get them on site.

We asked for a price and a time for the next trip, and there would be one leaving in 1 hour. Just for fun we asked for a day trip with car and got an offer of 75 euro which was ok for us! We were now going to Dover by car. We left for the entry gate for the ferries and found ourselves in the middle of hundred of lanes leading to different ferries. We found the lane for P&O and got lane 38 which we tried to follow and actually managed to find after some discussion.

The ferry was old but still going strong. I guess our timing was good because the ferry wasn’t full and it was possible to sit down without any problems. The trip from Calais to Dover takes aprox. 75 minutes, and didn’t feel that long. There are different cafeterias and restaurant onboard and on the way out we stayed in the cafeteria and got some real junk food which absolutely was not worth mentioning.

The duty free shops are ok and the prices in the lower end of what you see in other comparative shops.

Overall it was a fun experience