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Old 01-07-08, 09:46 AM
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............ In the future I will be happy to arrive later at night so may do it in one go with the overnight ferry from Hull to Zeebrugge.
My daughter has just 'done' the Hull Rotterdam service - interestingly Rotterdam is almost the same distance from places in Italy as Calais.

They took the overnight crossing to Rotterdam, and thus saved best part of a day getting down to Dover. - but book early, it really fills up very early [they booked in November and could only get an (expensive) Family Room, all 'normal' cabins had gone]. Costs seem high, but you do [in theory] save one night each way in an hotel

The early start from Rotterdam meant that they easily made Mulhouse [Swiss/French border] in one day's fairly easy drive.

Getting on the ferry in Hull is easy - they got there about 3hrs - 4hrs before sailing time and it was already half loaded, with the Dutch and Germans queueing for the cafeterias to open.


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