Any discounts for Brittany Ferries out there?

[Hilary]

I'm just about to book a week in a gite with Brittany Ferries and wonder whethere there are any discounts with places like Virgin Travelstore / AirMiles / etc. , rather than paying full price with BF.

I haven't been able to track any down by checking the web sites, but thought I'd ask here :)

[amf]

Hi Hilary....you might get a better response to your question if you post on the travel forum here (http://www.moneysavingexpert.com/cgi-bin/yabb/YaBB.cgi)

Alex:)

[Hilary]

Thanks for the link, Alex - interesting site!

[mike230652]

Alex

Another thumbs up for the link you provided...Excellent site!

mike

[Mrs Dazzle]

Hi Hilary - well we've just got back early this morning from a week in Normandy with Brittany Ferries, ferry and cottage booked through them.

We went with our friends who were on a pretty strict budget and I was totally horrified at the cost of the ferry tickets:eek: :eek:
However, booking our cottage with BF made the tickets cheaper.

I know a lot of English owned-cottages over there have a discount code they can use with most of the ferry companies.

When we were looking back in January, the most expensive ones were those who advertised "discount ferry tickets". Whilst I realise ours was more expensive due to going over May half-term, our friends usually go mid-week out of school hols and have found it much cheaper then . . . something to consider, if you can.

Where abouts are you going? We stayed 5km outside of Granville in Normandy. It's a lovely area. Brilliant time had by all, especially due to all the D-Day anniversary stuff (didn't plan on doing any, but once we'd done the Bayeaux War Musee, we were all hooked, and that included 2 x 11 year olds).

[Hilary]

The ferry fares were a bit of an eye-opener for me too, Annie - that's why I was trying to find a discount somehow!

In fact we've now booked our week (full BF price :rolleyes: ) so I'm just trying to forget the fact that the return ferry trip (total of about 14 hours) is costing twice as much as the whole week in the gite! :eek:

We've chosen Brittany because we went there a couple of times in our (very much ;) ) younger days and liked the countryside, so plan on inflicting all the "...when we were here in 1976..." conversations on DDs! :teeth:

I did look into the possibility of booking accommodation and ferries separately but, as you pointed out, the ferry prices without accommodation were just stupid :crazy: