What the hell is it with ferry prices.?

[Brads]

£500 return for 2 and a bike Newcastle to Amsterdam.

No option to not take a cabin, which takes up around £400 of that stupid price !

[AlanHolt]

Everything is priced at what people are prepared to pay.

[catcitrus]

just paid 61 quid return for me and the bike --dover calais---reasonable--just enough time to have a breakfast and then get on the road?

[andrew882]

Weirdly enough I went over on Saturday, Dover-Calais-Dover in the car, £29 and a case of wine thrown in.

It all seems a bit 'throw a six to start' to me

[RandG]

I was looking at the Newcastle ferry just the other night and £500 Is a far better price than I was getting up, the joys of living north.

[Africa John]

Can empathise with this as P&O from Hull are extortionate

It's a toss up between

• 1 hour to travel 40 miles to Hull then £350 ferry to Rotterdam but good sleep overnight

• 4 hours to travel 200 miles to Harwich then £150 ferry to Rotterdam but good sleep overnight

• 5-6 hours to travel 250 miles plus the bloody Dartford Crossing to Dover then £70 ferry to Calais or Dunkirk so get off ferry knackered

[Tonibe63]

High demand + low supply = fookin expensive

[AlanHolt]

Can empathise with this as P&O from Hull are extortionate

It's a toss up between

• 1 hour to travel 40 miles to Hull then £350 ferry to Rotterdam but good sleep overnight

• 4 hours to travel 200 miles to Harwich then £150 ferry to Rotterdam but good sleep overnight

• 5-6 hours to travel 250 miles plus the bloody Dartford Crossing to Dover then £70 ferry to Calais or Dunkirk so get off ferry knackered

I've just found a Harwich to Holland crossing for one adult on a bike, including cabin for €135.

[Andysr6]

Hi, got quoted £315 ; Newcastle - Amsterdam for me and my bike in March. wasn't able to book until recently and now £486.

[Billy Bananahead]

Brittany Ferries, late July and mid August, Portsmouth - St Malo return, cabin for 2 each way, Transit van, £674, booked last November.

Everything is priced at what people are prepared to pay.