isle of wight ferry
This story happened on: 26/06/2012
not having gone on a ferry before we booked the isle of wight last month site and ferry thro cc.. wanted to spend a few nights in new forest first .. contacted cc and spoke to a young man he asked where we wanted to sail from .. not knowing really we said the nearest site from brockenhurst.. she booked us into a ferry from portsmouth which seemed fine untill i got to the cc site at brockenhurst where talking to the warden i said we were going from p/mouth his reply was ,are you mad.. that is a hard 1.5 hr hard run when there is a ferry from lymington 6 miles down road.. we managed to get hold of the cc who in fairness agreed and changed our booking on the spot.. great but the guy we first spoke to then went on to say that once on the ferry our dog was bound to stay in the m/home, not true dogs were everywhere on sun deck.. what really ticked me off was that he also said there was no way wightlink would accept our van and car on an a frame so we split them up and as the hassle it caused we ended up on seperate ferries as the loading procedure was different for vans and cars . speaking with a crewman he said that was rubbish , no prob with van on a frame as shown on way back.. just scribbling this as a warning to all that if you are doing a package deal with the club make sure you are happy with arrangements and not go blind as we did
brue
Motorhomer