Harwich Esbjerg ferry

[Rasmus]

If you're looking for non-flight options to Denmark, the easiest option is probably the daily night train from Amsterdam/Cologne, which can be linked up with the Eurostar to Bruxelles.

I think it can be done at non-extortionate cost if reserving well in advance.

 

[Rasmus]

Plans are seemingly afoot for a new company to resurrect this service - with a leased ferry - next spring.

http://www.reginaline.dk/index-uk.htm

Very early days - it appears the company is not even founded yet - but something to keep an eye on.

 

[Richard Fairhurst]

Note that DFDS have also withdrawn the option to travel as a normal passenger (i.e. not driving an HGV!) on Immingham-Esbjerg, on the basis that they expect the limited passenger accommodation will be occupied with HGV drivers' companions now that Harwich-Esbjerg has been withdrawn.

 

[nickyboy]

that is a shame - myself and 15 mates had one of our best new year trips (**** ups) on that ship. unbelievably good food all three days for an additional £20 IIRC.

bon voyage

Almost 30 years ago I went on a piss-up 3 days with some mates on this ferry. If I remember rightly, the train ticket from Kendal to Harwich cost me more than the ferry ticket which was about £20.

My one and only visit to Denmark, I seem to remember going to a zoo which I presume was Esbjerg. Managed to hook up with a German girl who was working as a cleaner on the ferry. Different times.

 

[JPLL]

Good news - Regina Ferries announced yesterday that they are to launch a thrice weekly service from Harwich to Esbjerg starting Easter 2015.

 

[Svendo]

Good news - Regina Ferries announced yesterday that they are to launch a thrice weekly service from Harwich to Esbjerg starting Easter 2015.

Thanks for that link, my Danish family has a holiday house in the Danish lakes, and I have many fond memories of both the ferries as a child. The journey was like a holiday in itself, plus going by car meant we could take our bikes! (Raleigh Meteor IIRC).
So please email them with your interest or like them on Facebook and hopefully it'll not be a 'vapour-ferry'!

 

[snorri]

, plus going by car meant we could take our bikes!

Although, if you wanted to take your bike it wasn't necessary to take a car.

 

[Ticktockmy]

Norwegian airlines offer reasonable fares out to that part of the world http://www.norwegian.com they even offer a rate for having your dog or cat in the cabin

 

[steveindenmark]

Good news - Regina Ferries announced yesterday that they are to launch a thrice weekly service from Harwich to Esbjerg starting Easter 2015.

Dont believe all you read until it happens.

This "Company" had lots of advertising a while ago about going into competition with DFDS on this route, but it just fizzled out and nothing happened. I think I remember the guy behind this has a chain of wedding hire shops. But I may be mistaken.

Stenna took over a couple of Irish sea routes from DFDS, so maybe they will step in.

Ryanair flys to Bremen and Easyjet to Hamburg.

 

[Svendo]

Although, if you wanted to take your bike it wasn't necessary to take a car.

Sorry, didn't make it clear, I was ~12 and my sister ~9. For this and many other reasons, for us at least, a car was necessary.
If we'd had adventurous cycle-enabled parents it might have been possible to have a cycle touring holiday, but then that wasn't the holiday we'd gone for.

 

[Svendo]

On the flying front Easyjet flies to Copenhagen, and Ryanair to Aarhus (actually some way from Aarhus and mostly a military airport), Billund (mentioned above) and Malmo (just across the bridge from Copenhagen.).

 

[snorri]

Sorry, didn't make it clear, I was ~12 and my sister ~9. .

I was just being silly, but wishing now that my parents had taken me to Denmark instead of Middlesbrough when I was12.

 

[Brains]

.... and here is how to announce that after 150+ years that that is it .....

http://www.dfdsseaways.co.uk/ferry-...KmnGG2aVRSI0-ZlHW6VcEhoC3a7w_wcB&gclsrc=aw.ds

 

[SatNavSaysStraightOn]

.... and here is how to announce that after 150+ years that that is it .....

http://www.dfdsseaways.co.uk/ferry-routes/harwich-esbjerg-route-closure/?ppc=1&gclid=CjwKEAjwqamhBRDeyKKuuYztxwQSJAA1luvGHwR07u8_Jm4PHmaIVTL1KmnGG2aVRSI0-ZlHW6VcEhoC3a7w_wcB&gclsrc=aw.ds

 

[Dayvo]

Almost 30 years ago I went on a ****-up 3 days with some mates on this ferry.
My one and only visit to Denmark. Managed to hook up with a German girl who was working as a cleaner on the ferry. Different times.

I was just being silly, but wishing now that my parents had taken me to Denmark instead of Middlesbrough when I was12.

Yeah, I bet you you do!