Meme bateau pour moi aussi, alors. Tante pis.
I can stay on Friday night in the
Travelodge (nice cheap and early booking cannot be cancelled) and I was hoping to have a look round The Victory and the dockyard anyway, so I could do that to use up Saturday, and we'd need to be at the dockyard by about 3pm anyway as they often load bikes first on to ferries. So that is not much of a pain. Brittany Ferry boats are the best of the bunch, certainly the St Malo crossing in September 2011 was great. So I can live with the going over bit, and Dellzeqq and the others can open up the chateau. It'll be 9pm to 9.30pm arrival at the chateau
Coming back is a pain, although I suppose we could double up in the Travelodge or Ibis for the Saturday night on arrival so the cost will be about the same as it is on the way out, albeit we'll not be doubled up. TBH, it's either the Travelodge/Ibis or ride home from Portsmouth which for me is 115k or 6 hours. While I will be in training for LEL at that time and will be A Struggling Pensioner, I'd rather pay up than suffer.
I'll have a think and talk to them on the phone tomorrow. I guess any suggestion that they compensate me for this is a waste of breath.
One thought that I am pondering is asking for the ferry deposit back, and because I won't be at work by then (see reference to Struggling Pensioner, above) is going there and back by means of a rather pleasant and relaxing bike ride, via either Dieppe (200k DIY audax) or (in extremis) Calais (440k DIY audax but probably not this because I'm not totally tonto - could do a back-to-back 200k on each day).
So if someone wants to buy my Friday night in an exciting Portsmouth Travelodge June 14 for £26, they can have it. Equally, if anyone wants to ride across France on a bike with me..............oh, hang on, we'll be doing that anyway won't we?
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