Talk:Calais

Hey

When I need or want to give advice on hitchhiking from the UK to mainland Europe or vice versa I usually refer to this page on Digihitch:

Hitchhiking Into and Out Of The UK http://www.digihitch.com/europe27.html

It tells you that it is better to hitchhike to Europe or to the UK on motorway services: Maidstone in UK and Jabekke in Belgium.

However, these pages on the growing Hitchwiki resource mention Calais and Dover again as options to hitchhike:

http://www.hitchwiki.org/United_Kingdom http://www.hitchwiki.org/Dover http://www.hitchwiki.org/Calais

That's quite confusing to me. So, what is better? To hitch from the services or on the harbours. My guess the first. Would the Hitchwiki need to be edited on this?

• Eh there is obviously a big mistakes written here... the tunnel is free for passenger, the ferry is paid for every passenger except the 2 persons per truck.

The euro tunnel crossing is only paid per car, while the ferry crossing is per car + passenger (except some temporary promotion from time to time). It would be useful to re-do a complete brainstorm with the information regarding what is written here. Maplefanta 01:01, 3 July 2007 (CEST)

hay

is it really that you pay for amount of ppl in the car? I hitched from calais to dover - ferry - and I managed to do it, though situation was unusual... so I am still confused about how to really do it. Is there any one who has SURE information about that?

Mirto 23:53, 18 July 2008 (CEST)

I checked it for at least P&O and NorfolkLine ferries: driver pays only for a car, not for amount of people. Though a correct number of passengers must be listed on the ticket. Changing booking takes less than a minute (if no queue) and is free of charge. It makes hitchhiking possible and quite easy.

I didn't check personally, but many drivers confirmed thet eurochannel is payed by car+amount of passengers.

so maybe we could erase this part of discussion above, as it is confusing and misleading? Thanx Mirto 18:44, 26 August 2008 (CEST)