TOTAL DISASTER !! (Stranded) Paris to London by ferry and train just like before Eurotunnel opened.
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 29 ก.ย. 2024
- You can travel between Paris and London, via Eurotunnel in 2hr 20 min. For a bit of nostalga I decided to travel via SNCF, P&O Ferries and Southeastern Trains. A little more time consuming, but it would be fun, wouldn't it? Actually, no.
//// UPDATE - after writing to P&O Ferries I received an email acknowledging the problem, but refusing compensation. You can see this update at • Video ////
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00:03:15 Gare du Nord
00:04:30 Trains to Calais
00:08:50 Calais Ville
00:14:25 Calais Ferry Terminal
00:17:20 P&O Ferry
00:21:35 Dover
00:22:35 Canterbury
00:27:25 Southeastern Trains
How does this guy doesn’t have 100k subs the things he does for TH-cam is unbelievable
I totally agree 100%! :)
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Agreed.
Very entertaining!
I like these kind of journeys, but I admit that the stress with connections can kill you. Having to walk long distances against the clock would have been too much for me :D
Hmm. I used to do this route as a student 30 years ago. I was planning to do a nostalgic rerun next year but your experience has put me right off. Nice to see some familiar sights in your video though so thank you for your service!
Wow my heart went out to you! What an adventure. In the olden days (2012) my wife and I did the exact same thing. Our trip was TGV to Frethun, local to Calais Ville, Cab to the ferry port and P&O to Dover, shuttle to the train station and then the Javelin to St Pancras. Loved it! Would not travel ever again on P&O due to the disgraceful sackings.
One thing I love about being British (and edit it seems other countries too which is amazing- humans can be nice to each other!) is when we face an issue (like the trains here) we come together and help each other out!
you should have got a full refund from southeastern under their delay repay scheme. Also Canterbury West is where the fast service into London St Pancras departs from rather than the East train.
I really didn't enjoy watching that and since I travel on trains all round the UK for business, you have my sympathies. Enjoying your channel.
Hang in there! Delays suck
Well done for perseverance ! Whilst the delays with SNCF were poor, I am surprised you didn’t take a taxi from Calais Ville to the Ferry Terminal ? The rest of your journey was unforgivable, and the attitude of P&O atrocious ! Many thanks.
Hi Anthony, if I had realised Ferry Port B was the new port, I probably would have taken a taxi, but based on the Balad'in website and their map, they only stopped at the older port, which Google Maps showed as a P&O office site. Experience has shown me otherwise. As for P&O, don't get me started! :-)
Well said about P&O.
This guy is awesome!
Biggest thing is no one is traveling very quiet
got to give you credit, you just kept going.
Bravo on how you turned a journey from hell into a comic epic on video. Unfortunately your experience is the standard way of travel in France and Britain and quite a few other countries. Appalling customer service, bad connections, outdated, incomplete and incorrect information on about your public transport service, and on some promising connections a real obstructionist policy on the part of the operators to discourage traveller’s from even thinking about being so stupid to choose for the train. I am looking forward to the Cherbourg-Ireland ferry on foot, using train connections…. We’ll see how that goes…. Good luck with your adventures.
Many thanks, and good luck with Cherbourg-Ireland. Don't let my disaster put you off!
One of my favourite videos! Ha the more your trip goes belly up, the more I enjoy it :) Sorry Scott! Really interesting stuff though, and now I know why when I tried to book a DFDS foot pax ferry, why the website wasn't working for me! Strange though eh, 'Dover Calais' is such a famous route, well, that is now firmly in the past! Well done Scott, stuff of nightmares :O
You and Scott have definitly become firm favourites with me. You both come across as genuine folks, and that, for me anyway goes a long way. Keep it up. to quote a restaurant I never use. I.m lovin it! 😂
Am I bad O am like what the bejesus is going on with Scott. Steve and Scott and my fave as I am biased to my fellow aberdeenshire fellow Steve. South aberdeenshire versus north aberdeenshire (me). I love you too scott though
@@DavidPeacock1972 Haha Thanks so much David! :)
@@ametrinemoon Cheers! We really need to do a travel challenge together eh!?
@@steve-marsh I can't drive LOL. Could do one you drive and I take the bus LOL
Great vlog! I think I can top your ferry problems :) Took a bus from Athens to London. As if that wasn’t bad enough, there was a horrific storm in the channel. Our luggage was piled outside the bus for customs and the bus beside ours flipped over and landed on it. We disembarked on our bums down a ramp seesawing up and down with the sea splashing up at us. We finally got out of the port and were immediately hit by a car - major incident involving the police. Nightmare. Loving your vlogs. I would rather watch it than live it these days.
After that bus incident you should have taken the clue that today wasn't meant to be... :D
There is a saying that an accident rarely comes alone :D
I remember turning up at Calais about 15 years ago to find there were no more shuttle buses to the port and, having walked miles through that grotty industrial estate, discovered there were no foot passengers after about 7pm. Had to hang around in the ferry terminal and bribe someone to take me in their car! It's true, foot passengers are now treated as third class citizens.
I've had to do that in the past too.
If you need to do that journey today, just head down the coast a ways down the beach, plenty of boats heading to the UK. you even get an escort across!
@Falafel I think I saw him (scott) at westway retail Park in Cumbernauld
@Dimitri Medrividev there's already the eurotunnel
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Worse places to be delayed in than the south of England..Canterbury looks really lovely.
Another fantastic video and I feel your pain on that journey. I have family from Calais and used to visit frequently as a foot passenger. I remember the big booze warehouses like EastEnders used to pay for the ferry crossing on minimum orders, and when British companies like Tesco expanded to cite Europe shopping centre, they also ran busses to the centre to the port. When France was using the franc it was economically astute for Essex and Kent residents to go across and do a weekly shop at the local Carrefour supermarket, you could save a fortune. But since 2008 and the decline of the exchange rate,Calais has become an extremely deprived area and a thorn in the French governments side.
I think if they had the option, they would close Calais port and wipe the town off the face of the French map. The changes they have made to foot passenger access in my opinion is not accidental but rather deliberate. The government are doing everything within its power to ruin Calais. Which is a shame as Calais has a lovely town centre and some fantastic beaches. Within the next ten years I wouldn't be surprised I wouldn't be surprised if they made foot passengers obselete. But fair play to you for sticking the journey
Historically, Calais (Caliss it was pronounced) was the "property" of the English Monarch. Perhaps France could return it....
@@alanmon2690 the way It is now, I wouldn't want it even if the French paid us to take it back. It's a lifeless shell full of abandoned industrial units that once housed great industry
@wimblewomble you actually think the French would get rid of calais if they could what are you on can I have some please
These videos are a valuable resource for transport methods that are still available but highlight the various degrees of efficiency on each segment of a journey. Great videos.
Dieppe to Newhaven is very decent ferry service both with and without (foot) a motor. It's takes about 4 hours but it's so much more relaxed than Dover/Calais crossing and very easy to do on public transport
Indeed. This is something I plan to do during the summer.
After living in Canterbury for 9 years in the 90's, its better to be stranded in Canterbury than Dover from my experience. Nice to see some old haunts.
I think you have the best grimace on the planet, the word grimace was created just for that expression, great video, it will help if you show on a map periodically, so those living elsewhere can follow along
One of the best travel vlogs I’ve seen on TH-cam. Invaluable information. Disappointed to hear Irish ferries don’t take foot passengers on that route. Thanks for all your hard work Scott.
Loved the looks on your face when there was a delay. I could feel your frustration...we all could! This was an enjoyable video and I watched to the end. You're calmer than I would have probably been. Anyway, well done!
Scott. Here's one for you. My flight back from Gibraltar to Glasgow has just been cancelled. You could say I'm stuck between a rock and a very hard place.
Definitely give the Newhaven - Dieppe route a go, it’s a very pleasant experience compared to going via Calais
Agree 100%
Yeah I can imagine for foot traffic at least.
As a fellow 'seasoned' traveller, I know it requires the patience of a saint. But this, was ridiculous. Fair play for keeping, on the face of it, upbeat. I think that by Dover, I'd have suffered a major and catastrophic sense of humour malfunction.
Reminds me of being a kid in the 70s and 80s My parents didn't drive and there weren't cheap flights. . Train from Ayrshire to London and on to Calais Maritime and to Paris. Paris travel service used to do the whole package.
We also used to do the same but to Ostend and then the tram up to Oostduinkerke in the early 70s.
Please try VICTORIA- LEWES - NEWHAVEN TOWN DFDS/ TRANSMANCHE FERRY (PLEASE NOTE RESTRICTED CA PPL CAPACITY) DIEPPE - ROUEN RIVE GAUCHE -PARIS...
Love that crossing, and I really like the town of Dieppe as well
Does it take foot passengers?
@@s125ish Yes, but check if overnight sailings do as well
The Newhaven ferry has a reduced capacity so foot passengers are subject to space... often available at very short notice ..
A nicer (and possibly cheaper if booked in advance) way to travel might have Paris St-Lazare - Dieppe - Newhaven - London Victoria.I used to go to Paris from London a lot in the 70s and that route was, imo, the nicest way. But the trains used to go side by side with the ferries at both ports then, not so now.
The cheapest way then was by Hoverlloyd coach and hovercraft from Victoria Coach Station to outside the Gare Du Nord, later the Quai D'Orsay I think. The worst way to go was the somewhat antiquated Night Ferry via Dover-Dunkirk. Not only tatty train interiors, but also noisy and slow as you might get a considerable delay using the old tidal lock gates at Dover (which allowed the train coaches to be loaded on the level). Other routes I tried were London Charing Cross - Dover- Calais - Paris Gare du Nord (meh) and also Folkestone - Bologne, both on the boat and by seacat later on.
I much prefer the Dieppe route, and Dieppe's a lovely little town. Sadly the shuttle bus to the port in Dieppe no longer runs, but it's a pleasant 30m walk into town.
The Dover West ferry's with rails in Kept the hazardous goods off the passenger ferry back in the day....
Good information, thank you.
And a gas turbine train from Boulogne Town to Paris...
Agree Newhaven-Dieppe is the way to go. The old port railway stations literally backed on to the ferry dock, sadly all gone now. As miserable as driving on British roads can be, the stress of multiple public transport connections makes travel a lottery.
This was definitely above and beyond the call of duty. You're a star for keeping going and telling us as it is. On a different topic I've just spent 8 days battling ScotRail with a Spirit of Scotland pass, kept looking out for you at Paisley Gilmour Street, it looked superb. Looking forward to your next adventure
Many times took the P&O ferry, as foot passenger, Dover to Calais. Then walk to Calais Ville for a train to Paris. Then metro to Gare du Montparnasse then on to La Baule. Work for Southeastern so it's free all the way. Never any hitches. Always found SNCF a top service. No problems with P&O. Tried the Eurostar too as alternative since 1995. Haven't been since 2018. Heard many problems with P&O since then. Occasionally some minor issues with travelling but always with a solution. Nice video. Transport business' need to take note of your issues and improve their service since this is now free for all to see. Excellent.
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Thanks, Scott for your video, In the 80s and 90s before Eurostar. I used to travel from Dun Laoghaire via London to Brussels and on to where my train ticket would take me. At the time it was the old-style Interrail ticket valid for 1 month. I do remember the delays etc.
All those illegal immigrants coming over in boats don't have so much trouble!
I feel you mate, I was stuck trying to get home from Berwick last Tuesday (the hottest day).
I ended up sticking Carlise, no trains, no coaches, no buses anywhere useful, no hotels (they were all full) no uber, and no taxis. It was a ridiculous situation. The staff at Carlise just said nothing they could do, and locked themselves in the office.
When it goes wrong in the UK it goes really wrong!
I swear that that is James Burke in the background at 24:15
Back in the days when I travelled, it was the unplanned events, the glitches in the system, that made a trip interesting. So I guess I would have found your journey utterly fascinating! I'm sure that you appreciate the positives in your adventure, the new places you saw and the new people you met. Thank you for posting this, and for being so flexible!
Thanks for mentioning the P&O situation and the scab labour, Scott.
It’s a little sad to see people still using them, to be honest.
If I could give you a standing ovation I would. I’m still on the edge of my seat. Presumably you did in fact make it to the overnight bus to Glasgow. Phew. (Love your vids. 🥰)
Another great journey, have to be honest Canterbury looks stunning, not a place I’d ever thought of
from the bright side you gonna remember this trip. you always forget the good trips but always remeber the bad ones/different ones.
That was a bit of a disaster. As you were over an hour late into Victoria you should be able to get some money back from South Eastern on the delay repay part of their website.
People are encouraged to make journeys by public transport, but this whole thing would have been far less stressful, quicker and possibly cheaper by car which shouldn't be the case.
And what about the train.....?
Another great adventure Thank you SCOTT for for taking us along 😁😁😁💟👍
Made me nostalgic for the 1980s and that journey……but only for a while! Great video.
Dude, you have too many expectations. You have been lulled into a false sense of security. Remember, Murphy's law: If something can go wrong, it will go wrong. Sods law: It will go wrong at the worst possible time. Gumps law: Shit happens.
Like I said earlier, I have travelled all over the place. I have to admit though, I always carried the Thomas Cook timetable and the Youth Hostel address book.
So many unexpected adventures. Don't regret a minute.
20:45
Murphys law 😂
Fast becoming one of my most looked forward to channels.....being often the organiser for trips for myself and friends i share your dislike of short transfer times and the lack of easy to find essential information which can transform an adventure into a stress fest
I got delayed at Folkestone maritime, now long gone, by the excise man once for travelling light. Missed 2 trains because he took my passport. When he brought it back, I just laughed at him. I think this may have confused the idiot.
P&O ferries have done the same as Irish ferries over there Crew!! point 2!!it comes down to port of registration of the vessel (boat)eg!! Limassol, Nassau, Rotterdam, that is wear the crew and boat is registered!!and in in the Rotterdam case!! Indonesia!! people in the UK need to no!!it as been going on for years!!P&O ferries !!Pride of York!! Registered Nassau!! Previously registered in Hull!! don't have have a go at P&O ferries!!been going on for years!! Government like Grant shapps or not telling you the full story!!I have traveled with North sea ferries (P&O North sea ferries)P&O ferries) going back to good olds days of the Norwind,Norwave, Norland,Norstar,Norsea,Norsun!!
You have the patience of a saint. I would have either gone hobo are redhead mode. You have opped your game.., editing skills the tunes you used, and your banter. a big fat sub, Class. beware Bauld and Bankrupt x
It seems that you could get a train to Dieppe and then a ferry to Newhaven.
If you check the Newhaven dieppe Ferry times they do not have many Ferry times, would certainly involve a hotel in Dieppe. The other crossing gets to Newhaven too late at night to get train to London.
Fantastic video which was very enjoyable to watch the arrangements for foot passengers at calais looks confusing , very unfortunate to have such bad luck on pretty much every train/bus/ferry throughout although the SNCF train services looked very good. Canterbury is near to where i come from and annoying to not be able to get to london which is normally easy from there , big fan of your channel Leon .😊
Bravo! Bravo!
Travel, eh? Don't you just love it? ;-))
I hope you claimed your Delay Repay from Southeastern! You could also have gone Canterbury West->Ashford International->St. Pancras for a short walk to Euston, but at greater expense because of the high-speed trains on HS1.
Great to see my home town on your videos. Wish I had known you were stuck in Canterbury, could have offered you a place to stay.
I always get so stressed when those types of changes happen. Which is stupid really, it's almost always leisure travel so doesn't matter. You seemed to keep it together a lot better than I would have done.
The foot passenger thing is a shame, ferries would be great if you have the time.
Great video. shame you got caught up in the strike but what happened to p&o is what they want to do to on the railways. they want no ticket office staff and no conductors on board so you can't ask for help and to replace the drivers with lower paid/skilled or automation all for profit.
After what they did to their staff I point blankly refuse to use P&O for the rest of my days
If you’d got to Ashford then High Speed services were running to/from St Pancras
Made me thick of a certain movie 😂😂😂😂😂
I’m sorry Scott but I kept laughing. I’m so glad you got home. I’ve been on one of those throw double six to finish trips. 24 hours to get back from goa. 3 flights, long stopovers. Unexpected stops and ripped off by a taxi in Manchester 😂
If it went well, it would have been a bore.
Hi Bod, exactly! It was memorable, but for the wrong reasons. As it turned out, it made an interesting video.
Scott, try Brompton & Train for those of us who no longer wish to fly. Although Brompton's are an expensive investment, they are available to rent. Brompton also do decent load carrying bags that are built to fit straight onto the front of the rental bikes. So your initial investment is just the bag and off you go.
Everything is broken. The NHS is broken. The roads are broken. Public transport is broken. The Emergency Services are broken. Housing is broken. The only thing that still works are the bonuses for the fat cats
Oh Dude. Being railway, I've been doing this journey/route for 30+years. I've seen the changes. The SNCF closed Calais Maritime, loved that station, while I was in France.
In fact now I think about it, on a school trip in 68, we got off the ferry in Dieppe and straight onto the train on the dockside.
"All the good times are passed and gone, all the good times are o'er.......
And in the last 10 years, despite my travel privileges, I prefer to drive. Use my privs for local trips.
I did most of my travelling around Europe in the 1960s and 1970s, speaking only English, so public transport was a bigger challenge than the ferry and driving my mgb.
God bless the amazing Brexit. What an absolute shltshow. Worse decision EVER
**I am watching this in April 2024. The U.K. has gone to the dogs by design and is a fcuking disgrace!!
Well Done Scott for exposing this. A BIG thumbs up mate - you definitlely deserve it**
Hi Scott 🤗!
Great video, thanks very much for taking us on your excellent journeys 🥰👍!
Those awful people of the P & O Management!
Hope fate and karma hits them and all other likes very very hard when payday comes!
So close to finally getting towards home and then come the "Battles around Medway" 😳😰😵💫🤯!
I think I`d have gone nuts, but you just kept your temper 👍!
This is a useful video as it shows how a pro works through these issues. Issue’s the every person faces daily. At least you did not have everyone’s favourite delay- leaves on the line.
"Network Rail would like to apologise for the delay to the service to London Victoria. This is due to a brontosarus wandering on to the tracks at Sittingbourne, after which it was attacked and eaten by a Tyrannosaurus Rex. The remains were scavenged by a flock of pterodactyls. Network Rail staff then took their time cleaning the tracks with regular tea breaks."
While I'm not saying the above is credible, it's as good as most of the bs excuses they come up with for delays. The wrong kind of leaves on the line ? BTW that was a REAL excuse. I DIDN'T make it up.
Was there not a minumum trainservice on strike days? If public bus was the only option I would have tried this route between Dover to London: Bus 102 Dover-Folkstone, Bus 10 Folkstone-Ashford, bus 10 Ashford-Maidstone, bus 101 Maidstone- Chatham station, Bus 700 Chatham station-Bluewater shopping centre, Bus 96 Bluewater shopping centre-Woolwich Arsenal, DLR Woolwich Arsanal -Bank, Tube Bank-London Victoria. It is a route that takes between 6 and 9 hours and there was a chance that you would have catched your coach from London to Scotland.
Loved the old days - Boat Train to Dover Western Docks Sealink to Calais Maritime and RTG (gas turbine train) Calais Maritime to Paris Gare du Nord - all free 1st class thanks to my Dad being a British Rail controller. 2 questions
1. Why travel on a strike day? Asking for trouble!
2. Why not use DFDS Calais - Dover?
I’m a DFDS fan - Dunkirk port is in middle of nowhere so to have foot passengers would mean they’d need to provide a LONG bus transfer to Dunkirk.
Oh and 3. learn some French. Its not hard and we Brits are so bloody lazy at foreign languages… ce n’est pas difficile! Great video though and far more entertaining than a loo review on a Eurostar!!! (No names..)
Sounds like a frustrating trip. Still sounds adventurous, though
Your videos are fantastic. You would of been better getting HS1 from Canterbury East to St Pancras international then it’s a short walk a long Euston Road. That Southeastern HS1 service is fab I often catch it to Folkestone Central when I come down from Dumfries.
Bad luck. I gave you the thumbs up since I ‘travel’ (aka, get up in the middle of the night, for a bus, for airport scrum, security, uncomfortable Ryanair seat, and doubtful rail journey in the UK!) a lot and know the pain. But I’ve never quite experienced a succession like that!!
Very entertaining as usual. I really enjoy all your videos. Many thanks.
Thanks!
Welcome to backward Britain.
20 years living in Asia and Eastern Europe and never train delays and great service.
"The f'kin way she geos" ... I know a retired long distance trucker who always said that. You just have to go with the flow. Some days everything goes smoothly, and other days your piss jug spills all over your cabin and it's a disaster. Way she goes!
Great video. I was somewhat surprised by your comments about DFDS and foot passengers as I use them twice a year on the Newhaven to Dieppe route as a foot passenger. There's a route you can try one day ;-)
AMSTERDAM 🌷
👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼
Well despite all this
High tech stuff
(Speedtrains going 40,
timetables M.I.A, or from 2017, why NOT? )
It was 15 yrs ago so much easier without
Once in a plane from A,dam to Heathrow we were put on hold
Put into the dreaded CIRCLE above
(we had the curse of enough kerosine ,you see)
2 hours
I kid you not
B.A started to give free drinks...everybody got jolly, and we became A family up there
THE ,MAJOR, COMING FROM DARKEST NIGERIA , CROC INVESTED, MOPEDS NO BUSES
,INSISTED IT WAS EASIER OVER THERE TO REACH ONES DESTINATION OVER THERE ,......
Shoukd have messaged me. I live in folkestone ... ❤
You are always SOOOO NEGATIVE just cheer up a bit
When it rains, it pours! Sorry for your bad luck...
Stop whining about missing transfers when YOU squeeze as short layovers as possible. Just one delay and your entire journey is messed up because YOU failed to allow sufficient time for your transfers.
Bus drivers have no control over traffic congestion for whatever reason. Train drivers have no control over traffic congestion and signaling issues. But YOU do control over how much time YOU allocate for transfers.
Stop whining over your mistakes!
What are you doing? Walking around using your own feet to go to places! That's such an animalesque thing to do, have you got no sense of shame?!
Grab yourself one of those fancy, 4 wheeled motor vehicle thingy, and just follow the pack like everyone else!... hahaha
Hi there, I just find your channel. Will be helpful if you add prices in US$. Thanks.
Garre du Nord station is hell on earth I hate it with a capital H.
I traveled to Rome via Paris on Sunday. The connection meant using the metro (pickpocket hell).
They had closed part of the metro for "maintenance" only found out by chance which meant a frantic criss cross across Paris. We made the connection with five minutes to spare. (I wonder how many missed the connection!)
I don't fly so I'm stuck with trains. Think I'll stick to the UK. Brexit has royally f****ed up travel.
Glad you got to expirence the true Southeastern Expirence, Glad you got to expirence canterbury too.
After sacking their workforce I wouldn’t use P&O. I’d rather not travel
Ah, but did you get home? The things you do for entertainment Scott. A thumbs up from me as enjoyed watching the steam coming out your head during all those delays....lol
You used P&O Ferries?
Sorry, Scott, but I've lost respect for you after this decision
Hi Scott, I think it may be a side effect of whichever terminal you go to. I have taken Irish Ferries a few times from Cherbourg to Dublin as a foot passenger. Do you think this could be a Calais/Dunkirk thing?
British public transportation has become such a joke under privatisation
Cheers up it could be worse u could be in Birmingham England then you'd av something to moan about!!
SNCF provide an app via google play. It makes train travel around France so easy. I spent a month over Christmas 2022 travelling around the S. France by train. Depending on when I travelled, I could book some tickets for as little as one euro. If you are over 60 you can buy SNCF's equivalent of a senior railcard - I believe it was on offer for 29 euros towards the end of 2022.