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Guildford - Calais

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Does anybody know if you can still get Guildford - Calais ticket ?

Years ago you could, but seems no one knows it exists it did in 2008, it cost £31.00.

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sonic2009

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Are you asking about the ticket that's valid via the Ferry from Dover Priory?

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The Colonel

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Eurostar will sell Guildford to Calais tickets.

This is not the ticket the OP is asking about.

The question relates to this thread:-
http://www.railforums.co.uk/showthread.php?t=52561

This is a SET set fare which was available from Guildford - I used it once IIRC £25ish. Was valid via London or Redhill/Tonbridge, as I went one way & back the other. It had no time restrictions and was cheaper than a return to Dover!

I've emailed someone who is in Guildford BO about it but not had a reply.

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It's still available from most SET stations. So you could get a connecting ticket from Guildford to the nearest SET station and then a day return (only day returns available) to Calais.

E.g. Tonbridge-Calais £23.20 day return.
 

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National Fares Manual NFM 11 CD shows:
Guildford - Calais route Stena P&O
Adult
Anytime Day Return (SDR) £31.00.
NFM 11 does not show Railcard discounts for this fare, but we know from wintonian in this post that passengers have actually received the Railcard discount.


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John @ home

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That is strange. That fare does not show where I am looking (obviously in the wrong place!).
You're right. It doesn't appear for me this morning, either. Sorry, all I can suggest is that I must have opened an out-of-date version of the National Fares Manual CD in error.

The best I can suggest is:
Guildford - London Terminals route Clandon/Woking
Adult
Anytime Day Return (SDR) £21.90 or Off-Peak Day Return (CDR) £17.80.
London Terminals - Calais route Stena P&O
Adult
SDR £36.00.
Total £57.90 or £53.80
Given bnm's quotation here from The Manual, that is reduced with a valid Railcard to:
Guildford - London Terminals route Clandon/Woking
Railcard
SDR £14.45 or CDR £11.75.
London Terminals - Calais route Stena P&O
Railcard
SDR £23.75.
Total £38.20 or £35.50
 

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Cheaper via Tonbridge, as I suggested (and there may be cheaper combinations). Change at Redhill. £18.20 SDR/£15.70 CDR and a far cheaper Calais fare, so total (assuming the SDR) of £41.40 before the railcard discount.

Doubtless slower, though, so it's a trade-off between cost and convenience.
 

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For some people a through ticket to Calais will be better, but it is often possible to get the ferry day-trips for £1 (midweek).

Although you do have to purport to read the Daily Mail ;)

http://www.poferries.com/dailymail


Ahh you mean to say you don't actually have to read toilet roll?

Spending £30 plus has always been preferable to reading that muck and spending £1.
 
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Opps silly me forgot to say must be via Boat, and thanks for info about newspaper deals, but I really would like to turn up at Guildford and buy a through ticket to Calais and not get a strange look from them at the window, and be told I must go via Eurostar.

I like boats :)

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Opps silly me forgot to say must be via Boat, and thanks for info about newspaper deals, but I really would like to turn up at Guildford and buy a through ticket to Calais and not get a strange look from them at the window, and be told I must go via Eurostar.

I like boats :)

Cheers

You can in theory, however wherever you buy this you are likely to get strange looks.
 

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Hate to point this out but if you're in Guildford all the Day Trip destinations (Caen, Cherbourg St Malo) available from Brittany Ferries in Portsmouth are way, way better than Calais,
The ferries are better too!
 
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