Did it yesterday cost £38 for day return, departing 0733, returning 1706.

Have a look at -

http://www.eurotunnel1.com/direct/booking/journey.asp?lang=en

If you experiment, you will find the cost depends of day of week and time of travel.

The bit on the Eurotunnel web page which states prices from £49 each way is confusing.

If you do the booking procedure short of paying, you will be pleasantly surprised, depending on when you want to travel.

Patka

Just booked a car plus 2 passengers with Hoverspeed using a promotion they ran in the Daily Star a few days ago. Cost is £19 return for a weekday crossing, £29 for a Saturday.

Bookings must be made by end Sept for travel between 6th Sept and 23rd Dec this year.

Now, can anyone advise me on buying decent French wine (white and red) about the 3-6 Euro per bottle range. Happy to buy cases of 6. Don't believe the best bargains are likely to be within a couple of miles of the Calais docks so happy to travel 30-40 miles away.

Any advice welcome. Thanks.

Just booked an after midday return with Eurotunnel in October (weekday) for £38 for the car and upto 8 passengers. Book here http://www.eurotunnel.com/ukcP3Main/ukcPassengers/

Eurotunnel have a new pricing structure which allows you to stop over. also the earlier you book the cheaper.For example we booked 4 weeks in advance and paid £26 each way with a one night stopover this the best way to shop.Strait to belgium buy tobbaco stay one night in De Panne then back to Calais the next morning to the hypermarkets & then return in the afternoon.

Sorry should have been £23 each way

wish we lived in the south of England would love to go to France and with the prices you have all been quoating it sounds fantastic if we could get down to the south cheaply

We took the kids across for the day in half term week. £30 return on the chunnel for 7.58 out and 20.06 (1906 UK time) back. cos of early start we stayed at the Premier Travel Inn at Folkestone the night before which is less than 10 mins drive from the chunnel - squished 4 of us in a room for £45 then they gave us a fiver off dinner at the adjacent Brewers Fayre.

There were delays on the M25 on our way back, so we did the south circular route (slightly further for us) - and were actually at the A4 junction of the M25 exactly 2 hours after leaving Calais. Had the kids in bed in the central Midlands by 10.20pm!!! (going down was another story unfortunately!)

We found Sainsburys (out by the Auchan hypermarket) slightly cheaper than Tesco at Cite-europe, our bargain of the day being 24 cans of Gaymers cider for 8 Euros!! Do watch their quoted price conversions however as they are not entirely accurate

It would be nice to live further south though to avoid the need for an overnight which bumps up the cost!! Can't we have that Midlands rail link they were talking about at one point!!!

TAH-M Next time you go over look on the http://www.wineandbeer.co.uk website not only can you order online wich saves a lot of time as your order is ready on arrival which gives more time to do other things it is in the same row of shops as auchan & sainsburys.
Regards,
Roger.

Thanks for that Roger!!

Ah....im jealous of all you southern channel hoppers!!

If we are gonna have a midlands rail link, we need a scottish one too