isle of man ferry

[geesexar]

gday guys Im heading over to the isle next year and am having trouble booking a ferry for 1st june...anyone who has been over...HELP any info much appreciated

[Large]

Try the day before or the day after.

Where are you getting the ferry from? There's 2 (or 3?) places in Britain and 1 in Ireland to get a ferry...shop around.






Are you walking, riding or driving on.?

[Hagarr]

gday guys Im heading over to the isle next year and am having trouble booking a ferry for 1st june...anyone who has been over...HELP any info much appreciated

Good Luck!

Not an easy task from my understanding

[Gix11]

Heysham or Liverpool are the ports that Steam Packet run from: http://www.steam-packet.com/

It's shit fight every year and you need to get in ASAP. Don't be surprised if you only manage to get a 3am ferry. That's the only time we've managed on the last 3 occasions.

Are you foot passengers or will you have bikes? Foot will be easy, Bikes, well, that's a different matter.

As Large says, you can't be choosy with the dates. You may have to go a day early or later as he said.

[Gix11]

Just did a search on Steam Packet and got 4 available for the 1st; 2 from Heysham and 2 from Liverpool.

That was Foot Passenger though.

[Gix11]

With Bike you're fucked until the 3rd. Maybe try earlier.

People book the ferry as they get off it the year before. You've gotta be fast if you want to take a bike.

[Large]

I saw 2 blokes on the standby list with bikes at Liverpool when I went.

Both got on.

[FIGHTERMC]

also 2 from ireland
one from larne and the other from dublin port
might also be one from belfast.
we go from larne or belfast cos the times are better for us.
book fast.......
not sure if i'm going next year yet
cos i'm going to the manx grand prix over there.my mate is racing in it next year
and then the TT in 2014 if everything works out for him.

[Gix11]

Yea, maybe a trip to Ireland is in order and then go from there?

And now I think about it, what Large said worked when I was last there as well, but it's a bit of a risk if they say no ater you've waited. To be honest I reckon they'd fit a couple of bikes on no matter what if you were there ready to go and had money in your hand.

[Large]

I think they'd been waiting most of the day

[geesexar]

BOOKED and BOOKED liverpool to TT then onto larne to check out the ancestry..was hopin to catch up Frank..we will be in Ireland for about a week...thanks guys..gettin excited

[Large]

You'll need more'n a week to learn the language.

Fuck becomes fook

33 1/3rd becomes

turdy tree and a turd

etc etc

[geesexar]

lol

[RevHead]

theres a picture of the ferry in this footage ,lol

http://youtu.be/aXR8Df_Bml0

[FIGHTERMC]

BOOKED and BOOKED liverpool to TT then onto larne to check out the ancestry..was hopin to catch up Frank..we will be in Ireland for about a week...thanks guys..gettin excited

my bro and bro inlaw were on to me this morning about going
and we book it too.going on friday 31th may from larne
and back the 4th of june.
will get in a couple of days racing.
geesexar before you head over send me a pm and i'll give you my mobile
and we can have a few pints and i'll teach you the lingo
with in a few hours LOL.

[geesexar]

sounds fookin good Frank..will do...my family originated from cork...headin over there after the races

[FIGHTERMC]

sounds fookin good Frank..will do...my family originated from cork...headin over there after the races
i'm only an hour from cork mate
but in saying that cork is a big county.
roll on the TT

[Gix11]

Strap yourself in tight Wayne. If Frank starts talking about Bum Races, and the Wun, Toe, Tree pint races start, write the next day off.

[geesexar]

shit yeah woon two tree been there before today..lol

[hooligan]

You'll need more'n a week to learn the language.

Fuck becomes fook

33 1/3rd becomes

turdy tree and a turd

etc etc

Hehe.
When i was a chef i used to work with a bloke from Dublin. " I need turdy tree lobster termidors, Mikey" "Fook off!"
and when he had that special birthday " How old are ya, Mikey?" "Turdy Tree, Fook Off!"