normcatalunya

Hi..All

Just a long shot!

Im living in Spain and since recently being widowed Im finding the ferries very very expensive..Would anyone know if Brittany ferries offer discounts for Seniors please?

Thanks in advance

Norm

Rosemary

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EsuriJohn

no they do not but you can join their Brittany Ferries Club. Costs £100 to join and £100 pa after that. If you bring a car it can be worthwhile with 30% discount and other perks. LD Lines have just started a new service from Poole to Santander undercutting BF by about £200 like for like at the moment.
If you search for the Cheaper Long Ferry crossing thread in the Ayamonte Club forum on here there is lots of detail there and a way to get 10% discount explained at post 19.

Porth

Does LD still run Gijon to St Nazaire near Nantes?

MikeJ

Yes they do.
Have a look at this thread = posts #23 and #26 for a description of the trip.
http://britishexpats.com/forum/showt...ight=santander

billgates

Blimey! boomers - talk about wanting your cake and eating it.

Not satisfied with free prescriptions, free bus pass, free tv licence, winter fuel allowance, free oyster cards, free university education (still), mortgage interest paid, and god knows what other freebies, you now want discounted ferry travel as well?

If only the ones that actually pay your pension could get some of the same, you know, the younger ones in low paid employment (if they can even find a job), with huge student loans to pay off, with record house prices forcing them to pay inflated rent to BTL's. Now if only they could get discounted ferry travel so they could sail off to somewhere warm for the winter......









Ignore me I'm having a bad day....

Porth

I will absolutely ignore you. Whatever happened to respect? It might have offended you but very seriously I cannot see anything wrong with the posting. With your posting I have contempt.

crookesey

Well throughout our lifetimes we have both lost good friends in their 20's to 60's, most of them having not lived long enough to claim any of the so called goodies. We feel duty bound to live long enough to claim some of their share as well as ours.

missile

Well said crookesey

billgates

Yeah, and all those youngsters won't live long enough to claim any of them either - work 'em and milk 'em till they drop seems to be the current plan for the younger generations.

Still, as long as you get your WFA then who cares?

crookesey

'Work em', a retired head teacher mate had taught three generations of the same family, without any of them coming anywhere near to a job, the grandmother was circa 40. All the current batch of chavs and chavetes are likely to die early of is drug abuse, gang related violence or sexually transmitted diseases.

Our son and his piers are all in work, don't believe all the left wing crap that is shoved down your throat.

missile

It always has been thus ......

crookesey

I don't know about that, one of my son's mates is an RAF pilot, another is a police officer and one is a school teacher, not a lot of 'working till they drop' there. His partner is a qualified occupational therapist, whilst he is aiming to do similar, it's my wife and I with a joint 99 years of work under our belts that will leave him laughing all the way to the bank when he inherits our estate.

billgates

Public sector workers. What do you expect?
I know a couple of ex-teachers, retired at 55 after 25 years work with a 20k pension every year.
Try explaining to them that their expected 30 year retirement just doesn't add up. Try explaining that a private sector worker on similar money would be lucky to get 5k a year.

Better hope your son is prepared to look after you in your old age otherwise it's the taxman that will be laughing all the way to the bank.

IamStu

A bad day indeed. At least I bloody well hope so you miserable sod
Isn´t it fantastic how these things are provided for the retired. More of it I say