Condor 10 to help with disrupted UK travel
Thursday 23rd September 2010, 2:59PM BST.
Condor 10 will be returning to service at the weekend
THE Condor 10 fast ferry is being brought out of retirement to reduce travel disruption on UK routes while another vessel is out of action.
The ship, which was retired in June after eight years with the firm, will provide cover for the Condor Vitesse, which is currently undergoing repairs in the UK.
Ferry passengers have faced disruption all week after the Vitesse suffered damage to two engines in separate sailing to the UK over the weekend.
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Get some decent slow ferries that one can sleep on from the UK to Jersey with low prices like the other carries E.G. Brittany Ferries,
We need competition.
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Yeah(1)
WE,ve been saying that for years,but they are not listening.
Competition is a dirty word here!
Travel is educational
It teaches you to get rid of money in a hurry!
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1 Annia
I agree….Sealink used to be great as far as I can remember. I enjoyed the cabaret on a rough overnight crossing from Southampton.
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Who suggested that I wonder… I believe I did on this forum. Only 3 months too late condor.
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at least they have a spare ferry!
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Totally agree about sealink we used to love it as kids!! Bring back competition COndor has had a very dissapointing year
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The joke of today-I am on the ferry tomorrow,I booked it a couple of weeks ago when all was well.
LOL if you can laugh at yourself you,ve won half the battle,fool that I am for believing them.
The moral of the story is trust no-one who says things have been sorted only for the same problems to surface.
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Having just returned from a few days in Jersey I was disgusted with the service of Condor. We had to return to Poole instead of Weymouth, no one told us in Poole where to get the coach to Weymouth so we could pick up our car. After finally arriving in Weymouth at 2am we were told by the coach driver we had to find the security guard to get our car keys, we eventually found him at 2.25am needless to say there was a very angry group of people made worse by the fact that no one from Condor met us in Weymouth to give us our car keys. Will certainly not be visiting Jersey again while Condor have the monopoly. There needs to be some competition sorted out & quickly before it affects Jersey tourism badly.
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I am with the Sealink and Emeraude people. I had a few rough crossing which not being a good traveller in such conditions, I did not like at the time. However, I also had many comfortable trips to France and the UK. Of course the rough ones are at the top of the memory pile, for all the wrong reasons I suppose! Only one operator for any route, be it air or sea or train is never a good idea. Sadly, some things never change for the better in the long run.
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Competition on the routes to UK and France would probably solve nothing.
There is a very finite number of travelars all complaining about prices, to introduce more competition would be like stretching an elastic band further and further eventually something goes bang. The big risk would be that the fall out affects all the ferry operators and leaves the island with out any service for a period of time, or that the states have to give a subsidy to prevent an operator pulling out.
It was a mistake to let Condor run in competion with Emmeraude on the French route, it upset a stable service, led to Emmeraude leaving, HD Ferries never stood a chance with inadequate boat and an insufficient budget, So we get left with Condor on both routes and probably little prospect of anone even wanting to compete.
As an island we are vulnerable to being left without a ferry, imagine how quickly goods in shops would dry up if we had no ferries for a few weeks, as such we have to sacrifice price to some extent for security of service
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never mind condor how come you can get cheap deals from the uk to jersey /guernsey but never the opposite way can anybody from condor explain truth for a change
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Re #11 – select Jersey Promotions on the Condor web site and you will find excellent deals on short breaks = cheaper than flying and hiring a car.
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‘As an island we are vulnerable to being left without a ferry, imagine how quickly goods in shops would dry up if we had no ferries for a few weeks, as such we have to sacrifice price to some extent for security of service’
Then thank god someone in the early 1900s invented airplanes! I’m not saying goods would not sky rocket without a ferry service, but we can still fly in goods via air cargo so the shops would not dry up.
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Mike
I’m not suggesting aircraft couldn’t be used. But imagine the capacity of 1 cargo aircraft compared to all the freight that comes from the UK by sea. Plus there would be the additional transport costs that would send prices soaring.
I guess the next problem would be are there enough small cargo aircraft available at short notice because I doubt the bigger ones could even land in Jersey with a heavy cargo load.
There would also be othe impacts like farmers who have a large proportion of feed shipped in.
Wasn’t just a year or two ago when there was some issue with shipping food in and within a couple days the shelves of some shops started to have gaps.
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Shambles is what we are getting!
We had to go to weymouth instead of Poole last Saturday on conder 10.
Came back A day early,because of high winds forecast next day.
folks thrown about,many sick lying on the floor.
What normally takes 2 hours weymouth (again instead of poole) to guernsey took 4 and a half hours as 1 engine not working.
folk on day trips to guernsey(£25 return) arrived 5pm for 2 hours,some day trip!
Were told ferry leaves at 10 am,never left till 12 30 day trippers were fuming.
I,ve come to the conclusion that we will just about put up with anything in jersey,as nothing is ever done to improve things for us and make life a bit easier.
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