london to dover

[pump]

Can anyone tell me the best way to get from london to dover.I am going on a crystal cruise.

[gratefulguy]

There are several ways to make the trip. Mainly depends on how much you are willing to spend to make it easy! The easiest is to hire a limo service to take you directly from airport or hotel to the cruise terminal. This eliminates waiting for the cruise line's transport to fill-up before departing, and means few worries about the luggage. A local driver should know about road accidents or repairs causing major tie-ups and then he/she could take another route. Next easiest, IMO, is National Express coach from Victoria Coach Station. Again, the luggage is easier to have loaded into the coach than lifting it up (and down again) into a rail carriage, etc. It is slower (2hrs30mins), and the atmosphere at the Coach station, not exactly "Crystal Class"!

The other way, by rail, has the virtue of speed, but may not be without a change of trains (e.g., Dover to Gatwick @ Tonbridge) on the way back after the cruise. There are direct services to/from Dover from Victoria Rail Station or London Charing Cross, most days to Dover Priory Station. For all but the limo, you may also have a cab ride to/from hotel to station and station to pier.

You may want to ask the question on the Roll Call for your sailing, to see if you could get a group to share a van.

Also look on http://www.icskent.co.uk for the service I used 8/12 to go from Dover to Gatwick--really good solution for $50. USD each, for five people in a Mercedes van. The driver took us to the North Terminal's Arrivals area instead of Departures, to save us an hour waiting to get up the ramp! We took the lift up one floor and were there--ready to endure the three long lines you go through before boarding your flight. Hope the situation is calmer when you travel.

Globaliser will have more detailed and up-dated info, if he sees your request for help here!

[birders]

Darren also told us he does trips to Dover; here is info about him from one of my earlier posts:

 

Based on an internet search, we hired a driver from the Essex area to pick us up at our Heathrow hotel and take us to the Harwich area. The driver and turned out to exceed our high expectations and we are happy to share info, since we have gained SO much helpful information from reading about the experiences of others on these boards!

 

Our driver was Darren Parsons of Adelphi Executive Hire http://www.adelphiexecutivehire.co.uk/. Not only did he arrive early for both the LHR to Harwich and return trips, but he provided us with a safe, comfortable trip and enjoyable company along the way. All this at a considerably lower cost than the four of us would have paid for the RCCL bus.

[Globaliser]

Can anyone tell me the best way to get from london to dover.

Can you be more specific about where you're starting from? London's a big place. Or do you mean a London airport, and if so, which one?

[pump]

leaving from savoy hotel

[Globaliser]

leaving from savoy hotel

By public transport, then: Taxi to Charing Cross station, direct train to Dover Priory station, taxi to ship. You can easily walk from the Savoy to Charing Cross if you have good wheelie luggage, too; it's only about 5 minutes.

[lord of the seas]

Globaliser,

You might have upset the poster,hence,no reply.

[Globaliser]

Or he may have been totally satisfied by the information? ;)

[English Tim]

Perhaps he's on the train!

 

Mind you, if you can afford to stay at the Savoy, the chauffeur car may well be the favourite.

[gratefulguy]

Was there a time, perhaps, when the Savoy would have offered their Rolls or Bentley?!

[lord of the seas]

Perhaps he's on the train!

 

Mind you, if you can afford to stay at the Savoy, the chauffeur car may well be the favourite.

 

Well spotted Botham,that's the whole point.

[kmilycoco]

I can also recommend Darren from Adelphi Executive. He's a complete gentleman that met us, helped us with our bags and was very pleasant to deal with. I got his name of this board and booked with him at the last minute (on our way out to the airport we emailed him) not expecting him to be waiting for us and as soon as we arrived into Heathrow we called him and he waiting for us. On the way back to our hotel by Heathrow we agreed on a 7:30 AM pick up and my inlaws were off the ship by 7:05 and Darren was waiting for us. http://www.adelphiexecutivehire.co.uk/p1.htm