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Originally Posted by Tourider
I did Portsmouth - Bilbao once, never again. It's basically a floating pub, as a non-drinker I was bored out of my mind! Take a short Channel crossing and ride through France the timings are exactly the same, two days and one night, and it works out so much cheaper.
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I'd tend to agree. The Bilbao run is a PITA as instead of keeping up a steady speed while you enjoy your food and  and get a good nights sleep, it wastes an extra day messing with the tides etc. The food is very average and the "cruise" idea seems to amount to Bingo and rubbish lager or overpriced brasseries serving pizza. Not reccomended.
Bikes and locations in the UK are a factor to me. My outfit is happier at 50 than 80 and Leeds-Plymouth is probably as awful a days run as Leeds-Dover. Once I hit the coast I prefer to keep moving and so would tend to go for the ferry. I don't get sea sick. If I lived within 75 miles of London and had a 100 mph bike I can see the advantages of riding across France, and I would take that route over the Bilbao ferry. That said, if I was riding across Europe I'd go Hull-Zeebrugge and gain time that way.
Andy
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