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P&O Ferry Dover to Calais : Spirit of Britain
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Jan 29, 2025
P&O Ferry Dover to Calais : Travelling on the Spirit of Britain ferry that entered service in February 2011. Video shows departure, tour of ship, arrival at Calais, Boarding and setting sail http://www.tipsfortravellers.com and http://www.twitter.com/tips4travellers
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so this is the port of DOA and I'm
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currently on a Pio Ferry going from DOA
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to Cal so we're looking there at a hint
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of the White Cliffs of DOA and down
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there you can see the cars boarding onto
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the ferry ferry service
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runs all day all night many many many
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many Crossings uh Pino is only one of
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the fairies that cross this uh route
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there's also
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uh two other main
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providers what we looking at here is
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what's known as a club Lounge you have a
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special area where you pay £12 per
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person and you have coffees and that
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thing like a like a bit of a a club
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Lounge thing like you'd have an
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airport and
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uh more of the ship to come
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and so just the
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final and so here we are we've Now set
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sail from
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Goa heading out for an hour and a half
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long
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crossing the stra DOA which is the
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busiest
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sea Lane in the world something crazy
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like 400 ships an hour
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bizarre that's a DE has see where ship
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over
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it if white CS
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probably hear the alarm that's all the
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various
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car c
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off so this is what it looks like with
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all the cars
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in this is just the upper level there's
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a whole another level downstairs as well
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and we're about to
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disembark and head into Cal and so this
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is heading down towards the
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dy3 and around here you have the
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bar and G section and now we're head
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down towards JY free
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shopsy challenge around there and coffee
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shop
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like family loue and Cofe and getting
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back down
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towards so this is the club Lounge
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Ono F so you pay
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12b per person and it's at the back of
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the f
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normal sort of aircraft L after sit area
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over
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there so we're about halfway through the
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trip now you can actually see the coast
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of France over
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there and if you look up across SE
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beautiful nice calm sea here in the
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middle of summer and many many
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many ships out
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SE Fair
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call
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shs
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at Club
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area and again Co problems
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[Music]
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and that there is uh think we be coming
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into
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talk
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C it's saw Cal coming in with people
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there on the beach
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so here we are now at the port in
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Cal waiting for our
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Ferry that's the ferry that's com at
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1715 which is actually the pr the one we
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came over on and here you can see people
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in the various Lanes curing this Lane
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here 1 2 3 is a priority lane and then
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Over There Is AO that we will be holding
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and I mentioned that is the pride of
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Britain so this is the spirit of
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Britain
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leaving and if you turn around there
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you'll
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see car stream off fa that we about to
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board
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and probably it's EX uh
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surprisingly limited my time to get
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off very and get on pretty large ship as
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you can
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see incredibly incredibly tight
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magly turnning away there it's amazing
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how it just spins around pretty much on
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the like silver did just came back
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