Actually
They'd arranged for free ferry crossings for anyone booked onto the train.

As I say, damn good service.

Course, we generally get free Eurostar crossings what with being journalists going out to do features or stories, but they've been harder to come by with the tunnel being all melty...
(Miraclefish How appropriate, you fight like a cow, Sat 4 Jul 2009, 20:16, 1 reply, 16 years ago)

Yep :) turn up with your tix and hop on the first available ferry!
Seafrance were excellent about it, especially as Dover was packed - some of my colleagues were down there on the 12th. I was in Ashford station in high-vis putting people who'd just come off the ferries on a Eurostar to SPI and giving them water. Bloody Sky News were down there though claiming it was one of our sets that had caught fire!

Ah, you have a corporate account? I knows them all in that team as they work on my floor and sadly it includes Stalker Girl...
( Maladicta, Sat 4 Jul 2009, 20:19, Reply)

Corporate account?
Oh, no, nothing that clever. We just ring up and go 'er, hello. It's us again... can we have some crossings please? We'll write something nice to say thank you...'

And sometimes they say yes. Hooray.
(Miraclefish How appropriate, you fight like a cow, Sat 4 Jul 2009, 20:21, Reply)

Just go through direct sales?
Look into corporate EFT accounts, it could save you money in the long run!

/jeez Mal, take the service personality hat off!
( Maladicta, Sat 4 Jul 2009, 20:22, Reply)

Save us money?
You can get cheaper than free?
(Miraclefish How appropriate, you fight like a cow, Sat 4 Jul 2009, 20:25, Reply)

Well, allow you to accrue points that can be used for benefits later if you travel a lot.
And not just for business travel; it's worth making yourself known since if you want to nip over to France or Belgium you can rack the points up and then redeem them for nice things.

Incidentally, you can also now travel all the way through to Switzerland with a change in Paris.

/is not a corporate drone, honest
( Maladicta, Sat 4 Jul 2009, 20:28, Reply)

Meh
Sounds like effort.

Also planning. We don't do planning.

Still, £28 return for you and a bike can't be faulted.

/is not in any way affiliated with them
(Miraclefish How appropriate, you fight like a cow, Sat 4 Jul 2009, 20:42, Reply)

Eurodespatch FTW.
/is not in any way fanatically devoted to her company
( Maladicta, Sat 4 Jul 2009, 20:48, Reply)