Question Would you take the Ferry (Ebbsfleet Away)?

[GIBBO]

Evening All.

Sorry, couldn't add a poll in the ebbsfleet thread.

I'm in the process of getting a boat ferry service from Tilbury to Gravesend return for £10

They run from Tilbury from 10 till 2 pm
Return 5.30 to 7.30 pm

It most likely to be a booking service. so we don't have a load of supporters turning up at once.

I'm just trying to find out any interest in this? Just a yes or no, so we can find out how much demand.

I know more in the coming days.

I MUST STRESS, if the weather is reported to be bad condition for the ferry. It won't run. We know 72 hours prior. Just a heads up.

Thank you

 

[Supernaut]

A definite yes for me and the boy.

 

[Tommy2holes]

Evening All.

Sorry, couldn't add a poll in the ebbsfleet thread.

I'm in the process of getting a boat ferry service from Tilbury to Gravesend return for £10

They run from Tilbury from 10 till 2 pm
Return 5.30 to 7.30 pm

It most likely to be a booking service. so we don't have a load of supporters turning up at once.

I'm just trying to find out any interest in this? Just a yes or no, so we can find out how much demand.

I know more in the coming days.

I MUST STRESS, if the weather is reported to be bad condition for the ferry. It won't run. We know 72 hours prior. Just a heads up.

Thank you

Sounds like a great idea but I'd want to have a few beers and that would mean train and ferry as I wouldnt want to drive.

Hope you get the numbers you need

 

[Billy Bests boot laces]

I'm in the process of getting a boat ferry service from Tilbury to Gravesend return for £10

Last time i used that ferry was beginning of Jan 76, en route to Gillingham to watch them play Brighton on a 'spying trip' re their team & fans, a week before we played them in 3rd rd of F.A. cup.
The walk up to Gravesend station was as depressing as it gets, & probably the same now?.

 

[GBJ]

I'm just trying to find out any interest in this?

In the words of the late, great Ray Liotta…

Build it and they will come.

 

[Petejames]

Sounds like a great idea but I'd want to have a few beers and that would mean train and ferry as I wouldnt want to drive.

Hope you get the numbers you need

Why couldn’t you have a beer … train to tilbury then ferry over?

 

[Thundersley Blue]

That would bring back a few memories. Grandparents lived in Margate and the only way by road was the Blackwall Tunnel in the early sixties. We used the Ferry a couple of times. Easy trip during the Summer months went from Southend Pier to Margate Pier on either the Royal Daffodil or Royal Sovereign. Took 2 hours, quicker than by road. Those were the days.

 

[* ORM *]

£10????? is it cruising to Tower Hill before returning to Gravesend?

 

[GIBBO]

£10????? is it cruising to Tower Hill before returning to Gravesend?

Private hire, costs are higher than the service provided by Jetsteam (who run the service) which is £6.
It's a good firday too (bank holiday) costs double for most things in life on a Bank Holiday.


A £4 increase. If you don't require this. I suggest get a train into London to come bk out again.

If you can find cheaper be my guest!

Most boats are based in London. You have to pay ****loads to get it to Gravesend. I was quoted £8k for one.

It's just another alternative for fans for travel.

 

[GIBBO]

Sounds like a great idea but I'd want to have a few beers and that would mean train and ferry as I wouldnt want to drive.

Hope you get the numbers you need

Get the c2C train to Tilbury and walk to peir stop about 10 mins away.

That's what, I will be doing

 

[Zeuss]

Am I imagining it but wasn’t it once free ?

 

[Shrimpergonzo]

Am I imagining it but wasn’t it once free ?

I think it was once operated by British Rail and the ferry crossing included as part of the train ticket.

Not free as such but included in the rail fare.

I think that was the case anyway.

 

[GIBBO]

I think it was once operated by British Rail and the ferry crossing included as part of the train ticket.

Not free as such but included in the rail fare.

I think that was the case anyway.

It's run by a firm called Jetstream now. Within the last week learnt so much about ferry's !

Jetstream have now lost the contract. So who knows, if or who be running it.

I had reached out to jetstream extra revenue etc. Couldn't give a toss. No wonder they lost the contract.

Isn't there a pub as soon as u get off at Gravesend?

 

[* ORM *]

Private hire, costs are higher than the service provided by Jetsteam (who run the service) which is £6.
It's a good firday too (bank holiday) costs double for most things in life on a Bank Holiday.


A £4 increase. If you don't require this. I suggest get a train into London to come bk out again.

If you can find cheaper be my guest!

Most boats are based in London. You have to pay ****loads to get it to Gravesend. I was quoted £8k for one.

It's just another alternative for fans for travel.

Sorry Gibbo, it was mostly tongue in cheek but love the explanation

 

[GBJ]

It's run by a firm called Jetstream now. Within the last week learnt so much about ferry's !

Jetstream have now lost the contract. So who knows, if or who be running it.

I had reached out to jetstream extra revenue etc. Couldn't give a toss. No wonder they lost the contract.

Isn't there a pub as soon as u get off at Gravesend?

Not sure, but I do know there’s a Wetherspoon in the high street, just round the corner from the landing dock.

 

[Chris Powell's mate]

Great idea: inventive and novel!
If I were only closer...

 

[Mick]

Am I imagining it but wasn’t it once free ?

Travel is free at any time for holders of a Thurrock, Kent or Medway National Concessionary Bus Pass. Other National Concessionary Bus Pass holders travel will be charged at the child rate for a single or return before 9:30am on weekdays, and may travel for free at all other times.

 

[Northbank Nirvana]

me and a mate would definitely be on for this Gibbo, well done for sourcing the potential boat, if all is ok , let us know asap as we'll book yours and get refunds on the stratford to Ebbsfleet train tickets we have :)

 

[Liam AAS]

I would love love love to do this.

 

[EastGreenNutter]

Lucky the games on the 29th as the ferry service stops on the 31st.