Hi Bob

Bob Mannix wrote:
"Adrian" wrote in message
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HI Andy

Andy Hall wrote:
On 2008-05-22 07:29:11 +0100, Adrian said:
You're absolutely right - you can fly to Cork.
Many people who have filled in our e-petition have their own reasons for
wanting to bring their own cars / vans etc, and bring them to Cork
rather then Rosslare on the East coast.
Yes, and I've done that on several occasions and for that matter to
Dublin.
OK

Parents with young kids prefer the shorter driving distance (landing in
Cork removes 4 - 5 hours from the journey at the start and end of the
holiday.
So one answer there is to factor this into the holiday. For example,
add a couple of extra days and make overnight stops. It isn't as
though there aren't attractive places to visit on these routes to and
from the ferries.
That's fine - but most holiday lets are on a weekly basis - so you'd
either need to take a couple of extra days over your holiday to allow for
the travelling, or persuade the owner to let you the property for 5 days
rather than 7....

Well, when we used even the Rosslare route, we caught a ferry at AFAICR
2.00am on the Saturday (drive to Swansea and have a snooze in the car from
11.00 to boarding, arrive at 6-7am and then drive to West Cork (Adrigole)
ready to use the accomodation. On return ferry was at 7.30pm ish on the
Saturday so set off in the morning as per usual. Aside from drive home at
the end, all quite easy to do without extending holiday. Bit of driving
across southern Ireland but not bad. Not sure it was 4 hours extra! To plug
the area, if you want a sailing holiday, I can thoroughly recommend:

http://www.westcorksailing.com/

Thanks for the comments.
I'm fairly sure that the westcorksailing people signed our e-petition -
istr that they were commenting on the lack of UK business as a result of
the ferry closure.

I'm not doubting that you can do it - but I know from the comments on
the e-petition

http://www.bringbacktheswanseacorkfe...e-petition.php

and from talking to people running b&b, holiday lest etc - that quite a
few people won't do it.... and will go 'somewhere else'

I heard from a caravan site owner out on the East coast - they did very
well thank you last year 'cos all the UK caravanners came off the boar
at Rosslare, found this site (a couple of miles from the ferry
terminal), put the jacks down & stayed there the whole week....
whereas previously they'd have come into Cork and stayed out this side
of the country...

If you were able to sign the e-petition that'd be great g

Thanks
Adrian