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Posted: 12.04.2025  ·  #1
Does anyone know if it's still possible to park overnight in the carpark prior to the 9am sailing to Bilbao please ?

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Posted: 12.04.2025  ·  #2
If you're talking about the port itself, there's no overnight parking, there's a pub in Kilrane you can stay in, just ask and have a beer or two or a meal,

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Posted: 14.04.2025  ·  #3
I got the ferry out of rosslare on Friday night gone and there was a load of vans parked in the supervalue carpark...there is a church carpark across the road that I've seen trucks and vans parked in before,whether it's welcomed or not,I'm not sure.


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Posted: 21.04.2025  ·  #4
From the BF Website. “ The car park inside the port is operated by APCOA and has 335 spaces.

Charges are €1 per hour, €5 per day and €25 per week.

Payment can be in cash or by credit or debit card.”

I assume that since you can park for a week you can park overnight. At Portsmouth you can overnight in the check-in lanes but you have to arrive very late. Whether that’s possible at Rosslare I don’t know, but a Tweet to them asking the question will get a reply.

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Posted: 23.04.2025  ·  #5
Last year we stayed at the railway social club 7 Saint Martin's Road. Just 2 minutes from the ferry. Just go in a have a pint or 2 and ask if you can stay for the night. They are very friendly in their.


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Posted: 01.05.2025  ·  #6
Thank's for all the replies, we arrived at 0.30am and stayed over in the Super Valu carpark, plenty of room and quiet.
We entered the port at 0745am and saw no vans parked in the carpark.
Just an aside, the Salamanca ferry no longer has a microwave in the passenger lounge, thankfully we had our travel kettle, pot noodles and porridge with us, so didn't have to buy any food on board.

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Posted: 02.05.2025  ·  #7
Yeah the food on the ferry isn't great either and they know how to charge for it...
we usually wheel on a compressor fridge with all our sausages,rashers,milk etc for the trip in it as I turn off the gas in the camper fridge...I put the compressor fridge in the awning then and fill it with beer...works a treat even in the heat....

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Posted: 08.05.2025  ·  #8
I have to disagree about the quality of the food onboard Santona/Salamanca in the Azul restaurant. We go to Spain for 3 months in winter, and rarely eat out, so it’s a treat for us to dine on board. The buffet is superb and you can have as much as you like and the mains are also excellent. And I don’t think the prices are that unreasonable.


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Posted: 08.05.2025  ·  #9
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I have to disagree about the quality of the food onboard Santona/Salamanca in the Azul restaurant. We go to Spain for 3 months in winter, and rarely eat out, so it’s a treat for us to dine on board. The buffet is superb and you can have as much as you like and the mains are also excellent. And I don’t think the prices are that unreasonable.


I agree, forget about the café it's usually crap, go to the main restaurant for decent food. I even got a properly cooked well done steak on board, something I've never been able to get in France.

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Posted: 08.05.2025  ·  #10
Oxymoron if ever I saw one.

properly cooked well done steak

But hey each to their own.


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Posted: 10.05.2025  ·  #11
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I have to disagree about the quality of the food onboard Santona/Salamanca in the Azul restaurant. We go to Spain for 3 months in winter, and rarely eat out, so it’s a treat for us to dine on board. The buffet is superb and you can have as much as you like and the mains are also excellent. And I don’t think the prices are that unreasonable.


I agree, forget about the café it's usually crap, go to the main restaurant for decent food. I even got a properly cooked well done steak on board, something I've never been able to get in France.


Good for you's...each to their own and all that i suppose😉🙂
maybe I'll give the main restaurant a second chance next time...we tried it a couple of years ago,the three kids and the missus picked at the food and it got pricey with the 5 of us for the food and drinks..that turned me off it especially when the kids waste the food...I didn't realise they had an all you can eat buffet as we had a set three course menu,that buffet maybe worth a try as they may have a better selection...we've ate several times in the other cafe style restaurant and wasn't a big fan of that but sure if your starving, hunger is a good sauce...personally we'd rather bring fresh rolls and fillings and a few other bits on board with my collapsible kettle and a flask,at least if we don't fancy the food on board we have our own and at a fraction of the cost...if we were on our own without the kids i can see the atrraction of the main restaurant, but with three fussy kids en tow that attraction disappears fast,the bar on the hand i love😉😃

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Posted: 10.05.2025  ·  #12
That buffet is in the club lounge and at €95 a head, in my opinion it's certainly not good value where Chrildren are concerned. It probably of value on the Bilbo / Santander sailing, especially if you're on the two night trip.
As usually the reviews are worse than useless, as food, service and value, is either Sh1t or brilliant.
So I would advise try it yourself. Speaking as someone who last used the food service on a Brittany Ferries boat, 30 years ago, it was great, 4 big people ate in the restaurant, 5 sort of little ones ate in the Cafe and joined us for to have our dessert.
I stopped eating on Irish Ferries when the stopped allowing us drink our own wine. Generally now we have a nice lunch before we board, in Brasserie Marcel's beside WBS, and bring a cool box, of food and drink, for later and breakfast.
I always tell them why on the after trip survey, (they usually send,) they are not entitled to Michelin star prices, and they are in a drink duty free arena, even recommending that they give the Francis to SuperMacs or Mac Donald's,


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Posted: 10.05.2025  ·  #13
I don’t give advice cause not experienced enough but- the non restaurant food on the Salamanca was poor at Easter time.3breakfasts-3 people bad ,all cold ,pay extra for butter ,stone cold mushrooms in milk,scrambled eggs- pure slop ,bacon’s unedable , sausages tasted of nothing, toast -cold and beans just about warm, it was bad ,and Id eat anything,we did eat in the evening and it was average,didnt eat in restaurant, good job we brought fresh sandwiches and rolls

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