Passenger ferry to Dover?
 

Years ago we took a hovercraft from Dover (stuck in our seats the whole way). Now we want to take a ferry from France to Dover. Are there any that allow one to actually stand out and see the cliffs, etc? Is it even worth seeing? (not to be sarcastic... or am I being too 'romantic?')
Also, I am getting some sites that specify no foot passengers. Help!!

I think you'll get more responses for that on the Britain forum. French people nowadays seldom take the ferry, whereas the Brits still have to if they want to go on holidays with their cars (and without paying the extortionate rates of Eurotunnel's "Le Shuttle"). Locals on the British forum should be able to point you out in the right direction.

There is no British/Britain Forum -- only the Europe Forum. ((b))

Try the United Kingdom Forum. There's on for that.

All posts for any European place show on the Europe forum.

There's no hovercraft service anymore. All ferries to Dover as as far as I remember have outside decks. Some ferries don't allow foot passengers.

No-one can tell you whether the White Cliffs - or anything else in this life - are "worth it" Worth what, for a start? The best piece of advice you'll get today is to leave meaningless phrases like this to the idiotic world of cosmetic ads.

Few people, though, would regard the White Cliffs as among the great natural sights of this world.

They're our national icon: judging them as a sight is as surreal as wondering about how good the sculpture is on the Statue of Liberty. Unlike any other country's national icon, tough, ours has been, in living memory, the site at which pure evil chose to attemptto confront common decency. And was sent home, fatally wounded, with its tail between its legs.

Common decency confronted pure evil and sent it packing while the world's other major powers were either conquered, sitting on their rear or actively allied with Mr Schicklegruber. There can be few greater monuments to what the human spirit can do. Either you find this more worth spending time seeing than practically anything else in Europe or you don't.

DH and I took a ferry from Dover to Calais in 2002 & 2003--I don't recall seeing foot passengers but in addition to cars and buses there were people on bicycles. The view of the White Cliffs is outstanding, coming and going and Dover Castle is visible in the distance. The ferries we took had shops on board as well as restaurants--we were free to move about the ferry during the entire trip.

http://www.seafrance.com/seafrance/o.../en/passenger/

http://www.aferry.co.uk/UKFerry/p-an...-calais-uk.htm

Flanner: until I read your post I was convinced that hindsight is 100% accurate.

Two companies run ships between Dover and Calais, and take foot passengers:
www.seafrance.co.uk;
www.poferries.com.
Their ships have open deck space, lounges, bars, restaurants, etc.