We live in the West Country and travel to France each year during August (school hols). Our holiday time is restricted to about 16 days and therefore we nearly always find that unless we want to drive up to Dover and tale the shorter cheaper crossing we have not much choice but to travel Brittany Ferries from Portsmouth, Poole or Plymouth. Apart from cost this is by far the better routes for us to go to Brittany - Vendee - Dordogne. The boats, cabins and food on these routes is very good and starts the holiday off for us. The only draw back is the cost. We have booked for 2006 in August - Portsmouth-St Malo over, with cabin and Cherbourg-Poole back, without cabin and the cost direct booking on internet is