Driving from Scotland to DLP

[Perladal]

We are in planning stages of a trip to DLP this summer and have had a great quote for 3 nights, 4 days park tickets, half board and eurotunnel transport. We live in the North of Scorland do it's going to be a long drive for us. We do plan adding a couple of extra days either side of our dlp stay to visit Dunkirk and break up the long drive. Flying isn't an option this time as flights are very expensive and this is an 'extra' holiday as we've already got something booked for later in the year, so trying to keep costs down. Has anyone driven from Scotland or North England to DLP and do you have any tips? How did you plan your journey to maximise time in the parks?

Thanks!

[kk20]

We live in central cumbria so its an hour to the motorway. We always use the hull zeebrugge overnight ferry. This gets us to DLP in the morning after and we are refreshed.

[Lexilooby]

We’re Cumbria too. And like KK20 said, Hull-Zeebrugge is fantastic for saving time being stuck in the car!
We couldn’t do it outbound because we wouldn’t have made it after I finished school on the Friday.
We stayed at a Premier Inn at Maidstone on the Friday night (took us 7 hours to get there) then it was less than an hour to the ferry in the morning.
It took us 3 hours to get home from Hull and we’d slept in our cabin on the ferry (the kids loved it)

[HappyPanda]

My friend travels from Oban and like the responses above always does the Hull-Zebrugge overnight ferry. She says it's the perfect way to break up the journey and the kids love the ferry part almost as much as they love Disney

[kk20]

Plus, if you play with the dates one of the ferries have club rooms with a double bed. Thats much more civilised than the bunk beds...

[DollyDimples]

We live in Fife and have driven to a holiday park in the Vendee in France a few years ago and went to Disneyland Paris on the way home.

We looked at various ferries and channel crossings and were slightly swayed by having a dover calais crossing included in our holiday park booking. We have a diesel car so fuel costs weren't to high an issue for us. On that occasion we stayed in Slough on night 1, went to Legoland on day 2 and stayed overnight in Dover, go a ferry the next morning and drove to the vendee. After our stay there we drove to DLP stayed for our nights there and then on departure day left after lunchtime, got a late afternoon ferry from Calais to Dover and the stayed overnight at Dartford before driving home the next day.

This summer we are heading back to France bu not to DLP. We are crossing at Dover/Calais again as the cost of the hull ferry way high and we are headed for the centre of France. We are staying overnight in near Folkstone on the way and staying just off the M25 to the North of London on the way home.

Next March when we are going to DLP we will be flying from Edinburgh to CDG, going to book the flights when they are released with airfance next month.

I guess you need to decide whether how the cost if the hull to zeebrugge ferry stacks up against the extra driving. Depending how far north you live it might be more achievable to drive between hull and home in one day than driving between home and calais?