Calais shopping - cheap daytrips from £19 - Wine, beer, tobacco.
Save 30 - 60% on wine in Calais. There are even greater savings when you consider how little of the United Kingdom price you pay for a bottle of wine actually goes on the wine itself.
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Three reasons for a daytrip; 1 - Save money, 2 - much better range of products in French supermarkets (fewer own brands), 3 - Quality is often better and healthier, and there are more local products available.
Despite the poor exchange rate, there are still big savings to be made when shopping in Calais - more
November 2011 - JP Chenet Wines are cheaper at PIDOU Wine and Beer in Calais. Carbernet Syrah, Merlot, Colombard, Sauvignon, Colombard Chardonnay and Cinsault Grenache are just 2.88 euro a bottle (about £2.50). At Sainsburys and Tesco in London they are currently selling for £5.99 a bottle. So, travel to Calais and save 58% on U.K. prices! Or buy 36 bottles and save £125!
June 2011 - The Calais Wine Superstore in Calais has Concha y Toro Frontera Red at £1.79. At Sainsbury's in the U.K. it is currently on sale at the discounted price of £5.00 (normal price £5.99). You can still save 64% by shopping in Calais. (Buying 3 cases will save you £115). Jacob's Creek Sparkling Blanc de Blancs is for sale at £4.99 a bottle. The U.K. price is £10.00. In other words pop across the channel to make a saving of 50% or £5.00 a bottle on U.K. prices.
Shopping in Calais - Where to go, Cite Europe, other shops.
Supermarkets and Hypermarkets - ALDI, ATAC, Champion, CORA, Intermarché, Le Clerc, Leader Price, LIDL, Monoprix, and others.
Tips - what to buy, what's cheap, Revenue and Customs (Customs and Excise), weddings, foot passengers, etc.
Tobacco in Adinkerke, Belgium - Shops in Adinkerke and Ostende.
Tobacco in France - shops in Calais selling cigarettes and pouch tobacco.
Wine and Beer - shops and warehouses selling wine, beer and spirits in Calais. Pidou, Calais Wine Superstore etc.
Wine Shops - Just wine.
Markets - where and on what day.
Other Shops - Cheese, Chocolate, Car Service / Garages, Opticians, Perfume.
Prices - price surveys and advice on ferry tickets, beer, tobacco, petrol, champagnes and food etc.
Save loads of money on a single day-trip. New Calais and travel voucher pages - check them before you go.
Travelling to France - its getting cheaperAirlines - Budget airlines and other carriers. Airports - Airports in France, United Kingdom and other E.U. member states. Buying cars in France, Belgium, and Holland. Car hire in France - Cars, motor homes, companies, links. Spain, Camping Cars Coach Travel - coach companies, all details and links. Day-trippers crossing the Channel - all the day trip companies. Book a fare with Brittany ferries, Condor Ferries, Eurotunnel, DFDS, P and O Ferries (Channel), P and O Ferries (Calais), Stena, Transmanche. Other Ferry Companies - Colorline, DFDS, Irish ferries, Norse Merchant, P and O Irish Sea, POFerry North Sea etc. Rail - Getting to and around France by rail. Agents and companies. Rail Europe |
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A horror story - it happened in New Labour Britain, will the coalition stop this nonsense?August 2010 - Controls we should be ashamed of. Where are our MP's? "I am a 67 year old pensioner who has been visiting 100's of cities in Europe for the past 49 years including behind the Iron Curtain pre 89. A few weeks ago I was kept in a small 9x9 foot room(1 table 2 chairs) at Hull Ferry Terminal, I had a small bag with the guidance 3 Kg of rolling tobacco with receipt. 3 hours 48 minutes and 28 pages of questions, not about the tobacco, which was accepted as OK within 30 minutes. No, the further questions were an attempt to trip me up with statements about my state pension being unable to finance my 6 or 7 trips a year abroad. I had to explain to the interrogator, the reason I buy my tobacco(for my wife and myself) abroad was the fact that I could not afford to buy it in the U.K.. I was allowed to keep the goods, with a warning. The next officer may not be so lenient. Compare this little episode with when I was held for 3 hours by East German(DDR)Volkspolizei and Soviet Red Army State Security Agents at Berlin's Checkpoint Charlie in 1973. My crime? Having a copy of the Sunday Telegraph in my holdall. The Vopos let me smoke, gave me a bottle of beer and a sandwich. In Hull, zilch. In short, this land for which our fathers, grandfathers and ancestors fought for and died for has become an insult to their sacrifices. For half a century I have held my head up high as a Briton abroad, now it hangs in everlasting shame." 2009 "After answering the questions the officer went away with our passports and came back 10 - 15 minutes later with a small notepad with his questions and our answers on and asked us to sign it. We refused because this list of Q and A had been compiled in another part of the airport away from us. The senior officer came out to us and said that if we didn't sign, then he would! He wasn't present when the questions were asked so how could he sign it to say it was completely accurate? We found this a breach of our rights as it should have been written down it word for word face to face, and totally unacceptable that a senior officer would sign something that he hadn't witnessed. The tobacco was confiscated and we were given a seizure note of the amounts confiscated. The officer told us that they were taking it because we were `over the limit`. We asked `what limit?` as we had been told that there is no limit if for own use or gifts which was what ours was, half for my husband and half a gift for our son. We produced the receipt for these goods confirming that tax duty had been paid on them. We are appealing. Many thanks for your excellent and informative site" We agree - please let your MP and MEP's know your feelings. |
With the cheapest daytrips to Calais available via Day-tripper.net with PO Ferries and other cross channel companies, you can do a few trips, buy the wines you like and then go back to stock up with the ones you want or enjoyed. |
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