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Brittany Ferries review: Terrible customer service (land)

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This relates to the reservations and land customer service and not onboard.

My second booking with Brittany Ferries and the second very inconvenient reschedulling.

I booked Rosslare to Cherbourg to arrive in daylight as I have a long onward car drive. When they reschedulled, the offer was a refund or another date if the new times did not suit. I found that they have a sailing from Cork the next day, which suited better, which actually cost €13 less, so I asked reservations to change it for me. They agreed, but would not price match, so despite the lower fare, they refused to refund me the €13 difference. If I cancelled the booking, I could get a full refund and book the Cork leg myself, saving the €13! It took 4 days before reservations cancelled the Rosslare leg, by which time, the Cork fare had increased by €40. After serveral emails and telephone calls, they eventually gave me the sailing at the original fare, but not the €13 refund. I asked for a free gesture such as some meal vouchers or a cabin upgrade to make up for the inconvenience and this was flatly refused.

So I wrote to Brittany's customer services for Ireland-France, and this is based in England! They have a 28 WORKING DAY response time, persumably due to a massive amount of complaints. Again, after a long wait, I received a partial response and a flat refusal of any gesture. While Brittany Ferries prices are good, I am very reluctant to trust them again as their land based customer service is terrible. Perhaps the ships and crew will be better.

Desired outcome: A small, free geture of goodwill and acknowledgement of the poor service given.

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