THE ONLY WAY TO GET TO AMSTERDAM? Stena Line Rail and Sail
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- Опубликовано: 6 сен 2024
- I took the Stena Line Rail and Sail from London to Amsterdam onboard the Stena Britannica. At the moment it's the only direct way to get from London to Amsterdam.
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new channel idea
Ha ha ha ha....you go for it noel!....can’t wait for shots in a bi-plane!..😅
@@Sparkiecow yes!!!!!!
Always remember! ' Beer before wine and you'll feel fine! Wine after beer and you'll feel queer'!! lol
@@ablair37 Yeah get drink with Noel Philips or you talking about ships/boats?
Prepared to go down with the mini bar Captain Phillips😀
Can we have the "Pissed Bloopers" uploaded. PLEEEAAASSSEEE!
HAHA i second that!
@@mattleslie4274 ... yes .. i love this idea !!
Imagine the staff chat
No one ever drinks all the mini bar
Noel......Hold my Beer........
And my Wine
And my sparkling water 😂😂😂
The booze comes with the fancy room. Glad to see what they look like Noel, as I always get the inside cheapo cabin on this trip.
@@erik_griswold
Any bed is welcomed in normal times, when the bars and restaurants are open 🔓.
Scott Miller haha
Beacause its expensive? ;)
For someone who’s not a massively confident sailor, picking the front of the vessel was a brave choice.
Why is that?
Aviation and music Lover I work on Cruise Ships and when you encounter rough weather, the higher and further forward you are, the more you will feel movement - likewise high and at the back. The recommendation in inclement weather is low and in the middle - closest to the pivot point of the motion of the ship. In the olden days, guests used to have the most expensive suites at the top and at the front/back - the catchphrase was ‘the more you pay, the more you sway’.
I didn't realise that! Probably good it was such a smooth crossing then 😂
Noel Philips the minibar will definitely have helped too :)
@@Itsgaryjerry thank you very much for your answer :D
Watching Noel getting drunk on a cross channel ferry is the high quality content we all needed to get through this lockdown. Cheers for the trip report, Noel!
An Englishman casually wipes out minibar while waiting his ship's departure, May 2020
Frickin cleared that bar before you set off.
What is free, it's free, never leave it behind :-)
@@lajoskovacs1052 I avoid "all you can drink" offers, because I feel compelled to do the same, but it isn't good for me.
@@lajoskovacs1052 Not really free though the cost of the complimentary beverages is factored into the cost of the fare /cabin accommodation but saying that I don't blame him for drinking it all when there wasn't anything else available !
Legend
@@lajoskovacs1052 Nothing is free.
‘They’ve lifted the thing that looks like it’s connected to the front of the ship’
‘They’ve got to do boaty things down there’
Glad you’ve been revising your technical shipping terms Noel 😂
So funny!
It’s fair to say Noel that bar scene made me howl 😂😂😂
"Pushing back for departure" has given me a mental image of a ship reversing. Complete with beeping and vehicle reversing announcements.
Outdated single tone beepers... White noise reversers is the way forward
Complete with a tug pulling or pushing the ship backwards away from the gate.
"Feeling like Leonardo DiCaprio"
😂😂😂
Glad you managed things easily under the current circumstances Noel!
Oh drunk Noel, we love you 😂
As a Dutch person having lived in Cambridge for a few decades, this is my favourite crossing. We take the car, book the cheapest huts we can get - still decent - and use the bars onboard. There is also a cheaper daytime crossing without the need to book accommodation, but I prefer sleeping during most of the crossing. Next time, wander around the vessel!
I'm very jealous of British people for having this option.
@@chrisclark1761 It's the only decent way to get to Europe by car and depending on when in the year is £300- 450 with a car and outside cabin for two. We do it several times/year - mainly to get to Sweden - and love getting off the ferry in Hoek and get on the lovely Dutch and European roads - so different from the crappy roads in the UK.
We do the same - apart from never eating or drinking on the ship. The first time we did we looked at each other and said "never again" and now we just hit the sack and go to sleep..:)
I think with restrictions in place at the time he was traveling on this route, he may have not being allowed to wander around the vessel.
You know if you can your bike onboard?
The Herald of Free Enterprise. Now I feel old. You were 6 and I was on one of the ITV news crews that covered the disaster!
i was on it the week before it happend.
I was about eight. It's one of the first things I remember getting engrossed in on the news as a child..
Wow. To be a part of news coverage that's so iconic must be incredible, yet upsetting. Kudos!
@@noelphilips it was pretty grim to be honest.
The ultimate Thatcherite name for a ship!
'Boaty things' comment of the week. You absolutely creased me up with this one Noel, keep them coming. Xx
Pissed Noel is really funny, will we get to see more of him?
I love it when he has a rant.............then cracks open a beer, Quality, best travel blogger to watch. Excellent content
Bit surprised that he got rat-arsed on a few small bottles. Considering that the only one who outdrank me in the last 20 years was a student from Manchester, me thinks some Brits are going soft.
@@dschoene57 Not everyone is an alcoholic^^
So, I had to remember my British slang for this one. Kept waiting for him to get angry, which is what being pissed means in America.
He figured if he was gonna sink to his death he may as well be happy!
Oh god, Noel you looked very drunk on 13:27, so hilarious, anyway, nice video!
I am in complete and utter hysterics at watching Noel drain the minibar. This is absolutely priceless! I took a ferry from Harwich to the Hook of Holland in 1988 and we certainly did not have a mini bar, More's the pity. 🍾🍷🥂🍻 This absolutely is the most splendid way to travel!
You getting pissed was the best thing ever. Thanks for the laugh!!!
"Their down there doing boaty things" - exactly how I would describe it :)
*They're
You know what he should have said.. things are going along rather swimmingly;)
What i like about you Noel is the way you are so polite to the staff , you were the only one to say thanks upon Disembarkment
12:33 "they've lifted the thing that's connected to the ship"...please stop this technical talk, we can't keep up.
2 years on and this is still my favourite video to date, closely followed by SCAT 😉
You are the worst nightmare of all Mini-bars of the world. lol
Oh I’m sorta envious! I road a fishing boat from Ketchikan to Seattle years ago down through the inside passage. I LOVED it! I loved the water at night, the full moon, I heard wolves, saw dolphins swimming along with the boat and a huge pod of Orca Whales which was awesome for this country girl. I’ll never forget it as long as I have breath.
wolves on a fishing boat? doesn't sound right lol
Drunk Noel 😂😂🥴🥴
This put a big smile on my face. I hope you had a great time in Sweden when you got there!
I did, thank you! Such a fantastic place to visit (and lots of Sweden videos over the next few weeks).
@@noelphilips I'm glad to read that you had a good time!
Since my wife is from East Anglia, we have been doing the Hoek crossing since 1996. To begin with, it was with the HSS catamaran, which used to be the fastest McDonald's in the world and took only something in the region of 4.5 hours to cross. Since that became too expensive to operate, it was withdrawn, and we have seen our fair share of Hollandica and Britannica since.
No train journeys yet, it has always been the car, both from the Frankfurt area, where we now live, and from Rutland, where we moved from. We have not done the Captain's Suite, but tried all the others, including the slightly less saloubrious but still very upmarket Captain's Class. I love the showers and the ensuite.
We have found that usually, the night crossing from Harwich is interrupted too often for a good rest before the onward journey. The crossing from Hoek used to have slightly better times, and our onward journey would not be as far, so a night crossing was very comfy going that way.
However, price usually dictated a day crossing, which requires a very early start in Frankfurt or an overnight stay with friends in Düsseldorf or Cologne.
Going from the UK, there is a Premier Inn right next to the ferry port, which we have used numerous times and found very convenient and affordable (beats the cabin fee and you are well-rested when you get on the boat).
Oh, I nearly forgot: You can also get a cabin for the day crossing, which you can just pay for after boarding. Inside cabins are nice and dark, so you can have a good rest and a shower, and the price was something in the 35 £ range, but I am sure it has gone up. We haven't been able to get back to the UK since Covid, sadly.
Lol he was so tipsy after the mini bar challenge 🤣🤣
Stenline: FREE MINIBAR in suite rooms...
Noel: .. . Challenge accepted....
Hilarious, exactly what I would do if stuck in a room and a mini bar to hand
came from the family cruise video to see this bit, must say OUTSTANDING speed run of the mini fridge
Noel has bravely taken tens of "suicidal" flights with african and asian airlines banned to USA and Europe but he is afraid of drowing by getting on one of the largest and most sophisticated car ferries in the world - travelling a short distance...
I didn't like Noel in the beginning. I thought he was just another bald british guy imitating "Bald and Bankrupt"! But then I began to respect him big time as I was watching his african and asian "just about to crash" flights, were he always was very calm and composed! Plus, although he looks the guy next door he has a british gentleman's manners and style! All these changed my mind, I like the guy now, I think he is funny and rather often I find myself binging on his videos!
Noel, one thing to remember, no matter which form of transportation we take, lots of people gave their lives to make it as safe as it is today. The Herald of Free Enterprise was something that shouldn't have happened, but, we as humans always try to find the short cut, normally we don't pay for those short cuts with a large loss of life, but when dealing with transport, it's a given that to many people will die. That also goes for planes, from the beginning of flight to now, it's sad, but true.
Best way to cross the North sea! Great review, please go again when all the facilities are open! A meal in the a la carte restaurant onboard is often the highlight of the journey for me!
Hi Noel. Loved that ferry ride. I can understand your apprehension about Ferry rides but for me; I am the son of a Ship's Chief Engineer, and had many trips on ships and ferries. I recall the Herald of Free Enterprise capsizing very well as I was a Senior Forensic Investigator until I retired in 2017. The Herald of Free Enterprise incident was one of the foreign cases and Investigations we studied in the course of our profession. My main side of investigations entailed assisting the Homicide Squad to identify certain matters with respect to their enquiries, and my main lines of investigations related to serious rail accidents (suicides; Road/Train accidents. The biggest case I worked on was when A semi trailer collided with a V/Line passenger train near a town called Swan Hill in northern Victoria, killing Eleven train passengers. I had used the Stenna Line to Eire back in 1998 and was that a trip and a half. I have not met so many drunks in all my life as I did on that trip. The run was from Holyhead to Dún Laoghaire and believe me, it was the funniest trip I have ever been on. In 2001; I went back to the UK intending to take the Stenna Line ferry to the Hook of Holland BUT; I had health problems that prevented my from making that trip. Safe travels my friend, and thanks for the enjoyable postings.
Clean out the mini bar then Burger King. My kind of travel day!
Las Vegas used to have a Burger King Whopper Bar inside the Rio. Order one of a kind Whoppers like a Breakfast Whopper (Whopper with bacon, eggs, cheese, some hash browns available in as a Jr up to a triple) while having beers and drinks. That was an epic $20 burger.
It’s been a while since I’ve seen Titanic, but I believe Leonardo was in the 3rd class cabins below deck, not the suites with Kate ;)
Kate wasn't in my suite 😢
I use this ferry every year to go cycling in the Netherlands and I love it. It can be a lot cheaper if you book a single cabin or even an inside cabin (although I always get one with a window). The restaurant is also very good as is the breakfast
Brilliant, made me chuckle - drunk Noel is hilarious.
Rip to the mini bar...and haven't left the dock😂🤣 You're a legend...stay safe and bless 🙏🙏
Aye and he calculated it would take 3 hrs to drink it as well 🤣🤣🤣🤣
I went on the stena britanica 3 times and I even met the captain. It’s a very nice ship
This was actually hilarious, had a good laugh
I love getting those ferries. :-) I used to get them every two weeks when I worked in Arnhem and needed to take the car. The 2 berth cabins are a lot more basic (and no free mini-bar) but they are comfortable and (in normal times) you can get fairly decent food and drink in the restaurant, cafe or bar on the public deck. It's much more civilised than the plane, but as I live near Luton and (in the before time) work in The Hague, easyJet is a lot simpler and cheaper. Way to go on the drinks, by the way - Mixing like a pro! ;-)
Very interesting video Noel! Especially enjoyed the in depth review of the mini bar, stay safe :)
Nobody:
Absolutely nobody:
Noel:Can I drink all 6 alchaholic drinks in 2 Hours?
I wish people would stop with this horrible meme
Yes, there are few travel channels that do that
Someone’s not English. Six alcoholic drinks is lunchtime.
Well, when the boaty thing goes under, you better be not too aware of it. :p
thats a great cabin . makes me want to book a trip just to have the cabin
Low cost airlines and ferries seem to be the cheapest option when getting from the UK to neighbouring countries. The Eurostar was crazy expensive when I looked recently.
Hull. - Amsterdam
Be interesting to see how these two compare!
Love how you gave your boarding pass to the lady when you stepped on board. I'm pretty sure that's actually not a thing on ferries. [edit] Shame you didn't show a little more of the ship, common areas, bar etc.
I live 50 km from Hoek van Holland. I visit the UK at least 2 times a year. But I never used the ferry. The night departure is very expensive for a single traveler (the hut makes it expensive). The midday departure from the Netherlands is just to late for me. I visit the yearly Dad's army fan weekend in Thetford. Thetford is a village that is seved by the Greater Anglia train service. So you can travel with the combined Ferry+Train ticket and take a train from Harwich to Thetford. But the day ferry arrive in Harwich around 19.30 hours. That is very late and it is difficult to reach Thetford the same day. I traveled by Plane, Coach and Train between the UK and the Netherlands.
The Ferry is simply to expensive. I only pay between €5 and €30 euro's for a flight between the Netherlands and the UK. I can choose a departure time that is convient for me. For a ferrry ticket I pay at least €45 euro's and I have a very restricted choice in departure times.
Soon Holland will introduce minimum prices for any flight... it is being discussed as we speak. I guess a bare minimum will be 50 euro's for any flight.
Tbh I live in Thetford and I only ever take the boat to Holland. I take Stena about 8 times a year and as long as you take the night ferry it’s good and sometimes take the day ferry and it gets late yet sometimes it’s just easier for me. But cause Thetford in the middle of no where getting to Airports is crap as to get to Stansted as I sometimes missed flight soit’s just as easier getting straight to Harwich not feeling to rushed
I went with DFDS in 1999 from Newcastle to Gothenburg. I was ok on the way out but on the way back we hit a terrible storm, even the captain was sea sick. Great times 😂🙈
You apologised to the window when you knocked it hahaha
What a nice room. Love it. I thought a mini bar was free once and I almost emptied it and they charged me an extra $500.00....
A great way to travel. The cabin looked super duper.
Great video! I see this took place in 2020. Great creative way to get somewhere where you could fly. I love taking trains, and really love taking boats and ferries. I'm retired US Navy :) I'm glad you had a great experience on the ferry and that it wasn't bumpy or anything like that. My personal phobia is flying. Sadly, I haven't been on a plane since 2008. But the more of these videos I watch, the better I'm starting to feel about flying again. I laughed so hard when you went through the entire mini bar. I would have done the exact same thing! But at the age of 59, hangovers just suck so bad, so perhaps not, haha! Glad you were able to do what you needed to do for work.
This is my favourite way to the mainland :-)
I’ve been watching your flight review videos, then I see this. I worked onboard THAT ship for Six years until 2016. The guy you met when you arrived on board is the food and beverage manager. Shame you didn’t do a little tour of deck 9. That’s the main passenger facilities deck. First time travellers were always pleasantly surprised when they arrived on board and the Metropolitan Restaurant serves some lovely food. Great video. 👍
This is really making me want to go on a ferry trip
Wow what a cabin for a ferry! I'm sold, and will definitely want to try this out.
I went to add this comment about how nervous he seemed going onto the boat and then saw all the mini-bar comments. Guess he was nervous. LOL.
Nice cabin!! Flippin decent!
3rd edit.... The drinking sequence was excellent.
4th edit... and last... "They lifted the thing"
Noel, I think we are getting more of the real you in this video than ever before. Well done. Would you take a flight from SFO to Asia and get pissed. Flight attendant cuts you off. You cross the international date line and ask for another. 'Mr Philips, I said no more". Noel, "Yeah, but that was yesterday."
Note: I'm about 5 drinks in as well at this point... cheers.
We need to get Noel a sponsorship from a liquor company. It adds an interesting extra dimension to an already interesting channel.
I tend to find planes cramped, uncomfortable and time stressed these days. Trains and ferries seem so much more relaxed. As you saw half an hour departure delay is nothing and doesn't mean arrival delay. There used to be a ferry from Rosyth to Zeebugge that was a delight. I prefer my transport where I can get up, walk around, chill out and enjoy the journey. Check out North Link ferries Aberdeen to Shetland (great fish & chips onboard).
Stena Britannica could do the trip in ~6 hours, so they have very much loose time on the schedule (which is spent sailing slow for fuel economy). 🙂
So funny hearing you talk about your phobia of boats. I have a massive phobia of flying, but no problem with ferries or larger ships.
Imagine finding out that it wasn't a complimentary wine bar. That happened to me whilst staying at a Hilton at Narita airport.
Ouch
That ferry is amazing. Off to look at doing that myself post covid.
Entry for the Cannes Short Film 2020. Brilliant. Drink on...
Those shots of the sea in the morning sun are gorgeous.
Give us more of your hilarious drunk commentary please. You are a scream
I didn't even know you could sail from London to Amsterdam. I've done the Newcastle - Amsterdam route a few times, and its wild.
"Not particularly confident on boats"
*Gets pissed*
Think this might be my fav video haha! Noel is genuinely my favourite youtuber
Haha thank you!
Some dutch courage going on there!
10:33 : Noel starts speaking Dutch ( that would have been funny). Nice video again :)
Damn that room is better than most hotel rooms
What a great report that was! Loved seeing you "do" a ship! Curious about two things .. you didnt eat on board .. you went right up to your cabin and also didnt mention breakfast in the AM. Were there no food service facilities on the ship? Also .. the head room in your nice cabin looks a bit low .. was it that or are you just a pretty tall guy? Great report, Noel .. its nice to see you out and about again!
A good 10 months after this I’m still waiting to see another Noel Philips knees up 👍👍
They’ve lifted the thing 😂😂
I can see how this would be attractive to tourists, especially traveling as a couple. Instead of train/flight plus hotel, you get an overnight trip in a “hotel” and you’re in Amsterdam nice and early.
Welcome to Sweden soon then, where all the fast food places are still open :)
And everything else!
I wonder what makes Scandinavia and Baltics so resilient? I mean, sure Baltics did go on full lockdown, but there are less cases detected in Latvia, than deaths in Kent. And both have roughly same population of around 2 million.
And everyone dies.
I love drunk Noel 💕
A Dutch man shouting at you on the tv with the pirates of the Caribbean theme song In the background that’s class
Hi Noel, can you do a video going through all the stamps in your passport
I agree also a video of all the passports that he has used till now.
You should try the Isle of Man Steam Packet Compmay and do a review on it! They have 2 vessels the Manannan and the Ben My Chree. The Ben My Chree has cabins on board but the Manannan doesn't but it's a lot faster and quicker and better in my opinion. ☺
I wonder when they allowed fast food to open again in the Netherlands, I was in that exact same airport Fri 13 March...Burger King open Mon 16 March...Burger King closed :(
Fast food is open in NL. Maybe not at the airport ;). I live near a couple of McDonald's and the drive throughs are open and the counter for take away.
Takeaway was always allowed to be open here. But due to the very low amount of passengers the stores at Schiphol were closed for a while.
Exactly. I've filmed at the beginning of the lockdown at schiphol airport and everything except the bars was open.
I didn't know that there was Sail&Rail between Britain and the Netherlands. I do often use the service between Ireland and Britain.
I’ll be honest, I’m surprised the ferry’s are still working considering all the COVID outbreaks on cruise ships. Glad you made it safely and thanks for the laugh 😂
I'm laughing my head off with you Noel watching those lorries load except I'm enjoying the Fungi stuff.
A few years ago I took the Marine Atlantic ferry from Nova Scotia to Newfoundland and back. The halls of the ship looked similar to this but the cabins were very spartan.
Hey Noel, you almost outdid me at the mini-bar 🤣👍🏼 An entertaining, enjoyable trip, thank you 🙏🏼
haha, pissed up for half of that video
You CLOBBERED that mini bar. TBH I was drinking alcoholic cider at the same time (still am as I type this comment), and bottoms upped when you did with the sparkling. Only coz I hate boats (and luv planes) so good to see you got over your fear of boats. I only hate boats because once I went overboard due to a dumb captain, and the recent one is my mate took his sailing boat out, borrowed my iPad and dropped the tablet over the side. :)
You should drink at the start of these more often 🤣
That was an excellent way to clear the mini bar being afraid of being on a boat.. calms the nerves. lol 😆 🤣
Well done you!!! Ferry service looks amazing, but you didn't show any meals you might have eaten onboard.
He had crisps and nuts.. Cleared the mini bar and went to sleep
Don’t think the restaurant is open.
I travelled a lot for work too during the pandemic. So weird seeing airports and trains nearly empty. Great video as always Noel 😊
Watching you get tipsy from a mini bar..... best video yet! 😂
Have used this route many times, exellent way to get to the Netherlands, TIP. if you are running early, get off the train at manningtree station, there is a bar at the station has sometimes real ale on, have a couple of pints jump on next train to harwich its only about ten minutes further on.
Funny how a guy flies for passion and is afraid of cruse ships 🤔
What a beautiful suite! For that price I would definitely take the ship and rails. I was hoping to see the restaurant and other parts of the shop. It was funny watching you clear the mini bar even before departure but it calmed your nerves so that's good. Love the pic of you sitting in the window, you should frame that one to celebrates and remember your success. I am King of the World!
Pretty sure that job could have gone via Skype :-)
But does Skype come with complimentary minibar?
I hate ferries having been on the isle of wight and dover to calais but having a pretty decent cabin to yourself like that would make it much more pleasurable. What puts me off is dodging the puddles of sick and the smell of cheesy wotsits. I worked on a cruise ship for 2 months in 2004 and while it was an experience I'll never forget I wouldn't do it again. I'm all about the eurotunnel these days. I can fill my pickup truck full of stuff I'd never be able to get on a plane and head out across europe camping, taking photos and playing radio. I drove down to Nice last year and really enjoyed it. That said mixing grape and grain is a bad idea on land never mind at sea.
also Ive had an entire minibar... ...so far