The cheapest way to cross the Channel (with a car)

Update: We’ve updated our tests and prices August 2024

It’s not easy to find the best and the cheapest option to cross the channel from England to France. We excluded flying as you can’t take your Jeep with you if you want to cross the channel with your car. We also excluded the crossings without a car. If you want to cross as cheap as possible without a car we would advise you to read the footpassenger page on the official website of Calais-Dover.com.

Cheapest crossing with a car

To be able to answer the question, we have made a number of test bookings ourselves.

We have included and tested the following options:

• Le Shuttle through the Eurotunnel (Train with Car)
• Ferry Dover-Calais (three operators)
• Ferry Dover-Dunkirk
• Ferry Dieppe-Newhaven

Crossing the Channel in the cheapest way possible

The budget option to France

Here are the cheapest ferries to reach France from the UK:

• Chunnel: ~ £ 183 (In general the Chunnel is quite expensive.)
• P&O Ferries – Dover-Calais: ~ £ 82
• Irish Ferries – Dover-Calais: ~ £ 82
• DFDS – Dover-Calais: ~ £ 101
• DFDS – Dover-Dunkirk: ~ £ 83
• DFDS – Newhaven – Dieppe: ~ £100

It seems that in our test bookings Irish Ferries and P&O are the cheapest way to cross the channel with a car. It might be different per day though so we do advice to use our booking engine to see it on the day you want for the car you have.