I can’t believe this thread, maybe you want someone to come and tuck you in.
daleyboy:
I was on the boat Friday night. I was one of the last ones on, they had me packed in so tight it was physically impossible to get out the cab. Shouted to the guy parking me, and he said you can get out of there, and I said yeah if I was 6 stone and 5"2 but considering I am 6"8 and 26 stone there was no way. He turned round and said to me that’s your problem so I retorted by saying go [zb] yourself I will sleep in the cab and he said fine upto you I don’t care. So that’s where I stayed.Didn’t fancy sharing with 3 others anyway.
It scared the ■■■■ out of me just reading that, being effectively locked in a cab with no means of escape in an emergency, such as a fire or capsizing.
As I am the worst driver you will ever share a cabin with I have no problems, I won’t hear the others snoring as I snore so loud it drowns out their noise, and as for ■■■■■■■, I set the smoke alarms off, most drivers who share a cabin with me usually move to the reclining seats before we set sail 
All jokes aside, I have shared cabins with all nationalities and can’t say I have had any problems. I have never heard of any stealing from their cabin mates and apart from the odd noises we are all there to sleep so I just get on with it…
I do prefer a cabin to myself, P&O from Bilbao seem to manage it, as do some Scandinavian crossings, but mainly freight only boats, but if I have to share, then so be it, as others have said you always have the option to pay more for a private cabin if they are available.
or you could get a day boat
In Brittany Ferries temparary porter cabin there are signs everywhere about swine flu and what to do if you suspect anything, but at the bottom of the poster stated avoid being in tight confined spaces, so when i said to Manuel issueing tickets, i would hate to sue Brit Ferries if i caught Swine Flu just before my holidays to Florida . Sure enough i got a cabin to myself and shared with one of my colleages coming back Caen Pompey 
dieseldog6:
I can’t believe this thread, maybe you want someone to come and tuck you in.
Quite right DD6. I’m suprised some of them dare go further than the end of their own street. 
Blimey, 3 pages of whinging about having to share a cabin when working & more often than not, its paid for by somebody else. Get real.
I guess many of you guys have never done much traveling as a tourist paying your own way then?
Try an overnight Philippine ferry from Manila to Cebu & see who you get put with. Male or female, with or without kids.
However, if you were a truck driver AT WORK you probably wouldn’t be in a cabin like i was, you’d be on deck here:
Or an overnight train in Thailand from Bangkok to a provincial city. At least the sexes are segrated… well if you’re 1st class in a 2 bunk private cabin that is. You have the cheaper option of 2nd class air or fan in a bunked shared carriage.
Or a big dormatory or 6 bed room in a YMCA hostel in say Ireland or Australia sharing with fellow travelers of both sexes from all around the world.
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Driveroneuk:
Blimey, 3 pages of whinging about having to share a cabin when working
Got it in a nutshell. “Working” being the operative word.
The whole idea of giving drivers a cabin is so they can get their heads down and get a good nights kip. If the cabin is full of ■■■■■■■, snoring drivers you don’t know, have never seen before, or likely to see again. The chances are you won’t be getting a good nights kip. When I’ve shared cabins I’ve slept with my trousers on in order for somewhere reasonably safe to stash my cash and don’t find it particularly comfortable. Given the choice, I would much prefer to have a cabin on my own.
Being on holiday, you don’t have much to do other than mince around. If your knackered you can go crash on the beach or whatever. If your working and knackered your still expected to put in a 15hr shift.
Anyway, what’s the point of being British, if you can’t have a good whinge? 
george3:
Got it in a nutshell. “Working” being the operative word.
I assume the tacho is on other work then ?
69 posts over 3 pages 
And all about sharing a cabin with loud obnoxious snoring people.
Actually I prefer the ferries to get away from home
I get a bit of peace, even if the cabin has another 3 occupants.
And before anyone says they have heard how loud my missus snores. I know, because she gave me a list of those blokes that haven’t paid her
yes, dear, coming, dear.
daleyboy:
I was on the boat Friday night. I was one of the last ones on, they had me packed in so tight it was physically impossible to get out the cab. Shouted to the guy parking me, and he said you can get out of there, and I said yeah if I was 6 stone and 5"2 but considering I am 6"8 and 26 stone there was no way. He turned round and said to me that’s your problem so I retorted by saying go [zb] yourself I will sleep in the cab and he said fine upto you I don’t care. So that’s where I stayed.Didn’t fancy sharing with 3 others anyway.
This is common place on Seafrance, seen many a driver wedged in their cabs unable to get out…
There is a downside to a cabin to yourself…
I shipped back over Larne to Fleetwood a few years back, and was the last on the boat, so they reversed me partway up the ramp so i would be first off. Went upstairs to book in for a cabin, and he told me there were no drivers cabins available, so they gave me a crew cabin. I had left anything of value(phones etc) in the truck due to thinking i was sharing, so didnt have an alarm clock to set. Grabbed some food then went off fora shower and bed, safe in the knowledge that the crew always bang you up(on previous trips they had). I remember waking up and wondering what the light was outside the window. We had docked in Fleetwood, but when the crew did their rounds to wake everyone up, no one woke me as nobody knew i was there!!! I got dressed and went down, the boat was deserted, not a driver or crew in sight, turns out it had been waiting for 25 minutes to disembark and they had started to wonder WTF was going on, they had a truck but no driver for it!!!
I had the right hump tho as i’d missed breakfast!!
So for all the downsides of sharing, the one up side is at least if anything like the above happens, there are 2 of you to feel like complete knobs!
george3:
Being on holiday, you don’t have much to do other than mince around. If your knackered you can go crash on the beach or whatever. If your working and knackered your still expected to put in a 15hr shift.Anyway, what’s the point of being British, if you can’t have a good whinge?
Think you’re mixing up the words holiday & traveling. One tends to be relaxing whilst staying in one place, the other can be ■■■■ hard work. I use to have about 1 day in 10 off because i was burned out!
daleyboy:
I was on the boat Friday night. I was one of the last ones on, they had me packed in so tight it was physically impossible to get out the cab. Shouted to the guy parking me, and he said you can get out of there, and I said yeah if I was 6 stone and 5"2 but considering I am 6"8 and 26 stone there was no way. He turned round and said to me that’s your problem so I retorted by saying go [zb] yourself I will sleep in the cab and he said fine upto you I don’t care. So that’s where I stayed.Didn’t fancy sharing with 3 others anyway.
That happened to me once. As soon as I stopped I started to reverse until I could open the door. Gave the loader the finger and walked off.
george3:
daleyboy:
I was on the boat Friday night. I was one of the last ones on, they had me packed in so tight it was physically impossible to get out the cab. Shouted to the guy parking me, and he said you can get out of there, and I said yeah if I was 6 stone and 5"2 but considering I am 6"8 and 26 stone there was no way. He turned round and said to me that’s your problem so I retorted by saying go [zb] yourself I will sleep in the cab and he said fine upto you I don’t care. So that’s where I stayed.Didn’t fancy sharing with 3 others anyway.
That happened to me once. As soon as I stopped I started to reverse until I could open the door. Gave the loader the finger and walked off.
Same to me aswell with Norfolkline.Loader gave me a load of abuse then cacked himself when he found out it was my name on door of truck.Them loaders get right on my t**s 
I use Brittany Ferries in the last 6 days I have crossed Biscay three times - each time with a sole occupancy cabin - these crossings though cost over 600 quid each. If you travel on the Barfleur, Mont St Michel or Cotentin across the channel expect to share - but the cost is a whole lot less.
At the end of the day NOBODY likes sharing including the ■■■■■■■ snoring ■■■■■■ up taliban driver asleep above you - but just remeber one thing. You are a lorry driver and your welfare is of no consequence to anyone, employer, ferry operator et al.
If you cant hack it sleep in the cab, I do and if the ship goes down you wont know sod all anyway because you will be fast asleep.
You don’t have to share on the cotentin hombre, you only have to share a bathroom and then if you know which cabins to ask for you don’t even have to share a bathroom. Far more civilized 
You only share on the Cotentin (cabins) on the Cotentin if you are double manned, and yes you are right about sharing the bathroom - not too much of a problem except when the bloke next door decides to do his washing, or when its rough and the whole place turns into a vomitorium!
I mind the time on DFDS, when all the drivers complained about the the driver with the two foot beard who was stinking the boat up at dinner time. Unfortunately he was put in my cabin. I complained to the stewardess with the big T…T’s and her reply was “SO”. I then found out that my new roomy was indeed German and not some lowlife. He had said that he had been away for two weeks, I thought he smelt like he had been away for a month. Ater I had finished eating my cold dinner I returned to my cabin for a well deserved shower. And there was my German friend, who was retrieving a novel from his holdall. I said, would you like to use the shower before me. He replied no, and then striped down to his y fronts and tucked himself into bed and started reading said novel.
So for the rest of the evening, I spent that drinking with some fellow driver and gasing about European driving. After all this was my first crossing ever into the continent, Immingham to Vlardigan. I thought it would be a pleasurable experiance, it was none. And then I had to get to Rozenburg, another story for later.
Its interesting reading some of the posts about this subject. I’m often on 7/8 ferry crossings a week, never less than 2 and I’ve never had a security problem. I don’t like sharing but it’s a fact of life. As for people sleeping in their trousers so their money/phone doesn’t get stolen that quite funny! Where would the thief sharing your cabin go? You are after all at sea and the shipping company will of course know all they need to know about him so stealing is pointless.