Short, medium or long course?

[ruddernut]

How long do you prefer your ferry cruises to be?

[DENelson83]

Medium. I love the cross-Strait routes.

[ruddernut]

So Inside Passage is too excessive and exhaustive, even for a hardcore ferry nut?

[Nick]

I love the inside passage. Especially the day cruises.

[peter84]

longer spent 7 hours on tachek many times going island to island when it ws based in SB

[Low Light Mike]

ruddernut said:

So Inside Passage is too excessive and exhaustive, even for a hardcore ferry nut?

Why do you say that?

[Koastal Karl]

I'll have to say Long as I love the northern routes. I spent 12 hours on the Wack from Port Hardy to Bella Coola and I loved it. Spent two nights on the Rupert and I loved it.

[Northern Exploration]

Long. The 15 hour day cruise from Port Hardy to PR and back is just perfect. 3 meals. Some rolling seas crossing the two sounds, stunning scenery, interesting shipping, friendly tourists and locals, and wildlife galore -- it never seemed to drag. Even doing a back to back round trip wasn't too much.

[ruddernut]

flugelhorn said:

ruddernut said:

So Inside Passage is too excessive and exhaustive, even for a hardcore ferry nut?

Why do you say that?

Because the vote totals were at 0-5-0 at the time of that post.

[Curtis]

I don't really care how long a voyage is, so I picked Medium.

[D'Elete BC in NJ]

Can I vote twice? I feel need to for the following reason; if my wife is on the trip, she starts to turn green very quickly , and that leads to a large desire to see the trip over, so short is the best. If I had my choice, the longer, the better.

[Queen of Nanaimo Teen]

The short trips are ok, but I definately prefer the longer ones. I think an hour or an hour 1/2 is a good amount of time to poke around the ferry, have a bite to eat and enjoy the scenery and passing ferries!

[Mike C]

The longer the better, when it comes to ferries

[royalroadscaptain]

I vote for longer too. There's nothing like getting off a ferry having met just about everyone onboard.

Not to mention that when weather delays departure for more than 12 hours you get food at 80-90% discounted rates. And the food on the northern routes is truly worth it

[ferrytraveller]

medium
route 30

[lmtengs]

If I was given a 50% discount on ANY ferry route, I would have to choose either A) inside passage, because i've been on it and I can't get enough, or B) because I've heard so much about it and yearn to travel it. I also want to ride the Chilliwack before she's shot from the fleet.
Since both of these routes are over 5 hours, I'll say long

[Mill Bay]

I was just gonna say, in the case of myself, for any trip on any route, it doesn't matter so much the length. What matters is weather I'm alone or not. Alone on a ferry, and I can get pretty apathetic about the whole notion pretty quick, even on the shortest of routes. I always like to travel with someone else the best, that way, even though I am famous for taking lots of side trips off by myself, I also know I have someone to go back to when I start to feel alone and losing interest.