The Retreat Inn to Plymouth

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The Retreat Inn to Plymouth for the ferry to Spain

Motorhome Journey from The Retreat Inn to Plymouth

Breakfast in the car park of The Retreat Inn, now closed up and very quiet, we are the only ones here.

From Norton we take A38 to M5 and back on our way past Bristol, stopping for lunch at the Sedgemoor Services (near Axbridge) just past Weston super Mare arriving at Plymouth around 2.20pm. As always, it is busy through the town not least as the ferry has obviously arrived and a steady stream of traffic flows away from the port. We join the queue for check-in which is easy and quite painless and are allocated our cabin. Hymer is directed to one of the lower decks at D2, which is accessed via a drop-down ramp… it is steep and narrow and felt somewhat scary descending another level but of course it is fine. We are directed where to park then take the lift up from level D2 at the rear-most part of the vessel) to our cabin at Level 6  at the front part of the vessel.

Our cabin is 4-berth which means it is larger as we have two beds at ground level and two bunks above which we do not let down, and bathroom. You pay slightly more for the 4-berth cabin, but we think it’s worth having so that one of us does not have to climb up a narrow ladder. We depart at 15.45, west along the English Channel watching the west coast of England slip by. We order dinner for the first sitting at 6.30pm, sitting and relaxing first with a bottle of fizz in our cabin. Later we walk down for the buffet dinner which is excellent: all kinds of cold meats, fish, shellfish, pâtés, salads, chips etc. and a choice of hot main course, cheeses and desserts. Buffet is not really the best meal format for us, because we eat too much. Having had a busy day we go to bed reasonably early, Mr C. goes straight to sleep, I do not.