Planning a trip to the Nürburgring - any help?

Dunno which ferry you use but its been between £40 and £55 quid the times I have been (usually around midnight crossing)
Leave my workplace at 6pm, meet up at mates house and head straight to Dover, usually stop once for coffee on the way down, then arrive with an hour or so to spare.
Fill with fuel at the garage right at the Dover terminal.
Get your head down on the ferry and try to get some kip.
Then when on the Calais side, just go for it.
Make sure everyone has sat navs and set one way point 3/4 of the way there for pee and coffee.
Should arrive at the ring about 7am just in time for breakfast at Adenau (bit of a bikers cafe type place.
 
Dangerous said:
Tunnel every time! Its so easy and no fuss, worth the extra money!
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I always stay at the Ringblick, before this always pistenklause but once they were full so they sent me here. Its cheaper and offers exactly the same kind of room, i think breakfast is better as the lady cooks for you fresh :)

Im all booked up for end of June
 
I stayed at an awesome campsite near the 'Ring.

http://www.campingpark-dockweiler-muehle.de/en/

Use the Dover - Dunkirk ferry, much cheaper. I did the whole trip at 27MPG from the North West for so little, I was surprised.

Ferry - £50
Campsite - £60 each, we rented the Chalet
Ring - 3x £17 (?)
A lot of fuel

Was awesome! In the pic someone got, I have 1 wheel off the ground... in a clapped out Rover :p

Going back in the diesel later this year.
 
Ferry is still an option but the train becomes more appealing every time i think of the difference in crossing times.

Costs don't look too bad when camping :)
 
The ferry is miles cheaper though. I went out on the ferry and back via the Tunnel and to be honest the tunnel wasn't twice as good but it was more than twice the price.
 
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The ferry is miles cheaper though. I went out on the ferry and back via the Tunnel and to be honest the tunnel wasn't twice as good but it was more than twice the price.
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Ferry is £54ish and I paid around £93 for the tunnel. So worth the extra cash, the ferry is such a faff!
 
Sam said:
Ferry is £54ish and I paid around £93 for the tunnel. So worth the extra cash, the ferry is such a faff!
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I paid £29 for the ferry and £79 for the tunnel.

The tunnel also turned out to be a massive faff - the advertising is that that you go on the next available shuttle if you arrive within 2 hours, so I turned up 1 hour 30 minutes beforehand on the understanding you normally drive straight on but instead had to wait for booked time so the whole thing was barely any quicker than the ferry anyway.

The ferry takes an extra hour. (30 minute fafftime and 90 minute crossing versus 30 minute fafftime and 35 minute crossing on the tunnel).
 
Eurotunnel is a ripoff IMHO unless you're away one night.
I usually hide my letter and go straight through if I can, hoping to avoid the angry lady in the hi viz jacket.

Having said that, it's still better than waiting at Dover for an hour whilst the trucks drive across your exit ramp.
 
The way i see it, if your doing a long trip over, the rest on the ferry is enough time to get breakfast or stretch your legs before the main journey down to the Ring.

The tunnel is for day trips.
 
Mostly sorted for our trip now (13-16 Sept). Travelling down to Dover on the Thursday afternoon, Travelodge overnight. Ferry first thing Friday morning, drive to the ring. Staying at Camping am Nurburgring for 3 nights, tunnel back over around mid day ish.

Can't wait :D
 
I just got back from a trip down to Romania and back, we used the ferry rather than the tunnel as I run LPG.

It was pretty easy driving through Germany, the service stations and rest points are nice and the roads are easy to drive.

Some (read most) services require money to use the toilets but this can be refunded against a bottle of water or a coffee. The services near the ferry terminal may require you to pre-pay before filling up with fuel but that was the only service station that required this.

The ferry was fine, if it's a rough crossing or you have sensitive car alarm be aware that the vibrations can set this off. Saw a couple of cars on the external deck with their alarm sounding constantly. The shops on the ferry take either Euro's or GBP.
 
Plans may now change with regards to the crossing. Discount code offered by DFDS at the moment means a return trip at the times we want is £60. Far less than £75 for the return on its own via tunnel.
 
Glad this thread has popped up :D Planning a trip to the Netherlands in the months to come once I get my Audi and going to visit/stay with some friends out there. Whilst over there we were thinking a day trip to Cologne or something (excuse to drive on autobahn ;) ).

However, after this thread has popped up I did a google as I didn't actually know where in German the Nurburgring was actually situated.....and what would you know?! It's just a bit further South from Cologne! :D

So slight revision to my preliminary plans now to try and incorporate a visit/experience of the ring :D gunna have to do a lot more googling now about breakdown, insurance, costs, implications of going on the track to the above coverage (someone told me if you go on the track it voids any warranties you have :\ ), costs etc etc.

Just wondering if anyone has gone there and not actually taken part? e.g. gone there thought... hummmm... maybe next time and just gone to a cafe there which over looked the track and had a meal and watch for a few hours and what did they think? :) Ofc I want to drive round the track but just wondering what it's like for those who didn't go round if they still enjoyed it. (see that they have go-karts too xD that could be a hoot! )


My trip I think is Wales-Dover, ferry to Calais, then brum brum brum motorways to southern Netherlands. Then one of the days (maybe for a night) a stay over in Cologne/Nurburgring :)
 
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