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Holiday to Arran Sept 2018

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On the eve of our holiday, as we were packing cases, an Email arrived to say our ferry had been cancelled because of a technical issue (unable to use ramp to get cars on or off)!! Unable to get through to Calmac because of the high volume of calls they were experiencing we went to bed not knowing what would happen in the morning. Well morning arrived and although the website said there was an extra ferry running - it was at 8 o'clock in the morning! Not going to catch that one then! Ringing Calmac resulted in about an hour on hold. Eventually, talking to a very helpful assistant meant we changed our booking to the first available ferry - at 8pm. Plans to meet our fellow travellers then had to change, and kept changing throughout the day. Finally arriving at the ferry terminal to collect our tickets we found that our original ferry might be taking cars after all! A mad dash to get the cars into the queue and we managed to board the ferry at the very last minute. Back to Plan ...