Any good at knots? HOW TO TAKE YOUR BIKE ON A FERRY! - Bike touring with kids - 10 TIPS for cyclists

What's it like taking your bike on a ferry? Here's ten of our tips from the last few years on the road.

We're the Family ByCycle - welcome to our first 'touring tips' guide to using ferries to have wild adventures with kids and bikes. Let's hear YOUR tips in the comments! Which one shall we do next? Trains or Cars? ;-)

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Crossings appearing in this video (not in order of appearance! Oh, did you spot the porpoise leaping out of the water near Ullapool, too?):

ENGLAND
The Ferry 'cross the Mersey - https://www.merseyferries.co.uk
Birkenhead - Liverpool

SCOTLAND
Caledonian MacBrayne - https://www.calmac.co.uk
Oban - Tiree - Coll - Castlebay (Barra)
Ardmhòr (Barra) - Eriskay (Sound of Barra)
Berneray - Leverburgh (Harris)
Tarbert (Harris) - Uig (Skye)
Stornoway (Lewis) - Ullapool

ENGLISH CHANNEL
Brittany Ferries (except not at the moment - tell them what you think!) - https://www.brittany-ferries.co.uk
Plymouth - Roscoff

Condor Ferries (Boo Hiss, never replied to our complaint from 2015 when they didn't keep their promise and pay for the hotel they put us in when the ferry got us into Poole several hours late, which they knew about but didn't warn passengers of - still sore about this, so not posting their link!)
St Malo - St Peter Port (Guernsey)
St Peter Port - Poole

NORTH SEA
Stena Line - https://www.stenaline.co.uk/ferry-to-...
Harwich - Hoek van Holland

DENMARK
Ærøfærgerne - https://aeroe-ferry.dk/en/
Svendborg - Ærøskøbing
Søby - Faaborg