SeaFrance Dover-Calais Ferries has launched a brand new priority loading and disembarkation service, enabling customers to speed up their crossing times.

For an introductory price of £8 per crossing, the new ‘Rapide’ service allows passengers to be the first to board their SeaFrance superferry and also the first to disembark, meaning they can beat the traffic and get to their destination that little bit faster.

This special upgrade also has the benefit of giving Rapide passengers the pick of all of the seats from which to enjoy a coffee and croissant in the SeaFrance lounges, or the table with the best sea view at gourmet waiter-service restaurant La Brasserie.

SeaFrance operates up to 30 daily car ferry crossings on the Dover-Calais route. Fares for a car and up to nine passengers start from just £35 each way (£70 return) online for any duration and from £22 return for a day trip.

City.Mobi

Also in Europe today, City.Mobi is celebrating the success of its new guide to Dover.

City.Mobi offers the most comprehensive mobile travel guides available, with over 800 cities in 200 countries listed. Each is developed by the City.Mobi team to combine into a single global travel directory.

However, each city retains its own mobile identity via a dedicated domain. Already on offer are Brussels.Mobi, Paris.Mobi, Sanfrancisco.Mobi and Sydney.Mobi.

Dover.Mobi is the latest in this illustrious line up, offering click to call functionality – which means no scribbling down telephone numbers.

Most entries are also linked to websites where users can quickly access more detailed information if needed.

Other key features include information on accommodation, restaurants, attractions, entertainment, nightlife, shopping, and transport.

City.Mobi guides include user reviews and traveller utilities such as a translation guide, currency converter, news and local weather guide.