Having queued at the Douglas booking office for 5 hours from 06:00 in May last year, I managed to get the outbound sailing I wanted, but not the inbound. It meant I had to stay on the Island until the Tuesday after it had all ended. (Having been a visitor for over 40 years, hanging around after the racing is not my thing anymore!)

I tried many times to change my booking, including in March when they release tickets that had not been paid for, but no luck.

I had resigned myself to those dates. However, yesterday for some reason I went onto the website, checked for 'better' sailing times and got the exact sailing I wanted in the first place"

A good result - thank you Steam Packet