2024 tide tables
August 2024
Please find attached the immigration form for Port Diélette.
Port Dielette have sent the following official information
Here is the procedure :
1 – You complete the form directly on your computer/phone – One for the arrival and one for the departure, if Port Diélette is your first or your last port of call in France – the new form is here: PREAVIS immigration MARITIME Dielette Aug2024
Customs from Cherbourg tell us that they want to received the form complete on a computer, not on a paper with a pen (to make sure it is readable)
2 – You send it to portdielette@lecotentin.fr 24 hours or more for the arrival form. Maximum the day of the departure (or before) for the departure form
3 – You wait an email from us with the form approved by customs and you keep it with you (on your phone or you print it, in case there is a control)
4 – You enjoy your stopover in Port Diélette
We would like to take this opportunity to inform you that the day stopover is no longer free. It’s the half of the normal price (per night).
La Falaise Restaurant is now Open (6th September 2024) and the food is great with very good prices. We visited and tested the menu and were very impressed! The Falaise Hotel remains closed.
Pontoon A is the only one allocated to visitors.
Le Cambuse Restaurant has closed its doors. Instead Aurelie and Emmanuel have opened a food shop in Barneville.
Report from Tim Bean
We visited Le Pois Gourmand in Les Pieux (now owned by Cyril & Mellisa ex Falaise Hotel). The fixed price menu at €30 was exceptional – even better cooking than previously. Well worth catching a taxi from Port Dielette. Just 28 covers but will have extra tables on the terrace in the summer. Best to book a table. To book, telephone 02 33 03 23 84 or look at www.lepois-gourmand.com.
The new bar on the quay next to the Moules Frites restaurant is up and running. Wide choice of wines & beers with bar snacks from Sausison, homemade rillettes, meat/cheese planchas, oysters and bulots.
Photo by Richard Bird May 2024
Post Brexit information
- If Port Diélette is the first port of call upon your arrival in France, you must complete the form attached, 24 hours or more before your arrival, and send it to the email address portdielette@lecotentin.fr
- If Port Diélette is your last port of call, you complete the form and send it when you leave the french territory.
- If you do a day trip, it’s necessary to complete one form for the arrival and one form for the departure (never put the arrival/departure on the same form)
- You do not need to send the form to the customs – just send the form to portdielette@lecotentin.fr and that’s it
- The new form 2024 PREAVIS immigration MARITIME Dielette
Port concerned by the same procedure as Port Diélette – Port-Bail
Any questions? Contact us at: portdielette@lecotentin.fr
Dielette marina – photo by Colin Le Conte 2022
Dielette is special, especially to visitors from Guernsey. Slightly closer than Carteret and with better tidal access, Dielette is a popular destination, especially for Guernsey boats.
There is not a lot to do in Dielette, and the village is a good 25 min walk away, so many people hire a taxi or hire car to explore this amazing area of the Normandy peninsular, go for walks or use the bus service. Dielette is a great base. Cherbourg, for example, is only 25 mins away by car and from there you can be in Paris in a couple of hours.
There is now a regular daily bus service to Cherbourg (via Les Pieux). The bus stop is on the main road just outside of the port. The marina office has the bus timetable.
‘Escale’ the Moules Frites restaurant on the quay has reopened under new ownership. We had good service from very friendly and helpful staff.
Important link
Official Dielette website – www.encotentin.fr/port-dielette/
Tide table for 2024 – APPD_Guide24_A5 Vdéf
Dielette now has a digital tide gauge as well as the conventional board.
the digital gauge, photo by Mark Gill
– Small market on Sunday morning during the season
– Diélette is a member of Passeport Escales (www.passeportescales.com)
| VHF canal 09 ou tél : +33 (0)2 33 53 68 78 | Le Bureau du Port |
| portdielette@lecotentin.fr | The Harbour office |
The harbour is reasonably 24-hour access, but best check with the Marina Harbourmaster. The outer pontoons can be used for mooring (but there may be a swell) and can also be used to increase your arrival/departure times.
Boats having a berth in Guernsey have a 50% discount on the mooring fees during all the year, except June, July and August. Jersey boats have a 50% discount all the year except on Friday, Saturday, and Sunday nights.
The main visitor pontoons are on A. These are all for visitors. Note the fingers get shorter as you go further in.
There are also some visitor moorings on pontoon C for smaller boats (up to 10m). Pontoon B is no longer available.
The official pontoon letters are as follows
The pontoons are a mixture of waiting pontoons, pontoons for visitor stays and some permanent berths for smaller local boats. Photo by Roger Alcock
The marina staff do not come out to provide guidance but stay in their marina office. No village or town close by and so not much to do unless you have a car.
The marina gate is lower than the Carteret gate and so the times for entry and departure are longer. There are pontoons in the harbour where you can moor if the tide is too low to get into the Marina.
If the wind and/or swell is from the North West, then you can get quite a bad surge in the outer pontoons and in the marina when the tide is over the sill. It is amazing the effect it has on the boats and can be quite uncomfortable.
Be careful near the wall of the marina on the harbourside, there is a big sill.
“A” pontoon for visitors. The longest fingers are near the entrance gate – photo by Colin Le Conte 2016
Don’t go right up to the poles – picture by Richard Bird
The toilet block is fine. It is next to the Cambuse. There is a keycode for entry, although there is an emergency toilet next door to the main entrance if required.
Pilot Guide – Capitainerie – 02 33 53 68 78
VHF channel 9
The marina office speaks good English and responds very well to e-mails. The marina staff are very helpful
E-mail: portdielette@lecotentin.fr
Tides – maree.info/37
Supermarkets – Provisions can be obtained by walking over 2 km to Flamanville where there is a small bread shop and another selling groceries. It is a long hill.
Otherwise, a taxi or bus to Les Pieux puts you in a small town with two good supermarkets. A longer walk along the coast (take water if it’s hot) brings you to Flamanville nuclear power station, where there is an exhibition of some interest and staff who will happily answer all questions and sell you a nuclear power plant.
Restaurants – www.tripadvisor.com/Restaurants-g4713782…
L’Escale The L’Escale is on the pier, eat in or outside. Moules and Frites or Entrecôte and frites are their specialities.
Report received July 2024 from a regular visitor. L’Escale much improved compared to the start of the year. Had a very good meal.
Le Bouche a Oreille Down a track a ten-minute pleasant walk away is Le Bouche a Oreille. A great atmosphere and food cooked on the log fire. Maitre’d speaks good English, so you can easily book in advance by phone even if your French is limited like mine. 2022 report – Michel and his wife welcomed us back as his first Guernsey customers since Covid. He has reduced the number of tables but thinks that it makes things much better for the 2 person team to provide good food & service. It was a Tuesday evening and they were full….. so best to book beforehand. All cooked on the wood fire the food was memorably tasty.
Tel no 02.33.41.84.49, e-mail contact@boucheaoreille-siouville.fr .web site www.leboucheaoreille-siouvillehague.fr/
The Semaphore My favourite is The Semaphore with superb views from the cliff-top location of Sark, Jersey and Alderney. Food is the best in the area but will need to book as the French love it too. I was told by someone that if you book at the Semaphore restaurant, they now offer to pick you up from the marina. Visited May 2019 and very pleasant. You sit in an aluminium conservatory, but the views make up for it. Set menus are only available during the week and not at the weekends. The man in charge speaks good English restaurantlesemaphore.fr/index.htm
La Falaise
Just reopened (the restaurant part, not the hotel). Great food.
Market day – Sunday (high season)
Car Rental / Hire cars – I am told you can rent a car through L’Escale, although they were closed whenever we tried. Tel no +33 2 33 52 67 10.
We rented through www.francecars.fr/ who was very helpful and efficient. They delivered the car on a truck.
Ferry to Guernsey and Jersey – www.manche-iles.com/wp-content/uploads/2…
Walks
The walk to Souville beach, along the Sentier du Plate GR223 path, is a good walk. It takes around 30mins, is scenic and away from traffic. You pass hand gliders, a few old buildings and then walk slightly inland to come back down the street towards the beech. Croquez Moi is a boulangerie selling cakes and sandwiches and worth a visit. You can then walk on to the centre where there is Le Baligan restaurant and the unmanned information office.
The path is to the left of this sign
Croquez Moi
Le Baligan
La Cap Marine – highly rated
We also tried the walk to Les Pieux via the Bouche a Orielle. This is not recommended. It is not well signposted, although we think some blue markings mark the path. It is not very scenic and is over 7km long (despite what the signs and leaflets say). It took us over 1.5 hours to walk. It does, however, keep you away from the main road. It probably is cyclable apart from the section near Les Pieux, which may be a bit bumpy.
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