EUROTUNNEL has teamed up with Active Hotels, an online reservation provider, to offer customers online reservations for over 8,500 hotels across Europe.

The service will be launched on www.eurotunnel.com from December 1, 2004.

Jo Willacy, Eurotunnel’s head of marketing, said Active Hotels is a perfect fit for the company.

She said: "We're delighted to be teaming up with Active Hotels to offer our customers even greater freedom and value-for-money when booking their accommodation.

"The range and mix of hotels offered by Active Hotels fits perfectly with our customer profile.

“From December, customers will be able to choose from over 2000 quality hotels within a three hour drive of our terminals, and over 8,500 further afield throughout Europe."

Dan Smith, director of sales at Active Hotels, said: "Eurotunnel is an exciting and valuable addition to Active Hotels' distribution network and we look forward to delivering a good value-for-money, user-friendly online hotel booking service to Eurotunnel's customers.

Customers can book online or via the Eurotunnel Contact Centre on 08705 353535.