About

FerryRoute is an editorial guide to ferry travel. We take the published timetables, fare tables and port notices of the operators that actually run the crossings, and turn them into something a driver can use at the booking screen.

What we cover

Four subjects get most of the space here. Routes and timetables come first: which ports are connected, how often, and how long the crossing really takes once boarding is counted.

Fares come second. A price on a booking site is rarely the final number, so we separate the base fare from the vehicle supplement, the cabin charge, the pet fee and the peak surcharge that appear later.

Third, vehicles and boarding. Clearance heights, gas restrictions, motorcycle rules and the check-in cut-off decide whether a booking turns into a sailing.

Fourth, the ports themselves. Some terminals are a five-minute walk from a railway station, others sit on an industrial estate with no bus and no shelter.

How we check a claim

Every fare band in our guides is cross-checked against the operator’s own tariff page. Every timetable is checked against the current sailing schedule rather than an aggregator listing, which is often a season out of date.

Where operators publish contradictory information, we say so and give both versions. Where a detail changes every season, we mark it as seasonal instead of pretending it is fixed.

Editorial independence

Some outbound links on this site are affiliate links. If you book after following one, we may earn a commission. The commission does not change what you pay and it does not decide what we recommend, how routes are ranked, or which drawbacks we publish.

We do not accept payment for a positive review, and no operator can buy a place in a comparison table.

Corrections

Timetables move, fares rise and routes close. If a figure here is out of date or simply wrong, write to [email protected] with the page and the sentence, and we will check it against the operator’s publication and fix it.