FERRY TRIPS · WORLDWIDE
Find the boat. Catch the island.
Greek island hops, the blue run to Capri, the Tangier crossing and the harbour boats that beat any city tour. Every great ferry trip on earth, sorted by route, with fares, sailing times and who runs the boat.
The boat is the trip
Three crossings worth flying in for.
Most ferries get you from A to B. These three are the reason you go: the hydrofoil to Capri, the day-trip between two continents, and the long blue chain through the Cyclades.
Bay of Naples
The Blue Run to Capri
The hydrofoil out of Naples or Sorrento is the classic Mediterranean crossing: Vesuvius falling away behind the wake, the Faraglioni rocks rising out of impossibly blue water, and the funicular up to the piazzetta waiting at the other end. Thirty fast minutes that feel like the opening scene of a film.
- 1 From Naples: Capri Guided Tour with Ferry Tickets & Minibus
- 2 From Naples: Capri and Anacapri Small Group Tour + Ferry
- 3 From Naples: Ischia Day Trip with Ferry Tickets and Lunch
Two continents
Europe to Africa by Sea
From the little port at Tarifa you can see the Moroccan hills across the Strait of Gibraltar, and the fast ferry puts you in the Tangier medina in about an hour. Atlantic on one side, Mediterranean on the other, two continents in a morning - the only place in the world you cross between them on a day-trip boat.
- 1 From Tarifa: Tangier Day Trip with Lunch and Ferry
- 2 Cultural excursion for one day to Tangier with ferry included
- 3 From Costa del Sol: Tangier Full-Day Tour by Ferry
The Aegean
Island-Hop the Cyclades
No single boat defines the Greek islands, because the whole point is the chain: a fast catamaran from Athens to Mykonos, an overnight ferry to Santorini, a short hop across to Crete or back to the Turkish coast. Whitewashed harbours, blue domes, and a deck chair as the next island slides into view.
- 1 Ferry to Samos from Kusadasi
- 2 Marmaris Rhodes Ferry Trip With Free Transfer Service
- 3 From Kos: Bodrum Day Trip by Ferry with Transfer
Start here
The ferry trip everyone books first.
If you only step aboard one boat, make it this one - more travellers start a trip here than with anything else on the site.
The most booked
The Ferry Trips Travellers Book Most
Capri, the Tangier crossing, the Statue of Liberty boat, the Rottnest run. The sailings people search out by name, wherever they are heading.
Famous routes
The routes a trip is built around.
The Aegean chain, the Bay of Naples, the Strait of Gibraltar, the Andaman islands, the Rottnest run and the San Francisco Bay boats. Pick a route and we will tell you which sailing to take, and what it costs.
Plan the Aegean
How to island-hop the Greek islands.
There are more than sixty inhabited islands and a dozen ferry companies, so the how matters as much as the where. Three ways to string the Cyclades and the Saronic together, by the time and the budget you bring.
The Amalfi Coast
Skip the coast road. Take the boat.
The drive between Sorrento, Positano and Amalfi is one long hairpin of summer traffic. The ferry is the local secret: a short hop along the cliffs with the pastel villages stacked above the water, no parking, no queues, and a view of the coast you simply cannot get from the road.
See the best Amalfi Coast ferries →Two countries, one ticket
Cross a border by sea.
Some of the best ferries are the ones that change the stamp in your passport. Spain to Morocco across the Strait of Gibraltar, Helsinki to Tallinn over the Gulf of Finland, Hong Kong to Macau through the Pearl River delta - whole countries reachable on a day-return boat.
See the cross-border crossings →Out on the water
The best seat is on the deck.
A ferry is the one kind of travel where the journey beats the arrival. Salt air on the top deck, the wake unrolling behind you, a coastline you would never see from a plane or a coach sliding past. Slow boat or fast cat, this is the part of the trip you remember.
Cruises & boat trips →The Andaman Coast
Limestone islands, by long-tail and fast cat.
Phuket, Krabi and Ao Nang are the gateways; the magic is the archipelago offshore. Phi Phi, the Hong Islands and Maya Bay sit a boat ride apart across bath-warm water, reached by wooden long-tail for the short hops and air-conditioned fast cat for the longer ones.
- 1 Krabi: Railay Beach Bioluminescent Plankton Ferry Cruise
- 2 Ao Nang to Phuket by Ao Nang Princess Ferry
- 3 Krabi To Koh Samui(Samui Island) by Bus and Ferry
By crossing
Pick your trip, by how far you are going.
Every kind of crossing, from a ten-minute harbour hop to an all-day sailing between countries. Quick when you just want to be on the water, longer when the boat is the whole adventure.
The harbour hop
Twenty minutes across the water.Short, frequent and half the fun of the city: the Liberty boat, the Staten Island commute, the Sausalito run home at dusk.
The island day trip
Out in the morning, back by dark.A fast catamaran to Capri, the Rottnest boat from Fremantle, the long-tail to Phi Phi - a whole island in a single day.
The big crossing
A different country by lunch.Spain to Morocco across the Strait, Helsinki to Tallinn over the Gulf of Finland, Hong Kong to Macau through the delta.
High-speed
Forty knots, and the island comes to you.
The catamaran changed island travel. A modern fast ferry crosses in a third of the time the old boats took - Naples to Capri in forty minutes, Tarifa to Tangier in thirty-five - so an island that used to be a whole day is now a morning. Reserved seats, a calm ride, and the horizon coming up fast.
See all 21 fast-ferry crossings →By region
The ferry world, six regions deep.
The Greek and Turkish isles for the classic hop. Italy and the Med for Capri and the Amalfi cliffs. Spain’s islands and the Tangier run. Thailand and Asia for the Andaman. Australia and the Pacific. North America’s bays and harbours.
By type
Pick the kind of crossing.
A fast ferry if the clock matters. An island day trip if you want the whole place. A harbour boat if the view is the point. A border crossing if you fancy lunch in another country.
Plan the route
One week, three islands.
Never island-hopped before? Here is the classic Cyclades chain - Athens out, Crete home - that strings the big names together without a wasted day.
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