Brittany Ferries

Based in Plymouth, Brittany Ferries started out transporting in agricultural goods from Northern France. Today, it accounts for over 50% of all passenger traffic in the Western Channel. Furthermore, you can also book Gites, Camping and other kinds of holidays in France through this operator.

Routes & Timetables

These are the routes you can take with Brittany Ferries...

- Portsmouth to Caen
- Portsmouth to St Malo
- Portsmouth to Cherbourg
- Poole to Cherbourg
- Plymouth to Roscoff
- Plymouth to Santander
- Cork to Roscoff

You can compare and book each of these routes online. Use also the maps on the ferry terminals page to figure out how far you have to drive on the other side.

The Brittany Ferries Fleet

The Brittany Ferries flagship is the MV Pont Aven, which is enormous. It can carry 2400 passengers, 650 cars, has 652 cabins. It was launched in 2004 and has since dramatically reduced sailing times between Roscoff and Caen. You can be on it for up to 24 hours if you are sailing to Santander, so they have laid on loads of features to keep you occupied on-board, in fact, its more of a floating holiday in itself these days. There is a large pool and leisure area, a live band plays every night, plus a DJ, Cinema's, and children's playroom.

In addition the company has two high speed ferries that sail from Portsmouth and Poole. They carry up to about 850 seated passengers at a time, plus with up to 235 cars. They operate from Mid-March to late September with crossing times of 180 minutes to Cherbourg and 225 minutes to Caen. Both have a non-smoking policy.