Reaching the hard places
Most travel sites stop at the airport. A great many of the places families actually want to reach — a Greek island, Sardinia, the Croatian coast, Corsica — finish with a boat. These are the crossings that matter, with the airport your journey flies into first, so the ferry is part of the plan instead of a problem you discover later.
Sample estimates, not a quote. The ports, islands and vessel types are facts. The crossing times and fares are our own estimates — no ferry operator is connected to us yet, so we hold no live timetable, no availability and no booking. We would rather say that plainly than show you a number that looks real and is not.
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7 crossings in Italy and its islands.
from Naples · Italy
Short and frequent. Large suitcases are awkward on the island — porters are the norm.
We plan your door-to-door journey as far as the port. The crossing itself is not bookable here yet.
from Naples · Italy
Good family choice — quieter than Capri, and the ferries take cars.
We plan your door-to-door journey as far as the port. The crossing itself is not bookable here yet.
from Milazzo (Sicily) · Italy
Reached by road from Catania first; sea state cancels hydrofoils before car ferries.
We plan your door-to-door journey as far as the port. The crossing itself is not bookable here yet.
from Civitavecchia (Rome) · Italy
Overnight cabins available; the sensible way to take a hire car to Sardinia.
We plan your door-to-door journey as far as the port. The crossing itself is not bookable here yet.
from Villa San Giovanni · Italy
The short strait crossing — trains are loaded onto the ferry as well as cars.
We plan your door-to-door journey as far as the port. The crossing itself is not bookable here yet.
from Salerno · Italy
Far calmer than the coast road in summer, but it stops running out of season.
We plan your door-to-door journey as far as the port. The crossing itself is not bookable here yet.
from Genoa · Italy
The direct sea crossing from Genoa reaches Porto Torres, not Cagliari. Continue overland across Sardinia for Cagliari.
We plan your door-to-door journey as far as the port. The crossing itself is not bookable here yet.
A missed sailing is worse than a missed train: on many of these routes the next one is tomorrow. So when your plan ends with a crossing, our calculation holds a deliberate buffer before the sailing cut-off, counts the road or rail leg to the port, and tells you when a same-day connection is too tight to trust — instead of leaving you to work it out at the quayside.