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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Search the routes currently in our planning catalog. We will clearly tell you when a route is not covered instead of inventing a schedule, fare, or availability.
2 crossings in Portugal's islands.
from Funchal (Madeira) · Portugal
The beach island next to Madeira; crossings can be rough in winter swell.
We plan your door-to-door journey as far as the port. The crossing itself is not bookable here yet.
from Ponta Delgada (Azores) · Portugal
Inter-island sailings are summer-weighted; flights cover the same hops year-round.
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.