Bideford to Slough ferry

Ferries from Bideford to Slough start at €24.54 and take 9h 51m at their fastest.

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The Ferries from Bideford to Slough starts at €24.54 and takes 9h 51m door to door, run by 1 operator over 270 km, with around 5 departures a day. Fares bottom out about 30 days before departure.

Checked 12 September 2026Priced for 28 September 2026One passenger, all fees included

  • 9h 51mDoor to door
  • 8h 21mMoving
  • €24.54From
  • 31.1 kgCO2
Real services

The cheapest and the fastest on 28 September 2026

Two journeys we can sell today, with the service number each operator files them under.

Cheapest€21.78
  1. Brittany Ferries BF369307:303h 26m10:56InstowSteep Holm
  2. Brittany Ferries BF125011:475h 57m17:44Steep HolmFrench Brothers

Changes at Weston-super-Mare, with 51 minutes between services and a walk of about 5 minutes.

Door to door 11h 44mCO2 31.3 kgChanges 1Changeable for a fee

Fastest€34.44
  1. Brittany Ferries BF778307:304h 7m11:37InstowBristol Marina
  2. Great Western Railway GW997913:131h 5m14:18Bristol Temple MeadsWindsor & Eton Central

Changes at Bristol, with 96 minutes between services and a walk of about 14 minutes.

Door to door 7h 55mCO2 19.5 kgChanges 1Changeable for a fee

Carriers

Ferry operators

Speed, flexibility and what is on board. Nothing here is a rating, because we have not earned one.

Every operator we sell on this corridor. Speed is the carrier's own typical cruising speed, not the average over this route.
OperatorFromFastestTypical speedFlexibilityOn board
Brittany Ferries€21.799h 27m33 km/hChangeableBar, , Cabins, Cafe, Restaurant, Toilets
  • Brittany Ferries

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Booking window

When to book Bideford to Slough

The same search run across the whole booking window, so the shape of the curve is visible rather than described.

  1. €26.1890 days
  2. €18.4960 days
  3. €17.3945 days
  4. €14.0930 days
  5. €23.9921 days
  6. €31.1414 days
  7. €34.997 days
  8. €36.643 days
  9. €45.991 days
Cheapest lead time
Fares bottom out around 30 days ahead, at €14.09.
How much it moves
The gap between the cheapest and dearest lead time is 226 percent. The dearest point is €45.99, 1 days out.
What that means
Today sits inside the cheap window, which closes about 30 days before departure. Waiting from here has usually cost money on this corridor rather than saved it.
Day of the week

Which departure day costs least

Median cheapest fare for each weekday, taken across the next three weeks of real prices.

  1. €30.03Sun
  2. €24.54Mon
  3. €24.54Tue
  4. €25.64Wed
  5. €26.74Thu
  6. €32.24Fri
  7. €31.14Sat
Terminals

Where you leave from and where you arrive

The stations, airports and ports each mode on this corridor actually uses.

Bideford

Ferry
  • Instow

Slough

Ferry
  • French Brothers
The journey

What the journey actually looks like

Direct or connecting, how far the route really runs, and what happens when a connection is missed.

Direct or connecting
20% of the services we sell on this corridor run through without a change. The remaining 80% involve one connection.
How far it really runs
The route covers 270 km against 257 km in a straight line, a detour of 5 percent. Track and road geometry account for the difference.
Where the change is
Connections are made at Weston-super-Mare, Bristol, Didcot, Reading. The gap between arriving and leaving is 51 minutes, of which about 5 is walking.
If the connection is missed
The tightest connection we sell here has a 18 percent chance of not being made on the timetable alone. Part of this journey is a self transfer between separate tickets, so leave more time than the minimum and expect to check in again.
First and last departure
The first service of the day leaves Bideford at 06:42 and the last at 07:30, across 5 departures. The return direction keeps its own timetable, so the times back are not these times reversed.

Questions about Bideford to Slough

The questions people actually ask about this journey, answered from the same prices and times the page above is built on rather than written once and left to go stale.

How long does the Ferry from Bideford to Slough take?

The Ferry from Bideford to Slough takes 9h 51m door to door, of which 8h 21m is spent moving. The route runs 270 km. The difference between the two times is reaching the terminal and leaving it at the far end, which every time on this page includes.

How much does the Ferry from Bideford to Slough cost?

The Ferry from Bideford to Slough starts at €24.54 for one passenger, checked on 12 September 2026. A typical fare is €30.58. Both are the total including taxes, supplier fees and our service fee, so the price here is the price at checkout.

Who runs the Ferry from Bideford to Slough?

1 operators run the Ferry from Bideford to Slough: Brittany Ferries. Between them they file around 5 departures a day. The operator table on this page compares them on fare, journey time, cruising speed, fare conditions and what is provided on board.

Which terminal does the Ferry from Bideford to Slough use?

The Ferry from Bideford to Slough leaves from Instow and arrives at French Brothers. Allow about 1h 30m for reaching the departure terminal and leaving the arrival one. That time is already inside every door to door figure quoted on this page.

When should I book the Ferry from Bideford to Slough?

Fares for the Ferry from Bideford to Slough bottom out around 30 days ahead, at €14.09. The gap between the cheapest and dearest lead time across the window is 226 percent, measured on 12 September 2026. Booking inside the final week has consistently cost more.

How much CO2 does the Ferry from Bideford to Slough produce?

The Ferry from Bideford to Slough produces about 31.1 kg of CO2 per passenger over 270 km, which works out at roughly 115 grams per passenger kilometre. That figure is for the whole journey and for one traveller, not for the vehicle.

What is provided on board the Ferry from Bideford to Slough?

Operators on the Ferry from Bideford to Slough publish Bar, , Cabins, Cafe, Restaurant, Toilets. That is what 1 carriers on this corridor state about their own fleets, across a journey of 9h 51m door to door. Where a carrier publishes nothing, this page lists nothing for it.

Where these numbers come from

Derived from service area No carrier record names this exact pair. The operators listed publish a service area covering both places at a distance their mode plausibly carries people, which is evidence that the corridor is served and not evidence of a specific service. Pages state which, because presenting the two as the same thing would be dishonest.

Schedules, seat counts and fares are generated by our own model until the supplier contracts are signed. Places, coordinates, operators, which operator serves which pair, and every distance are real. We would rather say that on every page than let a modelled number pass for a filed one.

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On this page
Every figure above was computed for Bideford to Slough on 12 September 2026: 270 km of route against 257 km in a straight line, 5 services a day, 1 operators, a cheapest fare of €24.54, and 9h 51m door to door on the fastest mode. The return direction is computed separately and its numbers are not these numbers.

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