Compare trains, coaches, flights and ferries from Exeter to Santander. From €55.72, fastest 25h 40m, with the total price and every fee shown up front.
Travelling from Exeter to Santander costs €55.72 at the cheapest and takes 25h 40m door to door at the fastest, across 1 mode and 1 operator. The route covers 848 km. Cheapest is by Ferry, fastest is by Ferry.
Journey times below are door to door, so they include getting to the terminal and away from it at the other end. Fares are the cheapest we currently sell on 28 September 2026.
| Mode | Door to door | Moving | At the ends | From | CO2 | Per day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ferry | 27h 56m | 26h 26m | 1h 30m | €72.94 | 97.5 kg | 4 |
Two journeys we can sell today, with the service number each operator files them under.
Changes at Plymouth, with 61 minutes between services and a walk of about 14 minutes.
Door to door 29h 10mCO2 94.5 kgChanges 1Changeable for a fee
Door to door 27h 56mCO2 97.5 kgChanges 0Changeable for a fee
Live from the operators' own published timetables, through the open transit feeds they publish. Times and services are real. Fares are modelled until our booking connectors are live.
Live from the operators' own published timetables, through the open transit feeds they publish. Times and services are real. Fares are modelled until our booking connectors are live.
Live from our own engine, refreshed on every request. The cheapest days for each way of travelling are marked.
| Cheapest fare by mode and day for Exeter to Santander | Wed9 Sept | Thu10 Sept | Fri11 Sept | Sat12 Sept | Sun13 Sept | Mon14 Sept | Tue15 Sept | Wed16 Sept | Thu17 Sept | Fri18 Sept | Sat19 Sept | Sun20 Sept | Mon21 Sept | Tue22 Sept |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ferry | €146.64 | €124.09 | €137.84 | €122.98 | €103.73 | €83.94 | €89.44 | €89.99 | €91.09 | €79.53 | €83.93 | €92.19 | €73.49 | €72.94 |
| Coach | €158.03 | €127.78 | €160.23 | €120.62 | €100.83 | €107.42 | €95.32 | €89.27 | €97.52 | €77.17 | €81.57 | €94.77 | €84.32 | €73.32 |
Cheapest day: 2026-09-28 · €55.72
The ferry gets you into Santander. It does not get you a bed, and neither do we.
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Book now Fares on this route are lowest around 60 days ahead. You are inside that window.
Median cheapest fare for each weekday, taken across the next three weeks of real prices.
The same journey priced on the fifteenth of each of the next six months.
Direct or connecting, how far the route really runs, and what happens when a connection is missed.
The stations, airports and ports each mode on this corridor actually uses.
The fare from SDR into Santander is the one price on this journey we cannot show you, because it is not ours.
Settled in advance, so the ride into Santander costs what it said it would rather than what the rank says.
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Speed, flexibility and what is on board. Nothing here is a rating, because we have not earned one.
| Operator | From | Fastest | Typical speed | Flexibility | On board |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 Brittany Ferries | €63.59 | 25h 40m | 33 km/h | Changeable | Bar, , Cabins, Cafe, Restaurant, Toilets |
Every part of the total, so the number at checkout is the number here.
| Part | Amount | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Operator fare | €47.49 | 85% |
| Taxes | €4.75 | 9% |
| Supplier fees | €1.49 | 3% |
| Our service fee | €1.99 | 4% |
| Total you pay | €55.72 | 100% |
A day in Santander carrying a suitcase is a shorter day than it needs to be. We do not store bags.
Shops, cafes and hotels that take luggage, with the opening hours on the map so you know what is still open when you come back.
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The fastest journey from Exeter to Santander takes 25h 40m door to door, of which 26h 26m is spent moving, on the Ferry. Most services take around 27h 16m, because that average includes slower stopping services and journeys with a connection. Times include reaching the terminal and leaving it at the far end.
The cheapest fare from Exeter to Santander is €55.72, checked on 28 September 2026. A typical fare across the next three weeks is €84.49. Both figures are the total for one passenger, including taxes, supplier fees and our service fee, so nothing is added at checkout.
The cheapest way from Exeter to Santander is by Ferry, at €72.94 for one passenger on 28 September 2026. That journey takes 27h 56m door to door. Cheaper is rarely faster on this corridor, and the comparison table on this page shows what each mode costs against what it saves.
Fares from Exeter to Santander bottom out around 60 days before departure, at €52.42. Across the whole booking window the gap between the cheapest and the dearest lead time is 180 percent, measured on 28 September 2026. Booking inside the last week has consistently cost more on this corridor.
Tuesday is the cheapest day to depart from Exeter to Santander, at €72.94. That is the median of 21 priced departure days across the next three weeks, checked on 28 September 2026. Shifting a departure by one day is usually worth more than shifting the booking by one week.
February is the cheapest of the next 6 months to travel from Exeter to Santander, at €43.24 for one passenger. Each month is priced on its fifteenth, so the comparison is like for like rather than a mix of weekends and midweek departures.
1 operators sell services from Exeter to Santander across 1 modes: Brittany Ferries. Journey times, fares and fare conditions differ between them, and the operator table on this page compares all of them on speed, flexibility and what is provided on board.
20 percent of the services we sell from Exeter to Santander are direct. The rest connect at Weymouth, Torquay, Plymouth, Paignton, with about 47 minutes between the two services. Both legs are sold on one booking, so a missed connection is rebooked at no charge.
Services from Exeter to Santander by Ferry leave from Exeter Quay and arrive at Santander Estacion Maritima. Allow about 1h 30m in total for reaching the departure terminal and leaving the arrival one, which is already included in every door to door time on this page.
1 of the 1 operators we sell from Exeter to Santander allow a change or a refund. A change on a changeable fare costs €5.00. The operator table on this page names which is which, and the condition is shown again before you pay.
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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Our job ends on the platform. What fills the days in Santander afterwards does not belong to us.
Timed entry, guided walks and half-day trips out of Santander, with free cancellation on most of it.
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