Penzance to Bristol runs about 5 times a day, with the first departure around 06:26 and the last around 07:30. One passenger pays €17.94, every fee included. The fastest door to door is 9h 24m over 267 km, on services run by 1 operator across 1 mode.
What one seat costs
Every operator we hold on this corridor starts at €17.94, so there is no spread to show.
Typical fares · Priced for 5 October 2026
€17.94
- 231%Moves across the booking window
When it runs, leaving Penzance
No operator has filed a timetable for this direction yet, so the first and last departure below follow the pattern of the corridor. Read them as the shape of the service day rather than as times to turn up for.
- 06:26First departure
- 07:30Last departure
- 5Services per day
- 20%Run direct
Brittany Ferries runs this service and does not sell it here. AFerry takes the payment.
Buying this journey
AFerry holds the sailings between these two ports, with the crossing times and the fares.
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Fares by date
What this journey usually costs, by departure date. It shows which days run dearer.
Typical fares
- about €43.79Fri18
- about €41.04Sat19
- about €44.88Sun20
- about €30.04Mon21
- about €30.04Tue22
- about €31.14Wed23
- about €32.79Thu24
- about €33.34Fri25
- about €32.23Sat26
- about €25.64Sun27
- about €25.63Mon28
- about €25.09Tue29
- about €26.73Wed30
- about €29.49Thu1
- about €23.44Fri2
- about €23.99Sat3
- about €23.99Sun4
- about €17.94Mon5
- about €18.49Tue6
- about €21.24Wed7
- about €25.64Thu8
Based on what this route has cost recently. The operator sets the price on the day, and the live fare is confirmed when you book.
The ferry gets you into Bristol. It does not get you a bed, and neither do we.
A room in Bristol for the night the ferry gets in
Sort by distance from Bristol Temple Meads and you can see which places are ten minutes on foot and which are not.
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When to book Penzance to Bristol
The same search run across the whole booking window, so the shape of the curve is visible rather than described.
- €23.4490 days
- €13.5460 days
- €17.3945 days
- €19.0430 days
- €25.6421 days
- €29.4914 days
- €32.797 days
- €44.883 days
- €43.791 days
- Cheapest lead time
- Fares bottom out around 60 days ahead, at €13.54.
- How much it moves
- The gap between the cheapest and dearest lead time is 231 percent. The dearest point is €44.88, 3 days out.
- What that means
- Today sits inside the cheap window, which closes about 60 days before departure. Waiting from here has usually cost money on this corridor rather than saved it.
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This corridor, specifically
Facts that apply to Penzance to Bristol and to no other route on the site.
Clocks
Both ends keep the same time, so the arrival is the departure plus the journey.
The shape of it
267 km
255 km as the crow flies, 5% further by the route services take. The bearing runs north-east.
Who lives at each end
19,872 → 479,024
Population at the departure city and at the arrival city, which is usually what decides how often anything runs.
How we know
0/2
2 of these connections were inferred from service-area overlap rather than observed in a timetable. We would rather say so.
The route
What the journey 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 267 km against 255 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, Newquay, St Austell, Truro. 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. Both legs are sold on one booking, so a missed connection is ours to fix and you are rebooked at no charge.
The fare from BRS into Bristol is the one price on this journey we cannot show you, because it is not ours.
A car waiting when you land in Bristol
Settled in advance, so the ride into Bristol costs what it said it would rather than what the rank says.
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Who runs this route
The ferry gets in hours before any room is ready. Holding a bag is not what we sell.
Left luggage near Bristol Temple Meads
Most of the points near Bristol Temple Meads open before the first train and shut after the last one.
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Questions about Penzance to Bristol
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 it take to get from Penzance to Bristol?
The fastest journey from Penzance to Bristol takes 9h 24m door to door, of which 8h 55m is spent moving, on the ferry. Most services take around 9h 57m, because that average includes slower stopping services and journeys with a connection. Times include reaching the terminal and leaving it at the far end.
How much does it cost to travel from Penzance to Bristol?
The cheapest fare from Penzance to Bristol is €17.94, as of 17 September 2026. A typical fare across the next three weeks is €29.49. Both figures are the total for one passenger, including taxes, supplier fees and our service fee, so nothing is added at checkout.
What is the cheapest way to get from Penzance to Bristol?
The cheapest way from Penzance to Bristol is by ferry, at €17.94 for one passenger on 5 October 2026. That journey takes 10h 25m 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.
When should I book Penzance to Bristol?
Fares from Penzance to Bristol bottom out around 60 days before departure, at €13.54. Across the whole booking window the gap between the cheapest and the dearest lead time is 231 percent, measured on 17 September 2026. Booking inside the last week has consistently cost more on this corridor.
Which day of the week is cheapest for Penzance to Bristol?
Tuesday is the cheapest day to depart from Penzance to Bristol, at €25.09. That is the median of 21 priced departure days across the next three weeks, as of 17 September 2026. Shifting a departure by one day is usually worth more than shifting the booking by one week.
Which month is cheapest for Penzance to Bristol?
February is the cheapest of the next 5 months to travel from Penzance to Bristol, at €15.19 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.
Who runs services from Penzance to Bristol?
No operator record names Penzance to Bristol directly. Brittany Ferries publish service areas covering both ends and may serve it, so we list them as possible operators rather than confirmed ones.
Is there a direct service from Penzance to Bristol?
20 percent of the services we sell from Penzance to Bristol are direct. The rest connect at Weston-super-Mare, Newquay, St Austell, Truro, with about 51 minutes between the two services. Both legs are sold on one booking, so a missed connection is rebooked at no charge.
Which station or terminal do services from Penzance to Bristol use?
Services from Penzance to Bristol by ferry leave from Gwelva and arrive at Bristol Marina. 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.
Can I change or refund a ticket from Penzance to Bristol?
1 of the 1 operators we sell from Penzance to Bristol 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.
Where these numbers come from
Places, coordinates, operators, which operator serves which pair, and every distance on this page are real and come from open data. Where a corridor has a filed timetable the departure times are real too, and ferry fares are the prices the operators publish themselves.
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.
Where no operator publishes a fare for a corridor, the price here is our own estimate, worked out from the real distance and the real operator through a fare curve that follows lead time, day of the week and season. It tells you roughly what the journey costs. It is not a seat anyone has agreed to sell, and the payment step will not take it.
Defined in full at Door to door, Fares, The booking window, Carbon, Distances
- On this page
- Every figure above was computed for Penzance to Bristol on 17 September 2026: 267 km of route against 255 km in a straight line, 5 services a day, 1 operator a cheapest fare of €17.94, and 9h 24m door to door on the fastest mode. The return direction is computed separately and its numbers are not these numbers.
Being on the water gives Bristol a set of days out that do not start at a station. We do not sell those either.
Day trips out of Bristol and across United Kingdom
Day trips that leave Bristol in the morning and cover a good part of United Kingdom by evening.
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The two ends, compared
Penzance reaches 39 places in 1 countries on services we hold, over distances from 33 to 425 km. Bristol reaches 212 places in 38 countries, from 29 to 4,257 km.
Other ways to make this journey
Leaving Penzance
- 39Places you can leave for
- 1Countries
- 1Operators
Arriving in Bristol
Leaving Bristol
- 212Places you can leave for
- 38Countries
- 30Operators