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Vannes to Nantes

Compare trains, coaches, flights and ferries from Vannes to Nantes. From €11.88, fastest 4h 53m, with the total price and every fee shown up front.

Vannes to Nantes runs about 5 times a day, with the first departure around 06:31 and the last around 07:30. One passenger pays €11.88, every fee included. The fastest door to door is 4h 53m over 108 km, on services run by 1 operator across 1 mode.

Checked 13 September 2026Priced for 21 September 2026One passenger, all fees included

What one seat costs

Every operator we hold on this corridor starts at €11.88, so there is no spread to show.

Typical fares

€11.88

  • 65%Moves across the booking window

When it runs, leaving Vannes

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.

  • 06:31First 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

  1. about €16.84Mon14
  2. about €15.74Tue15
  3. about €19.59Wed16
  4. about €16.29Thu17
  5. about €14.64Fri18
  6. about €17.39Sat19
  7. about €16.29Sun20
  8. about €11.88Mon21
  9. about €11.88Tue22
  10. about €11.88Wed23
  11. about €11.89Thu24
  12. about €14.64Fri25
  13. about €14.09Sat26
  14. about €11.89Sun27
  15. about €11.88Mon28
  16. about €11.88Tue29
  17. about €11.88Wed30
  18. about €11.88Thu1
  19. about €11.88Fri2
  20. about €11.88Sat3
  21. about €11.88Sun4

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 Nantes. It does not get you a bed, and neither do we.

A hotel room

A room in Nantes for the night the ferry gets in

Sort by distance from Nantes and you can see which places are ten minutes on foot and which are not.

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Booking window

When to book Vannes to Nantes

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

  1. €12.4490 days
  2. €11.8860 days
  3. €11.8845 days
  4. €11.8830 days
  5. €11.8821 days
  6. €11.8914 days
  7. €16.297 days
  8. €19.593 days
  9. €16.841 days
Cheapest lead time
Fares bottom out around 60 days ahead, at €11.88.
How much it moves
The gap between the cheapest and dearest lead time is 65 percent. The dearest point is €19.59, 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.
€19.59€11.881371421304560

Book now Fares on this route are lowest around 21 days ahead. You are inside that window.

This corridor, specifically

Facts that apply to Vannes to Nantes 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

108 km

103 km as the crow flies, 5% further by the route services actually take. The bearing runs south-east.

Who lives at each end

54,020325,070

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

VannesVannesNantesNantes
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 108 km against 103 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 Lorient, Concarneau, Saint-Malo, Les Sables-d'Olonne. The gap between arriving and leaving is 61 minutes, of which about 5 is walking.
If the connection is missed
The tightest connection we sell here has a 16 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 NTE into Nantes is the one price on this journey we cannot show you, because it is not ours.

A taxi rank outside an airport terminal

A car waiting when you land in Nantes

Settled in advance, so the ride into Nantes costs what it said it would rather than what the rank says.

Partner links. We do not operate transfers. We earn a commission on a booking, and the fare is the same as going direct.

Who runs this route

The ferry gets in hours before any room is ready. Holding a bag is not what we sell.

Left luggage lockers

Left luggage near Nantes

Most of the points near Nantes open before the first train and shut after the last one.

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Questions about Vannes to Nantes

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 Vannes to Nantes?

The fastest journey from Vannes to Nantes takes 4h 53m door to door, of which 3h 37m is spent moving, on the ferry. Most services take around 5h 7m, 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 Vannes to Nantes?

The cheapest fare from Vannes to Nantes is €11.88, as of 13 September 2026. A typical fare across the next three weeks is €11.89. 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 Vannes to Nantes?

The cheapest way from Vannes to Nantes is by ferry, at €11.88 for one passenger on 21 September 2026. That journey takes 5h 7m 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 Vannes to Nantes?

Fares from Vannes to Nantes bottom out around 60 days before departure, at €11.88. Across the whole booking window the gap between the cheapest and the dearest lead time is 65 percent, measured on 13 September 2026. Booking inside the last week has consistently cost more on this corridor.

Which day of the week is cheapest for Vannes to Nantes?

Monday is the cheapest day to depart from Vannes to Nantes, at €11.88. That is the median of 21 priced departure days across the next three weeks, as of 13 September 2026. Shifting a departure by one day is usually worth more than shifting the booking by one week.

Which month is cheapest for Vannes to Nantes?

October is the cheapest of the next 6 months to travel from Vannes to Nantes, at €11.88 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 Vannes to Nantes?

1 operators sell services from Vannes to Nantes across 1 mode: 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.

Is there a direct service from Vannes to Nantes?

20 percent of the services we sell from Vannes to Nantes are direct. The rest connect at Lorient, Concarneau, Saint-Malo, Les Sables-d'Olonne, with about 61 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 Vannes to Nantes use?

Services from Vannes to Nantes by ferry leave from Béluré and arrive at Gachet. 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 Vannes to Nantes?

1 of the 1 operators we sell from Vannes to Nantes 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 Vannes to Nantes on 13 September 2026: 108 km of route against 103 km in a straight line, 5 services a day, 1 operator a cheapest fare of €11.88, and 4h 53m 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 Nantes a set of days out that do not start at a station. We do not sell those either.

A guided tour group

Day trips out of Nantes and across France

Day trips that leave Nantes in the morning and cover a good part of France by evening.

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The two ends, compared

Vannes reaches 20 places in 1 countries on services we hold, over distances from 47 to 474 km. Nantes reaches 141 places in 29 countries, from 81 to 6,767 km.

Other ways to make this journey

Leaving Vannes

  • 20Places you can leave for
  • 1Countries
  • 1Operators

Arriving in Nantes

Leaving Nantes

  • 141Places you can leave for
  • 29Countries
  • 43Operators

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