Travel to Playa del Carmen

Every way to reach Playa del Carmen: 1 mode compared, with fares.

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Fares and seats move by the day. Price a journey into Playa del Carmen on the date you actually want, rather than on the date this page was built.

Playa del Carmen is reachable from 1 place across 1 country by 1 mode, on services run by 1 operator. The cheapest arrival costs €11.88 and the fastest takes 2h 29m door to door. The nearest origin is 20 km away.

Priced for 8 October 2026One passenger, all fees included

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Arriving

How people reach Playa del Carmen

One row per mode that calls here. Reach is the furthest origin that mode serves in a straight line.
Mode	Origins	From	Fastest	Reach	Operators
Ferry	2	€11.88	2h 29m	20 km	1

06:00 to 18:00First and last departure
1Places you can arrive from
1Countries
1Operators

What the operators filed into Playa del Carmen on 17 September 2026, taken from the busiest routes into the city. Real times, and a fare only where an operator published one.

Departures on 17 September 2026

Real departures, filed by the operators themselves. We hold no fare for these services, so there is no price here to mislead you.

06:0006:3535m
ULTRAMAR FERRYVessel ULTRAMAR FERRYDirect
COZUMEL → PLAYA DEL CARMEN
07:3008:0535m
ULTRAMAR FERRYVessel ULTRAMAR FERRYDirect
COZUMEL → PLAYA DEL CARMEN
08:0008:3535m
ULTRAMAR FERRYVessel ULTRAMAR FERRYDirect
COZUMEL → PLAYA DEL CARMEN
08:3009:0535m
ULTRAMAR FERRYVessel ULTRAMAR FERRYDirect
COZUMEL → PLAYA DEL CARMEN
09:3010:0535m
ULTRAMAR FERRYVessel ULTRAMAR FERRYDirect
COZUMEL → PLAYA DEL CARMEN
10:0010:3535m
ULTRAMAR FERRYVessel ULTRAMAR FERRYDirect
COZUMEL → PLAYA DEL CARMEN
11:3012:0535m
ULTRAMAR FERRYVessel ULTRAMAR FERRYDirect
COZUMEL → PLAYA DEL CARMEN
12:0012:3535m
ULTRAMAR FERRYVessel ULTRAMAR FERRYDirect
COZUMEL → PLAYA DEL CARMEN
14:0014:3535m
ULTRAMAR FERRYVessel ULTRAMAR FERRYDirect
COZUMEL → PLAYA DEL CARMEN
16:0016:3535m
ULTRAMAR FERRYVessel ULTRAMAR FERRYDirect
COZUMEL → PLAYA DEL CARMEN
17:3018:0535m
ULTRAMAR FERRYVessel ULTRAMAR FERRYDirect
COZUMEL → PLAYA DEL CARMEN
18:0018:3535m
ULTRAMAR FERRYVessel ULTRAMAR FERRYDirect
COZUMEL → PLAYA DEL CARMEN

The ferry gets you into Playa del Carmen. It does not get you a bed, and neither do we.

A room in Playa del Carmen for the night the ferry gets in

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Catchment

How far people travel to get here

Straight line distance from each origin we sell, not the distance the route runs.
Distance	Routes	Share	Nearest of them
Under 200 km	2	100%	Cozumel, 20 km

Origins

Which countries you can arrive from

Counted by route, so a country with several cities on the corridor counts once per route rather than once per city.
Country	Routes	Share
Mexico	2	100%

Terminals

Stations, airports and ports in Playa del Carmen

Playa del Carmen

Ferry

PLAYA DEL CARMEN

Fares

The cheapest journeys into Playa del Carmen

Cheapest fare and fastest journey into Playa del Carmen, over the next three weeks.
Route	From	Fastest	Distance
San Miguel de Cozumel to Playa del Carmen ferry	€11.88	2h 29m	20 km

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

Left luggage near PLAYA DEL CARMEN

Most of the points near PLAYA DEL CARMEN open before the first train and shut after the last one.

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Popular journeys to Playa del Carmen

Common questions about Travel to Playa del Carmen

How can I get to Playa del Carmen?

Playa del Carmen is reachable by 1 mode on our network, from 1 places, across 1 countries, on services run by 1 operators. The table on this page compares those modes on the cheapest fare, the fastest journey, how far each reaches and how many carriers run it.

What is the cheapest way to get to Playa del Carmen?

The cheapest way into Playa del Carmen is by ferry, from €11.88 for one passenger. That is the lowest fare across all 1 origins we sell into Playa del Carmen over the next three weeks, including taxes, supplier fees and our service fee.

What is the fastest way to get to Playa del Carmen?

The fastest journey into Playa del Carmen is by ferry, at 2h 29m door to door. The nearest origin we sell is 20 km away in a straight line, which is why a short fast journey exists at all on this list.

Which stations and airports does Playa del Carmen have?

Playa del Carmen has 1 named terminals on our network, including 0 rail stations and 0 airports. Among them are . Every journey time on this page allows for reaching the terminal and leaving it at the far end.

Where can I travel to Playa del Carmen from within 200 km?

2 of the routes we sell into Playa del Carmen start within 200 km. The nearest is Cozumel, 20 km away in a straight line. Short corridors like these are usually the ones where a train or coach beats a flight door to door.

Where else can I go from Playa del Carmen in Mexico?

Playa del Carmen connects to 1 places on our network across 1 country the furthest of them 20 km away in a straight line. Mexico routes are listed on this page, and the country pages carry the rest of the network around it.

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.

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 Catchment, Fares, Door to door, Distances

Elsewhere in Mexico

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The wider region

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Being on the water gives Playa del Carmen a set of days out that do not start at a station. We do not sell those either.

Day trips out of Playa del Carmen and across Mexico

Day trips that leave Playa del Carmen in the morning and cover a good part of Mexico by evening.

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