Cheapest€28.94
- Brittany Ferries BF347917:2714h 41m08:08Cité du VinLe Brestoâ
Door to door 16h 11mCO2 56.9 kgChanges 0Changeable for a fee
Bordeaux to Brest ferry
Ferries from Bordeaux to Brest start at €38.29 and take 16h 11m at their fastest.
The Ferries from Bordeaux to Brest starts at €38.29 and takes 16h 11m door to door, run by 1 operator over 495 km, with around 7 departures a day. Fares bottom out about 60 days before departure.
- 16h 11mDoor to door
- 14h 41mMoving
- €38.29From
- 56.9 kgCO2
The cheapest and the fastest on September 29, 2026
Two journeys we can sell today, with the service number each operator files them under.
Ferry operators
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 | €28.94 | 15h 49m | 33 km/h | Changeable | Bar, , Cabins, Cafe, Restaurant, Restrooms |
The trip ends at Brest railway station. Everything past the gates belongs to somebody else, the rooms included.
A room in Brest for the night the ferry gets in
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When to book Bordeaux to Brest
The same search run across the whole booking window, so the shape of the curve is visible rather than described.
- €39.3990 days
- €22.8960 days
- €23.9945 days
- €28.9430 days
- €33.8921 days
- €58.0914 days
- €58.097 days
- €53.143 days
- €92.191 days
- Cheapest lead time
- Fares bottom out around 60 days ahead, at €22.89.
- How much it moves
- The gap between the cheapest and most expensive lead time is 303 percent. The most expensive point is €92.19, 1 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.
Which departure day costs least
Median cheapest fare for each weekday, taken across the next three weeks of real prices.
- €42.14Sun
- €42.69Mon
- €38.29Tue
- €41.04Wed
- €47.09Thu
- €58.09Fri
- €43.24Sat
Where you leave from and where you arrive
The stations, airports and ports each mode on this corridor actually uses.
Bordeaux
Ferry
- Cité du Vin
Brest
Ferry
- Le Brestoâ
- Gare Maritime (Molène et Ouessant)
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
- 56% of the services we sell on this corridor run through without a change. The remaining 44% involve one connection.
- How far it really runs
- The route covers 495 km against 495 km in a straight line, a detour of 1 percent. Track and road geometry account for the difference.
- Where the change is
- Connections are made at Lorient, Royan, Les Sables-d'Olonne, Concarneau. The gap between arriving and leaving is 54 minutes, of which about 5 is walking.
- If the connection is missed
- The tightest connection we sell here has a 17 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.
- First and last departure
- The first service of the day leaves Bordeaux at 06:21 and the last at 17:27, across 7 departures. The return direction keeps its own timetable, so the times back are not these times reversed.
Ferries against the other ways to make this journey
The same corridor, door to door, with every mode that runs it.
| Mode | Door to door | Moving | At the ends | From | CO2 | Per day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Flight | 4h 17m | 1h 7m | 3h 10m | €59.14 | 125.2 kg | 2 |
| Ferry | 16h 11m | 14h 41m | 1h 30m | €38.29 | 56.9 kg | 7 |
Questions about Bordeaux to Brest
The questions people actually ask about this trip, 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 Bordeaux to Brest take?
The Ferry from Bordeaux to Brest takes 16h 11m door to door, of which 14h 41m is spent moving. The route runs 495 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 Bordeaux to Brest cost?
The Ferry from Bordeaux to Brest starts at €38.29 for one passenger, checked on September 29, 2026. A typical fare is €36.09. 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 Bordeaux to Brest?
1 operators run the Ferry from Bordeaux to Brest: Brittany Ferries. Between them they file around 7 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 Bordeaux to Brest use?
The Ferry from Bordeaux to Brest leaves from Cité du Vin and arrives at Le Brestoâ. 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.
Is the Ferry the best way from Bordeaux to Brest?
Traveling from Bordeaux to Brest by Flight costs €59.14 and takes 4h 17m door to door, against 16h 11m by Ferry. Which is better depends on whether the money or the hours matter more on this trip. The comparison table on this page shows every mode side by side.
When should I book the Ferry from Bordeaux to Brest?
Fares for the Ferry from Bordeaux to Brest bottom out around 60 days ahead, at €22.89. The gap between the cheapest and most expensive lead time across the window is 303 percent, measured on September 29, 2026. Booking inside the final week has consistently cost more.
How much CO2 does the Ferry from Bordeaux to Brest produce?
The Ferry from Bordeaux to Brest produces about 56.9 kg of CO2 per passenger over 495 km, which works out at roughly 115 grams per passenger kilometer. That figure is for the whole journey and for one traveler, not for the vehicle.
What is provided on board the Ferry from Bordeaux to Brest?
Operators on the Ferry from Bordeaux to Brest publish Bar, , Cabins, Cafe, Restaurant, Restrooms. That is what 1 carriers on this corridor state about their own fleets, across a journey of 16h 11m door to door. Where a carrier publishes nothing, this page lists nothing for it.
Where these numbers come from
Observed service A carrier record shows this named operator serving this named pair, and we carry that through unchanged.
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 modeled number pass for a filed one.
Defined in full at Door to door, Fares, The booking window, Carbon
- On this page
- Every figure above was computed for Bordeaux to Brest on September 11, 2026: 495 km of route against 495 km in a straight line, 7 services a day, 1 operators, a cheapest fare of €38.29, and 16h 11m door to door on the fastest mode. The return direction is computed separately and its numbers are not these numbers.
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