Cheapest€11.88
- Brittany Ferries BF821606:313h 45m10:16Exeter QuayTawe River Cruises
Door to door 5h 15mCO2 12.5 kgChanges 0Changeable for a fee
Exeter to Swansea ferry
Ferries from Exeter to Swansea start at €11.88 and take 5h 15m at their fastest.
The Ferries from Exeter to Swansea starts at €11.88 and takes 5h 15m door to door, run by 1 operator over 109 km, with around 4 departures a day. Fares bottom out about 90 days before departure.
- 5h 15mDoor to door
- 3h 45mMoving
- €11.88From
- 12.5 kgCO2
The cheapest and the fastest on September 21, 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 | €11.88 | 4h 55m | 33 km/h | Changeable | Bar, , Cabins, Cafe, Restaurant, Restrooms |
That is the traveling done. What happens after you walk out into Swansea is not something we sell.
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When to book Exeter to Swansea
The same search run across the whole booking window, so the shape of the curve is visible rather than described.
- €11.8890 days
- €11.8860 days
- €11.8845 days
- €11.8830 days
- €11.8821 days
- €12.4414 days
- €11.897 days
- €12.443 days
- €21.791 days
- Cheapest lead time
- Fares bottom out around 90 days ahead, at €11.88.
- How much it moves
- The gap between the cheapest and most expensive lead time is 83 percent. The most expensive point is €21.79, 1 days out.
- What that means
- Today sits inside the cheap window, which closes about 90 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.
- €13.54Sun
- €11.88Mon
- €11.88Tue
- €11.88Wed
- €11.89Thu
- €11.89Fri
- €14.09Sat
Where you leave from and where you arrive
The stations, airports and ports each mode on this corridor actually uses.
Exeter
Ferry
- Exeter Quay
Swansea
Ferry
- Tawe River Cruises
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 109 km against 104 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 Torquay, Cardiff, Bideford, Weston-super-Mare. The gap between arriving and leaving is 64 minutes, of which about 5 is walking.
- If the connection is missed
- The tightest connection we sell here has a 15 percent chance of not being made on the timetable alone. Part of this journey is a self transfer between separate tickets, so leave more time than the minimum and expect to check in again.
- First and last departure
- The first service of the day leaves Exeter at 06:31 and the last at 07:30, across 4 departures. The return direction keeps its own timetable, so the times back are not these times reversed.
Questions about Exeter to Swansea
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 Exeter to Swansea take?
The Ferry from Exeter to Swansea takes 5h 15m door to door, of which 3h 45m is spent moving. The route runs 109 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 Exeter to Swansea cost?
The Ferry from Exeter to Swansea starts at €11.88 for one passenger, checked on September 21, 2026. A typical fare is €21.77. 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 Exeter to Swansea?
1 operators run the Ferry from Exeter to Swansea: Brittany Ferries. Between them they file around 4 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 Exeter to Swansea use?
The Ferry from Exeter to Swansea leaves from Exeter Quay and arrives at Tawe River Cruises. 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.
When should I book the Ferry from Exeter to Swansea?
Fares for the Ferry from Exeter to Swansea bottom out around 90 days ahead, at €11.88. The gap between the cheapest and most expensive lead time across the window is 83 percent, measured on September 21, 2026. Booking inside the final week has consistently cost more.
How much CO2 does the Ferry from Exeter to Swansea produce?
The Ferry from Exeter to Swansea produces about 12.5 kg of CO2 per passenger over 109 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 Exeter to Swansea?
Operators on the Ferry from Exeter to Swansea publish Bar, , Cabins, Cafe, Restaurant, Restrooms. That is what 1 carriers on this corridor state about their own fleets, across a journey of 5h 15m door to door. Where a carrier publishes nothing, this page lists nothing for it.
Where these numbers come from
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 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 Exeter to Swansea on September 11, 2026: 109 km of route against 104 km in a straight line, 4 services a day, 1 operators, a cheapest fare of €11.88, and 5h 15m door to door on the fastest mode. The return direction is computed separately and its numbers are not these numbers.
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