La Rochelle to Brest ferry

Ferries from La Rochelle to Brest start at €27.84 and take 12h 22m at their fastest.

La RochelleLa RochelleBrestBrest

The Ferries from La Rochelle to Brest starts at €27.84 and takes 12h 22m door to door, run by 1 operator over 371 km, with around 5 departures a day. Fares bottom out about 45 days before departure.

Checked September 13, 2026Priced for September 29, 2026One passenger, all fees included

  • 12h 22mDoor to door
  • 10h 52mMoving
  • €27.84From
  • 42.7 kgCO2
Real services

The cheapest and the fastest on September 29, 2026

Two journeys we can sell today, with the service number each operator files them under.

Cheapest€25.64
  1. Brittany Ferries BF993007:306h 51m14:21Les MinimesBéluré
  2. Brittany Ferries BF299915:454h 53m20:38BéluréLe Brestoâ

Changes at Vannes, with 84 minutes between services and a walk of about 5 minutes.

Door to door 14h 38mCO2 43.4 kgChanges 1Changeable for a fee

Fastest€28.94
  1. Brittany Ferries BF183606:2110h 52m17:13Les MinimesLe Brestoâ

Door to door 12h 22mCO2 42.7 kgChanges 0Changeable for a fee

Carriers

Ferry operators

Speed, flexibility and what is on board. Nothing here is a rating, because we have not earned one.

Every operator we sell on this corridor. Speed is the carrier's own typical cruising speed, not the average over this route.
OperatorFromFastestTypical speedFlexibilityOn board
Brittany Ferries€28.9412h 15m33 km/hChangeableBar, , Cabins, Cafe, Restaurant, Restrooms
  • Brittany Ferries

The trip ends at Brest railway station. Everything past the gates belongs to somebody else, the rooms included.

A hotel room

A room in Brest for the night the ferry gets in

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Booking window

When to book La Rochelle to Brest

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

  1. €32.7890 days
  2. €29.4960 days
  3. €20.6945 days
  4. €23.4330 days
  5. €28.3821 days
  6. €27.8414 days
  7. €37.747 days
  8. €38.283 days
  9. €45.991 days
Cheapest lead time
Fares bottom out around 45 days ahead, at €20.69.
How much it moves
The gap between the cheapest and most expensive lead time is 122 percent. The most expensive point is €45.99, 1 days out.
What that means
Today sits inside the cheap window, which closes about 45 days before departure. Waiting from here has usually cost money on this corridor rather than saved it.
Day of the week

Which departure day costs least

Median cheapest fare for each weekday, taken across the next three weeks of real prices.

  1. €28.38Sun
  2. €33.34Mon
  3. €32.24Tue
  4. €34.44Wed
  5. €36.09Thu
  6. €43.78Fri
  7. €42.68Sat
Terminals

Where you leave from and where you arrive

The stations, airports and ports each mode on this corridor actually uses.

La Rochelle

Ferry
  • Les Minimes
  • Embarcadère Vieux-Port

Brest

Ferry
  • Le Brestoâ
  • Gare Maritime (Molène et Ouessant)
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 371 km against 353 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, Les Sables-d'Olonne, Concarneau, Vannes. The gap between arriving and leaving is 62 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. 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 La Rochelle at 06:21 and the last at 07:30, across 5 departures. The return direction keeps its own timetable, so the times back are not these times reversed.

Questions about La Rochelle 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 La Rochelle to Brest take?

The Ferry from La Rochelle to Brest takes 12h 22m door to door, of which 10h 52m is spent moving. The route runs 371 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 La Rochelle to Brest cost?

The Ferry from La Rochelle to Brest starts at €27.84 for one passenger, checked on September 13, 2026. A typical fare is €28.94. 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 La Rochelle to Brest?

1 operators run the Ferry from La Rochelle to Brest: Brittany Ferries. Between them they file around 5 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 La Rochelle to Brest use?

The Ferry from La Rochelle to Brest leaves from Les Minimes 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.

When should I book the Ferry from La Rochelle to Brest?

Fares for the Ferry from La Rochelle to Brest bottom out around 45 days ahead, at €20.69. The gap between the cheapest and most expensive lead time across the window is 122 percent, measured on September 13, 2026. Booking inside the final week has consistently cost more.

How much CO2 does the Ferry from La Rochelle to Brest produce?

The Ferry from La Rochelle to Brest produces about 42.7 kg of CO2 per passenger over 371 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 La Rochelle to Brest?

Operators on the Ferry from La Rochelle 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 12h 22m 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 La Rochelle to Brest on September 13, 2026: 371 km of route against 353 km in a straight line, 5 services a day, 1 operators, a cheapest fare of €27.84, and 12h 22m door to door on the fastest mode. The return direction is computed separately and its numbers are not these numbers.

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