Cheapest€18.49
- Brittany Ferries BF749306:116h 39m12:50Thames RiverCruiseDittisham
Door to door 8h 9mCO2 25.9 kgChanges 0Changeable for a fee
Reading to Paignton ferry
Ferries from Reading to Paignton start at €20.69 and take 8h 9m at their fastest.
The Ferries from Reading to Paignton starts at €20.69 and takes 8h 9m door to door, run by 1 operator over 225 km, with around 3 departures a day. Fares bottom out about 60 days before departure.
- 8h 9mDoor to door
- 6h 39mMoving
- €20.69From
- 25.9 kgCO2
The cheapest and the fastest on September 27, 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 | €18.49 | 8h 9m | 33 km/h | Changeable | Bar, , Cabins, Cafe, Restaurant, Restrooms |
Paignton is small enough to walk across, so almost anywhere downtown works. We still do not sell the room.
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When to book Reading to Paignton
The same search run across the whole booking window, so the shape of the curve is visible rather than described.
- €17.9490 days
- €13.5460 days
- €15.7445 days
- €16.2930 days
- €21.7921 days
- €21.7914 days
- €25.647 days
- €38.843 days
- €39.941 days
- Cheapest lead time
- Fares bottom out around 60 days ahead, at €13.54.
- How much it moves
- The gap between the cheapest and most expensive lead time is 195 percent. The most expensive point is €39.94, 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.
- €25.63Sun
- €20.69Mon
- €20.69Tue
- €21.79Wed
- €25.64Thu
- €23.99Fri
- €27.29Sat
Where you leave from and where you arrive
The stations, airports and ports each mode on this corridor actually uses.
Reading
Ferry
- Thames RiverCruise
Paignton
Ferry
- Dittisham
- Higher Ferry
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 225 km against 214 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 Bournemouth, Exmouth, Weymouth, Poole. The gap between arriving and leaving is 62 minutes, of which about 14 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 Reading at 06:11 and the last at 07:30, across 3 departures. The return direction keeps its own timetable, so the times back are not these times reversed.
Questions about Reading to Paignton
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 Reading to Paignton take?
The Ferry from Reading to Paignton takes 8h 9m door to door, of which 6h 39m is spent moving. The route runs 225 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 Reading to Paignton cost?
The Ferry from Reading to Paignton starts at €20.69 for one passenger, checked on September 27, 2026. A typical fare is €21.78. 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 Reading to Paignton?
1 operators run the Ferry from Reading to Paignton: Brittany Ferries. Between them they file around 3 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 Reading to Paignton use?
The Ferry from Reading to Paignton leaves from Thames RiverCruise and arrives at Dittisham. 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 Reading to Paignton?
Fares for the Ferry from Reading to Paignton bottom out around 60 days ahead, at €13.54. The gap between the cheapest and most expensive lead time across the window is 195 percent, measured on September 27, 2026. Booking inside the final week has consistently cost more.
How much CO2 does the Ferry from Reading to Paignton produce?
The Ferry from Reading to Paignton produces about 25.9 kg of CO2 per passenger over 225 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 Reading to Paignton?
Operators on the Ferry from Reading to Paignton publish Bar, , Cabins, Cafe, Restaurant, Restrooms. That is what 1 carriers on this corridor state about their own fleets, across a journey of 8h 9m 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 Reading to Paignton on September 9, 2026: 225 km of route against 214 km in a straight line, 3 services a day, 1 operators, a cheapest fare of €20.69, and 8h 9m door to door on the fastest mode. The return direction is computed separately and its numbers are not these numbers.
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