Santa Cruz de Tenerife to Playa Blanca ferry

Ferries from Santa Cruz de Tenerife to Playa Blanca start at €15.19 and take 9h 48m at their fastest.

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The Ferries from Santa Cruz de Tenerife to Playa Blanca starts at €15.19 and takes 9h 48m door to door, run by 1 operator over 253 km, with around 5 departures a day. Fares bottom out about 45 days before departure.

Checked September 20, 2026Priced for October 6, 2026One passenger, all fees included

  • 9h 48mDoor to door
  • 8h 18mMoving
  • €20.14 to €45.43From
  • 06:24 to 07:30First and last departure
  • 5Per day
  • 5.8 kgCO2

First and last are taken from the services we sell on October 6, 2026. The return direction keeps its own timetable and is not these times reversed.

€20.14 to €45.43 for one passenger across the 14 departure dates priced here. The low end is one day, not every day. Typical for this corridor. The operator sets the price on the day.

Departure times on this route

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Book your crossing

Ferry Fred. Olsen runs this service and does not sell it here. Direct Ferries takes the payment.

Buying this trip

Direct Ferries holds the sailings between these two ports, with the crossing times and the fares.

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Fares by date

What this journey usually costs, by departure date. It shows which days run dearer.

Typical fares

  1. about €45.43Mon21
  2. about €35.54Tue22
  3. about €36.09Wed23
  4. about €37.19Thu24
  5. about €33.89Fri25
  6. about €37.74Sat26
  7. about €31.13Sun27
  8. about €21.79Mon28
  9. about €20.14Tue29
  10. about €25.09Wed30
  11. about €26.19Thu1
  12. about €23.44Fri2
  13. about €24.54Sat3
  14. about €20.69Sun4

Based on what this route has cost recently. The live fare is confirmed when you book.

Real services

The cheapest and the fastest on October 6, 2026

Cheapest€15.19
  1. Ferry Fred. Olsen FF349106:248h 18m14:42Fred. Olsen Express Terminal Santa Cruz de TenerifeLíneas Romero Terminal Playa Blanca

Door to door 9h 48mCO2 5.8 kgChanges 0Changeable for a fee

Carriers

Ferry operators

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
Ferry Fred. Olsen€15.198h 58m33 km/hChangeableBar, Bicycles, Cabins, Cafe, Restaurant, Restrooms

The ferry gets you into Playa Blanca. These two partners take it from there, and the bed is theirs to book.

A hotel room

A room in Playa Blanca for the night the ferry gets in

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Booking window

When to book Santa Cruz de Tenerife to Playa Blanca

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

  1. €25.6490 days
  2. €21.2460 days
  3. €16.2945 days
  4. €17.3930 days
  5. €18.4921 days
  6. €20.6914 days
  7. €31.137 days
  8. €36.093 days
  9. €45.431 days
Cheapest lead time
Fares bottom out around 45 days ahead, at €16.29.
How much it moves
The gap between the cheapest and most expensive lead time is 179 percent. The most expensive point is €45.43, 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. €20.69Sun
  2. €21.79Mon
  3. €20.14Tue
  4. €25.09Wed
  5. €27.28Thu
  6. €24.54Fri
  7. €24.54Sat
Terminals

Where you leave from and where you arrive

Santa Cruz de Tenerife

Ferry
  • Fred. Olsen Express Terminal Santa Cruz de Tenerife
  • Fred. Olsen Terminal Santa Cruz de Tenerife
  • SANTA CRUZ DE TENERIFE
  • TENERIFE (ALL PORTS)

Playa Blanca

Ferry
  • Líneas Romero Terminal Playa Blanca
  • Naviera Armas Terminal Playa Blanca
  • PLAYA BLANCA
The journey

What the journey looks like

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 253 km against 241 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 Puerto del Rosario, Mogán, Corralejo, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria. The gap between arriving and leaving is 47 minutes, of which about 5 is walking.
If the connection is missed
The tightest connection we sell here has a 20 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 Santa Cruz de Tenerife at 06:24 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 Santa Cruz de Tenerife to Playa Blanca

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 Santa Cruz de Tenerife to Playa Blanca take?

The Ferry from Santa Cruz de Tenerife to Playa Blanca takes 9h 48m door to door, of which 8h 18m is spent moving. The route runs 253 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 Santa Cruz de Tenerife to Playa Blanca cost?

The Ferry from Santa Cruz de Tenerife to Playa Blanca starts at €15.19 for one passenger, as of September 20, 2026. A typical fare is €23.43. 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 Santa Cruz de Tenerife to Playa Blanca?

1 operators run the Ferry from Santa Cruz de Tenerife to Playa Blanca: Ferry Fred. Olsen. 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 Santa Cruz de Tenerife to Playa Blanca use?

The Ferry from Santa Cruz de Tenerife to Playa Blanca leaves from Fred. Olsen Express Terminal Santa Cruz de Tenerife and arrives at Líneas Romero Terminal Playa Blanca. 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 Santa Cruz de Tenerife to Playa Blanca?

Fares for the Ferry from Santa Cruz de Tenerife to Playa Blanca bottom out around 45 days ahead, at €16.29. The gap between the cheapest and most expensive lead time across the window is 179 percent, measured on September 20, 2026. Booking inside the final week has consistently cost more.

How much CO2 does the Ferry from Santa Cruz de Tenerife to Playa Blanca produce?

The Ferry from Santa Cruz de Tenerife to Playa Blanca produces about 5.8 kg of CO2 per passenger over 253 km, which works out at roughly 23 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 Santa Cruz de Tenerife to Playa Blanca?

Operators on the Ferry from Santa Cruz de Tenerife to Playa Blanca publish Bar, Bicycles, Cabins, Cafe, Restaurant, Restrooms. That is what 1 carriers on this corridor state about their own fleets, across a journey of 9h 48m door to door. Where a carrier publishes nothing, this page lists nothing for 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.

Derived from service area The operators listed publish a service area covering both places. That evidences the corridor rather than a named service.

Prices come from the supplier wherever we hold a live quote. Elsewhere we show an indicative price built from the real distance, the real operator and a fare curve over lead time, day of the week and season. Those are labeled Estimated fare and cannot be booked.

Defined in full at Door to door, Fares, The booking window, Carbon

On this page
Every figure above was computed for Santa Cruz de Tenerife to Playa Blanca on September 20, 2026: 253 km of route against 241 km in a straight line, 5 services a day, 1 operator a cheapest fare of €15.19, and 9h 48m door to door on the fastest mode. The return direction is computed separately and its numbers are not these numbers.

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