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Wightlink Ferries
Wightlink operates a round-the-clock service between the English mainland and the Isle of Wight. Wightlink operate every day of the year on three routes across the Solent, and are undeniably a part of Island life.
The ferry operator Wightlink Ferries, with its predecessors, has been running ferry services for more than 160 years. From as early as 1796, ferries have been operating across the Solent, linking the Isle of Wight to the English mainland. Nowadays, Wightlink Ferries is the principal provider of ferry services between the Isle of Wight and the English mainland. Wightlink Ferries transports on its fleet of 11 ferries 5 million passengers annually, over 1.2 million cars and almost 200,000 coaches and freight vehicles on its three ferry routes to the Island.
Wightlink Ferries - Special Offers
Wightlink Ferries Sailing Information & Ferry Times
Timetables
Frequency
Duration
Company
up to 44 crossings per day
40mins
Onboard Facilities
Wightlink have the fastest and most comfortable fleet on these waters. Wightlink's Lymington to Yarmouth route is the shortest car ferry journey across the Solent. The three new Wightlink ferries operating this route, the Wight Light, Wight Sun and Wight Sky offer café-bar facilities, spacious lounges and observation decks. This crossing is ideal for foot passengers with mainland rail services arriving at the terminal and Island bus connections at Yarmouth.
On the Portsmouth to Fishbourne routes' ferries (St. Clare, St Faith, St.Helen, St. Cecilia and St. Catherine) there are café-bar facilities, spacious lounges, observation decks and frequent round-the-clock sailings all year.
The Portsmouth Harbour to Ryde Pier Head route is a foot passenger only route on Wightlink's 3 high-speed FastCat catamarans. There are onward rail connections at either port. Rail and coach services connect Portsmouth Harbour with London, Brighton, Bristol and the Midlands whilst trains along the pier connect the Pier Head and Ryde Esplanade with the popular resorts of Sandown and Shanklin.
