 HOLYHEAD FERRY TICKET RESERVATIONS |
Booking your Holyhead ferry ticket online is safe and secure.
Simply select your outward and return routes below, enter the number of passengers then click 'Get Price' and follow the onscreen help from there.
If you are not certain of the port name in your destination country click here for country specific ferry route information or click anywhere on the ferry route map below to view an interavtive map of all Holyhead ferry routes.
When booking your ferry ticket online a booking reference will be sent to you by email. On arrival at the port of departure present the booking reference number together with a photo ID and you will be given your ferry tickets.
Holyhead is one of the UK's busiest ferry ports. There are about 8,000 conventional and fast ferry movements a year and over 500 calls from bulk carriers, cruise liners, coasters and large fishing vessels. Countless numbers of small fishing vessels and leisure craft call at the port. The 2.4 kilometre breakwater shelters an area of 260 hectares comprising the Inner, Outer and New Harbours.
The Port of Holyhead is located close to Holyhead town centre. The port is accessible via the A5 from the Midlands or A55 from Chester. The Port of Holyhead ferry terminals are split into a passenger terminal and a vehicle terminal. Irish Sea Ferries and Stena Line, offering services to Ireland, operate from both of those terminals. The facilities at the port of Holyhead include a selection of cafés, a bureaux de change, some cash points, disabled toilets, lifts and baby changing facilities, a free short-term car park and a fee-based long-term car park.
Holyhead is perhaps best known for its busy ferry port handling more than 2 million passengers each year. Stena Line, Europe's biggest ferry company, operates from the port as do Irish Ferries. Ferries sail to Dublin and Dún Laoghaire in Ireland and this forms the principal link for surface transport from central and northern England and Wales to Ireland. There is archaeological evidence that people have been sailing between Holyhead and Ireland for 4,000 years. Holyhead's maritime importance was at its height in the 19th century when the two and a half mile (4 km) breakwater, widely acknowledged to be one of Britain's finest, was built, creating a safe harbour for vessels caught in stormy waters on their way to Liverpool and the industrial ports of Lancashire. Holyhead's sea heritage is remembered in a maritime museum.
From 1902 the LNWR to Dun Laoghaire service continually improved in comfort and speed and now had a rival for Irish traffic from the Fishguard to Rosslare Irish Sea crossing route. By the mid 1970's the port provided all year-round car ferry services. A new terminal was built and improvements were made to the Customs hall, mail and baggage facilities, which were extended to motor vehicles, paving the way for a new modern port.
With the largest selection of ferry routes and operators holyheadferry.co.uk is able to offer you the lowest ferry fares with online reservations on all ferries sailing from over twenty six different countries across Europe including ferries to and from Scotland, Ireland, Wales, France, Germany, Holland, Spain, Italy, Greece, Russia, Estonia, Sweden, Norway, Belgium and the UK.
Book your Holyhead ferry tickets to and from the UK, Ireland, France, Italy, Germany, Holland and Spain online in advance to benefit from exclusive online discounts of on all major ferry operators including P&O, Stenaline, Brittany Ferries, Seafrance and Irish Ferries.
