Ferry to the Faroe Islands
Ferries to the Faroe Islands
from Hirtshals to Torshavn and Seydisfjordur
You can use the booking module and select Faroe Islands as your destination to find all the crossings to and within the Faroe Islands. Currently the booking module doesn't work for the Faroe Islands. Booking directly is possible via Smyril Line. It does work for Iceland however.
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Crossings to Torshavn, Faroe Islands
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Ferries from Denmark to the Faroe Islands
This would be the most logical route for taking a ferry to the Faroe Islands for the European mainland and the UK. It is not the most common way to travel to the Faroe Islands. The ferry from Hirtshals to Torshavn is a 40 hours crossing. On this cruise ferry, you can bring your car; on the parking deck, there is room for about 800 vehicles, and the ferry to the Faroe Islands offers space to +/- 1500 tourists.Ferries from Iceland to the Faroe Islands
Are you travelling from Iceland to the Faroe Islands? Then you can board the MS Norrona from the East Coast of Iceland in Seydisfjordur, where you can sail from there to Torshavn on the Faroe Islands in around 20 hours. In most cases, this is a night crossing. On board the MS Norrona, there is plenty to do to stay entertained during your crossing.
About the Faroe Islands
The Faroe Islands, also known as the ‘Faroes' is a Northern Atlantic Island group located between Iceland and Scotland. The Faroes are an autonomous territory of the Kingdom of Denmark. You can travel by plane or by ferry to the Faroe Islands. The MS Norrona is the ship that brings you from either Denmark or Iceland to the Faroes, Torshavn to be specific. On the website of the Faroese company Smyril Line, the owner of the MS Norrona you can book various vacation or combi packages (package tours) to the Faroe Islands.
You can travel with your car, camper or motor to the Faroes by ferry and enjoy the Faroe Islands breathtaking nature to it's fullest extent. The Faroe Islands offer endless beauty with staggering wonders like the dramatic steep mountains, large green valleys, the small pictoresque villages, distant churches and of course the cutest bird on the planet: puffins.
The Faroes are made up of 18 volcanic islands with rough nature and are scenic paradises.
Ferries between the various Faroe Islands
As the Faroes consist of 18 different Islands, a popular way of travelling from inland Island to the island is to board one of the Faroese ferries. The ferry schedule between the various destinations within the Faroes like Torshavn, Tovroyri, Sorvagur, Hvannasund, Skopun, Sandur, or one of the other Islands can also be found on SSL.fo – the Faroese website on public transport. On this site, you can also find several domestic buses.
Only Smyril Line sails on the international crossings to the Faroe Islands. The cruiseferry, MS Norrona brings you from either Iceland(Seydisfjordur or Denmark (Hirtshals) to the Faroes capital city: Torshavn.
If it's mainly about the crossing then the shortest crossing to the Faroes is the ferry from Iceland to the Torshavn. This ferry will take you in about 20 hours to the Island Archipelago. Travelling from Denmark? Then you'll be sailing for approx 40 hours before arriving in Torshavn.
The cheapest ferries is the ferry from Iceland – this is also the shortest route. The MS Norrona sails once a week from Seydisfjordur to Torshavn and then to Hirtshals and back again. So in fact Torshavn is the stopover for the ferry from Denmark to Iceland and vice versa.
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If you want to travel to the Faroe Island there are also alternatives, maybe not regular connections but I know many people that want to visit the Faroe Island jump on the ferries/cruises from Hurtigruten. You do have to make some kind of deal though as you don't want the full cruise experience for ~ $10.000.
https://www.hurtigruten.com/en-gb/expeditions/cruises/faroe-islands-iceland-spitsbergen-island-hopping-in-and-around-the-arctic-northbound-2022/
We only know about the port to port connections from Hurtigruten that you can book individually. (https://global.hurtigruten.com/port-to-port/) We are currently working out a plan to add them to the website but this won't be easy at all as we don't want to add routes without much bookings. Faroe Island is not in the Port to Port finder, did you actually make a booking to the Faroe Islands on a port to port basis? Would be super interesting!