Ferryhopper

What Ferryhopper is

Ferryhopper is a ferry search and booking platform founded in Athens in 2016. Instead of visiting each operator's website separately (Blue Star Ferries, SeaJets, Hellenic Seaways and a dozen others), you search a route once and see the available crossings, times and operators together on one screen. It also has mobile apps for booking, check-in and storing e-tickets.

The platform was built first for the Greek island market, where a single island-hopping trip might involve two or three different operators. Being able to search and book multiple legs in one session, without managing separate bookings with separate companies, is a genuine convenience.

What it covers

Ferryhopper's home market is Greece: the Cyclades, Crete, the Dodecanese and the Ionian islands. It shows availability and prices across most of the major Greek operators, including Blue Star Ferries, SeaJets, Golden Star and Hellenic Seaways.

It has since expanded well beyond Greece. It now says it sells tickets for 360 ferry companies across 63 countries and more than 4,000 routes, including Italy (Sardinia, Sicily, the Bay of Naples), Spain (the Balearic and Canary Islands), Croatia, France and Corsica, Morocco, and northern European routes such as Dover–Calais and Helsinki–Tallinn. Coverage of individual operators varies, so if a route is missing it is worth checking another platform or the operator directly.

How bookings work

Ferryhopper says it shows the same prices as the ferry companies and charges no extra booking fee when you book on its own website (bookings made through partner websites can carry extra charges, shown before payment). You receive confirmation by email, and depending on the operator an e-ticket, a ticket to collect at the port, or boarding with your confirmation and ID.

Changes and cancellations follow the individual operator's fare rules, and Ferryhopper adds its own fees: a €6 cancellation fee per booking and a fee per modification request, both waived if you bought one of its optional flexibility or support add-ons. Read the fare rules before confirming; some Greek ferry tickets are changeable, others are non-refundable.

The alternatives

Direct Ferries is the main competing aggregator. It covers thousands of routes worldwide, including the main Mediterranean routes, and lists operators in a comparable side-by-side format. If you are combining a Greek island hop with an Italy–Croatia crossing, or with an Adriatic ferry, it can cover both in one search. This site links to Direct Ferries for booking because of its broad Mediterranean coverage.

Booking directly with the operator is worth considering for longer crossings where you want to manage cabin bookings or vehicle reservations, for example a Blue Star overnight from Piraeus to Rhodes, or a Jadrolinija car ferry from Split to Hvar in peak summer. Direct booking can sometimes give more flexibility around changes, and some operators run their own loyalty schemes.

Port ticket offices remain a practical option for short, frequent routes such as the Tarifa–Tangier crossing, the Naples–Capri hydrofoil, or the Zadar–Ugljan ferry, where you can simply queue for the next departure.

Our position

This site is an independent ferry information resource. We are not Ferryhopper and are not affiliated with them. The brand term "Ferryhopper" is their trademark; we write about the platform informationally, the same way we write about Blue Star Ferries or Jadrolinija.

For booking, we link to Direct Ferries as an affiliate partner because it covers a wide range of Mediterranean routes, useful whether your itinerary is purely Greek islands or spans several countries. Compare the final price, including any fees, with the operator's own website before you pay.