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Bar Harbor ME—Nova Scotia Ferry | |
| International ferry service between Bar Harbor, Maine and Yarmouth, Nova Scotia, Canada resumed in July 2019. The voyage takes as little as 5-1/2 hours each way. | ||
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New Website Coming Soon!NewEnglandTravelPlanner.com (NETP, 2000 pages) has been online for twenty years (since 2004), and needs a technical upgrade. The NEW NETP—up-to-date, mobile-friendly, and more useful than ever—will be online in autumn 2023. As always, all research, writing, photography, and web design is done by one person: Tom Brosnahan. That's right: one person, not by an Artificial Intelligence chatbot, but by a real traveler. Thanks for your patience... —Tom The Cat, a fast ocean-going catamaran car-and-passenger ferry, provides international ferry service between Bar Harbor ME and Yarmouth, Nova Scotia, Canada. It can take you on a Two-Nation Vacation. Previously this service operated between Portland ME and Yarmouth, but the Portland service has been replaced by the Bar Harbor service. The ferry arrives and departs from the Bar Harbor Ferry Terminal on Bluenose Lane, on the northwest side of the Atlantic Oceanside Hotel & Event Center, and east across the street from the Days Inn by Wyndham Bar Harbor Hotel (map). Don't Forget Your Passport!Remember to bring your passport, passport card or other acceptable border-crossing identification document. (Note: a normal driver's license or birth certificate is not valid for border crossings! More...) Ferry SchedulesDaily summer ferry service is scheduled from June through October. The Canadian ferry, operated by Bay Ferries Ltd and Northumberland Ferries Ltd, departs Yarmouth, Nova Scotia at 09:30 am Atlantic Daylight Time on the 5-1/2 to 6-hour outward voyage. The ferry returns to Nova Scotia in the afternoon, departing Bar Harbor at 3:00 pm Eastern Daylight Time. Note that Nova Scotia keeps Atlantic Time, one hour earlier than the Eastern Time in Portland, so when it's 12 noon in Yarmouth, it's 11:00 am in Portland. Aboard The CatThe vessel, The Cat, is a fast, comfortable catamaran car-and-passenger ferry boasting cafés, a cafeteria, movie area, children's play area, and gift shop.
Spend the Night in Nova ScotiaThis means, of course, that if you go from Portland to Yarmouth, you will stay at least one night in Nova Scotia. The next ferry from Yarmouth to Bar Harbor will be the next morning. Use this handy Hotel Search Box to compare prices and facilities among lodgings in Yarmouth for the night: To explore Nova Scotia on your Two-Nation Vacation, you may find it less expensive to rent a car in Yarmouth than to ferry your own car between countries. FaresOne-way passenger fares are US$115 per adult (14 to 59 years old), US$110 per Senior (60+), US$70 per youth (6 to 13), free for kids 6 and younger. Round-trip fares for both vehicles and passengers are discounted. Also, check the current special offers. Motor VehiclesFares for motor vehicles up to 20 feet (6 meters) in length and no more than 7 feet high start at US$199 one-way ($314 with the driver included); bicycles and motorcycles cost less, RVs more. Make your reservations online on www.ferries.ca. Driving to New BrunswickDon't want to ship your car, or at least not both ways? Pack your passport (or other acceptable ID) and drive from Lubec ME to Roosevelt Campobello International Park; or drive via Calais ME into New Brunswick, Canada, and enjoy the charming, delightfully uncrowded summer seaside resort town of St Andrews-by-the-Sea. More... Saint John NB to Digby NSYou can also benefit from ferry service to Nova Scotia by driving via Downeast Maine to Saint John, New Brunswick, and taking the Fundy Rose car ferry across the Bay of Fundy to Digby, Nova Scotia. More...
New Website Coming Soon!NewEnglandTravelPlanner.com (NETP, 2000 pages) has been online for twenty years (since 2004), and needs a technical upgrade. The NEW NETP—up-to-date, mobile-friendly, and more useful than ever—will be online in autumn 2023. As always, all research, writing, photography, and web design is done by one person: Tom Brosnahan. That's right: one person, not by an Artificial Intelligence chatbot, but by a real traveler. Thanks for your patience... —Tom
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The CAT,
the luxury catamaran ferryboat that zooms between Bar Harbor ME and Yarmouth NS Canada.
Comfortable lounge on board The Cat... |
