Transfer to the Ravenna cruise terminal

Embarkation day

People sailing from Ravenna almost always land in Bologna the same morning. That is when every risk of the day piles up: a late flight, luggage slow onto the belt, a terminal that closes check-in at a fixed hour.

How we handle it:

• We track the flight. Waiting starts from the actual landing, with the first 60 minutes included: time for passport control and the baggage belt.
• We work backwards. Tell us the boarding cut-off printed on your ticket: we start from there and tell you by what time you need to land for the plan to hold.
• We set you down at the right gate. The port has separate accesses for passengers and freight, and on sailing days the traffic layout around the terminal changes.

If the flight builds up enough delay to put boarding in doubt, we tell you while you are still in the air, not once you are in the car: sometimes there is a margin to claw back, sometimes it is better to call the cruise line. Either way it is better to know early.

Disembarkation: everyone gets off early, together

Coming back is the opposite. Operations start very early, often before seven, and within an hour a few thousand people come ashore at once. The vehicles available on the spot are few, and the ones there leave immediately.

That is why the return is booked together with the outbound leg. The driver is at the terminal at the agreed time, with a sign, and the waiting allowance covers the normal disembarkation queue. If you have an afternoon flight from Bologna, tell us that too: we calculate the pick-up time from the flight, not from the hour you wake up.

From the airport, the station or your hotel

The most frequent case is Marconi airport to Porto Corsini, but the route costs the same starting from the central station or from a city address: on long routes the three points of Bologna count as one another.

Many passengers arrive the day before and sleep in Bologna or Ravenna. In that case we can run two separate legs — airport to hotel in the evening, hotel to terminal in the morning — or keep the car at your disposal if there is sightseeing in between. Ravenna, with its mosaics, is worth half a day.

Luggage, groups and families

Cruise passengers travel with more luggage than anyone else: large cases, often one each plus hand luggage. The sum to do is not about seats, it is about boot space.

A sedan takes up to three passengers with moderate luggage; a van up to seven people, but seven large cases plus seven cabin bags is another matter. Write to us with how many people and how many cases: we will tell you whether you need a larger vehicle or a second one, and we tell you beforehand, not outside the terminal. Real capacities are on the minibus and groups page.

What it costs

A fixed fare per car, agreed before departure, covering fuel, tolls, parking and VAT.

For cruises sailing from Venice the terminal is different and so is the route: that is covered on the Bologna–Venice page. The full list of routes is on the rates page.