Ferries

Summer 2009 Lake Como Ferry Timetables for Visitors

These Lake Como ferry timetables are valid until 4 October 2009. They are a reworking of the official timetables, to make the information in them easier for visitors to follow:

Lake Como ferry service Monday to Saturday (Standard service between Como and Colico and reverse, Vehicle and passenger services between Bellagio, Menaggio, Varenna and Cadenabbia, Fast [...]

Getting around Lake Como – Ferries

The Lake Como ferry service is primarily a public transport system for the tourism industry. It doesn’t really do ‘pleasure cruises’ but because of the beauty of the scenery that the boats travel through, a ride on a ferry is also the definitive Lake Como holiday leisure experience.
As public transport the Lake Como ferry service [...]

How and why we re-arranged the ferry timetables

For many visitors a ride on a ferry boat will be the defining experience of their stay at Lake Como. ‘Pleasure cruises’ operate from Como town but regular services also connect the many ‘communes’ (villages) dotted along the lakesides.
Ferry rides are both a pleasure and a means of getting to places of interest. In the [...]

A guide to the Lake Como ferry timetables

A ride on a ferry is the definitive Lake Como experience. But the detailed ferry timetables can take some working out, especially when they’re in Italian.
The good news is that there are English versions of the timetables on the website of the service provider – the Gestione Navigazione Laghi. These can be printed either as [...]

How to read Lake Como ferry timetable

The official ‘Lago di Como’ ferry leaflet (available from ferry points around Lake Como) opens out to reveal one timetable on one side (Como – Colico and reverse) and four on the other (counting ‘there’ and ‘back’ schedules as one). To get the best from what follows, you need to have that leaflet open in [...]