Brittany Ferries announces plans to continue sailings from Cork to France into the winter
Pictured (left/right) Aidan Moloney, Assumpta Cahill, Niamh Crowley, and Ashley Okoro alongside the M.V. Armorique, celebrating the announcement of an extended Brittany Ferries schedule between Ireland and France, with sailings now taking place during all seasons of the year.
Brittany Ferries has announced that for the first time in its 50-year sailing history to Cork, it is to continue sailings linking Ringaskiddy with Roscoff during the winter.
The company first opened the Cork to Roscoff service back in 1978, but up until now, it had always been a seasonal service, generally running from mid-March to mid-November.
This year, it said, the Armorique cruise-ferry will offer sailings to Brittany every weekend during November and December 2023, departing Cork on Saturday afternoons and returning from Roscoff on Fridays overnight.
Following a winter refit during the first six weeks of 2024, Armorique will then re-open the Cork/Roscoff earlier than ever before, on February 9.
Brittany Ferries’ 650-cabin flagship cruise-ferry Pont-Aven will rejoin Armorique on the Cork to Roscoff route on March 22 giving a total of two weekly departures in each direction throughout the summer and autumn right up until November 2024.
The company will continue to operate year-round to Normandy from Rosslare, with weekly sailings from Rosslare-Europort to Cherbourg operated by the company’s latest vessels Salamanca, Galicia and Santoña. Additionally, freight-orientated vessel Cotentin will offer a sailing in both directions every weekend on the Rosslare to Cherbourg route, replacing the service that had previously operated from Rosslare to Le Havre.
Hugh Bruton, Brittany Ferries’ general manager for Ireland said: “Last year we doubled our sailing frequency from Cork to Roscoff with the arrival of cruise- ferry Armorique on the route. These sailings have proven immensely popular with Irish holidaymakers, so much so that they’re back for 2024, and for the first time in our 50-year history, we’ll keep the Cork to Roscoff link running this winter with sailings in November and December 2023, and in February and March 2024.”
Altogether in 2024, Brittany Ferries will offer up to eight sailings a week between Ireland and France, as well as four linking Ireland and Spain.
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