Booking ferry tickets from Bari to Patras

This very same subject (just scroll down and read) has been posted and/or mentioned here many times. The final conclusion we are still awaiting, but as for now there is NO way to book online the ´free´ (note that you would still have to pay port-fuel-hiseason-bed taxes, together with a passday to use this may mean a normal ticket is cheaper!) trip.

Juniors and seniors can claim a discount of 30/20%. There are also various other ferries-also from Brindisi or Ancona, that may offer even lower end-fares, they nearly all give discounts to ju/se-nior. Just use google and you will find a dozen or so general ferry-booking-sites. Do note however that the last years some ferries only take peoples with cars. Also every year there are reshuffles between the many ferries that run IT-GR and due to covid many run reduced schedules. Superfast now joins with ANEK ferry. IF you want to tour the Greek isles-then there is a Greek Island ferry pass-the most expensive is for 6 trips and 1 of these may include the IT-GR ferry (much longer and thus much more expensive as inland GR).

In the distant past (but that is very long ago) this ´free´ passage was only available as stand by (dus bad luck if boat was full-not unlikely in hi-season) in the port office on the last hours before sailing off. I surfed the websites yesterday and found that for other ferries with IR-discount (to Morocco) this is still the case!