Puttgarden ⇄ Rødby · 45 min · about 19 km
About us
PuttgardenRodby.com is not Scandlines. It is an independent, English-language guide to the ferry between Puttgarden and Rødby, written by a small team that sails these routes itself and would rather tell you the harbour price than hide it.
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Our own photos from the crossing. Click to enlarge.
Here is who we are and how the site pays its way.
Who we are
FerryGoGo, the network this site belongs to, began in 2017 as a hobby project born of a simple annoyance: ferry routes were hard to compare. Co-founders joined in 2019 and since June 2022 it has been an independent company. We do not write about ferries from a desk. We sail the routes ourselves, most of the crossings around Germany, Denmark and Sweden, and we keep going back. If you are reading this in English you are probably coming from further away than we are, from the Channel ports or a hire car at Hamburg airport, and that is exactly the reader we have in mind. Everyone who makes up FerryGoGo is introduced on the FerryGoGo team page.
In February 2025 Bram and Robbert drove from the Netherlands to Puttgarden, walked through the BorderShop, checked in at the self-service booths and sailed to Rødby on a late afternoon crossing, then drove on to Copenhagen. Over the following days we crossed the Øresund Bridge, took the Helsingør Helsingborg ferry and came home via Gedser Rostock. Every photo on this site is from that trip. Where we describe how something works, it is because we did it.
Why this site exists
Scandlines tells you the timetable and sells the ticket. Fair enough, that is its job. It will not tell you whether Tuesday is cheaper than Friday, whether Rostock Gedser would suit your trip better, or what the queue looks like at the check-in on a quiet day in February. That is the gap we fill: departures in both directions, every fare with the date we checked it, the difference between the online and the harbour price, and a straight comparison of the alternatives. When the Fehmarnbelt tunnel changes the picture, we will say so.
- Fares are checked on scandlines.com and carry the date of the check. When Scandlines changes a price, we change the date.
- Experience is our own. We do not invent tips, reviews or anecdotes.
How we earn money
Commission, in short. We are an independent partner of ferry companies, and when you book a crossing with Scandlines through one of our links, Scandlines pays us a commission. The price you pay is the same as on scandlines.com. That commission is what keeps the site online and the fares up to date. We do not sell tickets ourselves and we do not take money for placing content.
Contact
Seen a fare that has changed, a wrong time or something we missed? Tell us and we will check it. For bookings, refunds and questions about a crossing you have booked, contact Scandlines directly: we cannot see your booking.