The practical part
The essentials
Get to Los Cristianos by bus
From Costa Adeje or the airport, line 40 stops in Los Cristianos; from Santa Cruz, the night line 711 or those line 110 trips TITSA marks as calling at Los Cristianos. Our Los Cristianos port guide and the Los Cristianos destination page carry the boards. From the main Los Cristianos stop the pier is about a 15-minute walk, Fred. Olsen says, so count the walk into the bus you choose.
Checked TITSA lines 40, 711, 110 Fred. Olsen Express: Fred. Olsen Express: Los Cristianos terminal
Book the crossing with the operator
Buy the La Gomera crossing on the operator’s site and work backwards from its rules: Fred. Olsen closes boarding for foot passengers 20 minutes before departure (unless the ticket says otherwise), the bus stop is about 15 minutes’ walk from the pier, and the crossing to San Sebastián takes 50 minutes. A worked morning: a line 40 that reaches Los Cristianos at least 45 minutes before your sailing, the walk, the cutoff, the crossing; the day on La Gomera is what is left between that arrival and the sailing back you chose first. Both operators publish their own seasonal timetables, which this site does not copy.
Checked Fred. Olsen Express: Fast ferry Tenerife (Los Cristianos)–La GomeraFred. Olsen Express: Fred. Olsen Express: Los Cristianos terminal Baleària Canarias: Ferry Tenerife–La Gomera
Plan the island side separately
San Sebastián is the arrival port; La Gomera’s own buses and the national park are outside this site. The tours this site lists include the crossing and the island day with a Tenerife pick-up, which is the simpler plan for one day.
Checked WebTenerife: Tenerife’s ports
The honest catch
Two timetables, two operators, one walk between them. The ferry does not wait for the bus and the bus does not wait for the ferry. Choose a sailing with a bus comfortably before it, and on the way back take the ferry that leaves a buffer before the last line 40 or the 711 you need.
Checked TITSA lines 40, 711 Fred. Olsen Express: Fast ferry Tenerife (Los Cristianos)–La Gomera
Santa Cruz is not the La Gomera port
WebTenerife says the Santa Cruz port handles the ferries mainly to Gran Canaria and mainland Spain. For La Gomera, go to Los Cristianos.
Checked WebTenerife: Tenerife’s ports
Asked and answered
Questions people ask
Where does the La Gomera ferry leave from in Tenerife?
From the port of Los Cristianos, on the south coast, with Fred. Olsen Express and Baleària Canarias to San Sebastián de La Gomera. Line 40 and night line 711 stop in Los Cristianos.
Checked Fred. Olsen Express: Fast ferry Tenerife (Los Cristianos)–La Gomera Baleària Canarias: Ferry Tenerife–La Gomera TITSA: Line 40 timetable
How long is the ferry to La Gomera?
Fred. Olsen gives the Los Cristianos to San Sebastián crossing as 50 minutes for 39 km, with boarding for foot passengers closing 20 minutes before departure; Baleària gives about the same crossing time.
Checked Fred. Olsen Express: Fast ferry Tenerife (Los Cristianos)–La GomeraFred. Olsen Express: Fred. Olsen Express: Los Cristianos terminal Baleària Canarias: Ferry Tenerife–La Gomera
Can I do La Gomera as a day trip without a car?
Yes, from a south-coast base, in this order: choose the sailing back first; then the morning sailing; then a line 40 (or, from Santa Cruz, a 711 or a 110 that calls at Los Cristianos) arriving at least 45 minutes before it, because the pier is about 15 minutes’ walk from the stop and foot-passenger boarding closes 20 minutes before departure; 50 minutes across; a day in San Sebastián or a booked island tour; the ferry back; and the bus from Los Cristianos with a buffer after it. The boards on this site give the buses by day type; the operator gives the sailings by date.
Checked TITSA: Line 40 timetable Fred. Olsen Express: Fast ferry Tenerife (Los Cristianos)–La GomeraFred. Olsen Express: Fred. Olsen Express: Los Cristianos terminal Baleària Canarias: Ferry Tenerife–La Gomera
The other half of the plan
And the way back.
Choose the return sailing first, then the bus that leaves Los Cristianos after it with margin; the last ferry decides the day, and after the last line 40 the night line 711 still runs to Costa Adeje and Santa Cruz.
Checked Fred. Olsen Express: Fast ferry Tenerife (Los Cristianos)–La Gomera TITSA lines 40, 711
