Two mainland ports send boats to Phu Quoc (Phú Quốc). Ha Tien (Hà Tiên) is the short crossing, about an hour and twenty minutes on a fast boat and around 230,000 VND. Rach Gia (Rạch Giá) is about two hours twenty and around 330,000 VND. Three companies still work these routes in 2026 — Superdong, Phu Quoc Express and Thanh Thoi (Thạnh Thới) — and nearly everything they run docks in the same place, Bai Vong (Bãi Vòng) port on the east coast of the island. If you are reading an older guide that lists four companies, the fourth was Ngoc Thanh (Ngọc Thành), and it has stopped sailing to Phu Quoc.
Two choices matter more than the timetable. Fast boat or car ferry: the fast boats take roughly half as long and in practice carry people, not vehicles; the car ferry is slower, cheaper and the only sensible way to bring anything with wheels. And whether you can live with landing at Bai Vong, which is on the opposite coast from Long Beach and the hotel strip. Getting off the boat is followed by a drive across the island, not a five-minute transfer.
Which crossing to take
| From the mainland | Boat | Lands at | Crossing | Who runs it |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ha Tien | Fast passenger boat | Bai Vong | about 1 hr 20 min | Superdong, Phu Quoc Express |
| Ha Tien | Car ferry | Bai Vong | about 2 hr 15 min | Thanh Thoi, and a newer operator, Binh An |
| Rach Gia | Fast passenger boat | Bai Vong | about 2 hr 20 min | Superdong, Phu Quoc Express |
| Rach Gia | Thanh Thoi sailings | Bai Vong | about 3 hr 15 min | Thanh Thoi |
| Ha Tien | unclear | Da Chong (Đá Chồng) | — | status unverified, no schedule below |
| Ha Tien | unclear | Vinh Dam (Vịnh Đầm) | — | no 2026 service we could confirm |
Bai Vong’s passenger terminal works a 6:30 AM to 4:30 PM day, which is the real reason the last useful sailing from either mainland port leaves in the early afternoon. Book the morning boat and you land with the afternoon intact; book the last one and you arrive to a thinning queue of drivers.
Ngoc Thanh no longer sails to Phu Quoc
Until today this page gave Ngoc Thanh its own fares and its own colour on the timetable. Two independent Vietnamese ticketing sources now list both of its Phu Quoc routes, from Ha Tien and from Rach Gia, as suspended, and a 2026 operator comparison of the island’s fast boats names only three companies. Ngoc Thanh’s remaining work is elsewhere in Kien Giang: Rach Gia to Hon Son, departing 7:30 and 8:30 daily and taking about an hour forty-five, and Rach Gia to Nam Du, about two and a half hours into An Son.
We could not find an official Ngoc Thanh website to check any of that at first hand, so treat it as what the ticket trade says rather than as a company announcement. Either way, do not build a Phu Quoc plan around a Ngoc Thanh sailing, and be careful with any page still quoting its 215,000 VND Ha Tien fare — that page has not been touched in years.
Superdong
The biggest of the three, and the only one whose own booking system publishes both fares and departure times where anyone can read them. Superdong runs fast boats on both routes.
| One way, per person | Rach Gia ↔ Phu Quoc | Ha Tien ↔ Phu Quoc |
|---|---|---|
| Adult | 330,000 VND | 230,000 VND |
| Senior, 60 and over | 280,000 VND | 195,000 VND |
| Child, 6 to 11 | 240,000 VND | 157,000 VND |
| Passenger with a disability | 245,000 VND | 166,000 VND |
Fares verified August 11, 2026 against Superdong’s own site for the Rach Gia column and for the adult and senior fares from Ha Tien; the Ha Tien child and disability fares come from ticket agents’ 2026 rate cards rather than the operator. Operators change fares without notice — check before booking.
Agent rate cards dated 31 May 2026 and 15 July 2026 quote a few thousand dong below the operator’s own figures — 324,000 instead of 330,000 on Rach Gia, 226,000 or 216,000 instead of 230,000 from Ha Tien. Nobody is being cheated; the lists are simply on different revisions. Treat the numbers above as the ceiling.
Two changes are worth knowing because they decide whether your family pays. The child band is now 6 to 11, not 7 to 11 as this page said for years, so a six-year-old who used to travel free now needs a ticket; children under 6 still travel free sharing an adult’s seat. And the disability fare has quietly dropped off the newest agent lists on both routes while Superdong’s own page still shows it on Rach Gia. Ask at the counter rather than assume it, and do not let an agent tell you it never existed.
Phu Quoc Express
The Phu Quoc Express catamarans went into service in December 2017 and this page has been quoting a single flat fare of 340,000 VND ever since. That fare no longer exists. Pricing is now by route and by class, with a VIP class on top.
| One way, per person | Rach Gia ↔ Phu Quoc | Ha Tien ↔ Phu Quoc |
|---|---|---|
| VIP | 500,000 VND | 330,000 VND |
| Adult, economy | 315,000 VND | 216,000 VND |
| Senior, 60 and over | 265,000 VND | 182,000 VND |
| Child, 6 to 11 | 225,000 VND | 148,000 VND |
| Passenger with a disability | 235,000 VND | not listed |
| Under 6 | free | not listed |
Fares verified August 11, 2026 against Phu Quoc Express’s own Rach Gia booking page; the Ha Tien column comes from a ticket agent’s 2026 listing that matches what we could read of the operator’s own page. Operators change fares without notice — check before booking.
On adult economy, Phu Quoc Express is cheaper than Superdong on both routes — 15,000 VND on Rach Gia, 14,000 VND from Ha Tien. That is not enough to choose on, so choose on departure time instead. The VIP class is the genuinely open question: it costs 185,000 VND more on Rach Gia and the operator does not publish what you get for it beyond the name of the class. If nobody at the counter can show you the seat, the economy cabin on a two-hour crossing is not a hardship.
Thanh Thoi
Thanh Thoi is the car ferry company on the Ha Tien route and also appears in Rach Gia timetables, quoted at about three hours fifteen — slower than the fast boats, which is what you would expect from a vessel built to carry lorries. Its website is live and sells tickets for both routes, but we could not read a fare table off it.
What we found instead were two ticket agents quoting two different one-way passenger fares for the same operator on the same route: 185,000 VND on a list updated 6 June 2026, and 205,000 VND on a list effective 31 May 2026. In the second list, 185,000 VND is the fare of a different company, Binh An, which is a good reason to suspect one of the two has swapped the operators. Budget 205,000 VND and be pleased when it is less. This is the sort of gap that disappears the moment either company publishes a rate card, and neither has.
Fast boat schedules, by operator
Both mainland routes are below, with the company named on every sailing. The previous version of this page listed the times in one block under the note “Grey: Superdong | Red: Ngoc Thanh”, and the colours did not survive the move off WordPress, so for years nobody could tell whose boat was whose. Superdong’s booking system publishes departure times only, no arrivals, so that column is short by design and not by omission.
Ha Tien ↔ Phu Quoc
| Operator | Ha Tien → Phu Quoc | Phu Quoc → Ha Tien |
|---|---|---|
| Superdong (departures only) | 6:15 AM · 7:30 AM · 8:00 AM · 1:45 PM | 8:00 AM · 8:20 AM · 9:45 AM · 1:00 PM |
| Phu Quoc Express | 7:00 AM → 8:20 AM · 9:00 AM → 10:20 AM · 11:45 AM → 1:05 PM | 7:00 AM → 8:20 AM · 9:00 AM → 10:20 AM · 2:00 PM → 3:20 PM |
Rach Gia ↔ Phu Quoc
| Operator | Rach Gia → Phu Quoc | Phu Quoc → Rach Gia |
|---|---|---|
| Superdong (departures only) | 7:00 AM · 8:10 AM · 10:30 AM · 1:10 PM | 7:10 AM · 10:10 AM · 1:00 PM · 2:00 PM |
| Phu Quoc Express | 7:00 AM → 9:20 AM · 10:20 AM → 12:40 PM · 1:00 PM → 3:20 PM | 7:10 AM → 9:30 AM · 10:00 AM → 12:20 PM · 1:20 PM → 3:40 PM |
| Thanh Thoi | 7:00 AM · 11:00 AM · 12:30 PM · 2:45 PM | 7:00 AM · 11:00 AM · 12:30 PM · 2:45 PM |
Schedules verified August 11, 2026 — Superdong from its own online booking system, Phu Quoc Express from an agent listing updated in August 2026, Thanh Thoi from an agent listing updated 6 June 2026. Sailings move and get cancelled; confirm yours the day before.
Thanh Thoi’s four Rach Gia times are printed identically for both directions in the only source we found, which is either a coincidence or a source that never separated them. Take them as indicative and ring to confirm. Every timetable this page carried before today was from 2020 and not one departure in it still matched, which is worth remembering next time you find a Phu Quoc schedule with no date on it.
The car ferry from Ha Tien
The car ferry is a working boat: people, vehicles, cargo, and none of the urgency of the fast service. It takes about two hours fifteen from Ha Tien to Bai Vong and it runs far more often than this page used to claim. Thanh Thoi’s current pattern is seven sailings out and eight back, not the three each way listed here since 2018.
| Ha Tien → Bai Vong | Bai Vong → Ha Tien |
|---|---|
| 4:30 AM | 5:00 AM |
| 5:30 AM | 8:30 AM |
| 7:30 AM | 11:00 AM |
| 9:00 AM | 12:30 PM |
| 12:30 PM | 2:00 PM |
| 2:30 PM | 4:30 PM |
| 6:00 PM | 5:00 PM |
| 6:00 PM |
Schedule verified August 11, 2026 against a ticket agent’s listing updated 6 June 2026, not against Thanh Thoi’s own site. Confirm the sailing the day before, particularly the first and last of the day.
Two other names show up on this route and neither is settled. Binh An is a newer Ha Tien operator with a full published rate card and no schedule we could source, and no website of its own that we could verify. Superdong has announced a car ferry of its own on the Ha Tien route on its website, while one agent listing shows that service as temporarily suspended. If you need a vehicle across, work with Thanh Thoi or Binh An and treat a Superdong ferry as a bonus if it turns out to be sailing.
Taking a motorbike or a car across
Every vehicle class this page used to list has been redrawn. There is no small car, mid-sized car or SUV any more, and trucks are no longer 600,000 VND a tonne across the board; the 2026 cards grade cars by seat count and lorries by weight band. The one complete 2026 vehicle rate card we could source belongs to Binh An, published through ticket agents rather than by the company:
| Vehicle | One way |
|---|---|
| Motorbike | 80,000 VND |
| Car, 4 seats | 850,000 VND |
| Car, 7 seats | 1,100,000 VND |
| Van, 16 seats | 1,400,000 VND |
| Coach under 25 seats | 2,200,000 VND |
| Coach, 26 seats and over | 3,000,000 VND |
| Lorry, by weight band up to 9 tonnes | 1,500,000 to 3,000,000 VND |
| Lorry over 9 tonnes | 400,000 VND per tonne |
Vehicle rates verified August 11, 2026 against a ticket agent’s Binh An card effective 31 May 2026. Thanh Thoi is described by another agent as pricing on the same structure but higher, with no figures published anywhere we could find. Operators change fares without notice — check before booking.
Three things the table will not tell you. The old 320,000 VND charge for a motorbike over 150cc has no successor: no 2026 list splits bikes by engine size, though there is a separate moped or scooter line whose definition we could not pin down, so if you are on something heavier than a step-through, get it quoted before you ride onto the ramp. The vehicle is a ticket of its own, separate from your seat, and on the fast boats the space for it goes first. And if you are only wondering whether to bring a bike at all, the motorbike guide covers renting on the island instead, which is what nearly everyone should do.
The three ports, and which two you cannot rely on
Bai Vong (Bãi Vòng) is the island’s working ferry port and the answer for almost every crossing on this page: Superdong, Phu Quoc Express and Thanh Thoi all dock here, from both Ha Tien and Rach Gia. It sits on the east coast just south of the stilt village at Ham Ninh, and the terminal keeps a 6:30 AM to 4:30 PM day.
Da Chong (Đá Chồng), in the northeast at Bai Thom, is the one this page was most wrong about. It used to carry sixteen sailings a day here. What we can verify for 2026 is thinner than that: Thanh Thoi ran a night-ferry trial into Da Chong from 20 February to 31 December 2025, in the 4:00 to 6:00 AM and 6:00 to 10:00 PM windows, and nothing we found says the programme continued after the trial expired. The most recent operator listing puts Thanh Thoi’s Ha Tien ferry at Bai Vong instead. So the port may well still be working and we are not printing a schedule for it. That matters more here than elsewhere, because Da Chong is a long way from anywhere you are likely to be sleeping and there is not much around it if you land and find no boat back.
Vinh Dam (Vịnh Đầm) in Duong To used to appear on this page with four sailings a day each way from Ha Tien. We could not confirm any Ha Tien passenger service there in 2026 — and could not confirm it has ended either. If a travel agent has told you to meet a Ha Tien boat at Vinh Dam, ring the operator before you build a day around it.
What to expect on board
The ferries transport both people and cargo, sometimes even live animals, so prepare yourself for an onslaught of various odors. Once you enter the ferry your bags will be safely stored for you and then you will make your way to your assigned seat, which is marked on your ferry ticket. It is important that you sit in your designated seat until the ferry has left the dock so that there is no confusion once the ferry fills up.
The interior ferry cabin is air conditioned and equipped with a large flat screen television that plays various Vietnamese shows to occupy your time. Karaoke and limited WiFi are also available on board, and there are modern bathrooms. At the very back of the ferry there is an open air seating area where you can enjoy the fresh air and scenery or, like some of the locals, vomit. Sea sickness can be a problem for some, especially during the wet season, and it is best to avoid eating a meal before going on board.
Where to buy tickets
You can buy from the ferry offices found in every major city in the region, from a travel agent, at the terminal on the day, or online. Each of the three operators now runs its own booking system, and buying direct is the only way to be sure which company and which sailing you have actually paid for:
- Superdong — online.superdong.com.vn
- Phu Quoc Express — phuquocexpress.com
- Thanh Thoi — thanhthoi.vn
Those three are the operators’ own channels. Everything else selling Phu Quoc ferry tickets online is a reseller, and there are dozens of them; they work, but the price carries a margin and the cancellation terms are theirs, not the ferry company’s. Agents are quicker and often know about a cancellation before the counter does. If a sailing is sold out and you have to travel, go to the terminal anyway and ask about no-shows; failing that, there will be someone outside reselling a ticket at a markup, which is legal enough but leaves you with no recourse if the boat does not run.
Whichever channel you use, book in the name on your passport and have that passport at the gate. Your seat number is printed on the ticket, so the ticket belongs to a person, not just to a sailing. If you are coming from Cambodia and expecting the island’s visa exemption to cover a boat arrival, read the visa page first — it does not work the way most people assume.
From Bai Vong to Duong Dong and Long Beach
Taxis and shared minivans meet the boats at Bai Vong. The minivan is the cheap way across and will drop you at the entrance to Long Beach village, the most central place to be based on the island. This page used to quote 60,000 VND a head for that ride; we could not verify any current shared-van fare for 2026, so there is no number here, and you should agree the price before you get in rather than after. Metered taxis and the ride-hailing apps both work on the island — Grab, and the electric Xanh SM fleet — and the airport page covers the going rates for the routes across the island in more detail.
Two practical notes. Bai Vong is on the east coast and Duong Dong, Long Beach and most of the hotels are on the west, so this is a proper cross-island drive at the end of your crossing — do not book a boat that lands at 4:00 PM and a dinner reservation at 5:00. And if you are travelling with a large group, a taxi split several ways usually beats paying per seat in a minivan.
When the sea decides instead
The crossings are open water, and in the wet season, roughly May to October, they are open water with weather on them. Departures get suspended when the port authority says so, not when the operator would like to sail, and the boat you booked can be cancelled the morning of. That is the single reason not to put a ferry crossing on the last day before an international flight out of Ho Chi Minh City. Leave a day of slack, or fly — the airport has far more capacity than the boats and weather stops it far less often.
If you have any history of sea sickness, take the Ha Tien route rather than Rach Gia: eighty minutes of chop is a different proposition from two hours twenty. Take the earliest sailing you can stand, since the sea usually builds through the day, and skip the meal beforehand. The advice about the open deck at the back of the boat is not a joke.
