Portsmouth Getting there & around

Getting there & away

Portsmouth is situated 75 miles southwest of London.

Land

Bus

There are 15 National Express buses from London (£13.90, 2½ hoursdaily, some via Heathrow airport (£13.90, 2¾ hours) and continuing to Southampton (50 minutes). Bus 700 runs to Chichester (one hour) and to Brighton (3½ hours) half-hourly Monday to Saturday, hourly on Sunday.

Train

There are trains every 10 minutes or so from London Victoria (£23, two hours 20 minutes) and Waterloo stations (£23, one hour 40 minutes). Trains also go to Southampton (£7.10, 40 to 55 minutes), Brighton (£13.80, one hour 40 minutes, hourly), Winchester (£7.90, one hour, hourly) and Chichester (£5.30, 30 to 46 minutes, two hourly).

For the Historic Dockyard get off at the final stop, Portsmouth Harbour.

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Boat

There are several ways to reach the Isle of Wight from Portsmouth.

P&O Ferries (0870 598 0333; www.poferries.com) sails twice a week to Bilbao (10 hours) in Spain. Brittany Ferries (0870 366 5333; www.brittanyferries.co.uk) has overnight services to St Malo (10¾ hours), Caen (5½ hours) and Cherbourg (three hours) in France. Acciona Transmeditteranea (0871 720 6445; www.trasmedi terranea.es) sails to Bilbao several times weekly, and LD Lines (0870 428 4335; www.ldlines.co.uk) has daily overnight ferries to Le Havre (8½ hours) in France. Condor Ferries (0870 243 5140; www.condorferries.co.uk) runs a weekly car-and-passenger service to Cherbourg (5½ hours).

For prices and more information, check the websites. The Continental Ferryport is north of the Historic Dockyard.

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