Travel Information

Bus Services

First Traveller, Solent Blueline, Wilts and Dorset, Unilink and Stage Coach offer frequent bus services throughout the city and surrounding area.

Free Shuttle Bus

A free shuttle bus operates around the city centre. The City Link operates between Southampton Central Station, West Quay Shopping Centre and Town Quay Ferry terminals every 10 minutes during shopping hours.

Nightlink

Nightlink is a bus service that operates between midnight and 2.20 am to provide a safe alternative home from the city centre. Pick up points are located around the city centre.

Coach Service

National Express operates an extensive coach service from the city centre's coach station to central London, Heathrow, Birmingham, Bournemouth and the North operate regularly.

Ferry Service

A high-speed and car ferry service is operated by Red Funnel to the Isle of Wight. There is also a regular half-hourly ferry service operated by Whitehorse Ferries between Southampton and Hythe.

Air Travel

Southampton Airport is located off Junction 5 of the M27 and 5 minutes from the M3 / M27 interchange.

Southampton Airport offers a route network to over 40 different UK, European and Holiday destinations operated by eight scheduled airlines including BA Connect, Eastern Airways, Air France and Flybe. and the top three tour operators ThomsonFly, Airtours and JMC together with over 200 long haul worldwide destinations via Amsterdam, Brussels, Paris, Frankfurt, Manchester and Dubin.

Flybe. offer direct routes to 25 destinations including Amsterdam, Manchester, Dublin and Nice.