Welcome to Rottnest Island

Rottnest Express sets sail from three handy locations in Fremantle and central Perth. Each departure point has different advantages โ€“ itโ€™s easy to select one to suit your needs.

Why travel with Rottnest Express?

  1. More departures, more often
  2. Swan River cruise with guided commentary (departing Perth)
  3. More than just a ferry service โ€“ We offer bike hire, bus tours, adventure tours, and other products.
  4. 60 years reliable service โ€“ No one knows Rotto like us!
  5. Most experienced and trusted ferry operator
REX Adventure Boat Eco-boat Tour host explaining to guests

Experience all that Rottnest Island has to offer

Book a package deal including transport, tour the highlights of the island, explore by bike, snorkel under the waves or just unwind in your beachside accommodation: Rottnest Island can be as energetic or relaxed as you need it to be.

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Rottnest Express B Shed Terminal
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Response from the owner: Hi, Thank you for the 5-star review. We are thrilled to hear that you had a comfortable journey and even got to witness some of the wildlife on your way! We hope you enjoyed your visit to Rottnest Island, and we hope to welcome you back on another trip in the future. Kind Regards, The Rottnest Express Sales Team
Response from the owner: Thank you for the 5-star rating!!Kind Regards, The Rottnest Express Sales Team
Response from the owner: Hi Lin, Thank you for the 5-star rating!Kind Regards, The Rottnest Express Sales Team
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Response from the owner: Hi, Thank you for taking the time to share your experience with us. We're glad to hear you enjoyed the cruise, but we're sorry to learn that finding the boarding area was challenging and that you didn't receive the assistance you needed. We appreciate your feedback and will pass it on to our team to improve signage and provide better support for our guests. Your comfort and enjoyment are very important to us, and we hope to welcome you back for an even better experience in the future! Safe travels!Kind Regards, The Rottnest Express Sales Team
ํผ์Šค ์‹œ๋‚ด์—์„œ ๋ฒ„์Šค๋กœ 1์‹œ๊ฐ„ ์ •๋„ ์ด๋™ํ•˜๋ฉด ๋„์ฐฉํ•˜๋Š” ์žฅ์†Œ๋กœ ๋กœํŠธ๋„ค์ŠคํŠธ ์„ฌ์œผ๋กœ ์ถœ๋ฐœํ•˜๋Š” ์„ ๋ฐ•ํƒ‘์Šน ์žฅ์†Œ ์ค‘ ํ•˜๋‚˜์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.1. ๊ฐ€๊ฒฉ์€ ์ข€ ๋” ๋น„์‹ธ์ง€๋งŒ, ์—˜๋ฆฌ์ž๋ฒ ์Šค ํ‚ค์—์„œ ์ถœ๋ฐœํ•˜๋Š” ์„ ๋ฐ•๋„ ์žˆ์œผ๋‹ˆ ์„œ๋กœ ๋น„๊ตํ•˜์—ฌ ๋”์šฑ ๊ดœ์ฐฎ์€ ๊ณณ์„ ์ด์šฉํ•˜์„ธ์š”.2. ๊ฐ€๊ธ‰์  ๊ณต์‹ํ™ˆํŽ˜์ด์ง€์—์„œ ํ‹ฐ์ผ“์„ ๊ตฌ์ž…ํ•˜์„ธ์š”. ๋Œ€ํ–‰์‚ฌ์—์„œ๋Š” ๋Œ€๋ถ€๋ถ„ ํƒ‘์Šน์‹œ๊ฐ„์ด ๊ณ ์ •๋˜์–ด ์„ ํƒ์ด ๋ถˆ๊ฐ€๋Šฅํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.3. ํƒ‘์Šน์žฅ์—๋Š” 30~40๋ถ„ ์ „์ฏค์—๋Š” ๋„์ฐฉํ•ด์„œ ๊ธฐ๋‹ค๋ฆฌ์„ธ์š” 25๋…„8์›” ๊ธฐ์ค€ ํƒ‘์Šน์ž๊ฐ€ ์•„์ฃผ ๋งŽ์•„์„œ ๋Šฆ์œผ๋ฉด ์ข‹์€ ์ž๋ฆฌ๋ฅผ ๋บ๊ธฐ๊ฑฐ๋‚˜ ์‹ฌํ•˜๋ฉด ์„œ์„œ ๊ฐˆ ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
Response from the owner: Hi Michael, Thank you for the 5 stars and for sharing your feedback and tips for travellers heading to Rottnest Island! We appreciate your insights about the ferry options and the importance of arriving early to secure a good spot. It's great to hear you're considering all your options for a smooth experience. We hope you had a fantastic time on the island, and we look forward to welcoming you back for another adventure soon! Safe travels!Kind Regards, The Rottnest Express Sales Team
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Response from the owner: Hi Edoardo, Thank you for the 5-star review!Kind Regards, The Rottnest Express Sales Team
We absolutely loved the experience on being on the Rottnest Express on Sunday 10th of July 2025. We would like to highly recommend the crew on both the boat and the bus trip and especially SHIRLEEN (boat and bus) and COZ the bus driver. Shirleen's vast knowledge of the island and its history is to be commendable. Spoke clearly and interestingly and made the trip totally worthwhile. It would not have been the same if we didn't have Shirleen as our host! Thank you so much Shirleen! You are THE BEST!Regards, Wendy and Rex
Response from the owner: Hi Wendy, Thank you so much for taking the time to share your wonderful experience with us. We're so happy to hear that you enjoyed the bus tour and we are so grateful for your kind words about our team. Your recommendation means a lot to us, and we hope to welcome you back on board for another adventure in the near future.Kind Regards, The Rottnest Express Sales Team
Response from the owner: Hi Gretta, Thank you for the 5-star rating!Kind Regards, The Rottnest Express Sales Team
great helpful staff
Response from the owner: Hi Caroline, Thank you for the 5-star rating and lovely feedback about our team! We appreciate you taking the time to share your experience. Kind Regards, The Rottnest Express Sales Team
Fast and efficient. If you book via KKday or Klook come here to exchange tickets or change timing
Response from the owner: Hi Moon, Thank you for your 4 -star rating and feedback! We're glad to hear that you found our service fast and efficient.Kind Regards, The Rottnest Express Sales Team
Rottnest was amazing !!! ๐Ÿ’ฏ๐Ÿ’ฏ๐Ÿ’ฏStaff were onto any misbehaved ๐Ÿ™ˆ๐Ÿ’ฏ๐Ÿ™Œ๐Ÿ‘Œ๐Ÿป
Response from the owner: Hi Lila, Thanks for your review and feedback. We pride ourselves on offering the highest level of customer service at Rottnest Express and are disappointed to hear this was not your experience. We would love to get some further information on your experience so we can better pass on this feedback and work to rectify this issue. Kind Regards, The Rottnest Express Sales Team
Response from the owner: Thank you for your 5-star rating!Kind Regards, The Rottnest Express Sales Team
The 90 minute bus tour was a real delight. Simon is an excellent driver, under quite difficult conditions, with lots of cyclists, some very inexperienced. Eli was a brilliant gude, his knowledge and enthusiasm made the tour a special event. Highly recommended!
Response from the owner: Hi Jenny, Thank you for your 5-star review and wonderful feedback. We're so happy to hear that the 90-minute bus tour was a delight! Thank you also for the lovely comments about our tour team, it's great to hear that they positively impacted your experience on Rottnest Island.Kind Regards, The Rottnest Express Sales Team
Response from the owner: Hi Martine, Thank you for your 5-star rating!Kind Regards, The Rottnest Express Sales Team
Simon and Eli were amazing! We are so thankful for all you help. In wheelchairs everything is a bit trickier, but you both were helpful, patient and understanding to our needs. We loved the tour and the dad jokes and drawings. What a great team and a great tour.
Response from the owner: Hi Remi, Thank you for your lovely review! It is so great to hear that you found our team helpful, patient and understanding and that you loved the bus tour. We hope to welcome you back on another adventure soon!Kind Regards, The Rottnest Express Sales Team
Response from the owner: Hi Vincent, Thank you for your 5-star rating!Kind Regards, The Rottnest Express Sales Team
Terminal de ferry trรจs facile d'accรจs depuis le centre-ville de Perth en mรฉtro, et de faรงon assez rapide. Il permet de prendre le bateau pour Rottnest island pour moins cher que depuis le centre-ville de Perth. On y trouve de nombreux commerces : on peut donc s'y restaurer pour un prix trรจs abordable.
Response from the owner: Hi Jose, Thank you for your review and for sharing your experience! We're pleased to hear that you found the ferry terminal easily accessible from Perth city centre. We're glad you also discovered the variety of dining options available on the island. We hope you had a wonderful time exploring all that Rottnest has to offer, and we look forward to welcoming you back on your next adventure! Kind Regards, The Rottnest Express Sales Team
Excellent journey.
Response from the owner: Hi Kate, Thank you for your 5-star review and lovely feedback!Kind Regards, The Rottnest Express Sales Team
Response from the owner: Hi Alina, Thank you for your 4-star rating!Kind Regards, The Rottnest Express Sales Team
Ideal for Family
Response from the owner: Hi Alexander, Thank you for your 5-star rating! We hope you had a wonderful family trip over to Rottnest Island. Kind Regards, The Rottnest Express Sales Team
Response from the owner: Hi Mahesh, Thank you for your 5-star rating!Kind Regards, The Rottnest Express Sales Team
Great ride across to rottnest and back. No problems, friendly and professional service even through some challenging seas.
Response from the owner: Hi Benjamin, Thank you for your 5-star review and for choosing to travel with us! It's great to hear that you enjoyed your trip to and from Rottnest Island with us and we hope to welcome you back on board in the future. Kind Regards, The Rottnest Express Sales Team
This is the ferry terminal to visit when going to Rottnest Island from Fremantle. Bookings for the ferry is best made online, as most of the seats can be full near the day of ferry departure, so booking in advance is preferred. Going to the ferry is straightforward after getting online tickets.
Response from the owner: Hi Sadewa, Thank you for your 4-star review and feedback. It's great to hear that you found the boarding process straightforward. We hope to see you travel with us again in the future!Kind Regards,The Rottnest Express Sales Team
Response from the owner: Hi Vanessa,Thank you for you 4-star rating!Kind Regards, The Rottnest Express Sales Team
Cannot fault this service - 10/10!
Response from the owner: Hi Carolyn, Thank you for your 5-star and 10/10 rating! It is great to hear :)Kind Regards, The Rottnest Express Sales Team
Ferries got cancelled a couple of days before the intended travel day. Communication was good around refunds and changing ferry times.
Response from the owner: Hi Lisle, Thank you for your 4-star review! Due to weather conditions we we're unable to fulfil some of our services and we really appreciate your understanding around the cancellation. We hope that you were able to adjust your travel date so that you were still able to visit the wonderful Rottnest Island! Kind Regards,The Rottnest Express Sales Team
Busy but works well.
I did my Rottnest Island tour and took a ferry back to B Shed Fremantle.
Response from the owner: Hi Laura, thanks for your 5-star review!
Good place!
Response from the owner: Hi Geliz, thank you for your 5-star review!
Amazing guide to the island and loads of opportunities to get amazing photographs
Response from the owner: Hi Yana, Thank you for your lovely feedback and for choosing to travel with us. We hope to see you travelling with us again soon. Kind Regards, The Rottnest Express Sales Team
Response from the owner: Hi Lufi, thanks for your 5-star review!
Great service, Malcom is the best!!!! Very knowledgeable and makes it more than just a ferry ride, he makes it an experience. Thanks Malcom!
Response from the owner: Hi Igs, Thank you for your glowing feedback on our lovely Malcolm - we are so pleased you enjoyed your experience with our incredible team. Kind Regards, The Rottnest Express Sales Team
Swift check in. Good trip on nicely bouncy seas
Response from the owner: Hi Susan, Thank you for your lovely review, we are so pleased you chose to travel with us. Kind Regards, The Rottnest Express Sales Team
Fun ferry ride to Rottenest Island, Good service and fair prices.
Response from the owner: Hi Troy, Thank you for choosing to travel with us and for rating us 5-stars! We hope you travel with us again in the future!Kind Regards,The Rottnest Express Sales Team
Thankyou to the man at the desk at Freemantle who listened to me and helped us when we were not allowed on Sealink due to them shutting the gates earlier than the time. He was lovely and thanks for helping me.
Response from the owner: Hi Emma, Thank you for taking the time to leave a 5-star review. We appreciate your positive feedback about our team and are so glad that you got the chance to visit Rottnest Island!Kind Regards, The Rottnest Express Sales Team
Found Staff pleasent and polite.
Response from the owner: Hi Brian, Thank you for the 5-star review and lovely comments about our team!Kind Regards, The Rottnest Express Sales Team
Amazing tour. Highly recommended. We saw whales and dolphins!! Cos & Eli were fantastic tour guides!
Response from the owner: Hi Steven, Thank you for your 5-star review! It's great to hear that you enjoyed the bus tour with our team and that you managed to spot some of the winter wildlife!Kind Regards, The Rottnest Express Sales Team
Fast and efficient . use the code we got from a brochure to get 15% off- HELLOROTTO15
Response from the owner: Hi Dan, Thank you for the 4-star review. We hope to see you travel with us again in the future!Kind Regards, The Rottnest Express Sales Team
Excellent all good
Response from the owner: Hi Derek, Thank you for the 5-star review and feedback!Kind Regards, The Rottnest Express Sales Team
Response from the owner: Hi Reese, Thank you for the 5-star review!Kind Regards, The Rottnest Express Sales Team
Response from the owner: Hi Alexandre, Thank you for the 5-stars!Kind Regards, The Rottnest Express Sales Team
Abby & Cos were wey informative & friendly. Great commentary of the Island
Response from the owner: Hi Anne, Thank you for the 5 stars and for your lovely feedback about the bus tour! Great to know you enjoyed your visit with us!Kind Regards, The Rottnest Express Sales Team
Helpful staff and well organised place. Itโ€™s great that you can send your luggage straight to the resort you are staying at.
Response from the owner: Hi Toni, Thank you for your lovely review! It is great to hear that you found our team and processes useful when visiting Rottnest Island. We hope to welcome you aboard again in the future. Kind Regards,The Rottnest Express Sales Team
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Join us for a creative escape with our newest event, Brush and Bubbles, on the beautiful Rottnest Island! ๐ŸŽจ๐Ÿ๏ธ Unleash your inner artist whilst enjoying morning tea and bubbles at @frankiesonrotto. It's a perfect morning of relaxing, creating, and enjoying the stunning surroundings.

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*Must be following all three accounts to win.

Competition closes Wednesday 27th August at 11:59pm AWST.

This giveaway is ONLY affiliated with @rottnestexpress and @discoveryparksandresorts Instagram page. We would never ask for your credit card or any other payment information to enter or claim a giveaway. Please be safe and report any spam accounts.

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September marks the return of our spectacular whale watching tour! It's very business as usuwhale ๐Ÿณ

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Grab some pals and set off on a scenic 10km cycle this weekend! ๐Ÿšฒ
The beaches, lighthouses and lakes trail passes by some of the most picturesque spots on the Island. Here are some highlights:
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Which of these quokka facts are fake? ๐Ÿง 1, 2 or 3?

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Look no further! Your winter escape is just a quick 30-minute ferry ride from Fremantle to Rottnest Island ๐Ÿ๏ธ 

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Rottnest Express B Shed Terminal
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Based on 1340 reviews
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