Intermediate
Volkswagen Golf or similar · 5 seats · Manual · 2–3 luggage
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Select “Stornoway Ferry Terminal (Town Centre)” as your pick-up location.
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A desk inside Stornoway Ferry Terminal, for travellers arriving on the Ullapool crossing.
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Arriving by ferry
Where and how you collect
Collect from the Car Hire Hebrides desk inside Stornoway Ferry Terminal. Your booking confirmation will explain the handover and return arrangements for your sailing.
The terminal is a practical starting point for customers arriving from Ullapool and for visitors staying in Stornoway before travelling around Lewis and Harris.
The desk is inside Stornoway Ferry Terminal. Your booking confirmation gives the exact collection point and the return arrangement for your sailing.
Arriving without a vehicle
Built for foot passengers
Bringing a car across on the ferry means booking vehicle space and committing to it in both directions. Hiring at the terminal removes that: you travel as a foot passenger and pick up a vehicle at the other end.
It also means a breakdown or a change of plan on the island is ours to sort out rather than yours, and you are not driving a car you rely on at home over a crossing.
Two Stornoway options
Terminal or airport: which suits your arrival
We hold two collection points in Stornoway, and the right one is simply the one you arrive at. If you are flying in, the airport desk is inside the terminal building. If you are sailing from Ullapool, this page is the one you want.
You are not locked into either. One-way hire between our locations is available subject to availability and pre-arrangement, so you can arrive by sea and leave by air.
Collecting at the ferry terminal
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Book online
Choose the ferry terminal and give us your sailing.Choose the ferry terminal as your pick-up point and tell us your sailing when you book.
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Walk off
Reach the desk on foot from the pier.Foot passengers reach the desk without needing onward transport from the pier.
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Collect keys
Paperwork at the desk; we confirm parking.Paperwork is handled at the desk, and we confirm where the vehicle is parked.
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Return for your sailing
Return with time for check-in.Bring the vehicle back with enough time for ferry check-in. Tell us if the sailing moves.
Choosing a vehicle
Vehicles that suit an island week
Family Automatic
JAECOO 7 or similar · 5 seats · Automatic · 3–4 luggage
from£84.31incl. VAT
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7-seat people carrier
Volkswagen Sharan or similar · 7 seats · Automatic · 1–2 luggage
from£93.24incl. VAT
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9-seat people carrier
Ford Tourneo or similar · 9 seats · Manual · 1–2 luggage
from£94.42incl. VAT
BookBook now: 9-seat people carrierMost ferry arrivals are staying a while and carrying luggage for it. Compare the groups by boot space and transmission rather than by size alone. The roads reward a car you are comfortable in more than a large one.
Good to know
Arriving by ferry, answered
The questions foot passengers ask before sailing from Ullapool.
Inside the ferry terminal building. Your booking confirmation gives the exact collection point and how the return works for your sailing.
No, that is rather the point of collecting here. Travel as a foot passenger from Ullapool and pick up a vehicle when you land, without booking vehicle space on the crossing.
Tell us as soon as you know. We will do our best to adjust the handover around the new sailing, though revised arrangements stay subject to vehicle and staff availability.
Enough to complete ferry check-in comfortably. Check-in closes before departure, and the return needs to happen before that, not alongside it.
Yes, subject to vehicle availability and pre-arrangement. Choose different pickup and return locations in the booking search, and any applicable charge is confirmed before booking.
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