Driving from Geelong to Phillip Island is there any ferries etc of do you need t

Yes a ferry goes from Queenscliff. A nice trip with time for a cuppa.

Chris,

The only ferry service is from Queenscliffe around 25 km SE of Geelong which will take you across to Sorrento. You will need to check if they take vans but to my memory they do - but at a cost) Then you have to drive back across the Mornington Penninsula along Boneo Rd to Flinders, then Hastings then across to the South Gippsland Hwy, these are relatively good roads for towing a van. There are plenty of tourist information places to give you the best road to take to get to Hastings. (size of van will be the telling factor)This is the tourist route and there are heaps of excellent wineries and caravan parks on th Penninsula.

However, if you choose the time of day right, not peak hours, you can travel from Geelong across the Westgate Bridge and onto the Monash Freeway thru the Domain Tunnel (pay the toll in advance thru Eastlink - 135465). This links up to the South Gippsland Hwy and Phillip Island. Excellent divided road most of the way, just watch for lots of speed cameras.

If you leave Geelong around ten you will miss the morning and afternoon peak, miss most of Melbourne's busy roads because you are on freeways nearly all the way, and be at Phiilip Island well before the afternoon peak.

thanks for that i just looked up the ferries website and it looks like that will be the way to go for us as if we catch the ferry between 7-8am the van is only $22 doesn't matter on it's size so savng a fair bit of $$, and it will be something different to do on the trip anyway.
thanks from chris

If you're not worried about time or money then take the ferry from Queenscliff, however it would be quicker to drive from Geelong even with the van. I'm only new at the game but my inlaws live at Phillip Island and I live in Geelong, we've done it a couple of times and it's a pretty easy run. As others have said just don't leave Geelong until 9 or 10 am and avoid the rush.

We live on the Mornington Peninsula and would not think of driving around via Geelong with the big van on the back. We always use the ferry, (7am or 8am) when we are heading west. We are off to Port Fairy on Tuesday and we will roll up to the ferry, have a cuppa on board then skirt around Geelong with no hassles. Unfortunately coming back we always have to pay the full fare as we are always later in the day!!
Enjoy the Peninsula,
Cheers Mac

If you have a Garmin Nuvi GPS it will know the way for you.

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hi, so would Geelong be the closest caravan park to the ferry?, and about how long does it take or how many klms is Geelong to getting on the ferry?, as i was thinking of staying the night at the closest spot to the ferry getting on the road early and hopefully getting the ferry at 7am and that way we should in theory miss a lot of the traffic, does that sound right? and do we need to book the ferry or just rock up?
thanks for the help so far from chris.