BC Ferries Experience™ Card and Coast Card

What is the BC Ferries Experience™ Card
and how does it work?

The BC Ferries Experience™ Card is an electronic swipe card that can be loaded with money and used to pay for ferry travel on participating routes.

As a BC Ferries Experience™ cardholder, you'll have access to savings on passenger fares OR vehicle and passenger fares on participating routes simply by registering your card and loading it with minimum Stored Value amounts.  

By registering your BC Ferries Experience™ Card you will receive these great features:

• Assured Loading Tickets purchase option.
• Printable Travel History report*.
• Loss protection.
• Transferability/balance sharing features.
• Convenient Auto Load feature.
• Access to new and different future products.

*It may be possible to use the Travel History report to claim the federal income tax credit for public transit on qualifying passenger trips.

Please Note: There are some transactions that cannot be completed with a BC Ferries Experience™ Card.  More information >> 

ASSURED LOADING TICKETS

Assured Loading Tickets (ALTs) can also be loaded on your BC Ferries Experience™ Card. ALTs give you priority travel on the routes between Tsawwassen and Swartz Bay, Duke Point and Tsawwassen or Horseshoe Bay and Departure Bay. For more information on ALTs, click here >>

Please note the following important information about ALTs:

• ALTs expire 2 years after the month of purchase.
• Once your tickets expire they cannot be used for travel.
• The value of expired ALTs is not refundable and may only be used toward the purchase of a new set of ALTs for a period of six (6) months after expiry.
• It is your responsibility to decide when you will use your ALTs.
• Customers are able to transfer ownership of ALTs to someone else and more than one ALT can be redeemed per sailing.
• ALT travel is exempt from any regular discounts such as senior, student or disabled fares.
• BC Ferries reserves the right to limit the number of ALT spaces per sailing.

About Your Card

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