Ships: The Eurotax is a huge blow: up to €1,700 for a ticket.
Ferry connections, sky-high fares. Genoa-Olbia is the most expensive route, while cabins are hard to find on the Civitavecchia-Cagliari route.
The port of Cagliari (photo Anedda Endrich)
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It reads like a shopping list. All paid by the passengers, however. This turns disembarkation in Sardinia—or departure from the island—into an increasingly unacceptable series of taxes. In effect, a distorted free market, a coffee with a strong drink that goes down bitterly, given that a family of four with a car spends between 40 and 72 euros on CO2 emissions alone.
Overview
Simulations of travel quotes for reaching Sardinia, both during the April 25 long weekend and in summer, accurately reflect the burden of additional costs that weigh on travelers. The list goes something like this: "Taxes, charges, surcharges, and ETS." It turns out, for example, that you pay taxes for both outbound and return journeys, management fees, booking fees, and then of course the CO2 offsets mandated by Brussels and applied twice: once on passengers, once on cars. Prices for the 2026 season were reconstructed using homogeneous data: non-resident fares with round-trip travel for two adults and two children under 12. A family. Plus the least expensive cabin (internal) and a car. The rest is a sequence—in alphabetical order—of mind-boggling fares, for both long and short distances.
