Waiheke Island is just a short 40-minute ferry ride from downtown Auckland. There is also a car ferry that operates from Wynyard Quarter or Half Moon Bay to Kennedy Point that takes between 45-60 minutes.If you are tagging Waiheke onto your existing itinerary, you can bring a rental car across to the Island that you have picked up from one of our other branches or you can choose to pick up a new rental car from our Waiheke Island branch located inside the Matiatia Ferry Terminal.