Travelling with pets

We want to introduce you to our new Baleària service: pet-friendly cabins.Starting now, your most faithful friend can join you on all your trips. To make this possible, we've introduced a new accommodation: a cabin in which pets can travel with their owners.  

These are adapted cabins with a drinking trough and bed for your pet.The floors in these cabins are vinyl, and a special cleaning protocol ensures maximum hygiene.

These are adapted cabins with vinyl floor and with a special cleaning protocol to guarantee maximum hygiene. You can request a feeder and a platform with a soaker to the crew, or you can take their bed with you to make them feel at home.

 

For the moment, this accommodation is available on the ferries Hypatia de Alejandría, Marie Curie, Rosalind Franklin, Abel Matutes, Bahama Mama, Dénia Ciutat Creativa, Hedy Lamarr, Sicilia, Nápoles y Martín and Soler.

Conditions: 

• 2 animals can be accommodated, provided that the weight of the two pets together does not exceed 30kg. If they weigh more than 30kg, only one per cabin is allowed.
• Remember you will be solely responsiblefor your pet. This includes its food and picking up after it, as well as any damage it might cause.

To learn how to reserve a pet-friendly cabin, click here. 

If your pet travels in the carrier area, you aren't allowed to accompany it during the crossing. For this reason, on ourSmart Ships , we've installed a video surveillance system that allows you to monitor your pet while you enjoy the voyage. 

 

If your vessel is not aSmart  Ship, no need to worry. Our crew will be sure to notify you if there's a problem. 

On long journeys, you can also visit your pet and take it for a walk in designated areas.You can check visiting times at the ship's reception desk. 

If you want to accompany your pet during the entire trip, you can travel in specially adapted cabins for pets, where the two of you can travel in the utmost comfort together.  For more information, check here. 

Travelling with your pet is very easy. All you have to do is decide on the type of accommodation you want your pet to travel in and select it when you purchase your ticket.  

  

If you want your pet to travel with you in your cabin: 

 

 

 

If you want your pet to travel in a company carrier:  

To reserve a company carrier, you'll need to indicate this at the bottom of the reservation, in the section "improve your trip". You can choose if you need to bring your pet on the outbound or return trip or both. You can also choose the size of the carrier. 

 

It is absolutelyprohibited to leave animals in vehicles for the sake of their own health and safety.

BOE-A-2002-6016 (Royal Decree 287/2002) includes a list as well as the rules for having and travelling with potentially dangerous dogs. 

These dogs must board, disembark and remain in specially designated areas of the vessel (walking areas) and must be on a leash and muzzled. Otherwise, they will not be allowed to board. 

Most are on deck and some are in the ship's hold, always in protected and appropriately ventilated spaces.

If your pet is going to travel in a carrier, you'll be told at the vessel's reception desk where the pet area is located.

Service dogs travelling with disabled passengers, in accordance with specific regulations, are permitted access to all the rooms on the vessel. Service dogs board for free,  although you need to indicate you will be travelling with one when booking your reservation.

Emotional support animals are included in this category, as long as the passenger has a certificate from the doctor, psychologist or psychiatrist accrediting it.

According the European Directive for animal ro-ro passenger ferries, you can consult EC Council Rule No. 1/2005, 22 de 2004.

If you travel with uncommon companion animals, you must have your own carrier, which will be placed next to the pet-friendly cages in the designated area for carriers.

If you have any questions, you can talk to us through our WebChat or by telephone so that we can ask the crew.

If you're transporting your hunting dogs and have an equipped car or trailer, you won't need to take the dogs out. You can make the crossing in the ship's hold.

Make sure they have what they need (food and water) for the voyage. 

Remember: For safety reasons, you aren't allowed to go down to the hold to visit the animals while the vessel is moving.

If you travel with your pet to Algeria, an additional document is required: 

• Document: passport or animal health certificate of origin forms according to RULE 577/2013
• Microchip identification
•  Valid rabies vaccination
• Proof of rabies antibody titration (From countries other than the ones on the list included in RULE 577/2013) in a sample taken at least 30 days after the vaccination and at least three months before the trip/ticket > 0.5 UI/ml.
• If the animal is vaccinated again during the validity period, the serology will not be renewed.The three months do not apply in case of the re-entry of a pet that received a favourable assessment. 
• The vaccination cannot be prior to the identification or before three months have elapsed.

 If any of these requirements are not met, the health authorities will deny the animal entry and present the owner with three options:euthanisation, quarantine or return the animal to the departure point.

You must have the following documents: 

• Boarding passwith reference to your pet (either pet-friendly cabin or pet-friendly cage)
• Animal's valid health card

If you travel on the Algeciras-Tangiers route:you must have the documents required by the European Union and by the Kingdom of Morocco.

Baleària is not responsible for denial of entry by the country's authorities. We recommend checking with both embassies or consulates.

Passengers with animals will board last for safety reasons and to prevent pets from becoming stressed by so many people.

As in boarding, your pet must be leashed or inside a carrier/cage. If the animal is considered to be of a dangerous breed or is not very social, it must be muzzled as well.