Dog friendly Ferries to Spain

Have you considered the Tunnel? Further to drive but so much kinder to the dog.

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It’s 21 hours from Plymouth to Santander, not 48 hours, and one night on board ship, not two .

PS. If you don’t want to be cooped up in a cabin with your dog for the duration of the voyage, you have the alternative of booking your your dog into one of the on board kennels instead . That option gives you a wider choice of cabins for yourselves, and allows you to go together to the bars, restaurants, shops and cinemas on board - which you might not want to do if you were stuck in a cabin with your dog, or if it meant leaving the dog alone in a cabin. Brittany Ferries customer service team will discuss the options with you.

Hi, We are not dog owners but have seen many posts, here and elsewhere, that dog friendly cabins, and/or kennels, are in very short supply.

As euror says it’s only one night aboard sailing from Plymouth. This would be in the Pont Aven and a quick look at the BF website may help.

https://www.brittany-ferries.co.uk/ships/cruise-ferries/pont-aven/pets

 

I think your post raises the difficulties involved. We've taken our dogs on ferries and prefer the shortest routes possible where they sleep in the motorhome which is a familiar place to them. I think if you use a cabin you will be confined to the dog areas but can take it in turns to use the rest of the ship. That's about the best you can experience.

Living here near Plymouth would mean a drive of 2200 miles to get to Santander and back again if we used a ferry from Dover or the tunnel from Folkestone.  A dog might prefer it but my wife might have something to say.  She would get a Commodore cabin and a dog would get an on board kennel.

The kennels are not the best option unless you have a very well adjusted dog.

Just had a quick read as there is plenty of info about taking dogs, photos of the kennels etc but dogs have to be muzzled when being taken out from the kennels.

Hi euror, Like many things in life there are a variety of options for dog owners when they holiday, but it does seem that for some the starting point is that Fido takes precedence over all other matters.

Not being a dog owner its harder to empathise, but it does seem that, as with many aspects of our hobby, compromise will be needed.

I have resisted the rather obvious comment re cabin V kennel!