This article wants to show you that there are more ports in Spain in addition to Barcelona, ​​the first in the entire peninsula, and more seas than the Mediterranean, because also From the Bilbao estuary itself you will find wonderful cruises heading to the Cantabrian Sea and the North Seas, above all.
To give you an idea of ​​what the port of Bilbao is like, I will tell you that Its cruise terminal is located in Getxo, about 20 kilometers from the center of Bilbao, next to the marina, a leisure area and one of the beaches awarded the blue flag by the European Union of the Basque Country. There is a bus service that connects the terminal, both with the beach, as well as with the Bizkaia Bridge (World Heritage Site) and the city. And now I will tell you which are the shipping companies that offer this port either as a stopover or as a point of departure and arrival.
Oceania Cruises is one of the companies that operates from this port and practically with its Iberian Grandeur cruise ship, it travels the perimeter of the Iberian Peninsula in 11 days aboard the Sirena. The departure, as I was saying, is from the port of Bilbao, to continue through Gijón, Lisbon, Gibraltar, Alicante, Ibiza, Mahón (Menorca) and arrive in Barcelona.
The Hapag-Lloyd Cruises shipping company also offers a 12-day cruise, but with a completely different itinerary on board MS Europa2. The crossing is: Bilbao, St. Jean de Luz (Biarritz), Bordeaux, Le Palais, Belle-ÃŽle-en-Mer, St. Helier, all these are French coasts, to cross Jersey (Channel Islands) in England, return to France to Honfleur, to set course for Antwerp, Belgium, Amsterdam in Holland, and reach the German port of Hamburg. This is an unforgettable luxury cruise.
Of course If it is a luxury cruise, there is nothing like sailing on the Sea Cloud II sailboat, for 6 days from Bilbao to Lisbon crossing the Costa da Morte.
As you can see, the itineraries from Bilbao are much more exclusive than from other ports, it is the advantage of not being a crowded port.