Barcelona airport

Barcelona is the cruises capital in Europe, given the abundant supply of cruise companies that are based in the Port of Barcelona. Globally, the Port of Barcelona is on the 4th place in the world, behind the three large ports in the Caribbean. The infrastructure of the port of Barcelona has 7 terminals dedicated exclusively to cruisers, and the biggest cruise ships in the world stop here.

Since spring 2018, the Port of Barcelona has a new cruise terminal, built and managed by the Carnival Corporation cruise company: the Helix Cruise Center. This terminal has 12,500 square meters of surface area, it is one of the largest cruise terminals in Europe.

During 2019, the Port of Barcelona received more than 3 million cruise passengers (3,137,918) and almost one and a half million ferry passengers on regular lines. Although during the Covid-19 crisis the number of passengers decreased significantly due to mobility restrictions, in 2021 there were 520,854 cruise passengers and 977,963 passengers on the regular ferry line. By the end of 2022, the number of passengers on tourist cruises exceeds two million and almost reaches one and a half million in ferry passengers.

Flight-Cruise, Cruise-Flight

Since 2010, Barcelona Airport offers during the cruise season, approximately from May 8th to October 29th, a combined check in for those cruise passengers who arrive at the Port of Barcelona, and then must to take a flight from Barcelona Airport El Prat, or vice versa.

During the 2015 season Barcelona airport attended more than 7,000 cruise passengers with nearly 10,000 pieces of luggage. The most active for the logistics of this operation cruise months were August and October.

Check in facilities Port-Airport or vice versa

The airlines Vueling, American Airlines, British Airways, Air France and KLM have 14 specific counters located at the Intermodal lobby of terminal T1 for this kind of passengers, where they can check in their luggage to Barcelona cruise port. For this operation, security filters in Regional Flights Area, and Shuttle Air Area in terminal T1, are enabled in order to expedite the access to the boarding area.

About Norwegian Cruise Line, Royal Caribbean Cruises, Celebrity Cruises, BC Tours and Intercruises Shoreside & Port Services are responsible for managing this operational.

For passengers from a cruise and must to take a flight at Barcelona airport, Barcelona port facilities have 16 check-in desks intended for this operational Port-airport. The luggage is transferred directly to the airport, controlled by the automatic baggage handling system.

Ask your shipping company or in the information terminal points of Port of Barcelona if your airline offers service combined check in Port-Airport.

Airport to Port transfers, or viceversa

Barcelona Airport and the Port of Barcelona distant from each a distance of 12 kms. For transfers between the terminals from this infrastructures, and if you don't have a shuttle service concerted with some Touroperador travel agency, please visit the To & From airport sections.

If you need a shuttle or private transfer, please visit this section.

Cruise companies operating in the Port of Barcelona