Cies Islands Boat Transfer

We'll meet at the selected time at the Cruceros do Ulla ticket office in the Port of Portonovo, located at Rua Rafael Picó, 48. Please arrive at least 10 minutes in advance.

Return Schedules

The return timetable from the Cíes Islands to the port of Portonovo is as follows:

• June 13 to June 21, 2026: 5:30 pm
• June 22 to August 15, 2026: 6:50 pm
• August 16 to September 5, 2026: 5:30 pm

Necessary documentation

The Cíes Islands are a protected archipelago with a daily quota of visitors, and in order to visit them, it is necessary to obtain authorization from the Xunta de Galicia (Galician Government) which will be processed by the local tour guide.

Please bear in mind that we can only request your permit from the Xunta de Galicia during the 30 days before your visit. Once it's been processed, we'll send it to you. You'll need to bring this permit with you, as well as this voucher.

Once the permit from the Xunta de Galicia has been processed, the provider will contact you to confirm the return time, which will be between 5:30 and 6:50 pm.

If you have made your reservation more than one month in advance, you must take into account that it'll be sent to you a few weeks before the visit.

If for any reason any of the people cannot attend the activity, you must give at least 15 days' notice and indicate the name and surname of the person who will be absent so that the Xunta de Galicia can remove them from the list.

From September 16 - March 26, it is not necessary to present the authorization, but it is obligatory to register your details on the official website of the Xunta de Galicia.

Ticket conditions

Tickets can only be issued up to 30 minutes before the departure of the ship and at the port of departure corresponding to your trip.

The ticket is null and void and has no value outside the day and time indicated on the ticket. The loss or misplacement of the ticket will result in the need to purchase a new ticket.

You must be at the dock 10 minutes before the departure and/or return time with your boarding ticket and the enclosed authorization to disembark in the Cíes Islands.

The company is entitled to modify the announced schedules and even suspend and cancel the trip for internal, technical-logistical, or organizational reasons, as well as for weather or force majeure. Likewise, it can make any kind of intermediate stopover.

If you have any questions, you can call the following telephone number: 986 731 818

Authorization for campers

If you decide to stay at a campsite on the Cíes Islands, the campsite itself must process the authorization, or cancel it in case you want to cancel. If the authorization is not canceled by the campsite, the shipping company cannot cancel your boat tickets.

Meaning, if you want to cancel your trip to the Cíes Islands, you must contact the campsite first. Then, once the campsite confirms that it has processed the cancellation of your authorization, you must contact the shipping company (within the stipulated refund period) so that they can cancel your boat tickets.

Also, once an authorization is associated with a shipping company, it cannot be linked to another shipping company. Therefore, if you cancel your reservation with this company, you'll have to cancel your authorization and then process a new authorization.