Taxi Málaga Airport → Córdoba

Prices by vehicle

Single journey, VAT included, on toll-free roads; the AP-46 tunnel at Las Pedrizas is optional and settled separately if you want it. A return is exactly twice this figure. Starting at the train station or the cruise port changes nothing in the price.

Drop-off

The lanes around the Mezquita and through the Judería are pedestrian or camera-controlled, so a hotel inside the old walls usually has its own agreed access: a side street, a small square or a set time window. Your driver knows the usual ones and will check yours beforehand. Everywhere else, including the AVE station, the Vial Norte hotels and the Ciudad Jardín district, the car stops right at the entrance and helps unload.

Inside the Terminal 3 arrivals hall at Málaga Airport, where the driver stands with a board showing your name.

What awaits you

• The Mezquita-Catedral and the Judería
• Roman bridge and the Calahorra tower
• Flower-filled patios and the Alcázar gardens

The inland road: Antequera, Lucena and the last hills before the Guadalquivir

Córdoba is an hour and three quarters north of Málaga Airport by the A-45, and the whole road is free of tolls. After the climb over Las Pedrizas the motorway runs past Antequera and through the olive country of the Subbética, with Lucena and Montilla on either side, before dropping to the Guadalquivir valley and the city. It is a quiet road with little traffic outside the morning rush into Córdoba, which is why our 105-minute estimate holds most days of the year. The fixed fare of €239 covers the car for up to four passengers, luggage, waiting time and VAT.

Reaching a hotel in the Judería

The old quarter around the Mezquita is a web of lanes barely wider than the car, and access is restricted to residents and to hotel guests whose plate has been registered. Most hotels in the Judería ask for your car details before arrival; give us the hotel name at booking and we send the plate. If your accommodation cannot register vehicles, the driver stops at the closest permitted point, generally on the Ronda de Isasa by the river or on Cardenal González, and walks the last two hundred metres with your bags.

Hotels outside the old quarter, in the Centro around Tendillas and the Gran Capitán, or near the AVE station, are reached like any city street. The station forecourt has a taxi lane where private transfers may stop for a moment, useful if you are continuing to Madrid by high-speed train.

May, the Patios and the hottest summer in Spain

The first fortnight of May is the Festival de los Patios, when private courtyards open to visitors and the Judería fills from mid-morning. Streets do not close as in Seville, but parking and stopping become difficult and the driver may need an extra loop to reach your hotel. Córdoba is also famous for its summer heat; in July and August afternoons regularly pass forty degrees. An early flight and a morning arrival make the difference, and the car is air-conditioned from the terminal to the door.

Who travels this route with us

Many of our Córdoba passengers are couples or small groups combining the Mezquita with a night or two before continuing to Seville or Granada, and for them we can quote the onward leg as a separate transfer. Families use the estate at €287 when they carry more than three suitcases, and groups of five to eight the minivan at €359. We also collect at Córdoba hotels for the return to Málaga, so a one-way in each direction can be booked as a single return.

Areas we cover in Córdoba

Local tips for your arrival

• Tell us the hotel name at booking so we can send the car's plate for the Judería access system.
• For the Patios festival in May, book early and expect the last five minutes in the old quarter to take longer.
• If you continue to Seville or Granada afterwards, ask for a quote for that leg with the same driver.
• In summer choose a morning arrival if you can; Córdoba afternoons are the hottest in mainland Spain.

Back to Málaga from Córdoba

For the return to Málaga Airport, Málaga station or the cruise port, the driver collects you at the hotel or at the river road if your hotel is deep in the Judería. Count 105 minutes to the airport plus two hours in the terminal, two and a half in summer or for flights outside Schengen; for a four o'clock flight leave Córdoba at about half past twelve. If you arrive by AVE from Madrid and fly out of Málaga the same day, we can collect you at Córdoba station instead.

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From the train station or the cruise port

The fixed price to Córdoba is the same from Málaga-María Zambrano train station and from the cruise port. Choose your origin in the form; the driver meets you at the platform exit or outside the cruise terminal.

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