Taxi Málaga Airport → Guadix

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 cave quarter is a maze of unpaved lanes between chimneys, and many cave hotels ask guests to park below and walk up. Your driver takes the car as far as the track is fit for it and helps you up to the door; in the flat town centre, around the cathedral, he can stop right outside.

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

What awaits you

• Whitewashed chimneys of the cave quarter
• The cathedral and Plaza de las Palomas
• Badlands scenery of the Hoya de Guadix

Beyond Granada onto the high plain

Guadix is the furthest of our Granada destinations, and the drive has three distinct parts. First the A-45 out of Málaga and over the Las Pedrizas pass; then the A-92 east across the Vega, with Granada and the snow line of the Sierra Nevada on the right; and finally the climb out of the city onto the plateau, past the Purullena cave villages and into the eroded clay landscape of the Hoya de Guadix. About 185 km, a little over two hours in normal traffic, and a landscape change from Mediterranean coast to something closer to a high desert. It is a route we ask you to book 48 hours ahead, because the driver is out for most of a day.

After Granada the A-92 climbs steadily to over 1,000 metres at the Puerto de la Mora before descending to the plain, and in winter that stretch is the one place on the route where snow or fog can slow the car. The driver knows it and allows for it.

Cave houses, chimneys and the barrio

Around half the town's dwellings are caves cut into the soft hills, and the cave quarter, the Barrio de las Cuevas, is where most visitors sleep. From the outside you see mainly whitewashed chimneys and doorways poking out of the earth; inside, the rooms keep a constant temperature all year, which is why the tradition survived. The lanes between the caves are mostly dirt tracks with tight turns, and cave hotels commonly ask arrivals to leave the car at a specific point and walk the last stretch. Your driver goes as far as the track allows, then carries the bags with you. There is a viewpoint at the top of the barrio, the Mirador Padre Poveda, where the whole chimney landscape lays out beneath the mountains.

The town below: cathedral, plaza and alcazaba

The flat part of Guadix is a normal small Andalusian town with a big cathedral, a mixture of Gothic, Renaissance and Baroque, on the Plaza de la Constitución, and the arcaded Plaza de las Palomas beside it. The Moorish alcazaba stands on the hill between the town and the caves. Here the streets are paved and the driver can stop outside a hotel or in the square without difficulty. It is a good base for the Sierra de Baza and the Gorafe desert, and the A-92 continues on to Almería in another hour and a half.

Arriving from the port or the station

Guadix from a cruise call is a long day but feasible: two hours each way leaves a few hours in the caves and the cathedral, and the driver waits. From María Zambrano station the drive is the same length as from the airport, since the station is a few minutes from the motorway. For either, the fare is the same €259 by sedan, and we suggest telling us about the tightest time of your day, whether that is a sailing or a train, so the pickup is set to it.

Areas we cover in Guadix

Local tips for your arrival

• Confirm with your cave hotel where cars are meant to stop and pass it on to us; some send a map with the point marked.
• Guadix is high and dry: nights are cold from November to March, and a hot July afternoon can be followed by a chilly evening, so pack for both.
• Tell us if you have an evening train or ship to make on the way back; from Guadix the margins are longer than most people expect.
• The clay tracks in the cave quarter turn to mud after rain; wheeled luggage does badly, so keep a bag you can carry.

Back to Málaga from Guadix

Coming back, the driver meets you at the cave hotel's agreed pickup point or at your hotel door in the town, and the timing needs care because Guadix is a long way from the terminal. Count two hours and a quarter to Málaga Airport, then two hours inside for a Schengen flight or two and a half in summer and for flights to the UK; in practice that is a pickup around four and a half hours before departure. Add fifteen minutes if you are in the caves and the track to the car is on foot. Ships and trains follow the same sums with the port or María Zambrano as the endpoint.

From the train station or the cruise port

The fixed price to Guadix 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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