Taxi Málaga Airport → Loja

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

Loja climbs from the river up to the castle in tight streets, so the driver stops at your hotel if it has a forecourt or at the closest point where a car can pull in. Many bookings here are for the Royal Hideaway La Bobadilla, out in the countryside towards Salinas, which has its own drive right to the entrance.

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

What awaits you

• The Alcazaba and the old town steps
• Riofrío and its trout restaurants
• Los Infiernos waterfalls on the Genil

Fifty-five minutes up the A-45 and along the A-92

Loja is where the motorway from Málaga meets the motorway to Granada, so the drive is simply the first half of the Granada run. You climb the A-45 over the Las Pedrizas pass, join the A-92 at the Salinas interchange and ten minutes later the Sierra de Loja rises on the right with the town at its foot in the Genil valley. Loja has several exits from the A-92: the first serves Riofrío and the road towards La Bobadilla, the later ones take you into the town itself and on to the Granada side. Around 80 km and 55 minutes from the airport, for €115 by sedan.

A town built on a hillside

Loja is not a tourist town and that is part of its appeal. The old centre climbs from the Genil in tiers, with the Alcazaba at the top, the Plaza de la Constitución and the market halfway, and the newer streets along the river. Lanes are narrow and one-way, and a few are stepped, so the driver drops you at the hotel entrance if there is one or at the closest point a car can reach, generally a matter of a couple of minutes on foot. Below the town the Genil passes through the small gorge of Los Infiernos, with waterfalls and a walkway, a pleasant hour's stroll from the centre.

La Bobadilla, Riofrío and the countryside

A large share of our Loja bookings are for the Royal Hideaway La Bobadilla, the country hotel set in its own estate on the road between Salinas and Villanueva de Tapia, about twenty minutes from the town and under an hour from the airport. It has its own page on this site with the exact approach. The other magnet is Riofrío, a hamlet of trout restaurants around the springs that feed the fish farms, five minutes off the motorway and a classic Sunday lunch stop for people from Granada and Málaga alike. Both are reached without entering Loja, so tell us which you mean and we route accordingly.

Halfway house between coast and city

Because Loja sits at the midpoint of the A-92, it works as an overnight stop for people who land late and would rather not arrive in Granada after midnight, or as a base for the Poniente Granadino: Alhama de Granada and its hot springs, the Sierra de Loja for walking, Montefrío with its famous viewpoint. From Loja the city of Granada is forty minutes on, and if you want us to do that second leg on another day, ask and we quote it separately.

Areas we cover in Loja

Local tips for your arrival

• Say whether you are going to the town, to Riofrío or to La Bobadilla; they are different exits and the last two are outside Loja.
• Loja is one of the few Granada-province transfers short enough to book the day before, but for a wedding weekend at La Bobadilla book as soon as your dates are set.
• The Sierra de Loja is snow-dusted a few days each winter; the A-92 itself is rarely affected, but the country roads to Riofrío can be icy early in the morning.
• For Sunday lunch in Riofrío the restaurants fill by two o'clock; if that is your plan on arrival day, tell us and we set the pickup accordingly.

Back to Málaga from Loja

Return pickups are at the hotel door in Loja, at La Bobadilla's entrance or outside the restaurant in Riofrío, whichever you tell us. The drive back is about 55 minutes, so add the terminal margin: two hours before a Schengen flight, two and a half in summer or for flights to the UK and other non-Schengen destinations, and you get a pickup roughly three hours before departure. For an AVE from María Zambrano the station needs less margin than the airport and the driver leaves you at the entrance beside the departures hall; for a cruise, we work from the all-aboard time the ship gives you.

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From the train station or the cruise port

The fixed price to Loja 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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