Taxi Málaga Airport → Maro

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

Maro is a handful of narrow streets around the church square, and the car reaches most doors, though some lanes are too tight to turn in and the driver stops at the nearest corner. Houses on the tracks down towards the beach are reached by car when the surface allows; for the lane to Playa de Maro itself, tell us in advance and the driver gets as close as the road and any summer restrictions permit.

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

What awaits you

• Playa de Maro below the cliffs
• Cueva de Nerja and the Eagle Aqueduct
• Maro-Cerro Gordo cliffs, a protected natural area

Three kilometres past Nerja, another pace

Maro is reached by staying on the A-7 past the Nerja exits and leaving at the junction for the Cueva de Nerja, or by following the old N-340 through the top of Nerja and along the ridge above the village. Either way it is about 58 minutes and 73 km from the airport, with the same toll-free motorway as Nerja and just a few extra minutes at the end. The last approach is the giveaway that you have left the resort behind: a single road drops between old sugar-cane terraces to a village of a few streets, a church square and a view straight down to the sea.

Nerja is five minutes back up the road for supermarkets, restaurants and the bus station. Maro itself has a couple of bars, a small shop and silence at night, which is exactly why people book it. The air is noticeably cooler than in Nerja after dark, with the breeze coming straight off the cliffs.

The beaches down the tracks

The coast here is the Maro-Cerro Gordo cliffs, a protected stretch of headlands and coves that runs east into the province of Granada. Playa de Maro is the village beach, at the bottom of a steep, narrow lane below the houses, a pebble-and-sand cove with clear water, snorkelling round the rocks and a chiringuito in summer. Further east are Las Alberquillas and Cala del Cañuelo, wilder and reached only on foot or, in the case of Cañuelo, by the summer shuttle bus from the car park on the N-340, since private cars are kept out of the cove in high season. Kayaks paddle round from Burriana to the waterfall at Maro on calm mornings.

None of these beaches is somewhere you drive to the sand. Plan on walking down and, more to the point, walking back up, in the heat of the afternoon with wet towels. A small rucksack beats a beach bag here, and water and a hat are not optional on the climb.

Cave, aqueduct and the sugar years

The Cueva de Nerja is on Maro's territory, on the slope beside the motorway, and the coach parks and the café at its entrance are the only busy spot in the village. Next to it, spanning the ravine below the old road, is the Acueducto del Águila, a four-tier brick aqueduct built in the nineteenth century to carry water to the San Joaquín sugar factory, whose ruins still stand by the roadside. Sugar cane covered these terraces until well into the twentieth century, and the flat green fields between the village and the cliffs, now growing avocados and mangoes, are its legacy. It makes an easy morning walk from the square: cave, aqueduct, factory ruins and back.

Areas we cover in Maro

Local tips for your arrival

• Bring sea shoes for Playa de Maro and the coves: they are pebbly at the water's edge and the rocks are where the fish are.
• Stock up in Nerja before you get to Maro if you arrive late; the village shop keeps short hours.
• If your house is on the lane down to the beach, ask the owner whether the lane is open to cars in summer and pass the answer on to us.
• For the Cañuelo shuttle, check the running dates before you go; outside summer you walk down and up, about half an hour each way.

Back to Málaga from Maro

When you leave Maro the driver comes down to the village and collects you at the door, or in the church square if your lane is too narrow to turn in; from the fincas on the tracks below the village, agree the meeting point with us the day before. The airport is 58 minutes away, so leave three hours before a Schengen departure and three and a half hours in summer or for flights to the UK and other non-Schengen countries. The María Zambrano station and the cruise port are a few minutes nearer and cost the same. If a last swim is part of the final day, remember the climb back up takes longer than you think.

From the train station or the cruise port

The fixed price to Maro 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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