Taxi Málaga Airport → Motril

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

Motril is a proper town with wide avenues, so the driver takes you to the door anywhere: hotels in the centre, the apartment blocks along Playa Granada, the fishing quarter of Varadero or the ferry terminal inside the port. For ferry passengers we drop you at the passenger building with time to spare for check-in. Bags come out of the boot and go with you to the kerb or the reception desk.

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

What awaits you

• Port with ferries to North Africa
• Playa Granada and its golf course by the sea
• Gateway to the A-44 and Granada

End of the coastal motorway, start of the road to Granada

Motril is the last stop on the Costa Tropical for most of our passengers and the longest of the four: 105 km and about 80 minutes. The A-7 carries you the whole way without a toll, from the airport ring road through the Axarquía, over the viaducts past Nerja and along the Granada coast. Just before the city the motorway meets the A-44, the road that climbs the Guadalfeo valley to Granada in about an hour; that junction is why Motril matters as a transport hub and not only as a beach town.

The Motril exit brings you down to a ring of roundabouts. The centre lies inland, around the church of the Encarnación and Plaza de España; the port and the fishing quarter of Varadero are to the south-west; Playa Granada, with its golf course, apartments and hotels, is to the south; Torrenueva Costa, a separate village with a long beach, is to the east.

A port city rather than a resort

Motril earns its living from the port, the greenhouses and the services of a town of its size, so it feels different from Almuñécar or Salobreña: a real high street, a covered market, a hospital, a bus station with services inland to Granada and along the coast. Ferries leave the port for Melilla, Nador, Al Hoceima and Tangier Med, which brings families and lorry drivers through town all year. The old sugar factory has become a museum, the Museo Preindustrial de la Caña de Azúcar, and the sanctuary on the Cerro de la Virgen above the centre gives the best look at the vega and the sea.

Ferry passengers and late arrivals

If you are connecting to a ferry, tell us the sailing time and the operator. The passenger terminal is inside the port, reached from the port roundabout; the driver takes you through the gate to the building itself. Check-in windows vary by company and by whether you take a vehicle, so confirm them with the operator and give us that time rather than the departure time. Night arrivals are straightforward: the A-7 is lit at every junction, Motril's avenues are wide and there is always a bar open near the port. For a late ferry we plan the airport pick-up so you are not sitting in the terminal for hours.

Areas we cover in Motril

Local tips for your arrival

• Give the ferry company and sailing time, not just 'the port': check-in closes earlier for cars than for foot passengers.
• Playa Granada is a ten-minute drive from the centre with no shops of its own; if you are self-catering, stock up on the way.
• The bus to Granada leaves from the station on Avenida Salobreña; check times with the operator if you plan a day trip.
• For Sierra Nevada or the Alpujarra from Motril, the A-44 is the road; villages such as Lanjarón are under an hour away.

Back to Málaga from Motril

Heading back, we pick up at your hotel, at the apartment door in Playa Granada, or outside the ferry terminal if you have just come off a boat. Plan on 80 minutes to the airport plus two hours in the terminal, two and a half from June to September and for non-Schengen flights. For a 09:00 departure that means leaving Motril before 5:30, which is a quiet and easy drive. Passengers going to the train station or the cruise port pay the same and are dropped at the door; for the port we can time the pick-up to the ship's boarding hours if you send them.

From the train station or the cruise port

The fixed price to Motril 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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