Getting there & away
Land
Bus
The bus station is on Calle San Bernardo. Comes (956 65 34 56) has buses for La Línea (€1.80, 30 minutes) every half-hour (every 45 minutes on weekends). Other daily buses include up to 13 each to Tarifa (€1.70, 30 minutes) and Cádiz (€9.80, 2½ hours), four to Seville (€15, 3½ hours), and one Monday to Friday to Ronda (€9, two to three hours). Daibus (956 65 34 56, 956 65 22 00) runs four daily buses to Madrid (€26, eight to nine hours), starting from the port then calling at the bus station. Portillo (902 14 31 44) operates at least 11 direct buses daily to Málaga (€10, 1¾ hours) and four to Granada (€19, 3½ hours). Several more Málaga buses (€10.50, three hours) stop at towns along the Costa del Sol.
Bacoma/ALSA/Enatcar (902 42 22 42), inside the port, runs up to five services daily up Spain’s Mediterranean coast, plus buses to Portugal, France, Germany and Holland.
Train
From the station (956 63 02 02), adjacent to Calle San Bernardo, trains run to/from Madrid (€38 to €57, six or 11 hours, two daily) and Granada (€17, four hours, three daily). All go through Ronda (€6.50 to €17, 1¾ hours) and Bobadilla (€10.50 to €21, 2¾ hours), where you can change for Málaga, Córdoba or Seville.
Boat
Companies such as Trasmediterránea (956 58 34 00, 902 45 46 45; www.trasmediterranea.es) and EuroFerrys (956 65 11 78; www.euroferrys.com) operate frequent daily passenger and vehicle ferries to/from Tangier, Morocco (2½-hour ferry passenger/car €27/91; 1¼-hour fast ferry passenger/car €32/98) and Ceuta, the Spanish enclave on the Moroccan coast (35-minute fast ferry passenger/car €25/81). Buquebus (902 41 42 42) operates a similar Ceuta service at least six times daily. From mid-June to September there are ferries almost round the clock to cater for the Moroccan holiday migration – you may have to queue for up to three hours. Buy your ticket in the port or at the agencies on Avenida de la Marina: prices are the same everywhere.
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