Taxi Málaga Airport → Zahara de los Atunes

Prices by vehicle

One way, VAT included. Tolls are not included: we take the toll-free A-7 and, if you prefer the AP-7 motorway, the toll is paid separately. Return trips are exactly double.

Drop-off

Door to door to the village and to Atlanterra.

Arrivals hall of Terminal 3 at Málaga Airport. Your driver holds a sign with your name.

What awaits you

• Zahara beach and Playa de los Alemanes
• Atlanterra villas
• The almadraba tuna restaurants

Beyond Tarifa: the coast road to Zahara and the Atlanterra estates

Zahara de los Atunes is the first of the true Costa de la Luz beach villages after Tarifa, and the transfer takes 135 minutes: AP-7 to Guadiaro, the A-7 and N-340 through Algeciras and over the Strait hills, then the turn-off past Facinas down to the coast at Zahara. The €239 fare does not include the tolls at the start; the long roads at the end are toll-free, and we ask for 48 hours' notice so the driver's day is planned around it.

The village sits at the mouth of a small river with the old tuna factory walls at its centre and a long beach running south. Beyond it, the road climbs onto the headland of Atlanterra, where hotels and villas are spread along a cliff road above the sand, ending at the beach of Los Alemanes.

Village lanes, beach hotels and the Atlanterra headland

In Zahara village the streets are narrow and several are one-way or closed in the evening when the terraces fill; the driver stops at the nearest point to your house and helps with the bags. The hotels along the beach at the southern end have proper entrances and car parks. Atlanterra is different: a single road with turnings down to gated estates, so the estate name and the villa number are essential.

Rentals in Atlanterra are usually villas for a week, often with a key-holder based in the village. Send us their number and the driver can call ahead from the road so someone is at the gate when the car arrives.

Tuna, the almadraba and a beach with nothing behind it

Zahara is famous for bluefin tuna caught in the almadraba nets each spring and cooked in every restaurant on the front from May onwards. It is also one of the few beaches on this coast with no promenade and no buildings on the sand, which is why families and couples come back to it year after year. Barbate, ten minutes north, has the supermarkets and the pharmacy.

The levante wind reaches here too, though less fiercely than Tarifa, and the Atlantic is cooler than Marbella's sea by several degrees. Child seats are free and fitted before the driver leaves for the airport; add them in the form.

Areas we cover in Zahara de los Atunes

Local tips for your arrival

• Atlanterra addresses need the estate name and villa number; the cliff road has many similar turnings.
• Village streets close to cars in the evening in summer: an arrival after 20:00 may mean a short walk with the bags.
• Supermarkets are in Barbate, not Zahara: ask for a stop in the booking notes if you arrive late for a villa week.
• 48 hours' notice, please: the driver's whole day is planned around this journey.

Back to the airport from Zahara de los Atunes

For the return the driver comes to the villa gate in Atlanterra or the nearest point to your house in the village, and the road back to the airport takes 135 minutes. Add two hours at the terminal, two and a half in summer and for flights outside Schengen, so a 16:00 flight means leaving Zahara at about 11:45. We confirm the time the day before and the driver waits fifteen minutes free at the door.

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