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Ceuta and Africa from Mirador El Estrecho.
Almost the entire tip of the Cape
Misty Gibraltar
Bears in the window.
I am taking the ferry from Tangier into Algeciras. I wanted to rent a car there, drive into Gibraltar for a bit and then continue my trip through Spain, driving to Madrid. Can I drive a rentacar that I rent in Algeciras into Gibraltar? The rental company I was researching was Alamo
I hired a car in Malaga and took it to Gibraltar with no problems.
I think so, but you'd better ask.
You can drive around from Algeciras to La Linea and enter Gibraltar. Or park outside at la Linea and then walk in / take a bus from the border into town. Not far.
An alternative for you to consider.
You can take a regular bus around the bay from Algeciras to La Linea then walk less than 10 minutes into Gibraltar. Gibraltar is small and you don't really need a car to look around. You would have to park and pay somewhere and sometimes the entry and exit formalities are tiresome.
You can hire a car in Spain at La Linea or even Gibraltar airport.
Car rental prices are quite competitive for cars hired within Andalucia. There is much demand during the busy summer months but out of these months prices can be low. But you could consider renting for within Andalucia and dropping off the car at some other place such as Codoba/Granada/Seville. Depends obviously on your plans.
Rail transport is good. Buses are everywhere.
As said above by Puerto Lover, why don't you park and walk into Gib. If you decide to drive the rented car into Gibraltar you would have no problems whatsoever, only the queues which at times are too long.
Just because its Spain don't assume it is warm at the beach! I asked the desk person how to get to the nearest beach...he told me about the closest one to the hotel but said I would need to take a cab! Not only was the distance misleading...but it was freezing!
We did not visit Algeciras on this trip to Andalucia, but used it as the port of embarcation and return on a 2 day tour to Tangier from Torremolinos. We had previously bypassed the city some 20 years earlier when driving from Ronda to our lodging some 10 km further toward Tarifa on the Malaga Highway.
At that time we proceeded to Tarifa and went to the shore to look out at the strait, before going on to Sevilla.(Someday we may find and reproduce pictures and details from that trip).
We will never get around to visiting Gibraltar. The only views we have were dim ones because of the overcast from the previous days of stormy weather. On our return trip things were only slightly better. (See our Transportation Tip here)
Stayed in Algerciras for a five days, at the Guadecorte Park Hotel. Do not leave your door opening to the deck/porch open at night in June, no matter how good the weather is.. I was exhuasted the first night; the outside temperature was great, so I left the door opened. I had mosquito bite welts the size of golf balls all over my arms and back in the morning. Everyone had told me Algeciras was dirty, but I enjoyed it.. It is a very industrial city (steel plant and oil refinery, plus the port), but the views of Gibraltor, Africa, and the bay are wonderful. I would recommend driving up the Atlantic coast from Algeciras for about 45minutes-1hour, to see the sunflower fields, Osbourne bull signs, cork trees, and the cute coastal towns (Tarifa with the wind surfers, and Bolonia's little beach and Roman ruins).
The port is huge, but most things you'll need are right there. You go into a large room with 4-5 different companies selling tickets for the ferries (the fast ferry was canceled the evening I planned on going to Tangier because they claimed "weather is bad"), so just pick one and then head to the main entrance and take the escaltor upstairs.
Do not count on leaving on-time on the ferry to Morocco. We boarded a ferry that was supposed to leave at 7pm, but they changed the sign to 7:30 right after we bought the tickets, and the boat didn't head out until 8:55pm! I thought this may have been the exception, but on the way back (Tangier to Algeciras) the boat was almost two hours late again!!
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