Málaga Transportation

www.easyjet.com

Now from Newcastle too, Bristol, East Midlands, Liverpool, Gatwick, Luton and Stansted

www.bmibaby.com

flights from Cardiff, East Midlands, Teesside and Manchester

With Flybe www.flybe.com

Southampton and Exeter

With My Travel from Birmingham

www.mytravellite.com

With Monarch www.monarch-airlines.com/

from Luton, Manchester and Gatwick

With Britannia www.britanniadirect.com

From Belfast, Birmingham, Bristol, Cardiff, East midlands, Edimburgh, Glasgow, Humberside, Leeds, Liverpool, Gatwick, Luton, Standsted, Manchester, Newcastle, Norwich

From Ireland

www.bookryanair.com (Dublin)

www.aerlingus.com(Dublin and Cork)

From Holland

http://www.basiqair.com(Amsterdam and Rotterdam)

http://www.transavia.nl (Amsterdam and Maastrich)

With Virgin you can fly to Malaga from

Athens
Brussels
Copenhagen
Geneva
Gottenburg
Milan
Nice
Rome
Stockholm

http://www.virgin-express.com/home.html

The best web site is Iberia www.iberia.es, you can get return tickets for 60 euros in most of the direct flights of Spain if you book online in advance ...

Others are Spanair (www.spanair.com) and Air Europa....

FOR YOUR OWN SECURITY:
on your way to malaga eastbounds:MARBELLA (and ronda),ESTEPONA,GIBRALTAR,ALGECIRAS (and morocco),TARIFA....follow the expensive (3,1 euros between malaga/fuengirola and marbella,excepted from 01/06 to 30/09:5 euros!) but secure toll speedway A7 and AVOID always overcrowded and dangerous N340,even if it goes along the sea,there is NOTHING to see,excepted huge modern buildings without interest and traffic jams!!!

also a direct portillo bus from malaga airport to marbella through speedway A7.
prices and timetable on:
www.diariosur.com

If you arrive in malaga by the local train, you will arrive about ten minutes' walk from the bus station. Exit the station (from under ground(, and walk away from the main street, past the Post Office building, which sits on top of the Station. Walk down the Avenida De La Aurora, and at the first roundabout turn left into Cjnes Del Perchel. Walk straight on passing the next roundabout, to your left. Keep walking and look for a modern red bricked building, which is the bus station.

A good network of flights from all over Europe and Spain are available to/from Malaga.

The Airport is located 11Km from the city center and transport to the city is quick and easy.

Bus to city every 30 mins; fare €0.69.

Frequent metro service to Malaga (06:00-20:00); fare from €0.72

Taxis - Average fare to city approx. €9

Car hire from all the major car hire companies is available at the airport.

The bus transportation in the Costa del Sol area at least, is very good and easily accessible...it's easy to find your way around in the terminal, so don't worry, you can do it! We took the bus from Malaga to Marbella, stopping in many towns along the way to let off passengers, finally arriving in Marbella.
As I've said before, it's interesting to talk to the local people. I spoke with my seat-mate (Kathy had to sit elsewhere because the bus was pretty full). He was a very nice man who pointed out places of interest along the way to me and told me a bit about his life there in Marbella. (See my Off the Beaten Path tip for a little more about this man) That was much better than just sitting there silent, wondering where we were at any given point! :o)

We took a taxi from the airport. The drivers are usually very nice and try to help and communicate with you!
This was two positive experiences with taxi drivers. We took two taxis, one from the airport to the hotel and another from the hotel to the bus terminal....no problems with either, so it is possible to get ethical taxi drivers!!