[Travel] O/T Malaga to Nerja. Car hire. Transfers?

Algernon

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Sep 9, 2012

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Newmarket.

• Jun 4, 2015

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Myself and the Missus are off to Nerja later this month and will be flying in to Malaga.

We've been looking at car hire however it seems a bit of a minefield and each provider seems to want a credit card from which they want to take a ridiculously large deposit. Neither of us has, or has ever had a credit card.
Does anyone know anywhere we can hire a car over there without needing a CC and getting ripped off of course.
Does anyone have any experience of the trains from Malaga to Nerja or maybe the bus service?

We're arriving midday ish on Monday and our flight back is early evening on Thursday so nothing out of the ordinary as far as times are concerned.

 

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BensGrandad

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Jul 13, 2003

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Haywards Heath

• Jun 4, 2015

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Does the train go from the airport there is a good service to Fuengirola and very cheap but not sure about Nerja

 

happypig

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May 23, 2009

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Eastbourne

• Jun 4, 2015

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No trains to Nerja but the buses are decent (or they were when I was last there 25 years ago)

 

Boroseagull

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Aug 23, 2003

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Alhaurin de la Torre

• Jun 4, 2015

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No train service to Nerja. However get the train, every 20 mins., into Malaga Maria Zambrana station and walk out to your left for the bus station. Buses are frequent, airconditioned and cheap. You can hire a car without c/c locally but you would require a large deposit. Basically if doyouspain.com cannot help then it's buses. Can always pm. me if you have a problem, I'm very local.

 

vegster

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May 5, 2008

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• Jun 4, 2015

• #5

happypig said:

No trains to Nerja but the buses are decent (or they were when I was last there 25 years ago)

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Was there 2 years ago and we flew in to Malaga, had two nights there then caught the bus to Nerja, so still running and quite nice scenery too between all the home made green houses. After 3 days in Nerja we caught a coach to Granada and had two nights there while visiting the Allhambra, good times !

 

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scooter1

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Sep 12, 2006

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Past the Leisure Centre, left at the lights

• Jun 4, 2015

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We use www.hirecarsinspain.com about 4 times a year and they're great. Invariably the cars are from malagacar.com, but they get better prices than you can direct. You will get stiffed for half a tank if fuel, and you return the car empty, but against what you can pay, it's a small price

 

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SuperWill

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Feb 17, 2012

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Hove

• Jun 4, 2015

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You can hire cars with a Visa debit with some providers if you take out the top up insurance with the provider. Did this a couple of weeks ago. Insurance costs about €140 extra for the week though. Did mine through indigo car hire spain who ended up booking us with Goldcar. You have to pay for a full tank of fuel on collection but they return what you don't use.

 

tinycowboy

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Aug 9, 2008

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Canterbury

• Jun 4, 2015

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Been from Malaga to Nerja twice in the last five years - easily done on public transport, as per Boroseagull's post above. Doesn't hurt to know the bus times in advance - you can google those. The bus drops you in Nerja next to the taxi rank. Unless you're staying out of Nerja or right next to the sea, won't be more than a 20 minute walk to wherever you want to go, but there are the taxis if you don't want to walk. Try to include a day in Malaga if you can - fascinating place.

 

Algernon

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Sep 9, 2012

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Newmarket.

• Jun 4, 2015

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Thanks everyone for the advice. I think we'll just take the bus and relax.
Thanks again.

 

Notters

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Oct 20, 2003

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Guiseley

• Jun 4, 2015

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Random, going in a couple of weeks ourselves, though we're going to jerez, Cordoba and granada too so definitely hiring a car. It's £120 for ten days with Budget which seems pretty good. Yes you do need to pay a deposit on a credit card, but provided you get excess waiver insurance from somewhere else before you go this isn't a problem.

 

drew

Drew

Oct 3, 2006

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Burgess Hill

• Jun 4, 2015

• #11

Don't forget the changes to the paper counterpart of your licence which might affect how you hire a car abroad.

http://www.theguardian.com/money/bl...-dvla-driving-licence-paper-counterpart-scrap

 

Notters

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Oct 20, 2003

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Guiseley

• Jun 5, 2015

• #12

drew said:

Don't forget the changes to the paper counterpart of your licence which might affect how you hire a car abroad.

http://www.theguardian.com/money/bl...-dvla-driving-licence-paper-counterpart-scrap

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Yes. You shouldn't need it any more and are supposed to destroy it but not sure if the Spanish will be aware!

edit: didn't know the code was valid for only 72 hours, very glad you posted this, thanks!

 

pasty

A different kind of pasty

Jul 5, 2003

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West, West, West Sussex

• Jun 5, 2015

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Spooky. We're going to Nerja later this year, and I asked a friend who had an apartment out there the very same question last week.

Her answer was: Get a bus from the airport to Malaga bus terminal from right outside the airport then from there straight to Nerja takes about 90mins