Torremolinos Travel Forum

Hello! We will be staying in Torremolinos in May and plan to go to Morocco for four days and return the same way through Tangier. Is the best idea to take an early public bus to Algelcira or Tarife? Any reason to chose one over the other? If we leave Torremolinos at 7 am, when can we figure on arriving in Tangier, more or less?

When we return, is it easy to stop by in Gibraltar for a couple of hours? Are the bus lines easy to figure out? About how much time should we plan on?

Thank you!

The following link will give you information of the bus company that does the route from Torremolinos to Algeciras. Speak to them and get detailed information on timings and routes depending on from where you decide to start your journey from - Algeciras or Tarifa.

http://www.ctsa-portillo.com/atencion.html

If you have the possibility of dropping the car at the Algeciras por terminal ( which depends on the company from whom you rent your car ) I would suggest you to drive it till Algeciras or Tarifa.

The distance from Torremolios to Algeciras is of 127 kilometers and can take you 90 minutes. You can get there using the toll highway with fees of a little over 8 euros. You also have the option of taking the E 15, where you might take a little longer to get but is a normal free road. the distance to tarifa is of 148 kilometers from Torremolinos and around 2 hours of driving time. The fare on the ship per person from Algeciras is around 37 euros and takes around 3 hours to cover the journey. Just call to check if the weather conditions permit the ship to leave or buy your tickets after you are sure that weather permits the ship to leave the port.

From Tarifa you have a fast ferry that gets you to Tangiers in 35 minutes. The cost is also of 37 Euros. They offer you a 10% discount for return tickets.

Gibraltar is on the way. If you are tight on time do it on another day. The time depends on the hour that you are entering or leaving Gibraltar and the traffic at the customs. if you are not in a rush, Gibraltar is well worth a stop.

Hope this information helps.
best regards
Mahesh

Thank you for your response - very helpful!

I must say that Mahesh has answered almost everything! One of the websites for the ferry is www.frs.es I believe there are other ferry companies but that is the only one that I know of. The other thing is that most people to go to Tangiers, go to Tarifa, I do not know if that is because the ferries are more frequent in Tarifa or some other reason. For Gibraltar there are buses from Algeciras every thirty minutes, you would have to get on a bus for La Linea which is the neighboring town to Gibraltar. The bus station is just a three minute walk from the frontier. There are no queues from Gibraltar into Spain for pedestrians, different story for cars there seems to be an average of 30 mins queues but they can be be worse!