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Granada to Tarifa

Posted by (Southwest, Florida) on

I'm planning a trip to Spain in October.

I have been trying to figure out how best way to get from Granada to Tarifa so that I could do a day trip to Tangiers. It is time consuming and with trains and bus and pretty expensive. It looks like maybe a private driver is the answer for nearly $500. Any other suggestions? The train and bus is not only expensive but also in the neighborhood of 8 hours versus 4 hours or by car.

Also, has anyone been to Tangiers and can comment on the value of a day trip? Rick implies that it would be a very interesting day!

Thoughts?

Thanks
Tom

Posted by
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The short answer is no.

It’s just over 3 hours driving from Granada to Tarifa. Then you need to get to the ferry, wait for it to depart, cross the straight, spend a couple hours, then return. There’s 8+ hours travel time just getting there and back. You need to consider whether that amount of travel time is worth the very few hour you’d spend there, and that’s if everything goes according to plan.

Posted by
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A few folks on the forum have been to Tangier fairly recently, I think, and they (or some of them) have said Tangier has been cleaned up and is a more worthwhile destination than it used to be. I haven't been there since the 1990s.

What I'd like you to know is that Morocco has cities a lot more interesting than Tangier. Two of them are Fes and Marrakech. There are flights to one or both of those cities from many places in Europe, often on budget airlines, so it is not difficult to include Morocco in a later trip to Europe. You don't have to spend a whole day, or longer, getting to and from Tangier for a visit of a very few hours just because you will be in Spain next year.

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