My husband and I will be staying in Bilbao this July 1-4 and then we would like to overnight at Lekeitio or Berneo on the 4th before flying to Madrid from Bilbao airport on July 5th. We will rent a car. We haven't looked at hotels yet.
Any thoughts/recommendations about this plan would be appreciated. This will be our first time in this region of Spain.
Thank you.
One would be an hour drive to the airport, and the other half an hour, if that makes a difference.
I did not go to Bermeo, but I stayed in Mundaka. The area is very pretty, especially if one is fond of walking in nature (I have a particular attraction to wetlands). I only passed through Lekeitio. I loved little Elanxtobe.
I have not been to Bermeo, only to Lekeitio.
Lekeitio is very pretty, with good restaurants, and the surrounding coastline is scenic (especially Elantxobe and vicinity). A car is very helpful there.
Bermeo has the major benefit of not requiring a car at all! There are good bus and train connections to Bilbao, as well as to Mundaka next door (I have been, it is quite charming) and Gernika. A car would probably be helpful to see nearby San Juan de Gaztelugatxe (impressive coastal scenery there), but the site requires tickets, is currently closed because of a landslide, and seemed to be overrun due to a connection with Game of Thrones.
