Airport Transfers to Benissa - How To Get To Benissa

HOW TO GET TO BENISSA FROM ALICANTE AIRPORT OR VALENCIA AIRPORT

Benissa merges into the town of Moraira to the north and merges into Calpe to the south. It enjoys a very scenic rugged coastline of over 4 kilometres with rocky coves, cliffs and pebbled beaches.

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Benissa is especially popular for villa holidays. The only difficulty is that it is almost essential to hire a car because you are very unlikely to be within walking distance of any beaches. If you are, it will probably be a pebbled and rocky beach between Moraira and Calpe. If you don't want to hire a car you can always get an airport transfer to your accommodation in Benissa.

This page gives you airport transfer options for getting to Benissa. The most popular Benissa airport is Alicante airport which has the largest range and choice of flights from all over Europe. The distance from Alicante airport to Benissa is 80 km and takes approximately 65 minutes.

The second most popular transfer option to Benissa is from Valencia airport which is 130 kilometres away with the transfer time of 95 minutes.

There is also a third transfer option to Benissa which is to fly into San Javier Murcia Airport which is 170 km to the south with a transfer time of 120 minutes (there are good options with Ryanair).

Airport transfers from Alicante to Benissa:

Alicante Taxi to Benissa

How much does it cost to get a taxi from Alicante airport to Benissa?

Taking a taxi from Alicante airport to Benissa is the most expensive transfer option but also the most convenient because immediately outside the arrivals hall at Alicante airport is the taxi rank with taxis available 24 hours a day.

Taxi from Alicante Airport to Benissa: The journey time is roughly an hour and twenty minutes depending on traffic at a cost of approximately €120. Catching a taxi from Alicante Airport to Benissa is the fastest and most convenient way to get to the resort but certainly not the cheapest. One should try and fix the fare with the driver prior to departure from the airport.

The taxi from Alicante airport to Benissa will cost you approximately €85 depending on the time of day you arrive. Confirm with your driver before you start the journey because sometimes there are extra passenger supplements and baggage supplements on top. Your taxi fare could also be higher if you happen to live on a national holiday in Spain.

Getting a taxi to Benissa from Alicante is extremely convenient because your driver will take you directly to your villa, apartment or hotel.

Images below: Officially licensed taxi at Alicante airport + sign showing taxi fares from Alicante airport.

Private Shuttle Bus to Benissa

How much is a private shuttle bus from Alicante to Benissa?

Private Transfer from Alicante Airport to Benissa : There aren’t that many shuttle services available to Benissa but one shuttle service company that I did find was the http://www.beniconnecttransfers.com.

Here a shuttle service doesn’t come cheap but costs €160 return based on a family of four. This kind of transfer is much like a taxi service with the exception that the transfer is pre booked with the option of using the shuttle service as well on the day of departure. The travel time to Benissa from Alicante Airport again would be just over an hour.

A return transfer from Alicante airport to Benissa will cost €196 with companies such as Sun Transfers and you can expect to pay €300 from Valencia.

You will need to compare prices and companies as there are many transfer companies with special offers out there. You will be picked up at the airport by your own personal driver and driven back to the airport in an air conditioned vehicle.

Public Bus from Alicante Airport to Benissa

Unfortunately there is no direct bus service from Alicante Airport to Benissa, although you can catch a bus or taxi to downtown Alicante and then catch another bus to Teulada and Benissa. The bus company offering this service is the ALSAbus company and the cost of such a ticket is €7.85 for a single and €14.10 for a return. Services depart Alicante from midday every two hours with the last bus departing from Alicante at 19:00. The journey time is roughly two hours which can be hard going with small children during the hot summer months. Buses depart from Benissa from11:40 roughly every two hours with the last bus departing at 21:00. For further information, the exact timetable and reservations you can check out their site at www.alsa.es.

Train from Alicante Airport to Benissa

This can be considered to be quite an arduous journey as there is currently no train station at Alicante Airport. It is doable if one catches the C6 bus to the Puerta de Mar Stop in Alicante. From there one can catch the TRAM L1 to Benidorm and then switch to the L9 directly to Teulada and Benissa.

The journey time to Benissa by train is at least three hours as the TRAM stops at every town village and sea side resort between Alicante and Benidorm as well a Benidorm to Benissa.

Ticket prices are approximately €7 per person each way. This is probably the cheapest way to get to Benissa from Alicante Airport but is especially difficult if one is travelling in the summer with small children.

Images below: Taxi rank outside Alicante airport arrivals terminal + shuttle bus transfers desks at Alicante airport.

Benissa Car Hire

Because Benissa is quite a distance from either Alicante or Valencia and it is quite isolated being inland with no public transport system to speak of it can be more economical to hire a car instead of getting airport transfers.

An average sized Benissa car hire will cost approximately €100 per weeks hire and gives you the ability to explore the Costa Blanca region.

Car Hire at Alicante Airport: One of the more popular ways to get from Alicante Airport to Benissa. Benissa is quite spread out with much of the rented accommodations such as villas and apartments being located on urbanisations and on the hillsides of the resort.

You will need a car to get around to the supermarkets, bars, pubs, restaurants and the beach. All the major car companies are represented at Alicante Airport and you can compare companies to get the cheapest quote.

Car hire companies include Atesa, Auriga, Avis, Centauro, Europcar, Europa, Gold Car, Hertz, Record, Sixt and Sol Mar. Costs of hiring a car are dependent on the time of year, model and duration of the rental period.

The journey time of course would also be approximately seventy-five minutes. You can choose to pre book car hire which is a smart thing to do especially during the busy tourist season or organise the car hire after arriving at Alicante Airport.

It is a personal choice of how much money you are willing to spend on the transfer from Alicante Airport and Benissa and how much time wants to spend in transit.

Car hire does seem to be the way to go for vacations in Benissa especially if one has booked a villa on one of the more outer lying urbanisations of the resort.

It is especially worth hiring a car if you wish to have days out at the neighbouring resorts such as Moraira, Javea, visit the fish market in Calpe and Benidorm. Benidorm has the four theme parks of Terra Mitica, Terra Natura, Mundomar and Aqualandia which provide for great days out for the whole family and is about forty minutes away by car.

Benissa Transfers Summary

Alicante Airport to Benissa. How to get from Alicante Airport to Benissa

Benissa also known as Benisa is a very upmarket sea side resort which is located on the Northern Costa Blanca in Spain and the nearest airport to Benissa is Alicante Airport which is just seventy kilometres or forty-four miles away. Most of the tourists who have booked vacations to Benissa do choose Alicante Airport as their gateway to the Costa Blanca. On arrival at Alicante Airport you can then make one’s way to the resort by one of the following ways.

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