Transfer guides for Ávila
What people ask before looking at a price. They are written to answer in the first few lines, with no preamble, with the figures from the route engine and the sources behind each statement, because that is what we would want to find ourselves.
From the province of Ávila
The questions that only make sense from here: every way to the airport, the AVE, the hospital, the fiestas, the districts.
Ávila to Madrid and Barajas: the conventional train from Ávila station or a car with a driver along the AP-51 and AP-6, and when each one makes sense
From Ávila to Madrid you can take the conventional train via El Escorial, which ends at Chamartín and does not reach the airport, or drive along the AP-51 and AP-6 through the Guadarrama tunnel. Which trains leave Ávila station, how the mountains are crossed by car, why Barajas means a change in Madrid and when a transfer with a driver at a fixed price pays off.
Read the guide →Arévalo and La Moraña to Barajas, the Madrid stations and Valladolid airport: the A-6 in both directions, the Arévalo train and which way out suits each flight
Arévalo sits beside the A-6, halfway between Madrid and Valladolid. How to get from Arévalo and Madrigal de las Altas Torres to Barajas, Chamartín and Atocha without passing through Ávila, what the Arévalo train offers, when Valladolid airport or the AVE at Campo Grande makes more sense and how to book a transfer at a fixed price.
Read the guide →Nuestra Señora de Sonsoles Hospital in Ávila: how to get to an appointment from Arenas de San Pedro, El Barco, Arévalo and the Tiétar valley, with waiting time and the trip home
Nuestra Señora de Sonsoles Hospital, south of Ávila, is the referral hospital for the whole province; from the Tiétar an appointment means crossing Gredos. How to get there from Arenas de San Pedro, Candeleda, El Barco, Piedrahíta and Arévalo, what a transfer with waiting time is, what is not medical transport and what happens with referrals to Salamanca and Madrid.
Read the guide →Gredos, the Tiétar valley and the walls of Ávila without a car: the Plataforma and the Laguna Grande, Arenas and Candeleda, the Toros de Guisando and the walled town with a driver who waits
How to see the best of Ávila province without your own car: the walls and the Cuatro Postes, the Plataforma de Gredos and the Laguna Grande, Arenas de San Pedro and Candeleda in the Tiétar, the Pico pass and the Toros de Guisando. What public transport exists, how far apart the sites are and how a day with a driver who waits is organised.
Read the guide →Hotels and rural houses in Gredos, the Tiétar valley and Ávila's old town: how to offer transfers to guests arriving by train at Ávila station or by air at Barajas
For a hotel inside the walls of Ávila, a rural house in Gredos or a property in the Tiétar, the guest arriving by train at Ávila or by air at Barajas without a car is an arrival problem. How to offer the transfer: a booking in their name with their train or flight, a name sign, an invoice to the property or the guest, excursions with waiting time and the busiest dates.
Read the guide →Driving a private hire car in Ávila: a province split by Gredos, Ávila station, the AP-6 to Barajas, the Tiétar that looks to Madrid and the hospital; method and variables for doing the sums
What a driver wants to know before starting in Ávila: that Gredos splits the province into two markets, that the capital and La Moraña look to Madrid along the AP-6 and the Tiétar down the valley, which corridors carry demand, how to do the sums with fixed costs, empty kilometres and hours covered, which legal framework applies and where the commission is published.
Read the guide →VTC fleets in Ávila: a province split by Gredos, Ávila station, the AP-6 to Barajas and the Tiétar that looks to Madrid; how the cars are shared between the two sides of the range and how the fleet gets paid
For a fleet with VTC authorisations in Ávila: why Gredos forces a choice of which side of the range the cars are on, how each job enters the portal and is assigned to a driver, how the fleet is paid into its own account through Stripe Connect and what happens with the AP-6 tolls, what bidding for uncovered jobs is and what the fleet software does.
Read the guide →Companies in Ávila, Arévalo and the Tiétar valley: the corporate account for visitors arriving at Ávila station or Barajas, industrial-estate staff and business trips, with one invoice a month
What a company in Ávila, Arévalo, Las Navas del Marqués, Arenas de San Pedro or Sotillo de la Adrada needs to know before opening an account: how a visitor arrives on the conventional train from Chamartín or via Barajas and the AP-6, how estate shifts and business trips are organised, what the monthly invoice includes and who may book.
Read the guide →Cebreros and the Alberche valley: to Ávila for the train and the hospital, to Madrid on the M-501 and to Barajas without crossing the mountains
Cebreros, in the Alberche valley, depends on Ávila for the hospital and the train, but has Madrid closer at hand along the M-501. How to get from there to the Ávila Healthcare Complex, the station, Madrid, Atocha and Barajas, comparing the bus, your own car and a transfer with a driver, and what changes at weekends and in winter.
Read the guide →From Ávila to Segovia, Salamanca, Toledo and Talavera: train, coach or car to the neighbouring cities
How to get from Ávila to the neighbouring cities: Segovia on the N-110 via Villacastín, Salamanca on the A-50, Toledo on the N-403 via Maqueda and Talavera over the Pico pass, also from Arévalo and the Tiétar valley. Which trains and coaches exist, when a car with a driver is worth it and how to book the outward and return trips.
Read the guide →Madrid from Ávila: IFEMA, Parque Warner, concerts and matches, the Estación Sur and hospital appointments, by train to Chamartín, coach, your own car along the AP-51 and AP-6 or a car with a driver
How to get from Ávila, Arévalo, Las Navas del Marqués, the Tiétar valley or El Barco to IFEMA, Parque Warner, a concert or a match, the Estación Sur and a Madrid hospital: train to Chamartín, coach, your own car along the AP-51 and AP-6 or a car with a driver at a fixed price.
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For the whole of Castilla-La Mancha
What is the difference between a Spanish VTC and a taxi? What changes for the passenger anywhere in Spain
What a Spanish VTC is, how it differs from a taxi and what that means for anyone travelling in Spain: advance booking and route sheet, fixed price versus meter, authorisation and badge, urban and interurban scope since Royal Decree-Law 13/2018, when each one makes sense and how to check the car and the driver are legal before getting in.
Read the guide →Do you need a child seat in a Spanish VTC? What the traffic regulations require and how to request one when booking
When a child restraint is compulsory in a car with driver under article 117 of Spain's General Traffic Regulations, why the taxi's urban exemption does not apply to private hire, which seat each child needs, how to request one when booking, how many fit and what to bear in mind on a long trip or an arrivals pickup.
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