Almeria Airport Within A Nutshell

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Almeria Airport is split over three floors using the majority of departures and arrivals taking place around the ground floor. The departures terminal at the airport has 21 verify desks as well as a further six are to become added when phase II from the expansion function is completed by the middle of next year.

Following you have checked in you may ought to head towards the correct finish in the terminal to undergo the safety control checkpoint. After airport parking Belfast in to the departures lounge you are going to discover a newspaper shop, a gift shop, a cafe & bar and also the main Aldeasa shop which sells duty free perfumes, alcohol and cigarettes. There are also two coffee shops within this area and an open air cafe on the upper level.

The arrivals area at Almeria Airport is located at the far left end with the terminal building and consists of 4 baggage reclaim belts. When you have entered the baggage reclaim area simply verify the information screens that will indicate what carousel your luggage will appear on. As soon as you have exited this area in to the arrivals hall you will locate the 5 corresponding car hire desks and tour operators situated here. The car hire companies based at Almeria Airport are Centauro, Crown, Europa, Europcar and Rucar.

Directly outside the terminal exit is the taxi rank and just a few yards further up is the stop for the buses at Almeria Airport. There is no train service available at the airport. The taxis can provide transport to all in the major tourist resorts and an indication of charges are as follows. In to the city centre of Almeria 18.00 euros, Cabo de Gata 75.00 euros, Mojacar 112.00 euros and Roquetas de Mar 52.00 euros.

If you are picking someone up at the airport or if you are flying out from Almeria Airport and have to park your car there, then the car park is situated directly in front from the terminal building and is quite small with a capacity for just over 300 cars. Parking charges for both short term and long term parking at Almeria Airport are reasonable. Short term parking costs around 1.00 euro per hour and long term parking costs just under 11.00 euros per day for the first 4 days and then just under 9.00 euros every day thereafter.

If you are planning on driving in Almeria and are hiring a car from Almeria Airport you are going to discover that there are good transport communication links with resorts along the eastern cost of Spain using the AL-12 motorway and A-7 Autovia close by. From Almeria Airport it is relatively easy to drive up and down the coast of Spain. You can drive north to Murica in around 2 hours, and south towards Malaga and the Costa del Sol in around 3 hours.

Regular scheduled flights to Almeria from the UK and Ireland are available from Belfast, Birmingham, Dublin, Gatwick, Leeds, Luton, Manchester and London Stansted. If you have to fly to Almeria Airport from within Spain then there are a good number of internal flights to Almeria from Barcelona, Madrid, Melilla and Palma de Mallorca. Internal flights are generally serviced by Spanair, Air Europa and Iberia.

The airport has also recently introduced a new route to Dusseldorf which is operated by the low cost airline Ryanair every Wednesday and Sunday. This connection, which will operate provisionally until 21 October, is in addition to existing flights operated by Air Berlin to the German cities of Dusseldorf and Frankfurt.