Driving from Granada to El Puerto/Cadiz

Posted: Thu Jan 13, 2022 10:21pm

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My husband and I are leaving next week for 2-1/2 months in Spain. (We have Feb in El Puerto de Santa Maria and March in Leon. Before El Puerto, we have a week in Benalmadena on the Costa Del Sol. After that, we rent a one-way car to go to Granada for 3 nights, 1/29-2/1 Sat-Mon, then we plan to take 2 days to drive to El Puerto, arriving Wed. 2/2.

So my question is about the drive. We’d really like to get at least a peek at the Rock of Gibraltar, but from there we have a choice: Take the E5 down to Tarifa, then over to Cadiz on the southernmost route, going through Vejer de la Frontera and Chiclana de la Frontera. OR go a bit north on the A381 through Los Barrios…Alcala de los Galuzes…Medina-Sedonia ending in Jerez de la Frontera before we jog down to El Puerto.

We’d love to hear from anyone who’s familiar with these two different routes and which would be a better use of our car and time. Must sees? Don’t bothers? Good places to eat/stay overnight?)

Muchas gracias in advance!

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Posted: Sun Jan 23, 2022 9:06pm

Laura F

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Posted: Sun Jan 23, 2022 9:06pm

CynthiaRT wrote on Thu Jan 13, 2022 10:21pm:
Hola!

My husband and I are leaving next week for 2-1/2 months in Spain. (We have Feb in El Puerto de Santa Maria and March in Leon. Before El Puerto, we have a week in Benalmadena on the Costa Del Sol. After that, we rent a one-way car to go to Granada for 3 nights, 1/29-2/1 Sat-Mon, then w...

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...e plan to take 2 days to drive to El Puerto, arriving Wed. 2/2.

So my question is about the drive. We’d really like to get at least a peek at the Rock of Gibraltar, but from there we have a choice: Take the E5 down to Tarifa, then over to Cadiz on the southernmost route, going through Vejer de la Frontera and Chiclana de la Frontera. OR go a bit north on the A381 through Los Barrios…Alcala de los Galuzes…Medina-Sedonia ending in Jerez de la Frontera before we jog down to El Puerto.

We’d love to hear from anyone who’s familiar with these two different routes and which would be a better use of our car and time. Must sees? Don’t bothers? Good places to eat/stay overnight?)

Muchas gracias in advance!

Well I suppose it's what you like. There's probably not an awful amount in the distance. On the bottom road Tarifa is well worth a stop off, there's also Bolonia to take a slowly windy road down to and of course Vejer deserves a look. Nice beaches down the back from Vejer.

You can easily visit Jerez from El Puerto and most of the others in a day. The high road is a bit more off the track than the coast road, maybe good for a stop for a walk.

There is probably more life in anywhere bigger it's very quiet at the moment with many restaurants etc closed.