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Flights Castaño del Robledo can
be reached from a number of airports in Andalucia and Portugal. The
nearest and most convenient is...
Seville Airport: - 1¼ hrs by road
Ryan
Air (www.ryanair.com)
Daily from Stansted plus Mon & Fri from Liverpool and Bristol.
Also 3 per week from Dublin. Click
Air (www.clickair.com)
Fri, Sat, Sun & Mon from Gatwick.
Beja Airport: - 1¼ hrs by road
Other low cost destinations within easy reach
of Castaño are: Faro Airport: - 2½ hrs by road
-
Monarch Air (www.flymonarch.com)
Daily flights from Gatwick, Birmingham, Manchester and Luton. - Ryan Air (www.ryanair.com)
Daily flights for much of the year from Stansted and Dublin. Also 2 or 3
flights per week year-round from E. Midlands, Glasgow Prestwick and Liverpool.
In summer they also have 2 or 3 flights per week from Bournemouth and Shannon.
- EasyJet (www.easyjet.com) Daily
flights from Gatwick, Luton, Stansted, Bristol, Liverpool and East Midlands.
Also many flights from Glasgow, Belfast and Newcastle.-
British Airways (www.britishairways.com)
Daily from Gatwick.
- TAP Portugal (www.flytap.com) Daily from Heathrow.
- Jet2 (www.jet2.com) 4 to 6 flights per
week from Manchester, Leeds/Bradford and Blackpool.
- BMI Baby (www.bmibaby.com)
Year round flights from Cardiff plus 5 or 6 flights per week from Birmingham, and East Midlands from around April onwards.
- Globespan (www.flyglobespan.com) 5
or 6 flights per week all year from both Glasgow and Edinburgh.
Also flights from Aberdeen from Spring onwards.
- FlyBE (www.flybe.com) 3
flights per week each from Exeter and Southampton with connections to 7 other UK airports.
- Aer Lingus (www.aerlingus.com) Daily
from Dublin and Gatwick from April. Also 4 or 5 times a week from Cork and Belfast from April.
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Palmair (www.palmair.co.uk)
Weekly from Bournemouth.
Jerez Airport: - 2½ hrs by road
Malaga Airport: - 3½ hrs by road
- Monarch Air (www.flymonarch.com)
Daily from, Birmingham, Gatwick, Luton, and Manchester.
- BMI Baby (www.bmibaby.com) Daily
from Birmingham, East Midlands, Manchester, and Cardiff.
- Ryan Air (www.ryanair.com) Daily from Birmingham, Dublin and East Midlands plus 3 or 4 per week
from Bournemouth, Edinburgh, Glasgow Prestwick,
Liverpool, Stansted and Shannon.
- EasyJet (www.easyjet.com) Daily from Belfast, Luton, Gatwick, Stansted, Manchester, Bristol, East Midlands, Glasgow, Liverpool and Newcastle.
- British Airways (www.britishairways.com)
Daily from Heathrow plus 2 or more daily flights from Gatwick.
- Globespan (www.flyglobespan.com)
Daily from Glasgow and Edinburgh plus 3 per week from Aberdeen.
- Jet2 (www.jet2.com) At least once a day
from from Leeds/Bradford and Manchester plus anything from 1 to 6 a week from
Blackpool and Newcastle depending on the time of year.
- FlyBE (www.flybe.com) Daily from Exeter and Southampton with connections to
8 other UK airports.
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- Aer Lingus (www.aerlingus.com) From
April there are 3 daily flights from Gatwick as well as at least daily flights
from Dublin, Cork and Belfast.
- ThomsonFly (www.thomsonfly.com)
direct from Birmingham, Bournemouth, Bristol, Cardiff, Coventry, Glasgow,
Leeds/Bradford, Doncaster/Sheffield, Gatwick, Luton, Manchester, Newcastle and
East Midlands.
Charter flights go all year
round to Faro,
Jerez and Malaga but these are especially frequent from March or April onwards. As well as offering great deals, charters fly from
more than
20 regional UK airports. Try the following sites:
www.firstchoice.co.uk,
www.thomsonfly.com,
www.thomascook.com.
Car Hire
Castaño del Robledo can be easily reached by car from any of the above airports or cities. For an instant car hire quotation at superb rates, click...
www.economycarhire.com.
Trains
For those coming from Madrid the AVE high speed train link (National Rail Network) has 20 departures per day to Seville (16 on Sat & Sun). Incredibly, the journey takes just 2½ hrs though it costs around
€70. Other trains are cheaper but take longer.
Directions The following gives you detailed directions on how to get here, both by car and by public transport...
From Seville:
By car; driving time - 1¼
hrs
From the airport join the A4 motorway in
the direction "Sevilla". At the next junction after 2km
leave the motorway following the blue motorway signs to 'Merida A-66'. You'll follow a ring road
(SE-20) round the city. There are several roundabouts on
this ring road but keep following signs for "Merida A-66" or "todas
direcciones". After around 10km from the airport and at the
5th roundabout, you'll see the large brown "Stadio Olympico" on
your left. At this roundabout, following the "Merida A-66"
signs will bring you up an on-ramp onto the SE-30 - the main
city ring-road. This takes you straight out across the
Guadalquivir river and after almost 2km you should turn-off right
onto the beginning of the A-66 heading in the direction of Merida.
Continue northwards away from Seville on the A-66 for 27km.
The 6th exit after leaving the SE-30 is the one numbered 782
(motorway junctions in Spain are numbered according to their
distance in kms from the start!). Turn off at this junction -
it's signed N-433 to Aracena and Portugal. (NB. It's 11kms to
the next motorway exit so best not miss this one!) Once off the exit
ramp you'll come around two roundabouts before branching right
onto the N-433 - keep following the signs for Aracena and
Portugal. This road heads NW and is marked with kilometre posts all the way to the Portuguese border.
Some 50km from the motorway at km post 86 the road by-passes Aracena. Keep
following signs for Portugal and in another 10 mins, just after km 96, you turn off left on a small road signed to "Fuenteheridos" and "Peña de Arias Montano". Driving up this road you ignore a turn off right after 600m and, after a further 400m, you'll come to a roundabout. Continue straight ahead at this
roundabout and after a further 5kms you'll arrive in our village.
Just after the zebra crossing is the main turn-off left into the
village proper. After 200m and a couple of quite tight turns
you'll emerge out at a junction of small streets called "Trinidad". The
Posada del Castaño is slightly uphill 25m straight ahead on
the right. Number 33 - you've arrived. Welcome!
By public transport
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From Seville city:
Buses from Seville to Fuenteheridos (4kms from Castaño del Robledo) depart twice daily from the Plaza de Armas bus station in the city. These are modern, air conditioned coaches with plenty baggage space beneath.
Departure times: 0900 & 1600 - never varies, but just in case check;
Autocares Casal
Cost: around €7.25
Journey time: Just under 2 hrs
From Seville you should try calling ahead to the Posada (959 465502) so we can
pick you up or at least arrange a taxi from Fuenteheridos to here.
- From Seville airport:
Taxis from airport to city cost around €21. They take about 20 mins to Plaza de Armas bus station
- more at rush hour. If you can't depart the airport before 3.30pm there is
little chance you'll get to this station in time for the last bus to Fuenteheridos.
In that case you can…
- Take a taxi to Castaño del Robledo. These cost
over €100 for up to four people and take about 1¼hrs. Alternatively with
some advance warning we can pick you up for just €80.
- Take a bus/taxi into Seville and spend a night in a hotel before coming to Castaño the next day. Posada del Castaño can make hotel reservations in Seville if you give some advance warning.
Airport buses to the city terminate outside the 'Prado San Sebastian'
bus station. Unfortunately buses to Aracena and Fuenteheridos leave from
'Plaza de Armas' bus station so you have to take a taxi, another bus or walk between
the stations.
Taxis cost 4 to 6 euros depending on the time of day. If you're up for it
though, the walk takes you directly through the historic centre of Seville.
Non-stop it should take a ½hr but you may have to allow much
more! Airport bus departures times are found on the
Seville Urban Transport website. Avenida del Cid is next to the Prado San Sebastian bus station in the city centre. Airport buses cost
€2.30 and
the journey takes about 30 mins.
From Faro (and Huelva)
By car; driving time - 2½ hrs
On leaving the airport by car you'll come first to a large
roundabout. Take the first exit marked "Faro" on the N125-10.
After 5 kms this joins the N2 for which you must take the exit ramp
signed to "Sao Bras" and motorway "IP1". From the exit ramp,
turn right onto the N2 and follow it northwards away from Faro city
for 6km until you come to the E1 motorway. Join this motorway
heading east in the
direction signed "Espanha". (NB. "IP1", "A-22" & "E1" are all
national and international designations for this same
motorway!) After 61 kms of motorway you cross into Spain via a modern suspension bridge (there are no border formalities).
Keep on the motorway in the
direction of Huelva. A further 54 kms brings you to the turn-off for the city of Huelva which you ignore, keeping on in
direction Seville for a further 4 kms until the town of San Juan del Puerto (recognisable by the huge smoke stack of a pulp mill on the right hand side). Come off the motorway here at junction 75 (just past the pulp mill) - it's signed "San Juan del Puerto" and "Trigueros". The sharply curved slip road comes up to a T-junction with the N435. Turn right here in the
direction marked "Badajoz".
The N435 is marked with kilometre posts all the way from Badajoz. Follow it north for just over 90 kms until, just a few hundred metres after kilometre post 134, there is a turning on the right hand side signposted to Castaño del Robledo. Turn along here for 3½ kms to the village.
Ignore the first turning into the village on the right hand side and
instead continue a further 300m and turn right into the village just
before the zebra crossing. After 200m and a couple of quite
tight turns you'll emerge out at a junction of small streets called
"Trinidad". The Posada del Castaño is slightly uphill
25m straight ahead on the right. Number 33 - you've arrived.
Welcome!
By public transport
The only convenient way to get to Castaño del Robledo by public transport from
Faro airport is to catch the international bus from downtown Faro to the Spanish
city of Huelva and change there for a bus or train to Jabugo. We can pick
you up for the last 7km from Jabugo, or you can take a taxi.
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Don't forget we can come to Faro to meet your flight and take you
directly to the Posada del Castaño. Taxis cost around €250 for the 214km
trip but we can do it for €185. We use an air-conditioned estate
car (station wagon) which comfortably seats four passengers and there's
plenty room for everyone’s luggage. |
Unfortunately there are few good connections for this route and
any require that you leave Faro quite early Here's the
information you'll need to put your itinerary together.
- Airport to downtown Faro; see
Faro airport bus timetable here.
Once in Faro, the main bus station is just 400m from the train station. The
bus journey from the airport takes 25 mins and costs €1.65 payable to the driver.
Also, taxis from the airport cost roughly €10 and takes about 15 mins.
- Faro to Huelva; see the
Eva Bus Company site to download a .pdf document of the
latest schedules and prices.
- Huelva to Jabugo (or Aracena); the
relevant
Damas bus
company website has been down for over a year! but we can
tell you there are only three possible buses per day from
Huelva to the sierra.
- That which brings you closest to
Castaño is the Jabugo bus which leaves Huelva at 16.00 (M-F) &
15.30 (Sun). There's no Sat service. The trip takes 2½hrs and
costs €7.15.
- There are two buses to Aracena from
Huelva at 13.30 (M-F only) & 15.00 (daily). The trip also
takes 2½hrs and costs €9.25.
- The last option is the twice daily
train from Huelva to Jabugo/Galaroza. NB. This really is one for railway enthusiasts - a small unconnected line that climbs up into the Sierra from Huelva. The line is generally far from any roads and the train stops in some of the most
remote villages in the province. Nevertheless, for the
intrepid traveller this can be a rewarding journey. For
updated schedules see
National Rail Network website
but basically there's a train every day at 19.00
However, on all but the longest days of the year this makes
the trip mostly in darkness. The earlier train leaves
Huelva at 14.00 on weekdays and 09.50 on Sat & Sun. The trip takes 2¼ hrs and costs
6.70 euros. Please also note the train station in Huelva is 1 km from the bus station!
- Jabugo to Castaño; Try calling ahead to the Posada (h:959 465502
or m:620 109331) so we can arrange to pick you up or send a taxi to bring you from Jabugo. This will cost around
€8.
From Malaga & Jerez
Whether coming by car or public transport from Malaga or Jerez,
you will have to go via Seville to reach Castaño del Robledo. Here
is some information to help you reach Seville from your chosen
arrival point. From Seville follow the directions above.
For train Jerez/Malaga to Seville see:
National Rail Network website.
For buses Malaga to Seville see:
Alsina Graells Sur Company For
airport buses to Malaga city bus station see:
Empresa Malagueña de Transportes.
For bus times from Jerez to Seville see the
Linesur
Bus Company and
Comes Bus Company.
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