Alicante Airport Taxi — priced before you fly
Land at Alicante–Elche Miguel Hernández Airport (ALC) and walk straight to a driver holding your name. No meter, no rank, no queue at midnight in August. Your Alicante Airport taxi is one fixed fare per vehicle, covering the airport supplement, luggage, meet & greet and waiting time — to Alicante city, Benidorm, Torrevieja and every resort on the Costa Blanca.
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What an Alicante Airport taxi costs in 2026
Prices below are per vehicle, not per person, and include the airport supplement, motorway tolls, luggage and meet & greet. A family of four to Benidorm pays one fare, not four.
| Destination | Saloon 1–4 | Minivan 5–6 | Minibus 7–8 | Journey |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Alicante city centre | €27 | €39 | €49 | 15 min |
| Playa de San Juan | €34 | €46 | €58 | 22 min |
| Elche (Elx) | €26 | €38 | €48 | 15 min |
| Santa Pola | €27 | €39 | €49 | 20 min |
| Arenales del Sol / Gran Alacant | €22 | €33 | €42 | 10 min |
| El Campello | €48 | €53 | €66 | 30 min |
| Villajoyosa | €62 | €78 | €94 | 40 min |
| Benidorm Most Booked | €74 | €92 | €118 | 45 min |
| Albir / L'Alfàs del Pi | €80 | €99 | €118 | 50 min |
| Altea | €84 | €104 | €124 | 55 min |
| Calpe (Calp) | €96 | €118 | €140 | 1 h 05 |
Fares are one way and per vehicle. Child seats, extra stops, golf bags, bicycles, surfboards and wheelchair-accessible vehicles are added at booking. Sports equipment travels free on minivan and minibus bookings.
Longer Alicante Airport taxi routes, south and north
ALC serves roughly 200 km of coastline, so plenty of transfers run well beyond the towns in the table above. These are the routes we cover most often. Prices are still fixed and still per vehicle — they simply depend on your exact street address, so we quote them rather than publish a single figure. Note that runs south towards Orihuela Costa, Cartagena and Murcia use the tolled stretch of the AP-7; that toll is inside your quoted fare.
| Route | Area | Journey | Fixed fare |
|---|---|---|---|
| Alicante Airport to Torrevieja | Vega Baja | 45 min | Get fixed price arrow_forward |
| Alicante Airport to Guardamar del Segura | Vega Baja | 35 min | Get fixed price arrow_forward |
| Alicante Airport to La Zenia / Orihuela Costa | Vega Baja | 55 min | Get fixed price arrow_forward |
| Alicante Airport to Murcia city | Región de Murcia | 1 h 05 | Get fixed price arrow_forward |
| Alicante Airport to Cartagena | Región de Murcia | 1 h 30 | Get fixed price arrow_forward |
| Alicante Airport to Moraira / Teulada | Marina Alta | 1 h 20 | Get fixed price arrow_forward |
| Alicante Airport to Jávea (Xàbia) | Marina Alta | 1 h 25 | Get fixed price arrow_forward |
| Alicante Airport to Dénia | Marina Alta | 1 h 30 | Get fixed price arrow_forward |
| Alicante Airport to Alcoy (Alcoi) | Inland | 55 min | Get fixed price arrow_forward |
| Alicante Airport to Valencia city | Long distance | 2 h 00 | Get fixed price arrow_forward |
info Inter-airport runs to Murcia–Corvera (RMU) and Valencia (VLC), cruise-port transfers to Alicante and Cartagena, and golf-resort drops at Villamartín, Las Colinas and La Finca are all quoted the same way — one fixed fare per vehicle, tolls included.
Where your driver meets you at ALC
Alicante–Elche has one working terminal, so there is no chance of walking to the wrong building. Everything that matters to an arriving passenger happens on Level P0. Baggage reclaim, customs, the arrivals hall, the taxi rank, the private‑hire bays and the car parks are all on that one floor.
How to find your driver in 4 steps
Clear passport control & collect your bags
Non-Schengen arrivals — UK, Norway, Ireland outside the CTA rules — go through border control on the Pier C side. Allow longer in July and August.
Walk out into the public arrivals hall
You will see car hire desks on your right and a café on your left. Keep going straight.
Look for the Global Airport Taxi board
Your driver stands by the meeting point at the end of the hall, near the information desk. The board carries your name and your booking reference.
Follow your driver to the car
Pre-booked vehicles park in the marked bays on the Arrivals roadway, roughly 60 seconds' walk from the doors. Nobody carries their own case unless they want to.
Flight delayed?
We track the tail number, not the schedule. Your driver's clock starts when the wheels touch down, not at the time printed on your booking.
Bag on the carousel that never appears?
You have 90 minutes of free waiting from landing while you file the report at the baggage desk. Message the number on your voucher so the driver knows.
Missed your connection entirely?
Tell us before the original landing time and we move the booking free of charge.
Can't find the driver?
Call the number printed on the voucher before you leave the terminal. Ninety per cent of "no-show" calls turn out to be a passenger standing at the wrong end of a 300-metre hall.
A word on people who approach you inside the terminal.
Anyone offering you a lift as you walk through the hall is not operating legally. Licensed Elche airport taxis are white with a green stripe running front to back and the Elche city crest on the door, and they only pick up from the rank. Pre-booked drivers hold a name board and never tout.
Taxi, bus, tram, Uber or hire car — an honest comparison
We sell transfers, so treat what follows with the scepticism it deserves. But there are journeys where the C-6 bus is plainly the better answer, and we would rather tell you than have you feel oversold. Each card below gives you the unvarnished verdict.
Pre-booked private transfer
FixedWins: groups of 3+, child seats, night arrivals, any destination beyond Alicante city.
Not for: solo backpackers in daylight — take the C-6 bus.
The real advantage is removing variance. A pre-booked car has a driver already standing there.
Bus C-6 to Alicante
BudgetOperated by Vectalia, 24 hours a day. Runs frequently from the departures roadway on Level P2 — take the lift or escalator up from arrivals. Card payment only, no cash.
Not great with heavy luggage. Perfect for solo travellers and couples with cabin bags.
Intercity coach
ALSAOperated by ALSA, Avanza, Vectalia, Busbam to Benidorm, Torrevieja, Murcia.
Cheap per person, but total cost for a family of four approaches a private transfer — and you'll still need to get to your hotel.
TRAM light rail
ScenicLines L1 and L9 from Alicante to Benidorm, Altea, Denia.
You need to get to the city centre first. Long journey, not luggage-friendly. Fine for day trips, poor for arrivals.
Rank taxi
24/7Official licensed rank on Level P0. White taxis with green stripe.
Queue can be long in summer. Metered fare — traffic and time of day affect the final price.
Uber, Bolt, Cabify
AppPrivate hire with dedicated VTC bays. Often undercuts the rank taxi off-peak.
Supply is thin at night and in summer. Surge pricing can push fares well above rank taxis. Drivers may cancel short trips.
Hire car
FlexibleDesks in arrivals. Major operators: Centauro, Goldcar, Avis, Hertz, Europcar, Enterprise.
Collecting a car adds 30–90 minutes. Parking in Alicante is expensive and limited. Only worth it if you're touring the region.
Shared shuttle
BudgetSeat-in-coach with multiple hotel drop-offs.
You wait for the coach to fill and visit several hotels before yours. With four people, cost approaches a private transfer — which goes door-to-door without the stops.
Alicante Airport to Benidorm — the same journey, four ways
| Option | 2 Adults | 4 Adults | Journey Time | Ends At |
|---|---|---|---|---|
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€74 | €74 | 45 min | Your hotel door |
| ALSA direct coach | ≈€24 | ≈€48 | 45 min + wait | Benidorm bus station |
| Rank taxi (reference tariff) | ≈€96 | ≈€96 | 45 min + queue | Your hotel door |
| C-6 bus then TRAM L1 | ≈€22 | ≈€44 | 2 h+ | Benidorm TRAM station |
Coach and tram fares vary by operator, season and ticket type; treat them as planning figures rather than quotes. The pattern holds year-round: public transport wins for one or two people, private hire wins from three upwards.
Is Alicante an expensive airport?
Short answer: no
— and it is one of the cheaper big airports in Spain to leave.
Alicante–Elche has a reputation among British visitors for being pricey, which mostly comes from two things: the arrivals-hall coffee and the August taxi queue. Neither is a fair reading of the airport as a whole.
On ground transport specifically, ALC is cheap by European standards.
A €4.60 bus ride covering twelve kilometres into a city centre, running twenty-four hours a day, is better value than the equivalent at Barcelona, Madrid, Rome or Lisbon. The taxi tariff is set by Elche town hall and is modest – the entire fare into central Alicante, supplement included, sits around €30 to €33, which would barely cover the flag drop at some northern European airports.
Where costs do bite is distance. ALC serves a coastline two hundred kilometres long. Nothing about a €125 transfer to Denia is a rip-off; it is a 108-kilometre motorway journey each way, and the driver returns empty. If your holiday is in Denia, Jávea or Moraira, the airport is not expensive – your destination is simply a long way from it.
Where the money actually goes
Airport supplement
Roughly €4.25–€4.50 is added to every metered rank taxi journey that starts or ends at ALC, under the Elche municipal tariff. Already inside our fixed fares.
Special tariff hours
Under the Elche taxi ordinance — the airport sits in Elche, so Elche's tariff applies — the special tariff runs nights from 21:00 to 07:00, and all day on Saturdays, Sundays and public holidays, plus designated special days (5 January, 11–14 August and 24, 25 and 31 December).
Tolls
The AP-7 north of Alicante towards Calpe, Altea and Denia has been toll-free since January 2020, so nothing is added there. Tolls survive on the AP-7 south of Alicante (La Zenia and Los Montesinos barriers) on runs towards Orihuela Costa, Cartagena and Murcia. Included in ours; added to a metered fare.
Waiting time
Charged by the hour at the rank, free for the first hour with us.
Vehicle size
Six people and six suitcases need a minivan, and that costs more than a saloon whatever the badge on the door.
The one genuine expense trap at ALC
Parking for people who drive to the airport. Long-stay charges over a fortnight will comfortably exceed two return transfers for a family. If you live on the Costa Blanca and fly regularly, running the numbers usually favours being driven.
A practical guide to the ALC terminal
One terminal, three floors that matter, two piers. Ten minutes of reading here will save you twenty minutes of wandering with a trolley.
Baggage reclaim, customs, the public arrivals hall, car hire desks, the taxi rank, VTC and private-transfer bays, lost property and the left luggage office. Everything an arriving passenger needs is on this floor. Your driver waits here.
Offices, services and connections between the public levels. Passengers rarely have business here, but it is where you will be sent if you need the airline ticket desks or administrative offices rather than a check-in counter.
Check-in desks numbered 1 to 170, security, and the departures roadway outside — which is also where every bus leaves from, the C-6 into Alicante and every intercity coach included. Taxis drop off here too.
Getting through the building
The current terminal, known as the NAT — Nueva Área Terminal — opened in March 2011 and replaced the two ageing terminals that came before it. Those older buildings are closed to passengers, so if a taxi driver or an old guidebook refers to T1 and T2, ignore it. There is one terminal and one security search area.
Past security the building opens into a large retail and dining floor, and two piers branch off it. Pier B handles Schengen departures — Spain's domestic routes plus Germany, France, the Netherlands, the Nordics and the rest of the Schengen area. Pier C handles non-Schengen, which since Brexit means the United Kingdom, plus Morocco and other international services. Walking to the far end of Pier C takes real time; if your gate number starts with a C and you are still buying perfume, move.
Arriving from the UK
You will pass through Spanish border control before baggage reclaim. In peak summer this is the slowest part of the whole arrival, and it is the reason we build free waiting time into every booking rather than pretending everyone clears in fifteen minutes.
Services worth knowing about
| Service | Description |
|---|---|
| Left luggage | Staffed office in the terminal for bags you do not want to drag around Alicante on a late-flight day. |
| Lost property | Ground floor of the NAT terminal, inside the arrivals hall. Mislaid checked baggage is handled by your airline's handling agent, not the airport. |
| Fast Track | Priority lane at the security checkpoint, bought in advance. Worth it on a summer Saturday morning departure; pointless in February. |
| VIP lounges | Airside lounges accessible on payment, by card benefit or by airline status. |
| Wi-Fi | Free throughout the terminal. |
| Reduced mobility | Assistance is free and pre-booked through your airline at least 48 hours ahead. Meeting points are signposted at the terminal entrances and in the car parks. |
| Food and drink | Limited landside — a coffee shop or two before security. The bulk of restaurants and bars sit airside on the departures floor. |
| Parking | Express, short and long stay on site, with a walkway to the terminal. Book online for anything over a couple of days. |
Dropping someone off?
The lane closest to the departures building on Level P2 is reserved for buses and coaches. Cars pulling into it get moved on and can be fined. Use the outer lane a few metres further out — it is clearly marked, and the police at ALC do enforce it.
Which airlines fly to Alicante Airport?
passengers in 2025
+8.5%aircraft movements
2025busiest in Spain
Aenainternational in peak
UK largestALC is Spain's fifth-busiest airport and handled 19.95 million passengers in 2025, up around 8.5 per cent on the year before, across roughly 126,000 aircraft movements. Close to nine in ten passengers in peak months are international, and the United Kingdom is comfortably the largest single market, followed by Germany, the Netherlands, Norway and Ireland. It opened in 1967 and is operated by Aena.
Four carriers treat Alicante as a base or focus city — Ryanair, easyJet, Norwegian and Vueling — with Ryanair by far the largest, basing a substantial fleet here through the summer and running a heavy winter schedule as well.
Airlines you'll see
Plus a rotating cast of seasonal charter and Eastern European operators — including newer links to Moldova.
What this means in practice for your transfer
ALC's traffic is spiky. Low-cost networks cluster departures and arrivals, so the terminal alternates between near-empty and completely overwhelmed. That rhythm, more than anything else, decides whether the taxi rank is a two-minute affair or a forty-minute one.
Busiest routes into Alicante
Typical high-frequency markets| Market | Main Departure Points |
|---|---|
| United Kingdom | London Gatwick, Stansted, Luton, Manchester, Birmingham, Bristol, Leeds Bradford, Newcastle, Glasgow, Edinburgh, Belfast, East Midlands, Liverpool |
| Ireland | Dublin, Cork, Shannon |
| Netherlands & Belgium | Amsterdam, Eindhoven, Rotterdam, Brussels, Charleroi |
| Germany | Düsseldorf and Weeze, Cologne, Berlin, Munich, Frankfurt, Hahn, Hamburg, Stuttgart |
| Nordics | Oslo, Bergen, Stavanger, Stockholm, Copenhagen, Helsinki |
| Spain domestic | Madrid, Barcelona, Palma, Bilbao, Santiago, Asturias, Canarias |
| Central & Eastern Europe | Warsaw, Kraków, Katowice, Budapest, Prague, Bucharest, Chișinău |
Schedules change every season. Check your airline's timetable for the current picture — but whichever of these you fly in on, the fixed fare on this page is the same.
The Costa Blanca calendar, and what it does to your transfer
Some of these events close the roads we would normally use. If you are arriving during one of them, book early and tell us the exact street address — during Hogueras, half of central Alicante is simply not drivable.
Cabalgata de Reyes
Three Kings parades across Alicante, Elche and every town on the coast. Family traffic peaks, city centres close to vehicles in the early evening, and the airport handles a heavy return wave on 6 and 7 January.
Benidorm Fest
Spain's Eurovision selection, staged at the Palau d'Esports l'Illa in Benidorm. One of the biggest out-of-season demand spikes on the coast — fills Benidorm hotels in what used to be a dead month and puts pressure on airport-to-Benidorm transfers.
Fallas spillover
Valencia's Fallas pulls visitors north, and many fly into Alicante because fares are cheaper. Expect long transfers up the AP-7 and heavy northbound traffic around 15–19 March.
Semana Santa
Processions in Alicante, Elche, Orihuela and Crevillent. Orihuela's Holy Week is among the most important in Spain. Old-town streets close for hours; drop-offs move to the nearest open avenue.
Moros i Cristians, Alcoy
The most spectacular Moros and Christians festival in the country, held inland at Alcoy in late April. Transfers from ALC take around 55 minutes on a normal day and considerably longer during the fiesta.
Hogueras de San Juan
Alicante's flagship festival. Enormous satirical monuments, daily mascleta firework displays, and everything burns on the Nit de la Crema. The centre is effectively pedestrianised — give a drop-off point on the ring road side.
Festival season
Low Festival in Benidorm, Medusa on the Vega Baja coast and a long run of open-air concerts. These fill flights from the UK and Ireland and generate late-night arrivals in exactly the hours when the rank is emptiest.
Nit de l'Albà & Misteri d'Elx
Elche launches thousands of fireworks over the palm groves on 13 August, then performs the Misteri d'Elx — a UNESCO-recognised medieval mystery play — on 14–15 August. The busiest civic night of Elche's year, just 15 minutes from ALC.
Peak of the peak
The second and third weeks of August are the single hardest time to leave ALC unbooked. Flights bank up, the rank drains, and shared shuttles run at capacity. Arrange your transfer weeks ahead.
Autumn sport
Alicante and Benidorm host road races, triathlons and the Vuelta when the route comes south. Coastal roads close in blocks on race mornings — matters for departures more than arrivals.
Business & conference traffic
The EUIPO is based in Alicante, generating steady corporate travel. Alicante's congress centre and the Elche business park add to it. Midweek mornings are busier than most holidaymakers expect.
Booking during a festival?
Send the nearest large landmark or hotel as well as the street address. Drivers can plan around a closed street if they know about it before they set off, and cannot improvise once they are inside a road-closure box.
Attractions and popular routes from Alicante Airport
Airport transfers are the obvious job. But a good chunk of what we drive is day trips, harbour runs and inland excursions — journeys that are miserable by bus and expensive by hire car for a single day.
Alicante city
Santa Bárbara castle on Mount Benacantil, with a lift running up through the rock from Postiguet beach. The palm-lined Explanada de España, the tiled barrio of Santa Cruz, the MARQ archaeology museum and the Mercado Central. The boat to Tabarca — Spain's only inhabited Mediterranean island and a marine reserve — leaves from the harbour.
Elche and the Palmeral
The largest palm grove in Europe and a UNESCO World Heritage site, planted by the Moors and still irrigated by the original channels. Add the Huerto del Cura garden, the blue-domed Basilica de Santa María and the Museo Arqueológico. Genuinely underrated, and closer to the airport than Alicante is.
Benidorm
Levante and Poniente beaches, the old town, and the theme parks around it: Terra Mítica, Terra Natura, Aqualandia and Mundomar. The viewpoint at Balcón del Mediterráneo is the postcard. Benidorm Palace has been running variety shows for decades.
Torrevieja and the salt lakes
Two lagoons in the Parque Natural de La Mata: one green, one an extraordinary pink caused by the algae and the salt harvest. Walking and cycling trails run around both, and the flamingos are real. Add a long town beach and one of the biggest expat communities in Spain.
Calpe and Peñón de Ifach
A 332-metre limestone monolith rising straight out of the sea, climbable with a permit and visible for miles. The old town, the salt flats behind the beach and a working fishing port with an afternoon auction you can watch.
Guadalest and the Algar waterfalls
The classic Costa Blanca inland day. A castle village of fifty-odd residents built on a crag above a turquoise reservoir, reached through a tunnel cut in the rock, paired with the swimmable cascades at Les Fonts de l'Algar. Impossible by public transport, easy by car.
Villajoyosa
Rows of fishermen's houses painted in every colour on the seafront, and a chocolate-making tradition going back to the cacao trade — Valor's factory and museum are here. Quieter than Benidorm, ten minutes down the coast from it.
Altea and Albir
Whitewashed hillside old town under a blue-tiled dome, an artists' quarter, and a pebble seafront. Albir next door has a lighthouse walk along the Sierra Helada with the coast dropping away below you.
Denia and the Marina Alta
A castle above a working port, ferries to Ibiza, Formentera and Mallorca, and the Montgó massif behind the town. Denia is a UNESCO City of Gastronomy — the red prawn is the reason. Jávea's coves and Moraira's bays are on the same run.
Golf, cruise and port runs
We also cover the Costa Blanca golf resorts — Villamartín, Las Colinas, Font del Llop, La Finca and the Orihuela Costa courses — plus port transfers to Alicante and Cartagena cruise terminals and inter-airport runs to Murcia–Corvera and Valencia. Clubs and cases travel free in a minivan.
Which vehicle do you actually need for the luggage you're bringing?
The single most common booking mistake on Costa Blanca transfers is picking a saloon for four adults with four large cases. Four people fit; four 23 kg cases plus cabin bags do not. Read the boot capacity, not just the seat count.
Saloon
Up to 4 passengers
- luggage2 large cases + 2 cabin bags
- groupCouples and small families
- euroThe cheapest fixed fare on every route
Three adults with three big cases should book a minivan. It is a small price difference and it prevents the one genuinely awkward conversation at the kerb.
Minivan
Up to 6 passengers
- luggage6 large cases + cabin bags
- golf_courseGolf clubs, bikes and surfboards travel free
- child_careRoom for two child seats without losing a seat
For a family of four with a fortnight's luggage this is usually the right answer, and it still costs one fare rather than four bus tickets.
Minibus
Up to 8 passengers
- luggage8 large cases, or 6 plus golf bags
- groupsStag, hen, golf and multi-generation groups
- accessibleWheelchair-accessible vehicles on request
Larger parties are covered too — tell us the headcount and we will send two vehicles or a coach rather than squeezing you in.
child_care Child seats, booster seats and baby seats are added at booking at no extra charge. Spanish law requires them; a rank taxi at ALC will rarely have one in the boot.
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