Getting back to the airport from the south

First the important part: I arrange your trip back, but I do not pick you up myself. My licence is from the municipality of Telde, and a fare has to start inside that municipality. The airport is in Telde, so I can pick you up there and drive you south; picking you up at your hotel in the south would mean starting the fare outside my municipality, and that I cannot do. So message me with the day, the time and the hotel, and I pass it on to a fellow taxi driver who can pick you up there.

From the airport to the south, I drive you myself. To come back I cannot pick you up in person, because my licence is from Telde, but I arrange the return for you with a fellow taxi driver.

Tell me the day, the time and the hotel, and I arrange your trip back with a fellow taxi driver. If you do not have your ride from the airport yet, that one I drive myself.

If you would rather sort it out yourself

There are plenty of taxis in the south: the ones licensed in those municipalities, which are the ones allowed to start a fare there. The easiest way is to ask at your hotel reception the day before, saying what time you want to leave. There are also taxi ranks at the shopping centres and the big resorts.

If you came on the public bus —Global's, which is not mine: I have a single car—, the line runs both ways. Global publishes its timetables and fares, and it is worth checking them the day before, not from memory. And if you hired a car, you normally return it at the airport itself — check in your contract how early they want you there, which is not always the time your check-in closes.

How early to leave

The drive from the south takes the same as on the way in —around 75 minutes from the furthest point, less from everywhere else—, but on the day you fly home three things add up that do not exist on the way in: leaving your resort, the traffic on the GC-1 early in the morning and the check-in queue.

The time your check-in desk closes is set by your airline and it varies; look at your boarding pass and count back from there, not from the take-off time.

How long it takes from each area

The same times as on the way in, so you can do the maths. No stops and normal traffic.

• Puerto de Mogán
  68 km65 min
• Taurito
  65 km60 min
• Playa del Cura
  62 km57 min
• Amadores
  58 km54 min
• Tauro
  58 km54 min
• Puerto Rico
  56 km52 min
• Anfi del Mar
  52 km48 min
• Patalavaca
  50 km47 min
• Arguineguín
  48 km45 min
• Salobre Golf
  38 km38 min
• Meloneras
  37 km38 min
• Maspalomas
  35 km35 min
• Playa del Inglés
  32 km33 min
• San Agustín
  30 km32 min
• Bahía Feliz
  28 km30 min

What I drive myself and what I arrange

The ride from the airport I drive myself, that is my job: I wait for you in arrivals with a sign with your name and drop you at your hotel reception. Getting from the airport to the south (in Spanish) and what it costs to each destination.

Your trip back I arrange with a fellow taxi driver. And if you have a question about the way back —what time you should leave your area, for example— message me on WhatsApp and I will tell you.

I arrange your trip back with a fellow taxi driver: tell me the day, the time and the hotel.