pittpurple

Hi,

I'm putting together a very budget trip to Spain and am a bit confused about the buses. I see I can book online at movelia.es but they charge a 2 euro fee - apparently per ticket?

Is there any reason to book tickets online? I'm going in October and we need the following routes:

Malaga-Sevilla
Sevilla-Cordoba
Cordoba-Granada
Granada-Nerja
Nerja-Malaga return
Nerja-Malaga

We have a really crazy first week so it is important we take the buses we've chosen in order to see everything we want to - it's just that with all those tickets we'll pay a lot of extra money for reserving online and I don't know if it's worth it.

Thanks for your help!

pittpurple

Forgot to ask - will prices go up as the trip gets closer? I know with the train you should book early to get the web prices, etc. but what about the buses?

lincasanova

as far as i know, buses do not offer online discountslike the train.

unless you are travelling on/near the 9th and 12th october, which are holidays in other parts of spain, you should be able to just walk up and get bus tickets for that day with no problem. they are very frequent and i would be surprised otherwise.

will you be in town the day before to arrange trips? you may be able to do all this at the same bus station if the company is represented there.. should be no problem.

hopefully josele or someone local will chip in.

pittpurple

Hmm.. I'm travelling on both those dates - our trip is the 7th - 21st October with most of the travel during the first week.

lincasanova

but even so.. seems you arrive the 7th.. so just go and get your tickets ASAP.

there are many many buses all day long.. it would be very unusual you couldnīt get out with a little advance notice, the same day.

besides the bus there used to be an inexpensive "local" train from sevilla to cordoba.. (NOT the AVE).