Transfer guides for Salamanca
What people ask before looking at a price. They are written to answer in the first few lines, with no preamble, with the figures from the route engine and the sources behind each statement, because that is what we would want to find ourselves.
From the province of Salamanca
The questions that only make sense from here: every way to the airport, the AVE, the hospital, the fiestas, the districts.
Salamanca to Madrid and Barajas: the train from Salamanca station or a car with a driver along the A-50 and the A-6
Salamanca has a direct train to Madrid-Chamartín, but not to Barajas, and for a first-thing flight no train arrives in time. What Salamanca station offers, which way the car goes (the A-50 and AP-6 or the A-62 and A-6), when a transfer with a driver pays off and how to book it with the flight number.
Read the guide →Salamanca-Matacán airport or Barajas: which airport suits each flight from each part of the province
Salamanca has an airport, Matacán, but with very few scheduled and seasonal flights, so almost everything is flown from Barajas, and for some destinations from Valladolid or Porto. What flies from each, how long it takes from Salamanca, Béjar, Ciudad Rodrigo or Vitigudino, and how to book the transfer with the flight number.
Read the guide →Salamanca University Hospital: appointments from Béjar, Ciudad Rodrigo, Peñaranda and Vitigudino, how the day is organised and what a car with a driver is
The Salamanca University Hospital Complex is the province's reference hospital, and an appointment from Béjar, Ciudad Rodrigo, Peñaranda or Vitigudino takes half a day. How long it takes from each market town, what a car with a driver is and is not compared with medical transport, and how to book the outbound trip with waiting and return.
Read the guide →University of Salamanca and La Covatilla: arriving for the start of term from Barajas, day trips to La Alberca and Béjar, and going up to ski without a car
Every September and June thousands of students arrive at and leave the University of Salamanca via Barajas, with no car; in winter, La Covatilla is reached by a mountain road from Béjar. How to get to your flat from the airport, how to go up to ski, which day trips leave from Salamanca and how to book with luggage, skis or a group.
Read the guide →Hotels and rural houses in Salamanca, the Sierra de Béjar and Ciudad Rodrigo: how to offer transfers to guests arriving by train at Salamanca station or by air at Barajas
For a hotel in Salamanca's old town, a rural house in the Sierra de Béjar or the Sierra de Francia, or accommodation in Ciudad Rodrigo, the guest arriving by train or via Barajas without a car is an arrival problem. How to offer the transfer: a booking in their name with their train or flight, a name sign, an invoice to the property or the guest and excursions with waiting.
Read the guide →Driving a private hire car in Salamanca: the station, Matacán with almost no flights, Barajas over two hours away and the University; the method and the variables for working out whether an area pays
What a driver wants to know before starting in Salamanca: demand runs from the capital to the station, the hospital and the University; Matacán has barely any flights and Barajas is over two hours away. How to tell whether an area pays using fixed costs, empty kilometres and covered hours, the legal framework, how a job arrives and where the commission is.
Read the guide →VTC fleets in Salamanca: the station, Matacán, the university and Barajas, how jobs are shared among the cars and how the fleet gets paid
For a fleet with VTC authorisations in Salamanca: why a star-shaped province concentrates demand in the capital and spreads it between Béjar, Ciudad Rodrigo and Peñaranda, how each job enters the portal and is assigned to a car, how the fleet is paid into its own account through Stripe Connect, what the fortnightly statement includes and what the fleet software does.
Read the guide →Companies in Salamanca, Béjar and Ciudad Rodrigo: the corporate account for visitors arriving at the station, industrial-estate staff and business trips, with one invoice a month
What a company in Salamanca, Guijuelo, Béjar, Ciudad Rodrigo or Peñaranda needs to know before opening an account: how a visitor continues from Salamanca station or from Barajas to the factory or the industrial estate, how staff changeovers and business trips are organised, what the monthly invoice includes and who may book.
Read the guide →Santa Marta de Tormes, Alba de Tormes and Carbajosa de la Sagrada: getting from Salamanca's southern towns to the station, the hospital, Matacán and Barajas
Santa Marta de Tormes and Carbajosa de la Sagrada live right next to Salamanca; Alba de Tormes, St Teresa's town on the Tormes, is a little further out. How to reach the station, the university hospital and the Plaza Mayor from each, when Matacán works and what a car with a driver to Barajas costs.
Read the guide →From Salamanca to Atocha, Cáceres, Zamora, Ávila and Segovia: which destinations have trains, which depend on the Ruta de la Plata and the A-50, and when a car with a driver pays off
From Salamanca, Zamora and Cáceres are reached on the A-66, the Ruta de la Plata, with no direct train; Ávila has trains and the A-50; Segovia needs a connection. What a car with a driver to each capital costs and takes, how to reach Atocha and when each option pays off from the capital, Béjar or Ciudad Rodrigo.
Read the guide →Madrid from Salamanca: IFEMA, Parque Warner, concerts and matches, the Estación Sur and hospital appointments, by train to Chamartín, coach, your own car along the A-50 and AP-6 or a car with a driver
How to get from Salamanca, Béjar, Guijuelo, Peñaranda or Ciudad Rodrigo to IFEMA, Parque Warner, a concert or a match, the Estación Sur and a Madrid hospital: train to Chamartín, coach, your own car along the A-50 and AP-6 or a car with a driver at a fixed price.
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For the whole of Castilla-La Mancha
What is the difference between a Spanish VTC and a taxi? What changes for the passenger anywhere in Spain
What a Spanish VTC is, how it differs from a taxi and what that means for anyone travelling in Spain: advance booking and route sheet, fixed price versus meter, authorisation and badge, urban and interurban scope since Royal Decree-Law 13/2018, when each one makes sense and how to check the car and the driver are legal before getting in.
Read the guide →Do you need a child seat in a Spanish VTC? What the traffic regulations require and how to request one when booking
When a child restraint is compulsory in a car with driver under article 117 of Spain's General Traffic Regulations, why the taxi's urban exemption does not apply to private hire, which seat each child needs, how to request one when booking, how many fit and what to bear in mind on a long trip or an arrivals pickup.
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