The private taxi transfer between Seville Airport and Chiclana - Novo Sancti Petri covers 154 km in about 2 h 50 min. It is the transfer chosen by travellers who fly into Seville because it has more connections, more airlines and, more often than not, cheaper fares than Jerez.
The service is private and door to door: the vehicle carries your group only, with no stops and no waiting for other passengers, and drops you at your hotel or apartment in Novo Sancti Petri.
Seville or Jerez: the honest comparison
Jerez is a little over an hour from Novo Sancti Petri; Seville is nearly three. That hour and a half shows up in the transfer, so the sum has to be done whole: flight plus transfer, not one or the other.
In practice Seville usually wins when you are flying from an airport with no direct route to Jerez, when you travel out of season — Jerez thins out a lot in winter — or when the saving on the ticket beats the difference in the transfer. Jerez almost always wins if you have a direct flight and land at night or with small children, because three hours in a car after flying is a long evening.
What the pickup at Seville Airport looks like
Seville Airport has a single terminal, so there is only one arrivals exit to look for. Your driver waits inside with a sign showing your name and walks you to the vehicle.
We ask for your flight number when you book, and that is what lets us follow the actual arrival. If the plane lands late, the pickup adjusts itself: no calls, no rebooking. If the flight is cancelled, the booking can be cancelled free of charge up to 24 hours before pickup.
How long it takes and which way it goes
The near three hours is driving time in normal traffic. The route leaves Seville on the Cádiz motorway, passes Jerez and El Puerto de Santa María, skirts the bay and turns into Chiclana on the A-48 before reaching Novo Sancti Petri.
It is dual carriageway almost the whole way — comfortable, no mountain passes. Travelling with children, a comfort stop is no problem: tell the driver and he will pull into a service area along the way.
Vehicles, luggage and groups
- Up to 3 passengers — standard car
- 4 to 6 passengers — people carrier
- 7 to 8 passengers — van
The price is per vehicle rather than per seat, so on a long run like this one the cost per person drops sharply when several of you travel together. Each class states how many suitcases it takes and the form asks how many you are bringing, so you are not given a car they will not fit in. Golf clubs, surfboards and folding wheelchairs should be flagged when booking: they change the vehicle needed.
What the fare includes
The fare covers the whole vehicle with VAT and tolls included — worth noting on this route, which uses a toll motorway — and it is the same at any hour of the day or night: no night or holiday surcharge. Nothing extra is paid to the driver.
Baby and child seats are requested during booking at no cost. Give us the ages so the right seat is fitted; Spanish law requires a restraint system for children under 135 cm, and on a three-hour drive that is not a minor detail.
The return leg
At this distance the return is best booked together with the outbound: both legs are confirmed at once and the pickup time is calculated from your departure flight, leaving room for three hours on the road plus check-in. Each leg keeps its own reference and can be changed separately.
The alternatives, honestly
There is no direct public transport between Seville Airport and Chiclana. The combination is a bus or taxi to Santa Justa, a train to San Fernando or Cádiz, then a bus into Chiclana: three connections with luggage and an afternoon gone. It is considerably cheaper and takes around four hours.
Seville's rank taxis run on a meter, and over 154 km the final amount is high and unknown until you arrive. Car hire makes sense if you plan to tour the province; for hotel and beach it turns into paid parking and a car that sits still all week.
When to book
Transfers are booked in advance and the vehicle is assigned to your flight. Over Easter, July and August the larger vehicles go first, and on a long route like this there is less last-minute availability than at Jerez: if there are six or eight of you, book with room to spare.