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Bilbao to Mojácar

Posted: Sat Jun 4, 2022 8:40pm
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Webster947

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Hello

Can anybody suggest the best route to travel from Bilbao to Mojácar by car? Where is a good place to stay overnight on route for myself and a dog? 
thanks

Paul

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Posted: Sat Jun 4, 2022 9:15pm

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Posted: Sat Jun 4, 2022 9:15pm

I have always gone by the motorway,very few tolls and not expensive,DEFINITELY take the toll road around Madrid.look to stay near Tarancon not sure about the pet friendly bit

Bob2003

Posted: Mon Jun 6, 2022 6:23pm

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Posted: Mon Jun 6, 2022 6:23pm

Dear Paul

We dove down 10days ago from Santander to Palomares.with our two dogs.

Our ferry docked at 1.15 and we cleared port and customs (they only checked one dog although we have spanish pet passports) by 1.45. We stopped Area Tudanca about 30 miles south of Burgos for our first beak.Just under 3 hours. It is regukar stop and we stay overnight on our return journey. They also sell their own VERY good wine.

Ww then stqyed overnight at Honrubia south of Madrid. THe Hotel Moya 3 star booked through booking.com . It was 62 euros for a double room and although they said it would be 10 euros per dog we were not atually charged. 

We then had about 200 miles to drive the next dy nd got to Palomares at 11.00am.

This basically split the journey into 3 legss to hve proper breaks but did make a couple of intermediate sops for the dogs.

Not sure of your Ferry time but diidl look on Brittny site and if you dock at 8.00 am you could do it in one day. Weused to when ferry docked early but one overnight worked well for our arrival time. There isone bit of toll 2.35euro on the motorway rund Madrid

Hope thisis helpful and have a good trip

Bob Davies

Webster947

Posted: Mon Jun 6, 2022 9:14pm

Webster947

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Posted: Mon Jun 6, 2022 9:14pm

Thanks for the replies, they are all very helpful and have given me some great ideas on what I need to do, to go, where to stop and stay. 👍👍

John99andrew

Posted: Mon Jun 6, 2022 11:57pm

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Posted: Mon Jun 6, 2022 11:57pm

Webster947 wrote on Mon Jun 6, 2022 9:14pm:

Thanks for the replies, they are all very helpful and have given me some great ideas on what I need to do, to go, where to stop and stay. 👍👍

Try mirasiera hotel on the motorway just before Madrid dog friendly we have stayed there many times very good value you can book on booking.com or phone the hotel direct the reception sleek good English 

Google the hotel 

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Dinkytoys2

Posted: Tue Jun 7, 2022 5:48pm

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Posted: Tue Jun 7, 2022 5:48pm

Webster947 wrote on Mon Jun 6, 2022 9:14pm:

Thanks for the replies, they are all very helpful and have given me some great ideas on what I need to do, to go, where to stop and stay. 👍👍

It depends on your Bilbao arrival time.  We have just completed a trip both ways and found Hotel Mirasierra at Santo Tome del Puerto (mentioned on here before) to be a two and three-quarter hours drive from Bilbao, using, as already suggested, the AP8 and AP68   We always drive around Madrid using the M45, M50 and R3 which are easy and well signposted.  They can be 2 x 3 lanes wide so you need to be well prepared for drop-outs. My Satnav gives good early warnings of which lanes to be in.  If you arrive in Bilbao early morning we find it is a comfortable day's drive to somewhere around Albacete where we stay at the Parador.

For the return journey to Bilbao here's a tip if you do have Satnav.  Don't enter Bilbao as the destination.  Enter Brittany Ferries, Port Bilbao.  The ferry is a twenty-minute drive out of the town.  It took a fellow passenger on the ship over an hour to get out of the city. He is going to follow my suggestion in the future!

Webster947

Posted: Tue Jun 7, 2022 6:45pm

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Posted: Tue Jun 7, 2022 6:45pm

Hi 

I think hotel mirasierra is our best bet. We arrive early morning but I want to spend time en route as my dog isn’t the greatest traveller. 

Thanks again for everyone’s suggestions 

John99andrew

Posted: Tue Jun 7, 2022 7:34pm

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Posted: Tue Jun 7, 2022 7:34pm

Dinkytoys2 wrote on Tue Jun 7, 2022 5:48pm:

It depends on your Bilbao arrival time.  We have just completed a trip both ways and found Hotel Mirasierra at Santo Tome del Puerto (mentioned on here before) to be a two and three-quarter hours drive from Bilbao, using, as already suggested, the AP8 and AP68   We always driv...

...e around Madrid using the M45, M50 and R3 which are easy and well signposted.  They can be 2 x 3 lanes wide so you need to be well prepared for drop-outs. My Satnav gives good early warnings of which lanes to be in.  If you arrive in Bilbao early morning we find it is a comfortable day's drive to somewhere around Albacete where we stay at the Parador.

For the return journey to Bilbao here's a tip if you do have Satnav.  Don't enter Bilbao as the destination.  Enter Brittany Ferries, Port Bilbao.  The ferry is a twenty-minute drive out of the town.  It took a fellow passenger on the ship over an hour to get out of the city. He is going to follow my suggestion in the future!

I didn’t know paradors allowed dogs

Dinkytoys2

Posted: Tue Jun 7, 2022 8:01pm

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Posted: Tue Jun 7, 2022 8:01pm

John99andrew wrote on Tue Jun 7, 2022 7:34pm:

I didn’t know paradors allowed dogs

Go to https://www.parador.es/en/blog/pet-friendly-paradores to find out which do and the terms and conditions.

em68

Posted: Wed Jun 8, 2022 11:25am

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Posted: Wed Jun 8, 2022 11:25am

I also stop at Hotel Tudanca with my dog, but it is important to make sure you choose Tudanca Aranda and not Tudanca Miranda. Part of the same group but not on a direct route.  I made that mistake recently and only just managed to rescue the booking!  Another possibility a little further south is Hotel Milagros, also just off a motorway exit.  These two hotels have pretty basic looking  accommodation in the dog-friendly rooms, although it is perfectly adequate. But they have superb restaurants if like me you enjoy milk fed lamb. Generally standard of other dishes higher in Tudanca and the local wine is great.


I’ve stayed a couple of times at Miasierra but have to say I’m unlikely to do so again although the rooms are nicer than the other two.   On the first occasion the menu was a bit limited and not brilliantly prepared. but I put that down to Covid problems.  Last time, a month ago, I chose to stay there as sucking pig is on the menu.  It was cooked so badly I had to complain and send it back - something I almost never do.  It seemed to me it had been pre-cooked with the restaurant simply having to finish it off at a high temperature before serving.  Unfortunately it was so incredibly overcooked but the time I got it that all the meat was tough, dry and stringy. They replaced it for me with a dish of presa iberica but that was not exactly brilliantly done.


Of course many of you will not be basing where you stay around your stomach rather than the rooms, and others will not have my desire to eat meat or  the stuff which is not so easily available on the coast of Andalucia!

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