1) From Malaga Airport: Follow the signs labelled Salida (exit), and head for the Malaga/Cadiz E15 A7/N340. Drive along this road for about ½ km and you will come to a roundabout with car rental companies on its left hand side.

2) Go straight across (2nd exit), and you will see the San Miguel factory on your right hand side. This is a dual carriageway but with no central reservation, and you need to be in the right hand lane heading for Torremolinos and CADIZ. Follow the road to the end and around to the right, and you will filter onto the A7/N340, a three lane dual carriageway.

3) Look for a signpost above the road which directs you to Benalmadena/Algeciras E15 AP7, A7 (old N340). You will then see on the right side skyline a large sign advertising CARRANZA, just before you pass the BMW Garage.

4) Keep in the right hand lane and take the right fork which takes the A7 up to join the E15 AP7 Motorway, leaving the N340 to continue straight on. The E15 AP7 Motorway and the A7 are now sharing the same route and will do so until they separate, see (6) below.

5) Driving along this combined road you will pass interchanges (“Cambio de Sentidos”) signposted Torremolinos/Palacio de Congresos Junction 227, followed by Junction 223 for Arroyo de la Miel Area de Servicio, a large Repsol Service Area, Junction 222 for Benalmadena/Arroyo de la Miel, (look up to see the Cable Car shortly afterwards), and Junction 217 for Benalmadena/Mijas. The junction numbers are not necessarily consecutive since they refer to distances in kilometres.

6) Before Junction 217 the road begins a long downhill descent. About three parts the way down this hill the road divides as referred to in (4) above. There is plenty of advance notification of this split which is Junction 214 and you will see large overhead signs pointing left for the E15 AP7 to Marbella/Algeciras (which is a toll (PEAJE) road), and to the right for the A7 (old N340) to Fuengirola/Algeciras. Use the toll/peaje road.

7) Make your way over to the middle lane and to automatically exit the separation in the right hand lane of the motorway. After 14 km you will pass Junction 200 for Calahonda A7, and just afterwards you will pass through a toll booth area. The cost to continue on the motorway is currently € 3.35 in the winter (more in summer), to pay in cash head for the booth/s marked “Manuales”.

8) Continuing on the motorway you will pass a Repsol Service Area at Km 190 and then Junctions 186 to Ojen and Marbella Este, and A 355, to Marbella Este, Parque Commercial (La Canada, a huge shopping complex). The A7 (old N340) joins the motorway from the right which now becomes E15 AP7 and A7, the Marbella by-pass heading for San Pedro de Alcantara and Algeciras.

9) You will pass interchanges for J 184 Marbella Casco Antiguo, J 182 Nagueles and J 181b also Nagueles. The next junction is J 181a and marks the point where the E15 AP7 Motorway splits from the A7 some 5 km after the two roads first joined and heads for Estepona and Algeciras. Stay in the right hand lane where you will then go through a tunnel heading towards San Pedro de Alcantara which is the town beyond Puerto Banus.

10) Once you are through the tunnel you will see signs directing you to Puerto Bánus. Ignore both the first exit and the second exit for Puerto Banús and continue driving. Approximately 1 km later you will see the landmark Hotel H10 Andalucia Plaza and Casino on the right hand side.