Benalmádena is a easily accessible tourist resort ,it is only ten kilometres from Málaga’s Picasso International Airport.
The town can also be reached by a four-lane highway and by train.
The airport, located along the coast, just off the A-5 four-lane highway and only 10 kms. from Benalmádena, is easily accessible from anywhere in this part of the Costa del Sol.
There is a suburban train from the Málaga railway station to Benalmádena that stops at Málaga airport and takes you right to the town centre (Arroyo de la Miel station) in about 30 minutes.
Málaga has a tourist port where most passengers coming to the Costa del Sol by sea arrive. Regular passenger services offer direct connections to towns in the north of Africa and along the Spanish coast, and an increasing number of tourist cruises with stopovers in other Mediterranean ports.
To get to Benalmádena from Madrid by road, the quickest and most comfortable way is to take the A-IV four-lane highway to Seville until you get to Bailén, and then continue on the road to Jaén and Granada and from there to Málaga and the Costa del Sol.