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Valencia keeps cars out of much of its old town with cameras and fills the central streets with short-stay ORA bays, so a hire car is best left near Plaza de la Reina or in the Eixample while you walk. It earns its keep beyond the Grandes Vias, on the CV-500 to El Saler and the Albufera rice fields, or up the V-21 to Sagunto.
The airport is in Manises, and the drive to Mercado de Colón in the Eixample is about 11 km, about 15 min on clear roads.
From the terminal, follow the airport roundabouts onto the V-11, the dual carriageway linking the airport with the A-3.
After about 2 km, take the left fork signed E-901, A-3 Valencia and merge onto the A-3 Autovia del Este.
Stay on the A-3 for about 3 km. Ignore the right-hand slip road to the V-30, signed Alicante and the port, unless you are heading that way.
The A-3 becomes Avinguda del Cid. Carry on along Carrer de Sant Josep de Calassanç to the Gran Via, past Germanies to Marqués del Túria, and turn off at Carrer d'Isabel la Catòlica for Mercado de Colón car park.
Blue ORA bays take anyone for 2 hours at most, generally Monday to Saturday 09:00-14:00 and 16:00-20:00. Orange bays give non-residents the same limit but ban them outside paid hours, so never leave a car there overnight. Green is residents only. For longer stays, Plaza de la Reina car park opens 24 hours.
Cameras guard Ciutat Vella Nord, including El Carmen, Carrer dels Cavallers and Plaça del Mercat, and only authorised vehicles may enter. Hotels there can apply for access, so ask yours first. This area doubles as a provisional low emission zone, but the citywide one still lacks final approval, so no label is needed to enter Valencia.
From the afternoon of 16 March until early on 20 March, the centre inside the old Turia riverbed and the Grandes Vias closes to private cars. Blue bays have gone free in recent years, orange bays residents-only. Fireworks nights shut the Montolivet bridge, so agree a handover point outside that ring.
Times run from Plaça de l'Ajuntament on clear roads, rounded up to the next 5 minutes.
Photos: Diego Delso, CC BY-SA 3.0; MCAE Consulting, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons, resized.
Yes. Delivery to your hotel, villa or an agreed meeting point in Valencia, or to the arrivals exit at Valencia Airport (VLC), is €120 each way. Handovers run 09:00-20:00 daily, other times by arrangement at €50 per handover, and the time is confirmed on WhatsApp.
Yes, and meet and greet there is free: express parking on the departures level, opposite Starbucks, 09:00-20:00 daily. The quickest route runs inland on the A-31, A-33, A-35 and A-7, about 180 km and about 2 h 5 min. The coastal AP-7 has been toll-free since 2020.
Not in orange or green ORA bays, which are residents-only overnight. Plaza de la Reina car park, by the Cathedral, opens 24 hours and lies outside the restricted streets. In the Eixample, use the Mercado de Colón car park.
Take the CV-500 south past El Saler to El Palmar, about 25 min from the centre. Boat trips last about 40 minutes and most leave from the Gola de Pujol pier. Sunset is the popular slot, so book early.
Malvarrosa, about 15 min from the centre, joins Cabanyal and Patacona along the city front. For dunes and pine forest, El Saler is about 20 min south inside the Albufera Natural Park, with a 2.6 km beach and a marked, unguarded car park.
Delivery to your hotel, villa or an agreed meeting point in Valencia, or to VLC airport, for €120 each way. €0 deposit option. Cancel free 24h.
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