Adress: Av de la Hispanidad, s/n, 28042 Madrid, Spain
IATA Airport code: MAD
ICAO Airport code: LEMD
Alias: Adolfo Suárez Madrid-Barajas Airport
Spain’s largest airport and world’s 4th most extensive, Madrid Airport is also called Adolfo Suarez Madrid-Barajas Airport. It serves over fifty million passengers per year with its four terminal buildings. Opened in 1928 this airport is a vital point of entry for visitors visiting Spain.
This is the main link between Latin America and Europe and serves as the gateway to the Iberian Peninsula. It works for not just the rest of the west but also for the world as well. Madrid airport is located in the Barajas area about twelve km away from the city center.
This Airport provides different parking choices, of which P4, P2, P1 long-stay, and low cost are the most critical ones. All of these parking spaces are divided into three different pricing categories, from expensive to economical. The free transit bus service also takes the passengers from long-stay and low-cost parking lots to the top of the airport.
The terminal also provides VIP car park (T4, T2, and T1), First class car park (P4) and priority car park (T2) which are available at higher price points. Passengers can either be picked up or dropped off at the Express car Park (T2, T1).
This is the latest building block for parking with six modules and nine thousand parking spaces. The automated sign system guides the drivers to park. Tickets can be collected from the twenty mechanical payment machines or two staffed payment desks.
This is an open-air parking place in front of the terminal-1 and is resides fifteen mechanical payment machines. Seven of which are for card payments only and one is also available for the disabled. The tickets must be collected before boarding on to the Madrid Barajas Airport.
Four thousand six hundred locations and multi-module parking facility can be availed here in this parking place. The facility is attached to the passenger terminals by a corridor from the first floor. The payment machines are also available on the first floor of the first seven-story building and close to the newly built module E.
This parking lot is considerably away from the terminal, and a shuttle bus takes passengers to the terminals between 7:30 to midnight. And has a capacity of housing 1655 vehicles.
For a small stay, this car park serves drivers who want to mark for thirty minutes or less, and it is located close to Terminal 2 arrivals.
This parking provides valet parking service, and the attendants can meet with the passengers and the drivers at the designated spots within the P4 parking garage. Other services, like precise cleaning, are also accessible.
Valet parking is accessible, and attendants will meet driver and passengers at designated straight outside the terminals. Further services such as car cleaning are available.
The Airport has a two metro station namely Aeropuerto T4 and Aeropuerto T1-T2-T3. The metro line 8 links these stations to the Spanish capital, every day of the week from 6:00 to 2:00. But if you want to get to the heart of the Spanish Capital, you would have to change the metro twice. Madrid has a beautiful metro and subway system which run continuously. A full trip to Metro Sol takes approximately thirty-five minutes.
For a metro ticket, you will pay for €5.00 adding 3 for airport surcharge with airport Madrid parking. Usually, one journey on metro costs €1.50 to €2.00. The airport surcharge is mandatory when visiting or from the airport. If you choose to stay in Madrid a little longer, you can also pay for a card which can be used for up to ten trips and can cost €12.30.
It is quite easy to travel by train from terminal 4 to the heart of Madrid, daily from 6 am to 12:15 am. To visit Puerta Del Sol, you need to move at Nuevos Ministerios or Chamartin to the line C4 or C3 which is the second biggest train station in Madrid. Suburban train line C1 departs every thirty minutes towards the city from the airport.
Total travel time from the airport to Puerta Del sol train station is thirty minutes. You can get off on the Madrid big railway station Atocha at C1 after twenty-seven minutes.
The Airport Express bus service is the best substitute for public transport, mainly for those arriving or departing from terminal one. It is a ten-minute walk to the metro station from Madrid Airport T-1. The bus departs every fifteen minutes to Atocha station, from 23:30 to 6:00 and airport express runs every thirty-five minutes. The makes several stops to Terminal 2, Terminal 4, Terminal 1, Cibeles, Donnell, and Atocha.
You might want to get off the Cibeles stop at Plaza de Cibeles if you’re going to get to the heart of Madrid. With lots of room on the bus and free internet Wi-fi, this thirty-minute long trip passes by pretty quickly.
Madrid Airport provides six different high quality and standard airport lounges. These lounges are located all around all the passenger terminals. To enter the lounge passengers are required to have a boarding pass for a flight departing from that terminal.
The online airport lounge reservation service is presently inaccessible, but passes can be purchased at each lounge reception the day of its area permits.
