Barcelona Airport arrivals: T1 vs T2, and where to meet your driver
El Prat has two terminals about a five-minute shuttle ride apart, and which one you land at depends entirely on your airline — T1 handles most full-service carriers, T2 is mostly low-cost. Check your boarding pass rather than guessing, because a driver told the wrong terminal means a real delay, not just an inconvenience.
Whichever terminal, the meeting point is the same idea: inside the arrivals hall, past baggage reclaim, where a driver waits holding a sign with your name. That is standard here, not a paid extra — you should not have to hunt for a car outside in a rank, and if you would rather be picked up kerbside instead, just say so when you book.
Give us the flight number and we track it ourselves. A delayed landing does not cost anything extra and does not require you to message anyone — the pickup simply moves with the flight, and one hour of waiting after landing is already included.
What actually happens if your flight is delayed
This is the scenario every airport transfer story is really about, so it is worth being specific. Once you give us a flight number, it gets tracked automatically — not by someone checking a screen periodically, but continuously, the same way the airport's own displays update.
If the new landing time pushes your pickup back by twenty minutes or six hours, the driver's schedule adjusts with it. You are not charged more for the wait, and you do not need to send a message to confirm it — the one exception being a very large shift (for example, a flight rebooked to the next day), where a quick WhatsApp to reconfirm details is sensible.
The one thing worth doing on your end: send the flight number in the format on your boarding pass (e.g. VY1234), since that is what tracking systems match against — a misspelled code is the one thing that can break automatic tracking.
Getting to Cadaqués without a car
Cadaqués sits at the end of a winding coastal road past Roses, and it is one of the few Costa Brava towns with no direct train connection — public transport options are limited and usually involve at least one change. For a full day trip or a stay of a few nights, most visitors coming from Barcelona find a private transfer far less stressful than self-driving that final stretch, particularly after a long flight.
The drive itself runs a little over two hours from Barcelona, mostly motorway until the final coastal section. If you are staying somewhere without a conventional street address — a villa above the town, for instance — sharing a map pin in advance means the driver already knows exactly where to go rather than working it out on arrival.
Booking the return leg at the same time is worth doing if you can, since taxis are genuinely scarce in Cadaqués itself, especially early in the morning.