and you can book free tickets online now at http://www.caminitodelrey.info/But....so far there is no provision of transport to get you back to your start point, which presents something of a logistical problem. (They don't even seem to have made any provision for car parking either, which seems a bit of an oversight since they're expecting 600 people a day). The only people I know who might be happy to sit in a vehicle for 4 or 5 hours waiting while the rest of our party do the walk, are non-drivers, so that's a dead-end! Could arrange one-way transport to the Ardales start point, and hope there's a train back from El Chorro at the right time. Of fork out for a private minibus to do the round trip, which would mean booking it for the whole day basically. Just as well the path itself is free for the first six months.
And another thing, from the website, it's entirely unclear exactly where the start point is anyway. Quote: "Coming from Ardales, through the tunnel at the Count of Guadalhorce’s Reservoir, by Kiosko restaurant, or from the chair of King Alfonso III to the control cabin at the Hydroelectric Power Station Gaitanejo". I can locate the Kiosko restaurant, but the "tunnel", the King's "chair" and the power station I canot find on Google maps. It all seems rather vague. It could only be in Spain! Lonely Planet are plugging this new attraction - I foresee utter chaos.
