An empty calendar on the official site almost always means that batch has sold out, not that it has not opened yet – during the last sale most tickets went within a day. There is a hard daily cap, nothing is sold at the entrance, and arriving without a booking means being turned away at the first checkpoint. Keep checking for cancellations, especially midweek mornings. If the self-guided slots are gone for your dates, a guided tour – the official one, or an operator that includes transport from Málaga – is the normal fallback, not a workaround. Our
Caminito del Rey guide walks through the options.