There are 5 ways to get from Alacant/Alicante Terminal to Cartagena by plane, train, or bus
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Fly Alicante-Elche Airport to Cartagena
best- Fly from Alicante-Elche Airport (ALC) to Cartagena (CTG)ALC - CTG
18h 14m$508–1,011Train to Valencia Airport, fly to Cartagena
cheapest- Take the train from Alacant/Alicante Terminal to Estació del Nord
- Fly from Valencia Airport (VLC) to Cartagena (CTG)VLC - CTG
19h 58m$322–1,170Fly Alicante-Elche Airport to Ernesto Cortissoz International Airport, bus
- Fly from Alicante-Elche Airport (ALC) to Ernesto Cortissoz International Airport (BAQ)ALC - BAQ
- Take the bus from Terminal Metropolitana de Barranquilla to Terminal de Transporte de Cartagena
20h 54m$322–1,127Train to Adolfo Suárez Madrid–Barajas Airport, fly to Cartagena
- Take the train from Alacant/Alicante Terminal to Madrid Chamartín
- Fly from Adolfo Suárez Madrid–Barajas Airport (MAD) to Cartagena (CTG)MAD - CTG
17h 57m$416–954Fly Alicante-Elche Airport to Simón Bolívar International Airport, bus
- Fly from Alicante-Elche Airport (ALC) to Simón Bolívar International Airport (SMR)ALC - SMR
- Take the bus from Parada 1419 to Parada 1454
- Take the bus from Terminal Santa Marta to Terminal de Transporte de Cartagena
23h 57m
Alicante-Elche Airport (ALC) to Cartagena (CTG) flights
Questions & Answers
The cheapest way to get from Alacant/Alicante Terminal to Cartagena is to train and fly which costs $410 - $1,000 and takes 17h 57m.
The fastest way to get from Alacant/Alicante Terminal to Cartagena is to train and fly which takes 17h 57m and costs $410 - $1,000.
The distance between Alacant/Alicante Terminal and Cartagena is 8002 km.
It takes approximately 18h 14m to get from Alacant/Alicante Terminal to Cartagena, including transfers.
Cartagena is 5h behind Alacant/Alicante Terminal. It is currently 8:45 AM in Alacant/Alicante Terminal and 3:45 AM in Cartagena.
There are 3223+ hotels available in Cartagena.
What companies run services between Alacant/Alicante Terminal, Spain and Cartagena, Colombia?
Iberia, LATAM Chile, and five other airlines fly from Alicante-Elche Airport (ALC) to Cartagena (CTG) every 4 hours.
Transport is disrupted due to the Russia-Ukraine war. Read more
- Website
- iberia.com
Flights from Alicante-Elche Airport to Cartagena via Adolfo Suárez Madrid–Barajas Airport, Bogota
- Ave. Duration
- 16h 11m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- $280–1,400
Flights from Valencia Airport to Cartagena via Adolfo Suárez Madrid–Barajas Airport, Bogota
- Ave. Duration
- 17h 30m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- $300–1,500
Flights from Alicante-Elche Airport to Ernesto Cortissoz International Airport via Adolfo Suárez Madrid–Barajas Airport, Bogota
- Ave. Duration
- 16h 12m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- $300–1,500
Flights from Adolfo Suárez Madrid–Barajas Airport to Cartagena via Bogota
- Ave. Duration
- 13h 30m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- $270–1,400
Flights from Alicante-Elche Airport to Simón Bolívar International Airport via Adolfo Suárez Madrid–Barajas Airport, Bogota
- Ave. Duration
- 18h 45m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- $280–1,400
- Website
- avianca.com
Flights from Alicante-Elche Airport to Cartagena via Adolfo Suárez Madrid–Barajas Airport, Bogota
- Ave. Duration
- 16h 5m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- $290–1,000
Flights from Alicante-Elche Airport to Cartagena via Barcelona, Bogota
- Ave. Duration
- 16h 20m
- When
- Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday, Saturday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- $550–800
Flights from Alicante-Elche Airport to Cartagena via Adolfo Suárez Madrid–Barajas Airport, Medellin Jose Marie Cordova
- Ave. Duration
- 16h 35m
- When
- Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday
- Estimated price
- $280–1,000
Flights from Valencia Airport to Cartagena via Adolfo Suárez Madrid–Barajas Airport, Bogota
- Ave. Duration
- 16h 52m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- $310–1,100
Flights from Valencia Airport to Cartagena via Adolfo Suárez Madrid–Barajas Airport, Medellin Jose Marie Cordova
- Ave. Duration
- 16h 40m
- When
- Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday
- Estimated price
- $300–1,100
Flights from Alicante-Elche Airport to Ernesto Cortissoz International Airport via Adolfo Suárez Madrid–Barajas Airport, Bogota
- Ave. Duration
- 17h 10m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- $310–1,100
Flights from Alicante-Elche Airport to Ernesto Cortissoz International Airport via Barcelona, Bogota
- Ave. Duration
- 16h 15m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- $360–1,100
Flights from Adolfo Suárez Madrid–Barajas Airport to Cartagena via Bogota
- Ave. Duration
- 13h 25m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- $360–850
Flights from Alicante-Elche Airport to Simón Bolívar International Airport via Barcelona, Bogota
- Ave. Duration
- 15h 55m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- $340–1,000
Flights from Alicante-Elche Airport to Simón Bolívar International Airport via Adolfo Suárez Madrid–Barajas Airport, Bogota
- Ave. Duration
- 17h 35m
- When
- Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Saturday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- $320–950
- Website
- latam.com
Flights from Alicante-Elche Airport to Cartagena via Adolfo Suárez Madrid–Barajas Airport, Bogota
- Ave. Duration
- 15h 36m
- When
- Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, Saturday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- $280–1,400
Flights from Valencia Airport to Cartagena via Adolfo Suárez Madrid–Barajas Airport, Bogota
- Ave. Duration
- 16h 21m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- $300–1,500
Flights from Alicante-Elche Airport to Ernesto Cortissoz International Airport via Adolfo Suárez Madrid–Barajas Airport, Bogota
- Ave. Duration
- 15h 52m
- When
- Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- $300–1,500
Flights from Adolfo Suárez Madrid–Barajas Airport to Cartagena via Bogota
- Ave. Duration
- 13h 21m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- $270–1,400
Flights from Alicante-Elche Airport to Simón Bolívar International Airport via Adolfo Suárez Madrid–Barajas Airport, Bogota
- Ave. Duration
- 22h 52m
- When
- Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, Saturday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- $280–1,400
- Website
- copaair.com
Flights from Alicante-Elche Airport to Cartagena via Adolfo Suárez Madrid–Barajas Airport, Panama City
- Ave. Duration
- 16h 30m
- When
- Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- $290–1,000
Flights from Valencia Airport to Cartagena via Adolfo Suárez Madrid–Barajas Airport, Panama City
- Ave. Duration
- 16h 35m
- When
- Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- $300–1,100
Flights from Alicante-Elche Airport to Ernesto Cortissoz International Airport via Adolfo Suárez Madrid–Barajas Airport, Panama City
- Ave. Duration
- 17h 8m
- When
- Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- $310–1,100
Flights from Adolfo Suárez Madrid–Barajas Airport to Cartagena via Panama City
- Ave. Duration
- 13h 50m
- When
- Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- $270–950
- Website
- worldticket.com
Flights from Alicante-Elche Airport to Cartagena via Adolfo Suárez Madrid–Barajas Airport, Santo Domingo
- Ave. Duration
- 15h 52m
- When
- Friday
- Estimated price
- $260–1,300
Flights from Valencia Airport to Cartagena via Adolfo Suárez Madrid–Barajas Airport, Santo Domingo
- Ave. Duration
- 15h 22m
- When
- Friday
- Estimated price
- $270–1,400
- Website
- arajet.com
Flights from Alicante-Elche Airport to Cartagena via Adolfo Suárez Madrid–Barajas Airport, Santo Domingo
- Ave. Duration
- 15h 52m
- When
- Friday
- Estimated price
- $260–1,300
Flights from Valencia Airport to Cartagena via Adolfo Suárez Madrid–Barajas Airport, Santo Domingo
- Ave. Duration
- 15h 22m
- When
- Friday
- Estimated price
- $270–1,400
- Website
- w2fly.es
Flights from Adolfo Suárez Madrid–Barajas Airport to Cartagena
- Ave. Duration
- 14h 50m
- When
- Friday
- Estimated price
- $290–850
- Website
- plusultra.com
Flights from Adolfo Suárez Madrid–Barajas Airport to Cartagena via Bogota
- Ave. Duration
- 14h 5m
- When
- Monday, Wednesday, and Saturday
- Estimated price
- $410–700
- Phone
- +34 91 232 03 20
- Website
- renfe.com
Train from Alacant/Alicante Terminal to Estació del Nord
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 56m
- Frequency
- 4 times a day
- Estimated price
- $11–60
- Website
- https://www.renfe.com/es/en
Train from Alacant/Alicante Terminal to Madrid Chamartín
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 57m
- Frequency
- 3 times a day
- Estimated price
- $24–85
- Website
- https://www.renfe.com/es/en
- Phone
- +34 91 232 03 20
- Website
- renfe.com
Train from Alacant/Alicante Terminal to Madrid Chamartín
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 33m
- Frequency
- Every 3 hours
- Estimated price
- $30–95
- Website
- https://www.renfe.com/es/en
- Phone
- +34 910 780 990
- Website
- ouigo.com
Train from Alacant/Alicante Terminal to Madrid Chamartín
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 32m
- Frequency
- 3 times a day
- Estimated price
- $17–60
- Website
- https://www.ouigo.com/es/en
- Phone
- +34 900 926 851
- atencion.cliente@iryo.eu
- Website
- iryo.eu
Train from Alacant/Alicante Terminal to Madrid Chamartín
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 25m
- Frequency
- Twice daily
- Estimated price
- $22–80
- Website
- https://iryo.eu/en/home
- Phone
- 01 800 051 8001
- contactenos@expresobrasilia.com
- Website
- expresobrasilia.com
Bus from Terminal Metropolitana de Barranquilla to Terminal de Transporte de Cartagena
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 25m
- Frequency
- Every 2 hours
- Estimated price
- $11–19
- Schedules at
- expresobrasilia.com
- Book at
- expresobrasilia.com
- Preferencial de Lujo
- $13–19
Bus from Terminal Santa Marta to Terminal de Transporte de Cartagena
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 45m
- Frequency
- Every 2 hours
- Estimated price
- $16–24
- Schedules at
- expresobrasilia.com
- Book at
- expresobrasilia.com
- Preferencial de Lujo
- $16–24
- Phone
- +57 323 563 9139
- servicioalcliente@copetran.com
- Website
- copetran.com
Bus from Terminal Metropolitana de Barranquilla to Terminal de Transporte de Cartagena
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 30m
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- $7–18
- Schedules at
- copetran.com
- Book at
- copetran.com
- Road
- $13–18
Bus from Terminal Santa Marta to Terminal de Transporte de Cartagena
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 15m
- Frequency
- 3 times a day
- Estimated price
- $15–24
- Schedules at
- copetran.com
- Book at
- copetran.com
- Road
- $17–24
- Phone
- 01 800 051 8002
- servicioalcliente@unitransco.com
- Website
- unitransco.com
Bus from Terminal Metropolitana de Barranquilla to Terminal de Transporte de Cartagena
- Ave. Duration
- 2h
- Frequency
- Every 2 hours
- Estimated price
- $11
- Schedules at
- unitransco.com
- Book at
- unitransco.com
Bus from Parada 1419 to Parada 1454
- Ave. Duration
- 35 min
- Frequency
- Every 15 minutes
- Website
- https://setpsantamarta.gov.co/
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