There are 12 ways to get from Athens to Colwyn Bay by plane, train, bus, car, car train, busferry, or car ferry
Select an option below to see step-by-step directions and to compare ticket prices and travel times in Rome2Rio's travel planner.
Fly to Manchester Airport, train
best- Fly from Athens International Airport (ATH) to Manchester Airport (MAN)ATH - MAN
- Take the train from Manchester Airport to Colwyn Bay
9h 57m£81–313Train, bus
- Take the train from Athens to ThessalonikiIc
- Take the bus from Thessaloniki to Bucharest
- Take the bus from Bucharest Obor to Manchester, Coach Station
- Take the train from Manchester Piccadilly to Colwyn Bay
42h 28m£98–177Drive, Eurotunnel
- Drive from Athens to Calais-Fréthun
- Take the car train from Calais-Fréthun to Folkestone
- Drive from Folkestone to Colwyn Bay
33h 19mFly to Liverpool, train
- Fly from Athens International Airport (ATH) to Liverpool (LPL)ATH - LPL
- Take the train from Chester to Colwyn Bay
12h 9m£109–242Fly to Birmingham Airport, train
- Fly from Athens International Airport (ATH) to Birmingham Airport (BHX)ATH - BHX
- Take the train from Birmingham New Street to Crewe
- Take the train from Crewe to Colwyn Bay
10h 25m£96–265Fly to London Heathrow Airport, train
- Fly from Athens International Airport (ATH) to London Heathrow Airport (LHR)ATH - LHR
- Take the train from London Euston to Chester
- Take the train from Chester to Colwyn Bay
11h 36m£145–551Fly to London Stansted Airport, train
- Fly from Athens International Airport (ATH) to London Stansted Airport (STN)ATH - STN
- Take the train from London Euston to Chester
- Take the train from Chester to Colwyn Bay
11h 32m£120–529Fly to London Gatwick Airport, train
- Fly from Athens International Airport (ATH) to London Gatwick Airport (LGW)ATH - LGW
- Take the train from Gatwick Airport to London Victoria
- Take the train from London Euston to Chester
- Take the train from Chester to Colwyn Bay
11h 38m£117–536Bus, train
- Take the bus from Athens to Tirana, Terminali Lindor I Autobusave
- Take the bus from Tirana to Bounds Green Road London
- Take the train from London Euston to Colwyn Bay
2d 2hBus, train via Prague
- Take the bus from Athens to Praha, ÚAN Florenc
- Take the bus from Praha, ÚAN Florenc to Birmingham
- Take the bus from Birmingham Coach Station to Chester Bus Interchange423 / ...
- Take the train from Chester to Colwyn Bay
2d 12h£141–230Bus, bus and ferry, train
- Take the bus from Athens to București, Autogara Militari
- Take the busferry from Bucharest to Manchester Piccadilly
- Take the train from Manchester Piccadilly to Colwyn Bay
3d 20h£120–268Drive, car ferry
- Drive from Athens to Calais
- Take the car ferry from Calais to Port of Dover
- Drive from Port of Dover to Colwyn Bay
34h 20m£562–810
Athens International Airport (ATH) to Manchester Airport (MAN) flights
Questions & Answers
The cheapest way to get from Athens to Colwyn Bay is to train and bus which costs £95 - £180 and takes 42h 28m.
The fastest way to get from Athens to Colwyn Bay is to fly and train which takes 9h 57m and costs £80 - £320.
The distance between Athens and Colwyn Bay is 1760 miles.
The best way to get from Athens to Colwyn Bay without a car is to train and bus which takes 42h 28m and costs £95 - £180.
It takes approximately 9h 57m to get from Athens to Colwyn Bay, including transfers.
Colwyn Bay is 2h behind Athens. It is currently 4:15 AM in Athens and 2:15 AM in Colwyn Bay.
There are 1810+ hotels available in Colwyn Bay.
What companies run services between Athens, Greece and Colwyn Bay, Wales?
There is no direct connection from Athens to Colwyn Bay. However, you can take the subway to Στ.Αεροδρομιου, walk to Athens International Airport (ATH) airport, fly to Manchester Airport (MAN), walk to Manchester Airport, then take the train to Colwyn Bay. Alternatively, you can take a train from Athens to Colwyn Bay via Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Bucharest Obor, Manchester, Coach Station, and Manchester Piccadilly in around 42h 28m.
- Website
- ryanair.com
Flights from Athens International Airport to Manchester Airport via Milan Bergamo
- Ave. Duration
- 7h 31m
- When
- Monday, Friday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- £55–240
Flights from Athens International Airport to Manchester Airport via Cologne Bonn
- Ave. Duration
- 7h 40m
- When
- Monday
- Estimated price
- £55–240
Flights from Athens International Airport to Liverpool via Corfu
- Ave. Duration
- 7h 55m
- When
- Monday
- Estimated price
- £55–190
Flights from Athens International Airport to Liverpool via Budapest
- Ave. Duration
- 8h 5m
- When
- Friday and Sunday
- Estimated price
- £55–190
Flights from Athens International Airport to Liverpool via Wroclaw
- Ave. Duration
- 12h 40m
- When
- Sunday
- Estimated price
- £55–190
Flights from Athens International Airport to London Stansted Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 55m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- £45–200
- Website
- easyjet.com
Flights from Athens International Airport to Manchester Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 15m
- When
- Monday, Wednesday, Friday, Saturday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- £60–130
Flights from Athens International Airport to Liverpool via Geneva
- Ave. Duration
- 9h 15m
- When
- Friday to Sunday
- Estimated price
- £55–190
Flights from Athens International Airport to Liverpool via Corfu
- Ave. Duration
- 6h 45m
- When
- Sunday
- Estimated price
- £55–190
Flights from Athens International Airport to London Gatwick Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 2m
- When
- Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday, Saturday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- £55–170
- Website
- en.aegeanair.com
Flights from Athens International Airport to Manchester Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 10m
- When
- Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday
- Estimated price
- £70–130
Flights from Athens International Airport to Manchester Airport via Brussels
- Ave. Duration
- 6h 50m
- When
- Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- £55–210
Flights from Athens International Airport to London Heathrow Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 2m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- £60–170
Flights from Athens International Airport to London Gatwick Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 5m
- When
- Tuesday to Friday
- Estimated price
- £55–180
- Website
- britishairways.com
Flights from Athens International Airport to London Heathrow Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 5m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- £70–160
- Website
- jet2.com
Flights from Athens International Airport to Manchester Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 5m
- When
- Sunday
- Estimated price
- £35–150
Flights from Athens International Airport to Liverpool via Corfu
- Ave. Duration
- 6h 45m
- When
- Friday
- Estimated price
- £60–200
Flights from Athens International Airport to Liverpool via Prague
- Ave. Duration
- 7h 35m
- When
- Thursday
- Estimated price
- £65–240
Flights from Athens International Airport to Birmingham Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 4h
- When
- Thursday and Sunday
- Estimated price
- £35–220
Flights from Athens International Airport to London Stansted Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 45m
- When
- Thursday
- Estimated price
- £45–160
- Website
- brusselsairlines.com
Flights from Athens International Airport to Manchester Airport via Brussels
- Ave. Duration
- 6h 50m
- When
- Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- £55–210
Flights from Athens International Airport to London Heathrow Airport via Brussels
- Ave. Duration
- 6h 57m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- £60–240
- Website
- lufthansa.com
Flights from Athens International Airport to Birmingham Airport via Munich
- Ave. Duration
- 5h 40m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- £65–260
- Website
- skyexpress.gr
Flights from Athens International Airport to London Gatwick Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 4h
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- £35–140
- Phone
- 03333 211 202
- Website
- tfw.wales
Train from Manchester Airport to Colwyn Bay
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 14m
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- £18–65
- Website
- https://tfw.wales/
Train from Manchester Piccadilly to Colwyn Bay
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 55m
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- £16–55
- Website
- https://tfw.wales/
Train from Chester to Colwyn Bay
- Ave. Duration
- 48 min
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- £9–25
- Website
- https://tfw.wales/
Train from Birmingham New Street to Crewe
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 37m
- Frequency
- 4 times a week
- Estimated price
- £13–23
- Website
- https://tfw.wales/
Train from Crewe to Colwyn Bay
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 7m
- Frequency
- 4 times a day
- Estimated price
- £20–40
- Website
- https://tfw.wales/
- Phone
- 14511
- Website
- hellenictrain.gr
Train from Athens to Thessaloniki
- Ave. Duration
- 5h 12m
- Frequency
- Twice daily
- Estimated price
- £19–27
- Website
- https://www.hellenictrain.gr/en
- Phone
- +44 (0) 8443 35 35 35
- Website
- leshuttle.com
Car train from Calais-Fréthun to Folkestone
- Ave. Duration
- 35 min
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Website
- https://www.leshuttle.com/uk-en
- Phone
- +44 345 528 0253
- Website
- avantiwestcoast.co.uk
Train from Chester to Colwyn Bay
- Ave. Duration
- 43 min
- Frequency
- Every 4 hours
- Estimated price
- £15–30
- Website
- https://www.avantiwestcoast.co.uk/
- Anytime Single
- £15–21
- Anytime Single 1st Class
- £21–30
Train from Birmingham New Street to Crewe
- Ave. Duration
- 1h
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- £11–40
- Website
- https://www.avantiwestcoast.co.uk/
Train from Crewe to Colwyn Bay
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 10m
- Frequency
- Every 4 hours
- Estimated price
- £16–40
- Website
- https://www.avantiwestcoast.co.uk/
Train from London Euston to Chester
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 4m
- Frequency
- Every 2 hours
- Estimated price
- £45–230
- Website
- https://www.avantiwestcoast.co.uk/
Train from London Euston to Colwyn Bay
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 54m
- Frequency
- 5 times a day
- Estimated price
- £85–130
- Website
- https://www.avantiwestcoast.co.uk/
- Phone
- +44 333 311 0039
- contact.wmr@wmtrains.co.uk
- Website
- westmidlandsrailway.co.uk
Train from Birmingham New Street to Crewe
- Ave. Duration
- 56 min
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- £9–40
- Website
- https://www.westmidlandsrailway.co.uk/
Train from Birmingham New Street to Crewe
- Ave. Duration
- 54 min
- Frequency
- Once daily
- Estimated price
- £24–50
- Website
- https://www.crosscountrytrains.co.uk/
- Phone
- +44 3451 27 29 20
- Website
- southernrailway.com
Train from Gatwick Airport to London Victoria
- Ave. Duration
- 32 min
- Frequency
- Every 15 minutes
- Estimated price
- £13–35
- Website
- https://www.southernrailway.com/
- Phone
- +44 345 850 1530
- Website
- gatwickexpress.com
Train from Gatwick Airport to London Victoria
- Ave. Duration
- 31 min
- Frequency
- Every 30 minutes
- Estimated price
- £25–55
- Website
- https://www.gatwickexpress.com/
- Phone
- +30-2310540970
- info@simeonidistours.gr
- Website
- simeonidistours.gr
Bus from Thessaloniki to Bucharest
- Ave. Duration
- 9h 36m
- Frequency
- Twice a week
- Estimated price
- £40–65
- Schedules at
- simeonidistours.gr
- Phone
- +40 230 562 929
- tarsin_irlanda@yahoo.com
- Website
- tarsin.ro
Bus from Bucharest Obor to Manchester, Coach Station
- Ave. Duration
- 22h 31m
- Frequency
- Once a week
- Estimated price
- £23–30
- Schedules at
- tarsin.ro
- Phone
- +2105203350
- Website
- top-lines.gr
Bus from Athens to Tirana, Terminali Lindor I Autobusave
- Ave. Duration
- 10h 20m
- Frequency
- Once daily
- Estimated price
- £35
- Schedules at
- top-lines.gr
- Phone
- +355 67 604 2191
- Website
- facebook.com
Bus from Athens to Tirana, Terminali Lindor I Autobusave
- Ave. Duration
- 11h 8m
- Frequency
- Once daily
- Schedules at
- autobus.al
- Phone
- +355 69 232 8000
- info@anumitravel.com
- Website
- facebook.com
Bus from Tirana to Bounds Green Road London
- Ave. Duration
- 34h 25m
- Frequency
- Once a week
- Schedules at
- facebook.com
- Phone
- +30 210 92 33 33
- info@koronatravel.gr
- Website
- koronatravel.gr
Bus from Athens to Praha, ÚAN Florenc
- Ave. Duration
- 33h
- Frequency
- Once a week
- Estimated price
- £79
- Schedules at
- koronatravel.gr
- Phone
- +421 55 680 73 06
- onlinepredaj@eurobus.sk
- Website
- eurobus.sk
Bus from Praha, ÚAN Florenc to Birmingham
- Ave. Duration
- 22h 1m
- Frequency
- 4 times a week
- Estimated price
- £45–55
- Website
- https://www.eurobus.sk/en
- Phone
- 08717 81 81 81
- Website
- nationalexpress.com
Bus from Birmingham Coach Station to Chester Bus Interchange
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 45m
- Frequency
- 3 times a day
- Estimated price
- £9–27
- Website
- https://www.nationalexpress.com/en
- Phone
- 07001 8282
- booking@union-ivkoni.com
- Website
- union-ivkoni.com
Bus from Athens to București, Autogara Militari
- Ave. Duration
- 22h 30m
- Frequency
- 6 times a week
- Estimated price
- £40–65
- Website
- https://union-ivkoni.com/en
- Phone
- 0040263701919
- latinoexpres@yahoo.com
- Website
- latinoexpres.ro
Busferry from Bucharest to Manchester Piccadilly
- Ave. Duration
- 2d 17h
- Frequency
- Once a week
- Estimated price
- £60–150
- Schedules at
- latinoexpres.ro
- Phone
- +353 818 300 400
- info@irishferries.com
- Website
- irishferries.com
Car ferry from Calais to Port of Dover
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 30m
- Frequency
- Every 3 hours
- Estimated price
- £30–40
- Website
- https://www.irishferries.com/uk-en/Travel-to-Ireland
- Car
- £65–170
- On Foot
- £30–40
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