There are 12 ways to get from Bulgaria to Ireland by plane, bus, car, car ferry, shuttle, train, night train, or 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 Sofia Airport to Dublin Airport
best- Fly from Sofia Airport (SOF) to Dublin Airport (DUB)plane SOF - DUB
7h 3m€60–154Bus
- Take the bus from Sofia to București, Autogara Militaribus
- Take the bus from Bucharest Otopeni Airport to Rădăuţibus
- Take the bus from Rădăuți to Dublinbus
2d 16h€93–307Drive, car ferry
- Drive from Sofia to Port of Cherbourgcar
- Take the car ferry from Port of Cherbourg to Dublin Terminal 1carferry
43h 11m€485–824Shuttle to Bucharest Otopeni, fly to Dublin Airport
- Take a shuttle bus from Ruse to Bucharest Otopeni Airport
- Fly from Bucharest Otopeni (OTP) to Dublin Airport (DUB)plane OTP - DUB
8h 16m€161–422Fly Sofia Airport to Cork Airport
- Fly from Sofia Airport (SOF) to Cork Airport (ORK)plane SOF - ORK
11h 13m€69–221Fly Sofia Airport to Shannon Airport
- Fly from Sofia Airport (SOF) to Shannon Airport (SNN)plane SOF - SNN
9h 24m€68–180Fly Plovdiv Airport to Dublin Airport
- Fly from Plovdiv Airport (PDV) to Dublin Airport (DUB)plane PDV - DUB
11h 18m€69–368Fly Burgas Airport to Dublin Airport
- Fly from Burgas Airport (BOJ) to Dublin Airport (DUB)plane BOJ - DUB
7h 31m€69–213Shuttle to Bucharest Otopeni, fly to George Best Belfast City Airport, train
- Take a shuttle bus from Ruse to Bucharest Otopeni Airport
- Fly from Bucharest Otopeni (OTP) to George Best Belfast City Airport (BHD)plane OTP - BHD
- Take the train from Belfast Great Central to Dundalktrain
11h 31m€215–476Train, night train, bus
- Take the train from Sofia Sever to Gorna Oryahovitsatrain
- Take the night train from Gorna Oryahovitsa to Bucharestnighttrain
- Take the train from Bucharest to Romantrain
- Take the bus from Roman to Rădăuţibus
- Take the bus from Rădăuți to Dublinbus
2d 17h€108–296Bus, ferry
- Take the bus from Sofia to Aradbus
- Take the bus from Arad to Rennesbus
- Take the bus from Rennes-Gare Routiere to Cherbourg-Garebus
- Take the ferry from Cherbourg to Dublin Ferryport B+Iferry
3d 3hBus, car ferry, train
- Take the bus from Sofia to Burgosbus
- Take the bus from Burgos to Santurce/Santurtzibus
- Take the car ferry from Bilbao to Rosslare Harbourcarferry
- Take the train from Rosslare Europort to Grand Canal Docktrain Ic
3d 10h€195–765
Sofia Airport (SOF) to Dublin Airport (DUB) flights
Questions & Answers
The cheapest way to get from Bulgaria to Ireland is to fly which costs €60 - €160 and takes 7h 3m.
The fastest way to get from Bulgaria to Ireland is to fly which takes 7h 3m and costs €60 - €160.
The distance between Bulgaria and Ireland is 2509 km.
The best way to get from Bulgaria to Ireland without a car is to bus which takes 2 days 16h and costs €90 - €310.
It takes approximately 7h 3m to get from Bulgaria to Ireland, including transfers.
The best way to get from Bulgaria to Ireland is to fly which takes 7h 3m and costs €60 - €160. Alternatively, you can bus, which costs €90 - €310 and takes 2 days 16h.
Ireland is 2h behind Bulgaria. It is currently 10:10 AM in Bulgaria and 8:10 AM in Ireland.
There are 1151+ hotels available in Ireland.
What companies run services between Bulgaria and Ireland?
Ryanair flies from Sofia Airport (SOF) to Dublin Airport (DUB) twice daily. Alternatively, you can take a bus from Sofia to Dublin via București, Autogara Militari, Bucharest Airport Henri Coanda, Bucharest Otopeni Airport, Rădăuţi, Rădăuți, and Dublin in around 2d 16h.
- Website
- ryanair.com
Flights from Sofia Airport to Dublin Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 40m
- When
- Tuesday and Saturday
- Estimated price
- €50–130
Flights from Sofia Airport to Dublin Airport via Liverpool
- Ave. Duration
- 5h 35m
- When
- Monday, Wednesday, Thursday, Saturday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- €50–130
Flights from Sofia Airport to Dublin Airport via Bristol
- Ave. Duration
- 5h 25m
- When
- Wednesday
- Estimated price
- €50–130
Flights from Sofia Airport to Dublin Airport via Birmingham
- Ave. Duration
- 6h 45m
- When
- Monday, Thursday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- €50–130
Flights from Bucharest Otopeni to Dublin Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 55m
- When
- Tuesday to Sunday
- Estimated price
- €45–140
Flights from Bucharest Otopeni to Dublin Airport via Leeds Bradford
- Ave. Duration
- 5h 45m
- When
- Tuesday and Wednesday
- Estimated price
- €45–140
Flights from Bucharest Otopeni to Dublin Airport via Manchester
- Ave. Duration
- 6h 25m
- When
- Tuesday
- Estimated price
- €45–140
Flights from Bucharest Otopeni to Dublin Airport via Vienna
- Ave. Duration
- 7h 10m
- When
- Wednesday and Sunday
- Estimated price
- €45–140
Flights from Sofia Airport to Cork Airport via Liverpool
- Ave. Duration
- 12h 35m
- When
- Monday and Wednesday
- Estimated price
- €65–220
Flights from Sofia Airport to Cork Airport via Milan Bergamo
- Ave. Duration
- 15h 45m
- When
- Thursday and Saturday
- Estimated price
- €65–220
Flights from Sofia Airport to Shannon Airport via London Stansted
- Ave. Duration
- 6h 22m
- When
- Tuesday and Sunday
- Estimated price
- €55–170
Flights from Plovdiv Airport to Dublin Airport via London Stansted
- Ave. Duration
- 6h 45m
- When
- Monday and Saturday
- Estimated price
- €55–360
Flights from Plovdiv Airport to Dublin Airport via Birmingham
- Ave. Duration
- 7h 35m
- When
- Saturday
- Estimated price
- €55–360
Flights from Plovdiv Airport to Dublin Airport via Manchester
- Ave. Duration
- 12h 10m
- When
- Saturday
- Estimated price
- €55–360
Flights from Plovdiv Airport to Dublin Airport via London Luton
- Ave. Duration
- 7h
- When
- Thursday
- Estimated price
- €65–250
Flights from Burgas Airport to Dublin Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 10m
- When
- Friday
- Estimated price
- €60–200
- Website
- aerlingus.com
Flights from Sofia Airport to Cork Airport via Bristol
- Ave. Duration
- 8h 20m
- When
- Wednesday
- Estimated price
- €65–220
Flights from Burgas Airport to Dublin Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 10m
- When
- Saturday
- Estimated price
- €60–320
Flights from Bucharest Otopeni to George Best Belfast City Airport via Leeds Bradford
- Ave. Duration
- 6h 25m
- When
- Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday, Saturday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- €50–230
Flights from Bucharest Otopeni to George Best Belfast City Airport via Birmingham
- Ave. Duration
- 7h 30m
- When
- Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Saturday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- €55–230
Flights from Bucharest Otopeni to George Best Belfast City Airport via Manchester
- Ave. Duration
- 7h 20m
- When
- Tuesday, Saturday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- €65–230
Flights from Bucharest Otopeni to George Best Belfast City Airport via Edinburgh
- Ave. Duration
- 7h 25m
- When
- Tuesday
- Estimated price
- €60–210
- Website
- klm.com
Flights from Bucharest Otopeni to Dublin Airport via Amsterdam Schiphol
- Ave. Duration
- 6h 17m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €80–380
Flights from Bucharest Otopeni to George Best Belfast City Airport via Amsterdam Schiphol
- Ave. Duration
- 9h 40m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €75–450
- Website
- lufthansa.com
Flights from Sofia Airport to Cork Airport via Frankfurt
- Ave. Duration
- 10h
- When
- Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, Friday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- €95–390
Flights from Sofia Airport to Shannon Airport via Frankfurt
- Ave. Duration
- 7h 5m
- When
- Saturday
- Estimated price
- €95–390
- Website
- swiss.com
Flights from Sofia Airport to Cork Airport via Zurich
- Ave. Duration
- 10h 47m
- When
- Friday
- Estimated price
- €90–430
- Website
- norwegian.com
Flights from Bucharest Otopeni to Dublin Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 50m
- When
- Wednesday and Sunday
- Estimated price
- €55–170
- Website
- hisky.aero
Flights from Bucharest Otopeni to Dublin Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 50m
- When
- Tuesday, Friday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- €50–150
Flights from Bucharest Otopeni to Dublin Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 50m
- When
- Thursday
- Estimated price
- €50–210
- Website
- flyedelweiss.com
Flights from Sofia Airport to Cork Airport via Zurich
- Ave. Duration
- 12h 30m
- When
- Friday
- Estimated price
- €90–430
- Website
- easyjet.com
Flights from Bucharest Otopeni to George Best Belfast City Airport via London Gatwick
- Ave. Duration
- 7h
- When
- Tuesday
- Estimated price
- €110–350
- Phone
- +44 28 9066 6630
- Website
- translink.co.uk
Train from Belfast Great Central to Dundalk
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 12m
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- €13–19
- Website
- https://www.translink.co.uk/
- Phone
- +353 1 836 6222
- info@irishrail.ie
- Website
- irishrail.ie
Train from Belfast Great Central to Dundalk
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 12m
- Frequency
- Every 3 hours
- Estimated price
- €9–13
- Website
- https://www.irishrail.ie/en-ie/
- Flexible
- €9–13
Train from Rosslare Europort to Grand Canal Dock
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 55m
- Frequency
- Once daily
- Estimated price
- €14–21
- Website
- https://www.irishrail.ie/en-ie/
- Flexible
- €14–21
- Phone
- +35929311111
- onlineticket@bdz.bg
- Website
- bdz.bg
Train from Sofia Sever to Gorna Oryahovitsa
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 38m
- Frequency
- Every 4 hours
- Estimated price
- €7–13
- Website
- https://www.bdz.bg/en
- 2nd Class
- €7–11
- 1st Class
- €10–13
Night train from Gorna Oryahovitsa to Bucharest
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 15m
- Frequency
- Twice a week
- Estimated price
- €5–10
- Website
- https://www.bdz.bg/en
- 2nd Class
- €5–9
- 1st Class
- €8–10
- Phone
- 0219521
- petitii@cfrcalatori.ro
- Website
- cfrcalatori.ro
Train from Bucharest to Roman
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 32m
- Frequency
- Every 4 hours
- Estimated price
- €28–31
- Website
- https://www.cfrcalatori.ro/en/
- Phone
- +49 30 300 137 300
- service@flixbus.com
- Website
- flixbus.fr
Bus from Sofia to București, Autogara Militari
- Ave. Duration
- 6h 35m
- Frequency
- 6 times a week
- Estimated price
- €25–45
- Website
- https://www.flixbus.co.uk
Bus from Sofia to Arad
- Ave. Duration
- 12h 45m
- Frequency
- 5 times a week
- Estimated price
- €40–75
- Website
- https://www.flixbus.co.uk
Bus from Arad to Rennes
- Ave. Duration
- 35h 30m
- Frequency
- 3 times a week
- Estimated price
- €150–260
- Website
- https://www.flixbus.co.uk
- Phone
- 0745 638 910
- transnicolaescu@yahoo.com
- Website
- transnicolaescu.ro
Bus from Bucharest Otopeni Airport to Rădăuţi
- Ave. Duration
- 7h 30m
- Frequency
- Twice daily
- Estimated price
- €11–30
- Schedules at
- transnicolaescu.ro
Bus from Roman to Rădăuţi
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 15m
- Frequency
- 3 times a day
- Estimated price
- €12
- Schedules at
- transnicolaescu.ro
- Phone
- +40 230 560 555
- tarsin_irlanda@yahoo.com
- Website
- tarsin.ro
Bus from Rădăuți to Dublin
- Ave. Duration
- 47h
- Frequency
- Once a week
- Estimated price
- €30–200
- Schedules at
- tarsin.ro
- Phone
- +359 89 345 5533
- info@atlastaxi.eu
- Website
- atlastaxi.eu
Shuttle from Ruse to Bucharest Otopeni Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 30m
- Frequency
- On demand
- Estimated price
- €100–240
- Website
- https://atlastaxi.eu/
- Phone
- +33 806 07 95 30
- contact@capcotentin.fr
- Website
- capcotentin.fr
Bus from Rennes-Gare Routiere to Cherbourg-Gare
- Ave. Duration
- 3h
- Frequency
- 6 times a week
- Schedules at
- capcotentin.fr
- Phone
- 02 981 10 40
- travel@yubim.eu
- Website
- yubim.eu
Bus from Sofia to Burgos
- Ave. Duration
- 44h 36m
- Frequency
- Twice a week
- Estimated price
- €110–150
- Schedules at
- yubim.eu
- Phone
- +34 910 207 007
- alsa@alsa.es
- Website
- alsa.com
Bus from Burgos to Santurce/Santurtzi
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 15m
- Frequency
- 3 times a day
- Estimated price
- €13–28
- Website
- https://www.alsa.com/en/
- Phone
- +353 818 300 400
- info@irishferries.com
- Website
- irishferries.com
Car ferry from Port of Cherbourg to Dublin Terminal 1
- Ave. Duration
- 19h 15m
- Frequency
- 3 times a week
- Estimated price
- €95–260
- Website
- https://www.irishferries.com/uk-en/Travel-to-Ireland
Ferry from Cherbourg to Dublin Ferryport B+I
- Ave. Duration
- 19h 45m
- Frequency
- 3 times a week
- Estimated price
- €70–190
- Website
- https://www.irishferries.com/uk-en/Travel-to-Ireland
- Phone
- +353 21 427 7801
- reservations@brittanyferries.ie
- Website
- brittanyferries.ie
Car ferry from Bilbao to Rosslare Harbour
- Ave. Duration
- 29h
- Frequency
- Twice a week
- Estimated price
- €45–550
- Website
- Brittany Ferries
- Single Ticket
- €45–210
- Car Single Ticket
- €140–550
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