There are 14 ways to get from Cardiff to Pilsen by train, plane, bus, train (Eurostar, TGV), car, car train, or car ferry
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Train to Bristol Airport, fly to Václav Havel Airport Prague, bus
best- Take the train from Cardiff Central to Bristol Temple Meads
- Fly from Bristol Airport (BRS) to Václav Havel Airport Prague (PRG)BRS - PRG
- Take the bus from Prague to Plzeň
7h 21mKč 1,890–4,724Bus
cheapest- Take the bus from Kingsway GD to London VictoriaUk042 / ...
- Take the bus from London Victoria to Pilsen Central Bus StationRegioJet 10
21h 50mKč 1,593–2,792Train via Paris
- Take the train from Cardiff Central to London Paddington
- Take the train from London St Pancras Intl to Paris NordEil
- Take the train from Paris Est to Muenchen HbfTgv
- Take the train from Muenchen Hbf to Plzen Hlavni NadraziRe
17h 8mKč 6,057–15,711Drive, Eurotunnel
- Drive from Cardiff to Folkestone
- Take the car train from Folkestone to Calais-Fréthun
- Drive from Calais-Fréthun to Pilsen
13h 18mFly Cardiff Airport to Václav Havel Airport Prague, bus
- Fly from Cardiff Airport (CWL) to Václav Havel Airport Prague (PRG)CWL - PRG
- Take the bus from Prague to Plzeň
9h 15mKč 2,181–6,462Train to Birmingham Airport, fly to Václav Havel Airport Prague, bus
- Take the train from Cardiff Central to Birmingham New Street
- Fly from Birmingham Airport (BHX) to Václav Havel Airport Prague (PRG)BHX - PRG
- Take the bus from Prague to Plzeň
8h 23mKč 2,446–7,001Train to London Heathrow Airport, fly to Václav Havel Airport Prague, bus
- Take the train from Cardiff Central to London Paddington
- Fly from London Heathrow Airport (LHR) to Václav Havel Airport Prague (PRG)LHR - PRG
- Take the bus from Prague to Plzeň
8h 13mKč 3,374–9,437Train, train to London Gatwick Airport, fly to Václav Havel Airport Prague, bus
- Take the train from Cardiff Central to Reading
- Take the train from Reading to Gatwick Airport
- Fly from London Gatwick Airport (LGW) to Václav Havel Airport Prague (PRG)LGW - PRG
- Take the bus from Prague to Plzeň
9h 18mKč 2,695–8,107Train, train to Luton Airport, fly to Václav Havel Airport Prague, bus
- Take the train from Cardiff Central to London Paddington
- Take the train from Farringdon to Luton Airport Parkway
- Fly from Luton Airport (LTN) to Václav Havel Airport Prague (PRG)LTN - PRG
- Take the bus from Prague to Plzeň
8h 54mKč 2,293–7,030Train to Birmingham Airport, fly to Munich International Airport, train
- Take the train from Cardiff Central to Birmingham New Street
- Fly from Birmingham Airport (BHX) to Munich International Airport (MUC)BHX - MUC
- Take the train from Freising to Plzen Hlavni Nadrazi
11h 9mTrain
- Take the train from Cardiff Central to London Paddington
- Take the train from London St. Pancras Int. to Brussel-Zuid
- Take the train from Brussel-Zuid to Praha hl.n.
- Take the train from Praha Hlavni Nadrazi to Plzen Hlavni NadraziRe / ...
20h 23mKč 4,439–11,242Train, bus
- Take the train from Cardiff Central to Birmingham New StreetCardiff Central - Nottingham / ...
- Take the bus from Birmingham to Plzeň CANMichalovce
23h 28mKč 2,016–3,891Bus, train
- Take the bus from Kingsway GD to London Victoria
- Take the bus from London Victoria to Nuremberg central bus station
- Take the train from Nürnberg Hbf to Schwandorf
- Take the train from Schwandorf to Plzen Hlavni NadraziRe
29h 8mKč 3,187–5,786Drive, car ferry
- Drive from Cardiff to Port of Dover
- Take the car ferry from Port of Dover to Calais
- Drive from Calais to Pilsen
14h 27mKč 6,114–8,859
Cardiff to Pilsen by train, subway, and foot
Questions & Answers
The cheapest way to get from Cardiff to Pilsen is to bus which costs 1 500 Kč - 2 800 Kč and takes 21h 50m.
The fastest way to get from Cardiff to Pilsen is to train and fly and bus which takes 7h 21m and costs 1 800 Kč - 4 800 Kč.
No, there is no direct bus from Cardiff to Pilsen station. However, there are services departing from Kingsway GD and arriving at Pilsen Central Bus Station via London Victoria. The journey, including transfers, takes approximately 21h 50m.
No, there is no direct train from Cardiff to Pilsen. However, there are services departing from Cardiff Central and arriving at Plzen Hlavni Nadrazi via Paddington, London St Pancras Intl, Paris Est and Muenchen Hbf. The journey, including transfers, takes approximately 17h 8m.
The distance between Cardiff and Pilsen is 1363 km.
The best way to get from Cardiff to Pilsen without a car is to train via Paris which takes 17h 8m and costs 6 000 Kč - 16 000 Kč.
It takes approximately 7h 21m to get from Cardiff to Pilsen, including transfers.
Cardiff to Pilsen bus services, operated by FlixBus, depart from Kingsway GD station.
Cardiff to Pilsen train services, operated by Great Western Railway (GWR), depart from Cardiff Central station.
The best way to get from Cardiff to Pilsen is to train via Paris which takes 17h 8m and costs 6 000 Kč - 16 000 Kč. Alternatively, you can bus, which costs 1 500 Kč - 2 800 Kč and takes 21h 50m.
What companies run services between Cardiff, Wales and Pilsen, Czechia?
You can take a train from Cardiff Central to Plzen Hlavni Nadrazi via London Paddington, Paddington, King's Cross St. Pancras station, London St Pancras Intl, Paris Nord, Paris Est, and Muenchen Hbf in around 17h 8m. Alternatively, you can take a bus from Kingsway GD to Pilsen Central Bus Station via London Victoria in around 21h 50m.
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- Website
- lufthansa.com
Flights from Birmingham Airport to Václav Havel Airport Prague via Munich International Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 6m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- Kč 1,300–7,500
Flights from Birmingham Airport to Václav Havel Airport Prague via Frankfurt
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 57m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- Kč 1,800–8,000
Flights from London Heathrow Airport to Václav Havel Airport Prague via Frankfurt
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 38m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- Kč 2,200–7,000
Flights from London Heathrow Airport to Václav Havel Airport Prague via Munich International Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 10m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- Kč 2,200–7,000
Flights from Birmingham Airport to Munich International Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 50m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- Kč 1,300–7,500
Flights from Birmingham Airport to Munich International Airport via Frankfurt
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 48m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- Kč 2,400–4,800
- Website
- klm.com
Flights from Bristol Airport to Václav Havel Airport Prague via Amsterdam Schiphol
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 6m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- Kč 1,200–6,500
Flights from Cardiff Airport to Václav Havel Airport Prague via Amsterdam Schiphol
- Ave. Duration
- 6h 11m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- Kč 2,000–11,000
Flights from Birmingham Airport to Václav Havel Airport Prague via Amsterdam Schiphol
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 32m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- Kč 1,200–6,500
Flights from London Heathrow Airport to Václav Havel Airport Prague via Amsterdam Schiphol
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 16m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- Kč 1,300–7,000
Flights from Birmingham Airport to Munich International Airport via Amsterdam Schiphol
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 40m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- Kč 1,400–7,500
- Website
- easyjet.com
Flights from Bristol Airport to Václav Havel Airport Prague
- Ave. Duration
- 2h
- When
- Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- Kč 1,300–3,800
Flights from Bristol Airport to Václav Havel Airport Prague via Amsterdam Schiphol
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 40m
- When
- Sunday
- Estimated price
- Kč 1,300–3,800
Flights from Birmingham Airport to Václav Havel Airport Prague
- Ave. Duration
- 2h
- When
- Monday, Thursday, Friday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- Kč 1,300–3,000
Flights from Birmingham Airport to Václav Havel Airport Prague via Amsterdam Schiphol
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 50m
- When
- Monday
- Estimated price
- Kč 1,300–3,000
Flights from London Gatwick Airport to Václav Havel Airport Prague
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 58m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- Kč 1,400–4,200
Flights from London Gatwick Airport to Václav Havel Airport Prague via Amsterdam Schiphol
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 5m
- When
- Thursday and Friday
- Estimated price
- Kč 1,400–4,200
Flights from Luton Airport to Václav Havel Airport Prague
- Ave. Duration
- 2h
- When
- Monday, Thursday, Friday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- Kč 550–3,700
Flights from Luton Airport to Václav Havel Airport Prague via Amsterdam Schiphol
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 57m
- When
- Thursday, Friday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- Kč 550–3,700
- Website
- britishairways.com
Flights from London Heathrow Airport to Václav Havel Airport Prague
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 1m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- Kč 1,400–6,000
- Website
- ryanair.com
Flights from Bristol Airport to Václav Havel Airport Prague
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 5m
- When
- Monday and Saturday
- Estimated price
- Kč 1,300–3,300
Flights from Cardiff Airport to Václav Havel Airport Prague via Dublin
- Ave. Duration
- 7h 5m
- When
- Thursday
- Estimated price
- Kč 2,200–7,500
- Website
- jet2.com
Flights from Bristol Airport to Václav Havel Airport Prague
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 10m
- When
- Monday and Friday
- Estimated price
- Kč 1,700–5,000
Flights from Birmingham Airport to Václav Havel Airport Prague
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 10m
- When
- Monday and Friday
- Estimated price
- Kč 1,200–4,300
- Website
- airfrance.com
Flights from Birmingham Airport to Václav Havel Airport Prague via Paris Charles de Gaulle
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 40m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- Kč 1,300–7,000
Flights from Birmingham Airport to Munich International Airport via Paris Charles de Gaulle
- Ave. Duration
- 4h
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- Kč 1,400–8,000
- Website
- wizzair.com
Flights from London Gatwick Airport to Václav Havel Airport Prague
- Ave. Duration
- 2h
- When
- Monday, Wednesday, Friday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- Kč 650–3,300
Flights from Luton Airport to Václav Havel Airport Prague
- Ave. Duration
- 2h
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- Kč 500–2,300
- Website
- lufthansa-city.com
Flights from Birmingham Airport to Munich International Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 50m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- Kč 1,300–7,500
- Phone
- +44 3457 000 125
- gwr.feedback@gwr.com
- Website
- gwr.com
Train from Cardiff Central to Bristol Temple Meads
- Ave. Duration
- 48 min
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- Kč 340–650
- Website
- https://www.gwr.com/
Train from Cardiff Central to London Paddington
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 50m
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- Kč 1,000–2,400
- Website
- https://www.gwr.com/
Train from Cardiff Central to Reading
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 25m
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- Kč 900–2,600
- Website
- https://www.gwr.com/
Train from Reading to Gatwick Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 31m
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- Kč 700–1,000
- Website
- https://www.gwr.com/
Train from Cardiff Central to Bristol Temple Meads
- Ave. Duration
- 49 min
- Frequency
- Once a week
- Estimated price
- Kč 190–490
- Website
- https://www.crosscountrytrains.co.uk/
Train from Cardiff Central to Birmingham New Street
- Ave. Duration
- 2h
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- Kč 800–2,500
- Website
- https://www.crosscountrytrains.co.uk/
- Phone
- +44 343 218 6186
- Website
- eurostar.com
Train from London St Pancras Intl to Paris Nord
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 28m
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- Kč 1,900–7,500
- Website
- https://www.eurostar.com/rw-en
- Phone
- +33 1 84 94 36 35
- Website
- sncf-connect.com
Train from Paris Est to Muenchen Hbf
- Ave. Duration
- 5h 41m
- Frequency
- Once daily
- Estimated price
- Kč 1,200–3,900
- Website
- https://www.sncf-connect.com/en-en
- Phone
- 0 89 54 888 97 - 25
- info@laenderbahn.com
- Website
- laenderbahn.com
Train from Muenchen Hbf to Plzen Hlavni Nadrazi
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 3m
- Frequency
- Every 4 hours
- Estimated price
- Kč 1,868–1,869
- Schedules at
- laenderbahn.com
Train from Freising to Plzen Hlavni Nadrazi
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 39m
- Frequency
- Every 4 hours
- Schedules at
- laenderbahn.com
Train from Schwandorf to Plzen Hlavni Nadrazi
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 54m
- Frequency
- Every 3 hours
- Estimated price
- Kč 994
- Schedules at
- laenderbahn.com
- Phone
- +44 (0) 8443 35 35 35
- Website
- leshuttle.com
Car train from Folkestone to Calais-Fréthun
- Ave. Duration
- 35 min
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Website
- https://www.leshuttle.com/uk-en
- Phone
- 0345 026 4700
- Website
- thameslinkrailway.com
Train from Farringdon to Luton Airport Parkway
- Ave. Duration
- 36 min
- Frequency
- Every 15 minutes
- Estimated price
- Kč 220–1,000
- Website
- https://www.thameslinkrailway.com/
- Phone
- +31 30 751 5155
- Website
- ns.nl
Train from London St. Pancras Int. to Brussel-Zuid
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 1m
- Frequency
- 5 times a day
- Estimated price
- Kč 1,300–4,700
- Website
- https://www.ns.nl/en
- 2nd Class
- Kč 1,300–2,100
- 1st Class
- Kč 2,800–4,700
- info@europeansleeper.eu
- Website
- europeansleeper.eu
Train from Brussel-Zuid to Praha hl.n.
- Ave. Duration
- 12h 34m
- Frequency
- 5 times a week
- Estimated price
- Kč 1,400–3,200
- Website
- https://www.europeansleeper.eu/
- Phone
- +420 221 111 122
- info@cd.cz
- Website
- cd.cz
Train from Praha Hlavni Nadrazi to Plzen Hlavni Nadrazi
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 32m
- Frequency
- Every 30 minutes
- Estimated price
- Kč 150–310
- Website
- https://www.cd.cz/en/default.htm
- 2nd Class
- Kč 150–220
- 1st Class
- Kč 240–310
- Business
- Kč 266–267
- Phone
- +43 5 1717
- Website
- oebb.at
Train from Praha Hlavni Nadrazi to Plzen Hlavni Nadrazi
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 23m
- Frequency
- Every 4 hours
- Estimated price
- Kč 650–900
- Website
- https://www.oebb.at/en/reiseplanung-services/im-zug/unsere-zuege/eurocity-intercity
- Website
- https://shop.oebbtickets.at/en/ticket
- Phone
- +49 30 2970
- Website
- bahn.de
Train from Nürnberg Hbf to Schwandorf
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 4m
- Frequency
- Every 3 hours
- Estimated price
- Kč 400–600
- Website
- https://int.bahn.de/en
Rome2Rio's guide to FlixBus
Contact Details
- Phone
- +49 30 300 137 300
- service@flixbus.com
- Website
- flixbus.fr
Bus from Prague to Plzeň
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 5m
- Frequency
- Once daily
- Estimated price
- Kč 150–330
- Website
- https://www.flixbus.co.uk
Bus from Kingsway GD to London Victoria
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 50m
- Frequency
- Every 15 minutes
- Estimated price
- Kč 190–600
- Website
- https://www.flixbus.co.uk
Bus from London Victoria to Nuremberg central bus station
- Ave. Duration
- 19h 20m
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- Kč 1,600–3,600
- Website
- https://www.flixbus.co.uk
- Phone
- +420 222 222 221
- info@regiojet.cz
- Website
- regiojet.com
Bus from London Victoria to Pilsen Central Bus Station
- Ave. Duration
- 17h
- Frequency
- Twice a week
- Estimated price
- Kč 1,400–2,200
- Website
- https://regiojet.com/
- Phone
- +421 55 680 73 06
- onlinepredaj@eurobus.sk
- Website
- eurobus.sk
Bus from Birmingham to Plzeň CAN
- Ave. Duration
- 20h 28m
- Frequency
- 4 times a week
- Estimated price
- Kč 1,200–1,400
- Website
- https://www.eurobus.sk/en
- Phone
- +353 818 300 400
- info@irishferries.com
- Website
- irishferries.com
Car ferry from Port of Dover to Calais
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 30m
- Frequency
- Every 3 hours
- Estimated price
- Kč 850–1,100
- Website
- https://www.irishferries.com/uk-en/Travel-to-Ireland
- Car
- Kč 1,900–4,500
- On Foot
- Kč 850–1,100
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More Questions & Answers
Cardiff to Pilsen bus services, operated by FlixBus, arrive at London Victoria station.
Pilsen is 1h ahead of Cardiff. It is currently 12:24 AM in Cardiff and 1:24 AM in Pilsen.
Cardiff to Pilsen train services, operated by Great Western Railway (GWR), arrive at London Paddington station.
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