There are 8 ways to get from Cork to Bucharest by plane, bus, busferry, car, car ferry, or train
Select an option below to see step-by-step directions and to compare ticket prices and travel times in Rome2Rio's travel planner.
Fly from Cork Airport
best- Fly from Cork Airport (ORK) to Bucharest Otopeni (OTP)ORK - OTP
7h 56m$155–377Train, bus
cheapest- Take the train from Cork to Dublin HeustonIc / ...
- Take the bus from Dublin to Rădăuți
- Take the bus from Rădăuţi to Roman
- Take the train from Roman to Bucharest
2d 12h$128–362Bus, bus and ferry
- Take the bus from Cork Alfred Street to Dublin Airport Terminal 1 Zone 2
- Take the bus from Dublin Airport Terminal 1 Zone 2 to Europa Bus Centre
- Take the busferry from Belfast, Europa Buscentre to Glasgow Buchanan923
- Take the bus from Buchanan Bus Station to Shudehill Interchange
- Take the bus from Manchester, Coach Station to Bucharest Obor
41h 10mDrive, car ferry
- Drive from Cork to Rosslare Harbour
- Take the car ferry from Rosslare Harbour to Dunkirk
- Drive from Dunkirk to Bucharest
2d$658–1,204Bus to Shannon Airport, fly
- Take the bus from Cork Bus Station to Shannon Airport
- Fly from Shannon Airport (SNN) to Bucharest Otopeni (OTP)SNN - OTP
10h 25m$217–380Bus to Kerry Airport, fly
- Take the bus from Cork Bus Station to Kerry Airport
- Fly from Kerry Airport (KIR) to Bucharest Otopeni (OTP)KIR - OTP
9h 56m$130–287Train to Dublin Airport, fly
- Take the train from Cork to Dublin Heuston
- Fly from Dublin Airport (DUB) to Bucharest Otopeni (OTP)DUB - OTP
9h 16m$182–379Bus, car ferry, train
- Take the bus from Cork Bus Station to Waterford Bus Station40
- Take the bus from Waterford Bus Station to Rosslare Europort40
- Take the car ferry from Rosslare Harbour to Dunkirk
- Take the bus from Dunkerque to Ploiești
- Take the train from Ploieşti Sud to Bucharest
2d 23h$358–794
Cork Airport (ORK) to Bucharest Otopeni (OTP) flights
Questions & Answers
The cheapest way to get from Cork to Bucharest is to bus and fly which costs $130 - $290 and takes 9h 56m.
The fastest way to get from Cork to Bucharest is to fly which takes 7h 56m and costs $150 - $380.
No, there is no direct bus from Cork to Bucharest. However, there are services departing from Cork Alfred Street and arriving at Bucharest Obor via Dublin Airport Terminal 1 Zone 2, Belfast, Europa Buscentre, Buchanan Bus Station, Shudehill Interchange and Manchester, Coach Station. The journey, including transfers, takes approximately 41h 10m.
The distance between Cork and Bucharest is 2687 km.
The best way to get from Cork to Bucharest without a car is to bus and bus and ferry which takes 41h 10m and costs .
It takes approximately 7h 56m to get from Cork to Bucharest, including transfers.
Cork to Bucharest bus services, operated by Aircoach, depart from Cork Alfred Street station.
Cork to Bucharest bus services, operated by Aircoach, arrive at Dublin Airport Terminal 1 Zone 2 station.
Bucharest is 2h ahead of Cork. It is currently 10:49 AM in Cork and 12:49 PM in Bucharest.
There are 5386+ hotels available in Bucharest.
What companies run services between Cork, Ireland and Bucharest, Romania?
KLM and Ryanair fly from Cork Airport (ORK) to Bucharest Otopeni (OTP) twice daily.
- Website
- ryanair.com
Flights from Cork Airport to Bucharest Otopeni via Charleroi
- Ave. Duration
- 7h 35m
- When
- Monday and Friday
- Estimated price
- $80–260
Flights from Cork Airport to Bucharest Otopeni via Milan Bergamo
- Ave. Duration
- 8h 20m
- When
- Monday
- Estimated price
- $80–260
Flights from Shannon Airport to Bucharest Otopeni via London Stansted
- Ave. Duration
- 9h
- When
- Monday, Friday, and Saturday
- Estimated price
- $120–190
Flights from Shannon Airport to Bucharest Otopeni via Birmingham
- Ave. Duration
- 9h 25m
- When
- Friday and Sunday
- Estimated price
- $120–190
Flights from Kerry Airport to Bucharest Otopeni via Dublin Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 5h 40m
- When
- Tuesday
- Estimated price
- $50–160
Flights from Kerry Airport to Bucharest Otopeni via London Stansted
- Ave. Duration
- 5h 50m
- When
- Saturday
- Estimated price
- $50–160
Flights from Dublin Airport to Bucharest Otopeni
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 45m
- When
- Monday, Tuesday, Saturday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- $70–190
- Website
- lufthansa.com
Flights from Shannon Airport to Bucharest Otopeni via Frankfurt
- Ave. Duration
- 9h 50m
- When
- Saturday
- Estimated price
- $100–420
Flights from Dublin Airport to Bucharest Otopeni via Munich
- Ave. Duration
- 5h 36m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- $85–390
Flights from Dublin Airport to Bucharest Otopeni via Frankfurt
- Ave. Duration
- 6h 55m
- When
- Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Saturday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- $85–340
- Website
- klm.com
Flights from Cork Airport to Bucharest Otopeni via Amsterdam Schiphol
- Ave. Duration
- 7h 12m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- $110–480
- Website
- norwegian.com
Flights from Kerry Airport to Bucharest Otopeni via Dublin Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 5h 55m
- When
- Friday and Sunday
- Estimated price
- $65–150
Flights from Dublin Airport to Bucharest Otopeni
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 30m
- When
- Friday and Sunday
- Estimated price
- $70–120
- Website
- flyulendo.com
Flights from Kerry Airport to Bucharest Otopeni via London Luton
- Ave. Duration
- 6h 55m
- When
- Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday, Saturday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- $35–150
- Website
- hisky.aero
Flights from Dublin Airport to Bucharest Otopeni
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 30m
- When
- Tuesday, Friday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- $85–190
Flights from Dublin Airport to Bucharest Otopeni via Cluj-Napoca
- Ave. Duration
- 6h
- When
- Sunday
- Estimated price
- $85–190
- Website
- lufthansa-city.com
Flights from Dublin Airport to Bucharest Otopeni via Munich
- Ave. Duration
- 5h 27m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- $85–390
- Website
- britishairways.com
Flights from Shannon Airport to Bucharest Otopeni via London Heathrow
- Ave. Duration
- 9h 40m
- When
- Monday and Friday
- Estimated price
- $90–550
- Website
- tarom.ro
Flights from Shannon Airport to Bucharest Otopeni via Paris Charles de Gaulle
- Ave. Duration
- 5h 35m
- When
- Sunday
- Estimated price
- $65–360
- Website
- ryanair.com
Flights from Kerry Airport to Bucharest Otopeni via Manchester
- Ave. Duration
- 7h 45m
- When
- Friday
- Estimated price
- $50–170
Flights from Dublin Airport to Bucharest Otopeni
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 45m
- When
- Saturday
- Estimated price
- $75–230
- Phone
- +353 1 836 6222
- info@irishrail.ie
- Website
- irishrail.ie
Train from Cork to Dublin Heuston
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 32m
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- $26–40
- Website
- https://www.irishrail.ie/en-ie/
- Flexible
- $26–40
- Phone
- 0219521
- petitii@cfrcalatori.ro
- Website
- cfrcalatori.ro
Train from Roman to Bucharest
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 41m
- Frequency
- 3 times a day
- Estimated price
- $33–36
- Website
- https://www.cfrcalatori.ro/en/
Train from Ploieşti Sud to Bucharest
- Ave. Duration
- 41 min
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- $8–10
- Website
- https://www.cfrcalatori.ro/en/
- Website
- data.gov.ro
Train from Roman to Bucharest
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 30m
- Frequency
- Twice daily
- Schedules at
- data.gov.ro
Train from Ploieşti Sud to Bucharest
- Ave. Duration
- 52 min
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- $2–8
- Schedules at
- transferoviarcalatori.ro
- 2nd Class
- $2–5
- 1st Class
- $5–8
- Phone
- 0310 800 900
- contact@regiocalatori.ro
- Website
- regiocalatori.ro
Train from Ploieşti Sud to Bucharest
- Ave. Duration
- 51 min
- Frequency
- Twice daily
- Estimated price
- $2–4
- Website
- https://regiocalatori.ro/
- Phone
- 0751.525.520
- office@astratranscarpatic.ro
- Website
- astratranscarpatic.ro
Train from Ploieşti Sud to Bucharest
- Ave. Duration
- 44 min
- Frequency
- Once daily
- Estimated price
- $6–9
- Book at
- astratranscarpatic.ro
- Phone
- +353 0 1 844 7118
- info@aircoach.ie
- Website
- aircoach.ie
Bus from Cork Alfred Street to Dublin Airport Terminal 1 Zone 2
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 30m
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- $23–35
- Website
- https://www.aircoach.ie/
Bus from Dublin Airport Terminal 1 Zone 2 to Europa Bus Centre
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 50m
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- $17–24
- Website
- https://www.aircoach.ie/
- Phone
- +44 28 9066 6630
- Website
- translink.co.uk
Busferry from Belfast, Europa Buscentre to Glasgow Buchanan
- Ave. Duration
- 6h 5m
- Frequency
- 3 times a day
- Website
- https://www.translink.co.uk/
Rome2Rio's guide to FlixBus
Contact Details
- Phone
- +49 30 300 137 300
- service@flixbus.com
- Website
- flixbus.fr
Bus from Buchanan Bus Station to Shudehill Interchange
- Ave. Duration
- 4h
- Frequency
- Every 30 minutes
- Estimated price
- $21–55
- Website
- https://www.flixbus.co.uk
- Phone
- +40 230 562 929
- tarsin_irlanda@yahoo.com
- Website
- tarsin.ro
Bus from Manchester, Coach Station to Bucharest Obor
- Ave. Duration
- 22h 32m
- Frequency
- Once a week
- Estimated price
- $30–40
- Schedules at
- tarsin.ro
Bus from Dublin to Rădăuți
- Ave. Duration
- 47h
- Frequency
- Once a week
- Estimated price
- $30–240
- Schedules at
- tarsin.ro
- Phone
- 0818 15 15 15
- Website
- expressway.ie
Bus from Cork Bus Station to Shannon Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 29m
- Frequency
- Every 2 hours
- Estimated price
- $22–30
- Website
- https://www.expressway.ie/
Bus from Cork Bus Station to Kerry Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 55m
- Frequency
- Twice daily
- Estimated price
- $20–28
- Website
- https://www.expressway.ie/
Bus from Cork Bus Station to Waterford Bus Station
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 15m
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- $21–30
- Website
- https://www.expressway.ie/
Bus from Waterford Bus Station to Rosslare Europort
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 25m
- Frequency
- 4 times a day
- Estimated price
- $17–24
- Website
- https://www.expressway.ie/
- Phone
- 0745 638 910
- transnicolaescu@yahoo.com
- Website
- transnicolaescu.ro
Bus from Rădăuţi to Roman
- Ave. Duration
- 3h
- Frequency
- 3 times a day
- Estimated price
- $14
- Schedules at
- transnicolaescu.ro
- Phone
- +353 (0)1 465 9972
- info@dublincoach.ie
- Website
- dublincoach.ie
Bus from Cork Bus Station to Waterford Bus Station
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 55m
- Frequency
- Every 3 hours
- Estimated price
- $15–21
- Website
- https://www.dublincoach.ie/
- Phone
- +353 1 836 6111
- Website
- buseireann.ie
Bus from Waterford Bus Station to Rosslare Europort
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 43m
- Frequency
- Twice daily
- Estimated price
- $11–16
- Website
- https://www.buseireann.ie/
- Phone
- +40 239 629 822
- office@transmarian.ro
- Website
- transmarian.ro
Bus from Dunkerque to Ploiești
- Ave. Duration
- 40h 4m
- Frequency
- 3 times a week
- Estimated price
- $120–180
- Schedules at
- transmarian.ro
- Phone
- +44 344 848 6090
- travel.sales@dfds.com
- Website
- dfds.com
Car ferry from Rosslare Harbour to Dunkirk
- Ave. Duration
- 24h
- Frequency
- 5 times a week
- Estimated price
- $210–530
- Website
- https://www.dfds.com/en
- Family (4 persons + car)
- $530
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