There are 10 ways to get from Edinburgh to Romania by plane, train, bus, train (Eurostar), car, car train, or busferry
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 Bucharest Otopeni
best- Fly from Edinburgh Airport (EDI) to Bucharest Otopeni (OTP)plane EDI - OTP
6h 46m$89–274Train, bus via Liège
- Take the train from Edinburgh Waverley to King's Crosstrain
- Take the train from London St Pancras Intl to Brussel-Zuid / Bruxelles-Miditrain Eil
- Take the train from Brussel-Zuid / Bruxelles-Midi to Liege-Guilleminstrain Ice
- Take the bus from Liege Gare des Guillemins to Bucharestbus
34h 6m$507–732Train
- Take the train from Edinburgh Waverley to King's Crosstrain
- Take the train from London St Pancras Intl to Brussel-Zuid / Bruxelles-Miditrain Eil
- Take the train from Bruxelles-Midi to Wien Meidlingtrain Nj / ...
- Take the train from Wien Meidling to Bucuresti Nordtrain 347
42h 6m$816–1,301Drive, Eurotunnel
- Drive from Edinburgh to Folkestonecar
- Take the cartrain from Folkestone to Calais-Fréthuncartrain
- Drive from Calais-Fréthun to Bucharestcar
30h 52m$710–1,013Fly to Timișoara Traian Vuia International Airport
- Fly from Edinburgh Airport (EDI) to Timișoara Traian Vuia International Airport (TSR)plane EDI - TSR
9h 2m$109–274Fly to Cluj-Napoca
- Fly from Edinburgh Airport (EDI) to Cluj-Napoca (CLJ)plane EDI - CLJ
8h 26m$103–293Fly to Iași International Airport
- Fly from Edinburgh Airport (EDI) to Iași International Airport (IAS)plane EDI - IAS
9h 43m$89–375Fly to Budapest Ferenc Liszt International Airport, train
- Fly from Edinburgh Airport (EDI) to Budapest Ferenc Liszt International Airport (BUD)plane EDI - BUD
- Take the train from Ferihegy to Szolnoktrain
- Take the train from Szolnok to Aradtrain
9h 51m$138–315Train, bus
- Take the train from Edinburgh Waverley to London Eustontrain Edinburgh - London Euston
- Take the bus from London Stonebridge to Bucureşti Autogara Oborbus
2d 6hTrain, bus and ferry
- Take the train from Edinburgh Waverley to Manchester Piccadillytrain Edinburgh - Manchester Airport / ...
- Take the busferry from Manchester Piccadilly to Bucharestbusferry
2d 22h$167–330
Edinburgh to Romania by train
Comparing Your Travel Options
The cheapest way to get from Edinburgh to Romania is to fly which costs $100 - $300 and takes 8h 26m.
The fastest way to get from Edinburgh to Romania is to fly which takes 6h 46m and costs $85 - $280.
No, there is no direct train from Edinburgh to Romania. However, there are services departing from Edinburgh Waverley and arriving at Universitate via London St Pancras Intl, Bruxelles-Midi, Wien Meidling and Gara de Nord. The journey, including transfers, takes approximately 42h 6m.
The distance between Edinburgh and Romania is 2450 km.
The best way to get from Edinburgh to Romania without a car is to train and bus via Liège which takes 34h 6m and costs $500 - $750.
It takes approximately 6h 46m to get from Edinburgh to Romania, including transfers.
Edinburgh to Romania train services, operated by London North Eastern Railway Limited (LNER), depart from Edinburgh Waverley station.
The best way to get from Edinburgh to Romania is to fly which takes 6h 46m and costs $85 - $280. Alternatively, you can train, which costs $800 - $1,300 and takes 42h 6m.
Romania is 2h ahead of Edinburgh. It is currently 7:10 PM in Edinburgh and 9:10 PM in Romania.
Edinburgh to Romania train services, operated by London North Eastern Railway Limited (LNER), arrive at King's Cross station.
What companies run services between Edinburgh, Scotland and Romania?
Ryanair UK, Ryanair, and three other airlines fly from Edinburgh Airport (EDI) to Bucharest Otopeni (OTP) once daily. Alternatively, you can take a train from Edinburgh Waverley to Universitate via London Kings Cross, London St Pancras Intl, Bruxelles-Midi, Wien Meidling, Bucuresti Nord, and Gara de Nord in around 42h 6m.
- Website
- lufthansa.com
Flights from Edinburgh Airport to Bucharest Otopeni via Munich
- Ave. Duration
- 5h 50m
- When
- Monday and Saturday
- Estimated price
- $110–400
Flights from Edinburgh Airport to Timișoara Traian Vuia International Airport via Munich
- Ave. Duration
- 6h
- When
- Saturday
- Estimated price
- $120–600
Flights from Edinburgh Airport to Cluj-Napoca via Munich
- Ave. Duration
- 6h 6m
- When
- Saturday, Monday, and Thursday
- Estimated price
- $85–550
Flights from Edinburgh Airport to Iași International Airport via Vienna
- Ave. Duration
- 6h 50m
- When
- Monday to Saturday
- Estimated price
- $95–350
Flights from Edinburgh Airport to Budapest Ferenc Liszt International Airport via Frankfurt
- Ave. Duration
- 5h 28m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- $95–340
Flights from Edinburgh Airport to Budapest Ferenc Liszt International Airport via Munich
- Ave. Duration
- 5h 15m
- When
- Saturday
- Estimated price
- $95–340
- Website
- ryanair.com
Flights from Edinburgh Airport to Bucharest Otopeni
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 30m
- When
- Monday, Friday, Saturday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- $100–210
Flights from Edinburgh Airport to Iași International Airport via Milan Bergamo
- Ave. Duration
- 14h
- When
- Sunday
- Estimated price
- $100–360
Flights from Edinburgh Airport to Budapest Ferenc Liszt International Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 50m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- $70–190
- Website
- flyulendo.com
Flights from Edinburgh Airport to Timișoara Traian Vuia International Airport via Beauvais
- Ave. Duration
- 8h 15m
- When
- Monday and Friday
- Estimated price
- $70–340
Flights from Edinburgh Airport to Iași International Airport via London Luton
- Ave. Duration
- 9h 30m
- When
- Tuesday
- Estimated price
- $75–360
Flights from Edinburgh Airport to Iași International Airport via Prague
- Ave. Duration
- 9h 35m
- When
- Tuesday
- Estimated price
- $95–340
Flights from Edinburgh Airport to Iași International Airport via Milan Bergamo
- Ave. Duration
- 11h 45m
- When
- Sunday
- Estimated price
- $100–360
Flights from Edinburgh Airport to Iași International Airport via Charleroi
- Ave. Duration
- 13h 10m
- When
- Saturday
- Estimated price
- $75–360
- Website
- klm.com
Flights from Edinburgh Airport to Iași International Airport via Bucharest Otopeni
- Ave. Duration
- 11h 35m
- When
- Monday, Friday, Saturday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- $100–360
Flights from Edinburgh Airport to Budapest Ferenc Liszt International Airport via Amsterdam Schiphol
- Ave. Duration
- 5h 31m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- $70–350
- Website
- ryanair.com
Flights from Edinburgh Airport to Bucharest Otopeni
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 30m
- When
- Thursday
- Estimated price
- $70–160
Flights from Edinburgh Airport to Budapest Ferenc Liszt International Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 50m
- When
- Friday
- Estimated price
- $65–120
- Website
- austrian.com
Flights from Edinburgh Airport to Bucharest Otopeni via Vienna
- Ave. Duration
- 5h 40m
- When
- Tuesday
- Estimated price
- $100–430
Flights from Edinburgh Airport to Iași International Airport via Vienna
- Ave. Duration
- 6h 50m
- When
- Monday to Saturday
- Estimated price
- $95–350
- Website
- tarom.ro
Flights from Edinburgh Airport to Timișoara Traian Vuia International Airport via Bucharest Otopeni
- Ave. Duration
- 5h 40m
- When
- Monday, Friday, and Saturday
- Estimated price
- $100–360
Flights from Edinburgh Airport to Iași International Airport via Bucharest Otopeni
- Ave. Duration
- 11h 35m
- When
- Monday, Friday, Saturday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- $100–360
- Website
- lufthansa-city.com
Flights from Edinburgh Airport to Timișoara Traian Vuia International Airport via Munich
- Ave. Duration
- 6h
- When
- Saturday
- Estimated price
- $120–600
- Website
- eurowings.com
Flights from Edinburgh Airport to Budapest Ferenc Liszt International Airport via Cologne Bonn
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 20m
- When
- Monday and Friday
- Estimated price
- $65–260
Train from Edinburgh Waverley to King's Cross
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 8m
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- $170–250
- Website
- London North Eastern Railway Limited (LNER)
Train from Edinburgh Waverley to King's Cross
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 8m
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- $170–250
- Website
- London North Eastern Railway Limited (LNER)
- Phone
- +44 (0)3432 186 186
- Website
- Eurostar
Train from London St Pancras Intl to Brussel-Zuid / Bruxelles-Midi
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 1m
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- $150–260
- Website
- Eurostar
Train from Brussel-Zuid / Bruxelles-Midi to Liege-Guillemins
- Ave. Duration
- 44 min
- Frequency
- Every 3 hours
- Estimated price
- $40–70
- Website
- Eurostar
Train from London St Pancras Intl to Brussel-Zuid / Bruxelles-Midi
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 1m
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- $150–260
- Website
- Eurostar
- Phone
- +49 30 2970
- Website
- Deutsche Bahn Intercity (DB IC)
Train from Brussel-Zuid / Bruxelles-Midi to Liege-Guillemins
- Ave. Duration
- 46 min
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- $20–45
- Website
- Deutsche Bahn Intercity (DB IC)
- Phone
- +32 70 79 79 79
- Website
- Belgian Railways
Train from Bruxelles-Midi to Wien Meidling
- Ave. Duration
- 14h 59m
- Frequency
- Twice daily
- Estimated price
- $250–380
- Website
- Belgian Railways
- Phone
- _AUSTRIAN_RAILWAYS_(ÖBB)
- Website
- Austrian Railways
Train from Wien Meidling to Bucuresti Nord
- Ave. Duration
- 17h 45m
- Frequency
- Twice daily
- Estimated price
- $240–420
- Website
- Austrian Railways
Train from Ferihegy to Szolnok
- Ave. Duration
- 1h
- Frequency
- Twice daily
- Estimated price
- $18–35
- Website
- Austrian Railways
Train from Szolnok to Arad
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 29m
- Frequency
- Twice daily
- Estimated price
- $30–60
- Website
- Austrian Railways
- Phone
- +44 (0) 8443 35 35 35
- customer.support@eurotunnel.com
- Website
- LeShuttle
Car train from Folkestone to Calais-Fréthun
- Ave. Duration
- 35 min
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- $157
- Website
- LeShuttle
- Standard fare
- $157
- Phone
- +36 (1) 3 49 49 49
- informacio@mavcsoport.hu
- Website
- Hungarian Railways (MÁV)
Train from Ferihegy to Szolnok
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 6m
- Frequency
- Every 20 minutes
- Estimated price
- $4–6
- Website
- Hungarian Railways (MÁV)
Train from Szolnok to Arad
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 20m
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- $8–10
- Website
- Hungarian Railways (MÁV)
- Phone
- +44 (0)345 528 0253
- Website
- Avanti West Coast
Train from Edinburgh Waverley to London Euston
- Ave. Duration
- 5h 47m
- Frequency
- Every 4 hours
- Estimated price
- $180–290
- Website
- Avanti West Coast
- Phone
- +44 330 060 0500
- Website
- Caledonian Sleeper
Train from Edinburgh Waverley to London Euston
- Ave. Duration
- 6h 23m
- Frequency
- 6 times a week
- Estimated price
- $120–170
- Website
- Caledonian Sleeper
Train from Edinburgh Waverley to Manchester Piccadilly
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 15m
- Frequency
- Every 4 hours
- Estimated price
- $85–140
- Website
- TransPennine Express
- Phone
- +40 745 766 766
- dispecerat@maxibustravel.ro
- Website
- maxibustravel.autogari.ro
Bus from Liege Gare des Guillemins to Bucharest
- Ave. Duration
- 24h 31m
- Frequency
- Twice a week
- Estimated price
- $161
- Schedules at
- maxibustravel.autogari.ro
- Phone
- 0724 122 272
- contact@euro-fratello.ro
- Website
- euro-fratello.ro
Bus from London Stonebridge to Bucureşti Autogara Obor
- Ave. Duration
- 46h
- Frequency
- Twice a week
- Schedules at
- euro-fratello.ro
- Phone
- 0040263701919
- latinoexpres@yahoo.com
- Website
- latinoexpres.ro
Busferry from Manchester Piccadilly to Bucharest
- Ave. Duration
- 2d 17h
- Frequency
- Once a week
- Estimated price
- $80–190
- Schedules at
- latinoexpres.ro
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