There are 11 ways to get from Essen to Batumi by train, plane, bus, car ferry, car, shuttle, or car train
Select an option below to see step-by-step directions and to compare ticket prices and travel times in Rome2Rio's travel planner.
Train to Cologne Bonn Airport, fly to Batumi International Airport
best- Take the train from Essen Hbf to Koeln/Bonn Flughafentrain
- Fly from Cologne Bonn Airport (CGN) to Batumi International Airport (BUS)plane CGN - BUS
14h 16m$259–737Fly Düsseldorf International Airport to Trabzon Airport, shuttle, bus
cheapest- Fly from Düsseldorf International Airport (DUS) to Trabzon Airport (TZX)plane DUS - TZX
- Take a shuttle bus from Trabzon Airport to Derepazari
- Take the bus from Derepazari to Batumi Centralbus
11h 28m$129–424Train, bus
- Take the train from Essen Hbf to Köln Messe/Deutz Bftrain 41 / ...
- Take the train from Köln Messe/Deutz Bf to Augsburg Hbftrain 47 / ...
- Take the bus from Augsburg Hbf to Beograd, Autobuska stanicabus
- Take the bus from Beograd, Autobuska stanica to Aksaraybus
- Take the bus from Istanbul Aksaray to Batumi Centralbus
2d 6h$256–467Train, bus, car ferry
- Take the train from Essen Hbf to Frankfurttrain 41 / ...
- Take the bus from Frankfurt Central Train Station to Burgas Bus Station Southbus
- Take the carferry from Burgas to Batumicarferry
4d 3h$404–556Drive 3,730.3 km
- Drive from Essen to Batumicar 3,730.3 km
38h 4m$773–1,116Fly Düsseldorf International Airport to Batumi International Airport
- Fly from Düsseldorf International Airport (DUS) to Batumi International Airport (BUS)plane DUS - BUS
10h 13m$257–570Fly Düsseldorf International Airport to Rize–Artvin, bus
- Fly from Düsseldorf International Airport (DUS) to Rize–Artvin (RZV)plane DUS - RZV
- Take the bus from Ardeşen to Batumi Centralbus
12h 1m$157–495Fly Dortmund Airport to Kutaisi International Airport, shuttle
- Fly from Dortmund Airport (DTM) to Kutaisi International Airport (KUT)plane DTM - KUT
- Take a shuttle bus from Kutaisi Airport to Batumi Gogebashvili St
10h 13m$133–474Bus
- Take the bus from Essen central train station to Venlo Stationbus 023
- Take the bus from Venlo to Novi Sad, Autobuska Stanicabus
- Take the bus from Novi Sad, Autobuska Stanica to Aksaraybus
- Take the bus from Istanbul Aksaray to Batumi Centralbus
2d 8hBus via Homel
- Take the bus from Dortmund to Gomel Bus Stationbus
- Take the bus from Gomel Bus Station to Rostov-on-Don bus stationbus
- Take the bus from Rostov-on-Don bus station to Batumi Bus stationbus
3d 10h$356–987Drive, car train
- Drive from Essen to Fuldacar
- Take the cartrain from Fulda to Salzburg Hbfcartrain
- Drive from Salzburg Hbf to Batumicar
41h 12m$660–1,016
Cologne Bonn Airport (CGN) to Batumi International Airport (BUS) flights
Comparing Your Travel Options
The cheapest way to get from Essen to Batumi is to fly and shuttle which costs $130 - $480 and takes 10h 13m.
The fastest way to get from Essen to Batumi is to fly and shuttle which takes 10h 13m and costs $130 - $480.
No, there is no direct bus from Essen station to Batumi. However, there are services departing from Essen central train station and arriving at Batumi Central via Venlo, Novi Sad, Autobuska Stanica and Istanbul Aksaray. The journey, including transfers, takes approximately 2 days 8h.
The distance between Essen and Batumi is 2920 km. The road distance is 3730.3 km.
The best way to get from Essen to Batumi without a car is to train and bus which takes 2 days 6h and costs $250 - $470.
It takes approximately 14h 16m to get from Essen to Batumi, including transfers.
Essen to Batumi bus services, operated by FlixBus, depart from Essen central train station.
The best way to get from Essen to Batumi is to fly which takes 10h 13m and costs $250 - $600. Alternatively, you can bus, which costs and takes 2 days 8h.
Essen to Batumi bus services, operated by FlixBus, arrive at Venlo Station.
Batumi is 3h ahead of Essen. It is currently 6:37 AM in Essen and 9:37 AM in Batumi.
What companies run services between Essen, Germany and Batumi, Georgia?
Turkish Airlines, Eurowings, and El Al fly from Düsseldorf International Airport (DUS) to Batumi International Airport (BUS) once daily. Alternatively, you can take a bus from Essen central train station to Batumi Central via Venlo, Novi Sad, Autobuska Stanica, Aksaray, and Istanbul Aksaray in around 2d 8h.
- Website
- flypgs.com
Flights from Cologne Bonn Airport to Batumi International Airport via Sabiha Gokcen
- Ave. Duration
- 14h 31m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- $150–650
Flights from Düsseldorf International Airport to Rize–Artvin via Sabiha Gokcen
- Ave. Duration
- 8h 25m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- $140–600
Flights from Düsseldorf International Airport to Rize–Artvin via Izmir
- Ave. Duration
- 11h 45m
- When
- Monday
- Estimated price
- $150–650
Flights from Düsseldorf International Airport to Trabzon Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 55m
- When
- Sunday
- Estimated price
- $100–470
Flights from Düsseldorf International Airport to Trabzon Airport via Sabiha Gokcen
- Ave. Duration
- 6h 46m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- $110–490
Flights from Düsseldorf International Airport to Trabzon Airport via Cukurova
- Ave. Duration
- 8h 35m
- When
- Tuesday and Friday
- Estimated price
- $120–550
- Website
- turkishairlines.com
Flights from Cologne Bonn Airport to Batumi International Airport via Istanbul
- Ave. Duration
- 19h 40m
- When
- Monday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- $220–750
Flights from Düsseldorf International Airport to Batumi International Airport via Istanbul
- Ave. Duration
- 7h 15m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- $260–480
Flights from Düsseldorf International Airport to Rize–Artvin via Istanbul
- Ave. Duration
- 8h 41m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- $200–700
Flights from Düsseldorf International Airport to Trabzon Airport via Istanbul
- Ave. Duration
- 6h 36m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- $170–600
- Website
- ajet.com
Flights from Düsseldorf International Airport to Rize–Artvin via Sabiha Gokcen
- Ave. Duration
- 6h 57m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- $140–600
Flights from Düsseldorf International Airport to Trabzon Airport via Sabiha Gokcen
- Ave. Duration
- 6h 47m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- $110–380
Flights from Düsseldorf International Airport to Trabzon Airport via Ankara
- Ave. Duration
- 6h 20m
- When
- Friday and Sunday
- Estimated price
- $110–380
- Website
- sunexpress.com
Flights from Düsseldorf International Airport to Trabzon Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 4h
- When
- Tuesday and Saturday
- Estimated price
- $120–390
Flights from Düsseldorf International Airport to Trabzon Airport via Izmir
- Ave. Duration
- 6h 25m
- When
- Tuesday, Thursday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- $140–430
- Website
- wizzair.com
Flights from Dortmund Airport to Kutaisi International Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 15m
- When
- Thursday and Saturday
- Estimated price
- $120–440
Flights from Dortmund Airport to Kutaisi International Airport via Wroclaw
- Ave. Duration
- 6h 30m
- When
- Sunday
- Estimated price
- $120–440
- Website
- flygangwon.com
Flights from Cologne Bonn Airport to Batumi International Airport via Chisinau
- Ave. Duration
- 10h 20m
- When
- Friday
- Estimated price
- $130–500
- Website
- elal.com
Flights from Düsseldorf International Airport to Batumi International Airport via Tel Aviv
- Ave. Duration
- 7h 55m
- When
- Tuesday, Thursday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- $310–900
- Phone
- +49 221 13 999 444
- Website
- National Express
Train from Essen Hbf to Koeln/Bonn Flughafen
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 29m
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Schedules at
- National Express
Train from Essen Hbf to Köln Messe/Deutz Bf
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 18m
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Schedules at
- National Express
- Phone
- +49 30 2970
- Website
- Deutsche Bahn Intercity (DB IC)
Train from Essen Hbf to Koeln/Bonn Flughafen
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 2m
- Frequency
- Twice daily
- Estimated price
- $17–40
- Website
- Deutsche Bahn Intercity (DB IC)
Train from Essen Hbf to Köln Messe/Deutz Bf
- Ave. Duration
- 49 min
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- $14–35
- Website
- Deutsche Bahn Intercity (DB IC)
Train from Köln Messe/Deutz Bf to Augsburg Hbf
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 50m
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- $95–200
- Website
- Deutsche Bahn Intercity (DB IC)
Train from Essen Hbf to Frankfurt
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 58m
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- $45–100
- Website
- Deutsche Bahn Intercity (DB IC)
- Phone
- +31 30 751 5155
- Website
- Nederlandse Spoorwegen (NS)
Train from Köln Messe/Deutz Bf to Augsburg Hbf
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 41m
- Frequency
- 5 times a day
- Estimated price
- $60–120
- Website
- Nederlandse Spoorwegen (NS)
- Phone
- +49 (0) 221 800 20 820
- info@urlaubs-express.de
- Website
- Urlaubs-Express (UEX)
Car train from Fulda to Salzburg Hbf
- Ave. Duration
- 6h 21m
- Frequency
- Once a week
- Estimated price
- $100–130
- Website
- Urlaubs-Express (UEX)
- Phone
- +381 11 7620255
- office@fudeks.rs
- Website
- Fudeks
Bus from Augsburg Hbf to Beograd, Autobuska stanica
- Ave. Duration
- 12h 30m
- Frequency
- Twice a week
- Estimated price
- $90–105
- Website
- Fudeks
- Phone
- 062 8103637
- office@balbuss.rs
- Website
- balbuss.rs
Bus from Beograd, Autobuska stanica to Aksaray
- Ave. Duration
- 13h 5m
- Frequency
- Twice a week
- Estimated price
- $51
- Schedules at
- balbuss.rs
Bus from Novi Sad, Autobuska Stanica to Aksaray
- Ave. Duration
- 14h 20m
- Frequency
- Twice a week
- Estimated price
- $51
- Schedules at
- balbuss.rs
- Phone
- 0850 222 34 55
- Website
- MetroTurizm
Bus from Istanbul Aksaray to Batumi Central
- Ave. Duration
- 20h 31m
- Frequency
- Once daily
- Estimated price
- $40–80
- Website
- MetroTurizm
- Standard
- $50–80
Bus from Ardeşen to Batumi Central
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 10m
- Frequency
- Once daily
- Estimated price
- $10–15
- Website
- MetroTurizm
- Standard
- $10–15
Bus from Derepazari to Batumi Central
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 56m
- Frequency
- Twice daily
- Estimated price
- $12–18
- Website
- MetroTurizm
- Standard
- $12–18
Bus from Istanbul Aksaray to Batumi Central
- Ave. Duration
- 20h 31m
- Frequency
- Once daily
- Estimated price
- $40–80
- Website
- MetroTurizm
- Standard
- $50–80
- Phone
- +359 2 812 0 812
- operations@eurolines.bg
- Website
- karat-s.com
Bus from Frankfurt Central Train Station to Burgas Bus Station South
- Ave. Duration
- 37h 33m
- Frequency
- Once daily
- Estimated price
- $130–200
- Schedules at
- karat-s.com
- Phone
- +359 0885700870
- support@citylines.eu
- Website
- Citylines
Bus from Frankfurt Central Train Station to Burgas Bus Station South
- Ave. Duration
- 35h 45m
- Frequency
- 3 times a week
- Estimated price
- $140–190
- Website
- Citylines
- Phone
- 444 0 487
- info@havas.net
- Website
- Havas
Shuttle from Trabzon Airport to Derepazari
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 6m
- Frequency
- Every 4 hours
- Estimated price
- $1–7
- Website
- Havas
- Phone
- +995 322 80 60 60
- info@georgianbus.com
- Website
- Georgian Bus
Shuttle from Kutaisi Airport to Batumi Gogebashvili St
- Ave. Duration
- 2h
- Frequency
- On demand
- Estimated price
- $10
- Website
- Georgian Bus
- Schedules at
- Georgian Bus
Rome2Rio's guide to FlixBus
Contact Details
- Phone
- +49 30 300 137 300
- service@flixbus.com
- Website
- Flixbus
Bus from Essen central train station to Venlo Station
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 10m
- Frequency
- 3 times a day
- Estimated price
- $6–10
- Website
- Flixbus
- Phone
- +381 20 333 733
- garoreisen@gmail.com
- Website
- garo-reisen.rs
Bus from Venlo to Novi Sad, Autobuska Stanica
- Ave. Duration
- 16h 57m
- Frequency
- Twice a week
- Schedules at
- garo-reisen.rs
- Phone
- +375 (29) 148-41-31
- info@vt.by
- Website
- vt.by
Bus from Dortmund to Gomel Bus Station
- Ave. Duration
- 35h 15m
- Frequency
- 3 times a week
- Estimated price
- $170–550
- Schedules at
- vt.by
Bus from Gomel Bus Station to Rostov-on-Don bus station
- Ave. Duration
- 20h 55m
- Frequency
- Once a week
- Estimated price
- $80–290
- Schedules at
- vt.by
- Phone
- +375 (29) 643 70 22
- intercars@intercars.ru
- Website
- Intercars Europe
Bus from Gomel Bus Station to Rostov-on-Don bus station
- Ave. Duration
- 22h 5m
- Frequency
- 5 times a week
- Estimated price
- $130–150
- Website
- Intercars Europe
- Phone
- +995 555 68 50 05
- Website
- facebook.com
Bus from Rostov-on-Don bus station to Batumi Bus station
- Ave. Duration
- 22h
- Frequency
- Twice a week
- Estimated price
- $123
- Schedules at
- vk.com
- Phone
- +359 56 871 628
- booking@portbulgariawest.com
- Website
- Black Sea Ferry Services
Car ferry from Burgas to Batumi
- Ave. Duration
- 2d 10h
- Frequency
- Once a week
- Estimated price
- $220–250
- Website
- Black Sea Ferry Services
- Motorcycle
- $35–280
- Child ticket
- $85–120
- Adult passenger
- $220–250
- Personal Car
- $617–618
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