There are 13 ways to get from Greece to Cardiff by plane, train, bus, car, car train, or car ferry
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Fly Athens International Airport to Bristol Airport, train
best- Fly from Athens International Airport (ATH) to Bristol Airport (BRS)ATH - BRS
- Take the train from Bristol Temple Meads to Cardiff Central
8h 26m£51–238Train, bus
- Take the train from Athens to ThessalonikiIc
- Take the bus from Thessaloniki to Bucharest
- Take the bus from Bucharest Obor to Birmingham
- Take the train from Birmingham New Street to Cardiff Central
41h 21m£106–211Drive, Eurotunnel
- Drive from Athens to Calais-Fréthun
- Take the car train from Calais-Fréthun to Folkestone
- Drive from Folkestone to Cardiff
32h 4mFly Thessaloniki Airport Makedonia to Cardiff Airport
- Fly from Thessaloniki Airport Makedonia (SKG) to Cardiff Airport (CWL)SKG - CWL
10h 15m£91–289Fly Rhodes International Airport to Bristol Airport, train
- Fly from Rhodes International Airport (RHO) to Bristol Airport (BRS)RHO - BRS
- Take the train from Bristol Temple Meads to Cardiff Central
8h 20m£120–732Fly Thessaloniki Airport Makedonia to Bristol Airport, train
- Fly from Thessaloniki Airport Makedonia (SKG) to Bristol Airport (BRS)SKG - BRS
- Take the train from Bristol Temple Meads to Cardiff Central
7h 56m£120–202Fly Thessaloniki Airport Makedonia to London Gatwick Airport, train
- Fly from Thessaloniki Airport Makedonia (SKG) to London Gatwick Airport (LGW)SKG - LGW
- Take the train from Gatwick Airport to Reading
- Take the train from Reading to Cardiff Central
9h 41m£133–347Fly Thessaloniki Airport Makedonia to London Stansted Airport, train
- Fly from Thessaloniki Airport Makedonia (SKG) to London Stansted Airport (STN)SKG - STN
- Take the train from London Paddington to Cardiff Central
9h 41m£122–367Fly Heraklion International Airport, “Nikos Kazantzakis” to Bristol Airport, train
- Fly from Heraklion International Airport, “Nikos Kazantzakis” (HER) to Bristol Airport (BRS)HER - BRS
- Take the train from Bristol Temple Meads to Cardiff Central
8h 4m£74–201Bus to Preveza Airport, fly to Bristol Airport, train
- Take the bus from Ioannina to Preveza
- Fly from Preveza Airport (PVK) to Bristol Airport (BRS)PVK - BRS
- Take the train from Bristol Temple Meads to Cardiff Central
10h 34m£119–355Bus, train
- Take the bus from Athens to Tirana, Terminali Lindor I Autobusave
- Take the bus from Tirana to Brighton
- Take the train from Brighton to Southampton Central
- Take the train from Southampton Central to Cardiff Central
2d 4hBus
- Take the bus from Athens to Praha, ÚAN Florenc
- Take the bus from Prague to London Victoria
- Take the bus from London Victoria to Kingsway GD
2d 14h£147–275Drive, car ferry
- Drive from Athens to Calais
- Take the car ferry from Calais to Port of Dover
- Drive from Port of Dover to Cardiff
33h 8m£541–778
Athens International Airport (ATH) to Bristol Airport (BRS) flights
Questions & Answers
The cheapest way to get from Greece to Cardiff is to fly and train which costs £70 - £210 and takes 8h 4m.
The fastest way to get from Greece to Cardiff is to fly and train which takes 7h 56m and costs £120 - £210.
The distance between Greece and Cardiff is 1668 miles.
The best way to get from Greece to Cardiff without a car is to train and bus which takes 41h 21m and costs £100 - £220.
It takes approximately 8h 26m to get from Greece to Cardiff, including transfers.
The best way to get from Greece to Cardiff is to fly which takes 10h 15m and costs £90 - £290. Alternatively, you can bus, which costs £140 - £280 and takes 2 days 14h.
Cardiff is 2h behind Greece. It is currently 6:38 AM in Greece and 4:38 AM in Cardiff.
There are 1563+ hotels available in Cardiff.
What companies run services between Greece and Cardiff, Wales?
Transavia Holland, KLM, and two other airlines fly from Thessaloniki Airport Makedonia (SKG) to Cardiff Airport (CWL) 5 times a week. Alternatively, you can take a subway from Στ.Ομονοιασ to Kingsway GD via Στ.Νεοσ Κοσμοσ, Athens, Prague, and London Victoria in around 2d 14h.
- Website
- easyjet.com
Flights from Athens International Airport to Bristol Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 5m
- When
- Tuesday and Saturday
- Estimated price
- £30–130
Flights from Athens International Airport to Bristol Airport via Geneva
- Ave. Duration
- 7h 2m
- When
- Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday, Saturday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- £30–130
Flights from Rhodes International Airport to Bristol Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 30m
- When
- Sunday
- Estimated price
- £70–230
Flights from Thessaloniki Airport Makedonia to Bristol Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 45m
- When
- Saturday
- Estimated price
- £45–170
Flights from Thessaloniki Airport Makedonia to London Gatwick Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 45m
- When
- Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- £70–180
Flights from Heraklion International Airport, “Nikos Kazantzakis” to Bristol Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 15m
- When
- Wednesday
- Estimated price
- £60–210
Flights from Preveza Airport to Bristol Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 40m
- When
- Sunday
- Estimated price
- £90–340
Flights from Preveza Airport to Bristol Airport via Milan Malpensa
- Ave. Duration
- 6h
- When
- Monday and Friday
- Estimated price
- £90–340
- Website
- jet2.com
Flights from Rhodes International Airport to Bristol Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 15m
- When
- Saturday
- Estimated price
- £70–240
Flights from Thessaloniki Airport Makedonia to Bristol Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 35m
- When
- Tuesday
- Estimated price
- £55–180
Flights from Thessaloniki Airport Makedonia to London Gatwick Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 20m
- When
- Thursday
- Estimated price
- £55–170
Flights from Thessaloniki Airport Makedonia to London Stansted Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 20m
- When
- Saturday
- Estimated price
- £50–170
Flights from Heraklion International Airport, “Nikos Kazantzakis” to Bristol Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 15m
- When
- Friday
- Estimated price
- £65–220
Flights from Preveza Airport to Bristol Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 40m
- When
- Sunday
- Estimated price
- £110–350
- Website
- ryanair.com
Flights from Thessaloniki Airport Makedonia to Cardiff Airport via Dublin
- Ave. Duration
- 8h 20m
- When
- Sunday
- Estimated price
- £85–280
Flights from Thessaloniki Airport Makedonia to London Stansted Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 30m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- £50–200
Flights from Thessaloniki Airport Makedonia to London Stansted Airport via Zagreb
- Ave. Duration
- 7h
- When
- Friday
- Estimated price
- £50–200
Flights from Thessaloniki Airport Makedonia to London Stansted Airport via Karlsruhe/Baden Baden
- Ave. Duration
- 7h 25m
- When
- Tuesday
- Estimated price
- £50–200
- Website
- klm.com
Flights from Thessaloniki Airport Makedonia to Cardiff Airport via Amsterdam Schiphol
- Ave. Duration
- 7h 27m
- When
- Wednesday, Saturday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- £75–470
- Website
- tui.co.uk
Flights from Rhodes International Airport to Bristol Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 15m
- When
- Monday
- Estimated price
- £100–440
- Website
- britishairways.com
Flights from Thessaloniki Airport Makedonia to London Gatwick Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 35m
- When
- Sunday
- Estimated price
- £55–300
- Phone
- +44 3457 000 125
- gwr.feedback@gwr.com
- Website
- gwr.com
Train from Bristol Temple Meads to Cardiff Central
- Ave. Duration
- 51 min
- Frequency
- Every 30 minutes
- Estimated price
- £18–24
- Website
- https://www.gwr.com/
Train from Gatwick Airport to Reading
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 28m
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- £26–35
- Website
- https://www.gwr.com/
Train from Reading to Cardiff Central
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 24m
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- £35–130
- Website
- https://www.gwr.com/
Train from London Paddington to Cardiff Central
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 59m
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- £45–120
- Website
- https://www.gwr.com/
Train from Southampton Central to Cardiff Central
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 38m
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- £55–160
- Website
- https://www.gwr.com/
Train from Bristol Temple Meads to Cardiff Central
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 1m
- Frequency
- 6 times a week
- Estimated price
- £8–30
- Website
- https://www.crosscountrytrains.co.uk/
Train from Birmingham New Street to Cardiff Central
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 55m
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- £25–90
- Website
- https://www.crosscountrytrains.co.uk/
- Phone
- 14511
- Website
- hellenictrain.gr
Train from Athens to Thessaloniki
- Ave. Duration
- 5h 12m
- Frequency
- Twice daily
- Estimated price
- £19–27
- Website
- https://www.hellenictrain.gr/en
- Phone
- +44 (0) 8443 35 35 35
- Website
- leshuttle.com
Car train from Calais-Fréthun to Folkestone
- Ave. Duration
- 35 min
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Website
- https://www.leshuttle.com/uk-en
- Phone
- +44 3451 27 29 20
- Website
- southernrailway.com
Train from Brighton to Southampton Central
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 48m
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- £14–24
- Website
- https://www.southernrailway.com/
- Phone
- +30-2310540970
- info@simeonidistours.gr
- Website
- simeonidistours.gr
Bus from Thessaloniki to Bucharest
- Ave. Duration
- 9h 36m
- Frequency
- Twice a week
- Estimated price
- £40–65
- Schedules at
- simeonidistours.gr
- Phone
- +40 230 562 929
- tarsin_irlanda@yahoo.com
- Website
- tarsin.ro
Bus from Bucharest Obor to Birmingham
- Ave. Duration
- 21h 27m
- Frequency
- Once a week
- Estimated price
- £22–29
- Schedules at
- tarsin.ro
- Phone
- +30 26510 25014
- ktelioa@otenet.gr
- Website
- ktelioannina.gr
Bus from Ioannina to Preveza
- Ave. Duration
- 2h
- Frequency
- 4 times a day
- Estimated price
- £9–15
- Schedules at
- ktelioannina.gr
- Book at
- eticket.ktelioannina.gr
- Phone
- +2105203350
- Website
- top-lines.gr
Bus from Athens to Tirana, Terminali Lindor I Autobusave
- Ave. Duration
- 10h 20m
- Frequency
- Once daily
- Estimated price
- £35
- Schedules at
- top-lines.gr
- Phone
- +355 67 604 2191
- Website
- facebook.com
Bus from Athens to Tirana, Terminali Lindor I Autobusave
- Ave. Duration
- 11h 8m
- Frequency
- Once daily
- Schedules at
- autobus.al
- Phone
- +355 69 232 8000
- info@anumitravel.com
- Website
- facebook.com
Bus from Tirana to Brighton
- Ave. Duration
- 36h
- Frequency
- Once a week
- Schedules at
- facebook.com
- Phone
- +30 210 92 33 33
- info@koronatravel.gr
- Website
- koronatravel.gr
Bus from Athens to Praha, ÚAN Florenc
- Ave. Duration
- 33h
- Frequency
- Once a week
- Estimated price
- £79
- Schedules at
- koronatravel.gr
- Phone
- +49 30 300 137 300
- service@flixbus.com
- Website
- flixbus.fr
Bus from Prague to London Victoria
- Ave. Duration
- 23h 10m
- Frequency
- 5 times a day
- Estimated price
- £60–160
- Website
- https://www.flixbus.co.uk
Bus from London Victoria to Kingsway GD
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 50m
- Frequency
- Every 20 minutes
- Estimated price
- £7–22
- Website
- https://www.flixbus.co.uk
- Phone
- 08717 81 81 81
- Website
- nationalexpress.com
Bus from London Victoria to Kingsway GD
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 35m
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- £24–35
- Website
- https://www.nationalexpress.com/en
- Phone
- +353 818 300 400
- info@irishferries.com
- Website
- irishferries.com
Car ferry from Calais to Port of Dover
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 30m
- Frequency
- Every 3 hours
- Estimated price
- £30–40
- Website
- https://www.irishferries.com/uk-en/Travel-to-Ireland
- Car
- £65–170
- On Foot
- £30–40
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