There are 11 ways to get from Ireland to Bucharest by plane, ferry, train, bus, car ferry, car, 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 Dublin Airport to Bucharest Otopeni
best- Fly from Dublin Airport (DUB) to Bucharest Otopeni (OTP)plane DUB - OTP
6h 34m$145–354Fly Dublin Airport to Bucharest Băneasa Aurel Vlaicu International Airport
cheapest- Fly from Dublin Airport (DUB) to Bucharest Băneasa Aurel Vlaicu International Airport (BBU)plane DUB - BBU
8h 55m$88–267Ferry, train, bus
- Take the ferry from Dublin Ferryport B+I to Holyhead Ferryferry 0
- Take the train from Holyhead to Birmingham New Streettrain
- Take the bus from Birmingham to Bucharest Oborbus
32h 58m$163–298Train, car ferry, bus
- Take the train from Dublin Pearse to Rosslare Europorttrain Ic / ...
- Take the car ferry from Rosslare Harbour to Dunkirkcarferry
- Take the bus from Dunkerque Port to Ghent Dampoortbus
- Take the bus from Ghent to Bucharest Oborbus
2d 1h$270–634Drive, car ferry
- Drive from Dublin to Rosslare Harbourcar
- Take the car ferry from Rosslare Harbour to Dunkirkcarferry
- Drive from Dunkirk to Bucharestcar
2d$650–1,193Fly Cork Airport to Bucharest Otopeni
- Fly from Cork Airport (ORK) to Bucharest Otopeni (OTP)plane ORK - OTP
10h 6m$150–377Fly Shannon Airport to Bucharest Otopeni
- Fly from Shannon Airport (SNN) to Bucharest Otopeni (OTP)plane SNN - OTP
8h 43m$197–399Train to George Best Belfast City Airport, fly to Bucharest Otopeni
- Take the train from Dundalk to Belfast Grand Centraltrain
- Fly from George Best Belfast City Airport (BHD) to Bucharest Otopeni (OTP)plane BHD - OTP
9h 14m$144–395Bus to Kerry Airport, fly to Bucharest Otopeni
- Take the bus from Limerick Colbert Station to Kerry Airportbus
- Fly from Kerry Airport (KIR) to Bucharest Otopeni (OTP)plane KIR - OTP
9h 36m$124–295Bus, bus and ferry
- Take the bus from Dublin Airport Terminal 1 Zone 2 to Europa Bus Centrebus
- Take the busferry from Belfast, Europa Buscentre to Glasgow Buchananbusferry 923
- Take the bus from Buchanan Bus Station to Shudehill Interchangebus
- Take the bus from Manchester, Coach Station to Bucharest Oborbus
38h 43mFerry, train, bus and ferry
- Take the ferry from Dublin Ferryport B+I to Holyhead Ferryferry 0
- Take the train from Holyhead to Manchester Piccadillytrain
- Take the busferry from Manchester Piccadilly to Bucharestbusferry
3d 3h$213–398
Dublin Airport (DUB) to Bucharest Otopeni (OTP) flights
Questions & Answers
The cheapest way to get from Ireland to Bucharest is to fly which costs $85 - $270 and takes 8h 55m.
The fastest way to get from Ireland to Bucharest is to fly which takes 6h 34m and costs $140 - $360.
No, there is no direct bus from Ireland to Bucharest. However, there are services departing from Grand Parade and arriving at Bucharest Obor via Dublin Airport Terminal 1 Zone 2, Belfast, Europa Buscentre, Buchanan Bus Station, Hanover Street and Manchester, Coach Station. The journey, including transfers, takes approximately 38h 43m.
The distance between Ireland and Bucharest is 2574 km.
The best way to get from Ireland to Bucharest without a car is to ferry and train and bus which takes 32h 58m and costs $160 - $300.
It takes approximately 6h 34m to get from Ireland to Bucharest, including transfers.
Ireland to Bucharest bus services, operated by Aircoach, depart from Dublin Airport Terminal 1 Zone 2 station.
Ireland to Bucharest bus services, operated by Aircoach, arrive at Europa Bus Centre station.
Bucharest is 2h ahead of Ireland. It is currently 5:28 AM in Ireland and 7:28 AM in Bucharest.
There are 5396+ hotels available in Bucharest.
What companies run services between Ireland and Bucharest, Romania?
Norwegian Air Argentina, HiSky, and five other airlines fly from Dublin Airport (DUB) to Bucharest Otopeni (OTP) 4 times a day.
- Website
- ryanair.com
Flights from Dublin Airport to Bucharest Otopeni
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 45m
- When
- Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, and Saturday
- Estimated price
- $65–220
Flights from Dublin Airport to Bucharest Otopeni via Vienna
- Ave. Duration
- 6h
- When
- Monday and Friday
- Estimated price
- $65–220
Flights from Cork Airport to Bucharest Otopeni via Charleroi
- Ave. Duration
- 7h 35m
- When
- Monday and Friday
- Estimated price
- $85–260
Flights from Cork Airport to Bucharest Otopeni via Milan Bergamo
- Ave. Duration
- 8h 20m
- When
- Monday
- Estimated price
- $85–260
Flights from Shannon Airport to Bucharest Otopeni via London Stansted
- Ave. Duration
- 8h 35m
- When
- Wednesday, Friday, and Sunday
- 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
- 8h 22m
- When
- Tuesday and Wednesday
- Estimated price
- $50–170
Flights from Kerry Airport to Bucharest Otopeni via London Stansted
- Ave. Duration
- 7h
- When
- Tuesday
- Estimated price
- $50–170
Flights from Dublin Airport to Bucharest Băneasa Aurel Vlaicu International Airport via Krakow
- Ave. Duration
- 6h 17m
- When
- Monday and Saturday
- Estimated price
- $65–230
- Website
- flyulendo.com
Flights from Cork Airport to Bucharest Otopeni via Milan Bergamo
- Ave. Duration
- 9h 45m
- When
- Monday
- Estimated price
- $85–260
Flights from Cork Airport to Bucharest Otopeni via Prague
- Ave. Duration
- 9h 50m
- When
- Sunday
- Estimated price
- $70–330
Flights from Shannon Airport to Bucharest Otopeni via Birmingham
- Ave. Duration
- 7h 40m
- When
- Monday
- Estimated price
- $55–250
Flights from George Best Belfast City Airport to Bucharest Otopeni via London Luton
- Ave. Duration
- 6h 45m
- When
- Monday, Friday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- $55–260
Flights from George Best Belfast City Airport to Bucharest Otopeni via Liverpool
- Ave. Duration
- 7h 15m
- When
- Friday
- Estimated price
- $55–260
Flights from George Best Belfast City Airport to Bucharest Otopeni via Leeds Bradford
- Ave. Duration
- 8h 5m
- When
- Tuesday and Saturday
- Estimated price
- $55–260
Flights from Kerry Airport to Bucharest Otopeni via London Luton
- Ave. Duration
- 7h
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- $35–160
Flights from Dublin Airport to Bucharest Băneasa Aurel Vlaicu International Airport via Charleroi
- Ave. Duration
- 6h 55m
- When
- Monday and Friday
- Estimated price
- $45–210
- Website
- lufthansa.com
Flights from Dublin Airport to Bucharest Otopeni via Munich
- Ave. Duration
- 5h 33m
- When
- Monday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- $85–390
Flights from Cork Airport to Bucharest Otopeni via Munich
- Ave. Duration
- 10h 5m
- When
- Saturday
- Estimated price
- $70–330
Flights from Shannon Airport to Bucharest Otopeni via Frankfurt
- Ave. Duration
- 9h 50m
- When
- Saturday
- Estimated price
- $110–430
- Website
- klm.com
Flights from Cork Airport to Bucharest Otopeni via Amsterdam Schiphol
- Ave. Duration
- 8h 28m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- $65–490
Flights from George Best Belfast City Airport to Bucharest Otopeni via Amsterdam Schiphol
- Ave. Duration
- 5h 10m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- $110–500
- Website
- hisky.aero
Flights from Dublin Airport to Bucharest Otopeni
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 30m
- When
- Tuesday, Friday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- $80–170
Flights from Dublin Airport to Bucharest Otopeni via Cluj-Napoca
- Ave. Duration
- 6h
- When
- Friday and Sunday
- Estimated price
- $80–170
- Website
- lufthansa-city.com
Flights from Dublin Airport to Bucharest Otopeni via Munich
- Ave. Duration
- 5h 27m
- When
- Monday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- $85–390
- Website
- norwegian.com
Flights from Dublin Airport to Bucharest Otopeni
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 30m
- When
- Tuesday and Saturday
- Estimated price
- $70–180
Flights from Dublin Airport to Bucharest Otopeni
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 45m
- When
- Saturday
- Estimated price
- $70–230
- Website
- britishairways.com
Flights from Shannon Airport to Bucharest Otopeni via London Heathrow
- Ave. Duration
- 9h 40m
- When
- Thursday 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
- Thursday and Sunday
- Estimated price
- $65–380
- Website
- animawings.com
Flights from George Best Belfast City Airport to Bucharest Otopeni via London Gatwick
- Ave. Duration
- 5h 40m
- When
- Sunday
- Estimated price
- $130–480
- Website
- wizzair.com
Flights from Dublin Airport to Bucharest Băneasa Aurel Vlaicu International Airport via Budapest
- Ave. Duration
- 5h 35m
- When
- Monday, Wednesday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- $65–230
- Phone
- 03333 211 202
- Website
- tfw.wales
Train from Holyhead to Birmingham New Street
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 3m
- Frequency
- 5 times a day
- Estimated price
- $60–95
- Website
- https://tfw.wales/
Train from Holyhead to Manchester Piccadilly
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 49m
- Frequency
- Twice daily
- Estimated price
- $50–85
- Website
- https://tfw.wales/
- Phone
- +44 345 528 0253
- Website
- avantiwestcoast.co.uk
Train from Holyhead to Birmingham New Street
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 3m
- Frequency
- 5 times a week
- Estimated price
- $50–140
- Website
- https://www.avantiwestcoast.co.uk/
- Phone
- +353 1 836 6222
- info@irishrail.ie
- Website
- irishrail.ie
Train from Dublin Pearse to Rosslare Europort
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 58m
- Frequency
- 4 times a day
- Estimated price
- $17–24
- Website
- https://www.irishrail.ie/en-ie/
- Flexible
- $17–24
Train from Dundalk to Belfast Grand Central
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 8m
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- $10–15
- Website
- https://www.irishrail.ie/en-ie/
- Flexible
- $10–15
- Phone
- +44 28 9066 6630
- Website
- translink.co.uk
Train from Dundalk to Belfast Grand Central
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 8m
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- $15–22
- Website
- https://www.translink.co.uk/
- Phone
- +40 230 562 929
- tarsin_irlanda@yahoo.com
- Website
- tarsin.ro
Bus from Birmingham to Bucharest Obor
- Ave. Duration
- 21h 28m
- Frequency
- Once a week
- Estimated price
- $35–45
- Schedules at
- tarsin.ro
Bus from Ghent to Bucharest Obor
- Ave. Duration
- 17h 22m
- Frequency
- Once a week
- Estimated price
- $29–40
- Schedules at
- tarsin.ro
Bus from Manchester, Coach Station to Bucharest Obor
- Ave. Duration
- 22h 32m
- Frequency
- Once a week
- Estimated price
- $35–50
- Schedules at
- tarsin.ro
- Phone
- 01204 327509
- info@atlantictravel.co.uk
- Website
- atlantictravel.co.uk
Bus from Dunkerque Port to Ghent Dampoort
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 40m
- Frequency
- 3 times a day
- Website
- Atlantic Travel GB Ltd
Bus from Buchanan Bus Station to Shudehill Interchange
- Ave. Duration
- 4h
- Frequency
- Every 4 hours
- Website
- Atlantic Travel GB Ltd
Rome2Rio's guide to FlixBus
Contact Details
- Phone
- +49 30 300 137 300
- service@flixbus.com
- Website
- flixbus.fr
Bus from Dunkerque Port to Ghent Dampoort
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 40m
- Frequency
- 4 times a week
- Estimated price
- $14–20
- Website
- https://www.flixbus.co.uk
Bus from Buchanan Bus Station to Shudehill Interchange
- Ave. Duration
- 4h
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- $20–55
- Website
- https://www.flixbus.co.uk
- Phone
- 0818 15 15 15
- Website
- expressway.ie
Bus from Limerick Colbert Station to Kerry Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 35m
- Frequency
- 4 times a day
- Estimated price
- $18–26
- Website
- https://www.expressway.ie/
- Phone
- +353 0 1 844 7118
- info@aircoach.ie
- Website
- 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/
- Phone
- 0040263701919
- latinoexpres@yahoo.com
- Website
- latinoexpres.ro
Busferry from Manchester Piccadilly to Bucharest
- Ave. Duration
- 2d 17h
- Frequency
- Once a week
- Estimated price
- $85–200
- Schedules at
- latinoexpres.ro
- Phone
- +44 844 770 7070
- info.se@stenaline.com
- Website
- stenaline.dk
Ferry from Dublin Ferryport B+I to Holyhead Ferry
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 31m
- Frequency
- 4 times a day
- Estimated price
- $75–110
- Website
- https://www.stenalinetravel.com/
- 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
- $210–524
- Website
- https://www.dfds.com/en
- Family (4 persons + car)
- $524
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