There are 11 ways to get from Ireland to Bulgaria by plane, bus, train, night train, car ferry, car, or ferry
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 Sofia Airport
best- Fly from Dublin Airport (DUB) to Sofia Airport (SOF)plane DUB - SOF
7h 11m$87–359Fly Dublin Airport to Bucharest Otopeni, bus
cheapest- Fly from Dublin Airport (DUB) to Bucharest Otopeni (OTP)plane DUB - OTP
- Take the bus from Buchurest to Rusebus
9h 16m$85–266Bus, train, night train
- Take the bus from Dublin to Rădăuțibus
- Take the train from Suceava to Bucharesttrain
- Take the nighttrain from Bucharest to Gorna Oryahovitsanighttrain
- Take the train from Gorna Oryahovitsa to Sofia Severtrain Ic / ...
2d 16h$126–351Car ferry, drive
- Take the carferry from Dublin Terminal 1 to Port of Cherbourgcarferry
- Drive from Port of Cherbourg to Sofiacar
43h 52m$631–1,752Fly Dublin Airport to Burgas Airport
- Fly from Dublin Airport (DUB) to Burgas Airport (BOJ)plane DUB - BOJ
7h 5m$103–211Fly Shannon Airport to Sofia Airport
- Fly from Shannon Airport (SNN) to Sofia Airport (SOF)plane SNN - SOF
10h 42m$89–256Fly Cork Airport to Sofia Airport
- Fly from Cork Airport (ORK) to Sofia Airport (SOF)plane ORK - SOF
8h 55m$103–207Train, car ferry, bus
- Take the train from Dublin Pearse to Rosslare Europorttrain Ic / ...
- Take the carferry from Rosslare Harbour to Dunkirkcarferry
- Take the bus from Dunkerque Port to Amsterdam Sloterdijkbus
- Take the bus from Amsterdam City Center - Sloterdijk to Beograd, Autobuska stanicabus
- Take the bus from Beograd, Autobuska stanica to Sofia Serdica Bus Stationbus
2d 16hBus
- Take the bus from Dublin to Rădăuțibus
- Take the bus from Rădăuţi to Bucharest Otopeni Airportbus
- Take the bus from Bucharest to Sofia Central Bus Stationbus
2d 16h$103–340Ferry, bus
- Take the ferry from Dublin Ferryport B+I to Cherbourgferry
- Take the bus from Cherbourg-Gare to Rennes-Gare Routierebus
- Take the bus from Rennes to Aradbus
- Take the bus from Arad to Sofiabus
3d 1hTrain, car ferry, bus via Delft
- Take the train from Dublin Pearse to Rosslare Europorttrain Ic / ...
- Take the carferry from Rosslare Harbour to Dunkirkcarferry
- Take the bus from Dunkerque Port to The Haguebus
- Take the bus from The Hague to Beograd, Autobuska stanicabus
- Take the bus from Beograd, Autobuska stanica to Sofia Serdica Bus Stationbus
3d 2h$671–1,235
Dublin Airport (DUB) to Sofia Airport (SOF) flights
Questions & Answers
The cheapest way to get from Ireland to Bulgaria is to fly which costs $85 - $260 and takes 10h 42m.
The fastest way to get from Ireland to Bulgaria is to fly which takes 7h 5m and costs $100 - $220.
No, there is no direct bus from Ireland to Bulgaria station. However, there are services departing from Dublin and arriving at Sofia Central Bus Station via Rădăuţi, Bucharest Otopeni Airport and Bucharest. The journey, including transfers, takes approximately 2 days 16h.
The distance between Ireland and Bulgaria is 2522 km.
The best way to get from Ireland to Bulgaria without a car is to bus and train and night train which takes 2 days 16h and costs $120 - $360.
It takes approximately 7h 11m to get from Ireland to Bulgaria, including transfers.
Ireland to Bulgaria bus services, operated by Tarsin, depart from Dublin station.
The best way to get from Ireland to Bulgaria is to fly which takes 7h 11m and costs $85 - $360. Alternatively, you can bus, which costs $100 - $340 and takes 2 days 16h.
Ireland to Bulgaria bus services, operated by Tarsin, arrive at Rădăuți station.
Bulgaria is 2h ahead of Ireland. It is currently 11:50 PM in Ireland and 1:50 AM in Bulgaria.
What companies run services between Ireland and Bulgaria?
Ryanair, Lufthansa, and Lufthansa City fly from Dublin Airport (DUB) to Sofia Airport (SOF) 3 times a day. Alternatively, you can take a vehicle from Dublin to Sofia Central Bus Station via Dublin, Rădăuți, Rădăuţi, Bucharest Otopeni Airport, and Bucharest in around 2d 16h.
- Website
- ryanair.com
Flights from Dublin Airport to Sofia Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 40m
- When
- Tuesday and Saturday
- Estimated price
- $80–370
Flights from Dublin Airport to Sofia Airport via Budapest
- Ave. Duration
- 5h 55m
- When
- Tuesday and Sunday
- Estimated price
- $80–370
Flights from Dublin Airport to Burgas Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 55m
- When
- Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- $85–210
Flights from Shannon Airport to Sofia Airport via Budapest
- Ave. Duration
- 8h 25m
- When
- Sunday
- Estimated price
- $80–200
Flights from Shannon Airport to Sofia Airport via Wroclaw
- Ave. Duration
- 8h 45m
- When
- Tuesday
- Estimated price
- $80–200
Flights from Shannon Airport to Sofia Airport via Krakow
- Ave. Duration
- 11h 55m
- When
- Tuesday
- Estimated price
- $80–200
Flights from Dublin Airport to Bucharest Otopeni
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 40m
- When
- Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday, Thursday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- $65–210
Flights from Dublin Airport to Bucharest Otopeni via Berlin Brandenburg
- Ave. Duration
- 5h 45m
- When
- Thursday to Saturday
- Estimated price
- $65–210
Flights from Cork Airport to Sofia Airport via Beauvais
- Ave. Duration
- 5h 45m
- When
- Sunday
- Estimated price
- $90–180
Flights from Cork Airport to Sofia Airport via Milan Bergamo
- Ave. Duration
- 9h 32m
- When
- Sunday and Monday
- Estimated price
- $90–180
- Website
- lufthansa.com
Flights from Dublin Airport to Sofia Airport via Munich
- Ave. Duration
- 6h
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- $110–360
Flights from Dublin Airport to Sofia Airport via Frankfurt
- Ave. Duration
- 7h 42m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- $110–360
Flights from Shannon Airport to Sofia Airport via Frankfurt
- Ave. Duration
- 8h 30m
- When
- Saturday
- Estimated price
- $140–470
Flights from Dublin Airport to Bucharest Otopeni via Munich
- Ave. Duration
- 5h 45m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- $95–430
- Website
- hisky.aero
Flights from Dublin Airport to Bucharest Otopeni
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 30m
- When
- Tuesday, Friday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- $100–320
Flights from Dublin Airport to Bucharest Otopeni via Cluj-Napoca
- Ave. Duration
- 6h
- When
- Thursday and Sunday
- Estimated price
- $100–320
- Website
- aerlingus.com
Flights from Dublin Airport to Burgas Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 4h
- When
- Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday
- Estimated price
- $90–550
- Website
- britishairways.com
Flights from Shannon Airport to Sofia Airport via London Heathrow
- Ave. Duration
- 14h 10m
- When
- Tuesday, Thursday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- $110–550
- Website
- wizzair.com
Flights from Shannon Airport to Sofia Airport via Budapest
- Ave. Duration
- 7h 5m
- When
- Sunday
- Estimated price
- $80–200
- Website
- norwegian.com
Flights from Dublin Airport to Bucharest Otopeni
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 30m
- When
- Tuesday and Saturday
- Estimated price
- $100–290
Flights from Dublin Airport to Bucharest Otopeni
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 45m
- When
- Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday
- Estimated price
- $100–230
- Phone
- 0219521
- Website
- Romanian Railways (CFR)
Train from Suceava to Bucharest
- Ave. Duration
- 5h 39m
- Frequency
- 5 times a day
- Estimated price
- $40–44
- Website
- Romanian Railways (CFR)
Train from Gorna Oryahovitsa to Sofia Sever
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 51m
- Frequency
- 3 times a day
- Estimated price
- $26–29
- Website
- Romanian Railways (CFR)
- Phone
- +359 2 931 11 11
- bdz_passengers@bdz.bg
- Website
- Bulgarian Railways (BDZh)
Night train from Bucharest to Gorna Oryahovitsa
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 14m
- Frequency
- Twice a week
- Estimated price
- $3–6
- Website
- Bulgarian Railways (BDZh)
- 2nd Class
- $3–5
- 1st Class
- $4–6
Train from Gorna Oryahovitsa to Sofia Sever
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 43m
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- $4–7
- Website
- Bulgarian Railways (BDZh)
- 2nd Class
- $4–7
- 1st Class
- $5–7
- Phone
- 0818 294 015
- Website
- Iarnród Éireann (Irish Rail)
Train from Dublin Pearse to Rosslare Europort
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 58m
- Frequency
- Every 4 hours
- Estimated price
- $17–24
- Website
- Iarnród Éireann (Irish Rail)
- Flexible
- $17–24
Train from Dublin Pearse to Rosslare Europort
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 58m
- Frequency
- Every 4 hours
- Estimated price
- $17–24
- Website
- Iarnród Éireann (Irish Rail)
- Flexible
- $17–24
- Phone
- +40 230 560 555
- tarsin_irlanda@yahoo.com
- Website
- tarsin.ro
Bus from Dublin to Rădăuți
- Ave. Duration
- 47h
- Frequency
- Once a week
- Estimated price
- $30–240
- 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
- +359 899199328
- omega_group@abv.bg
- Website
- bgrazpisanie.com
Bus from Buchurest to Ruse
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 20m
- Frequency
- Twice a week
- Estimated price
- $8–12
- Schedules at
- bgrazpisanie.com
Rome2Rio's guide to FlixBus
Contact DetailsContact Details
- Phone
- +49 30 300 137 300
- service@flixbus.com
- Website
- Flixbus
Bus from Dunkerque Port to Amsterdam Sloterdijk
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 55m
- Frequency
- 4 times a week
- Estimated price
- $30–55
- Website
- Flixbus
Bus from Rennes to Arad
- Ave. Duration
- 34h 45m
- Frequency
- 4 times a week
- Estimated price
- $220–360
- Website
- Flixbus
Bus from Arad to Sofia
- Ave. Duration
- 12h 15m
- Frequency
- 6 times a week
- Estimated price
- $70–120
- Website
- Flixbus
Bus from Dunkerque Port to The Hague
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 5m
- Frequency
- 4 times a week
- Estimated price
- $27–45
- Website
- Flixbus
- Phone
- +381 20 333 733
- garoreisen@gmail.com
- Website
- garo-reisen.rs
Bus from Amsterdam City Center - Sloterdijk to Beograd, Autobuska stanica
- Ave. Duration
- 21h 1m
- Frequency
- Twice a week
- Schedules at
- garo-reisen.rs
- Phone
- +359 2 812 0 812
- operations@eurolines.bg
- Website
- karat-s.com
Bus from Beograd, Autobuska stanica to Sofia Serdica Bus Station
- Ave. Duration
- 7h 30m
- Frequency
- Once daily
- Estimated price
- $40–95
- Schedules at
- karat-s.com
Bus from Beograd, Autobuska stanica to Sofia Serdica Bus Station
- Ave. Duration
- 7h 30m
- Frequency
- Once daily
- Estimated price
- $40–95
- Schedules at
- karat-s.com
- Phone
- +359 0885700870
- support@citylines.eu
- Website
- Citylines
Bus from Beograd, Autobuska stanica to Sofia Serdica Bus Station
- Ave. Duration
- 6h 30m
- Frequency
- 6 times a week
- Estimated price
- $26–45
- Website
- Citylines
Bus from Beograd, Autobuska stanica to Sofia Serdica Bus Station
- Ave. Duration
- 6h 30m
- Frequency
- 6 times a week
- Estimated price
- $26–45
- Website
- Citylines
- Phone
- 0745 638 910
- transnicolaescu@yahoo.com
- Website
- transnicolaescu.ro
Bus from Rădăuţi to Bucharest Otopeni Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 8h 30m
- Frequency
- 3 times a day
- Estimated price
- $13–35
- Schedules at
- transnicolaescu.ro
- Phone
- +38(098) 343 8282
- callcenter@likebus.ua
- Website
- likebus.ua
Bus from Bucharest to Sofia Central Bus Station
- Ave. Duration
- 5h 50m
- Frequency
- Once daily
- Estimated price
- $34
- Schedules at
- likebus.ua
- Phone
- +33 806 07 95 30
- contact@capcotentin.fr
- Website
- Cap Cotentin
Bus from Cherbourg-Gare to Rennes-Gare Routiere
- Ave. Duration
- 3h
- Frequency
- 6 times a week
- Schedules at
- Cap Cotentin
- Phone
- +381 800 334 334
- iuc@lasta.rs
- Website
- lasta.rs
Bus from The Hague to Beograd, Autobuska stanica
- Phone
- +353 818 300 400
- info@irishferries.fr
- Website
- Irish Ferries
Car ferry from Dublin Terminal 1 to Port of Cherbourg
- Ave. Duration
- 20h
- Frequency
- 6 times a week
- Estimated price
- $190–1,100
- Website
- Irish Ferries
Ferry from Dublin Ferryport B+I to Cherbourg
- Ave. Duration
- 18h 30m
- Frequency
- 6 times a week
- Estimated price
- $140–800
- Website
- Irish Ferries
- Phone
- +44 344 848 6090
- travel.sales@dfds.com
- Website
- DFDS Seaways
Car ferry from Rosslare Harbour to Dunkirk
- Ave. Duration
- 24h
- Frequency
- 5 times a week
- Estimated price
- $490–700
- Website
- DFDS Seaways
- Family (4 persons + car)
- $525
Car ferry from Rosslare Harbour to Dunkirk
- Ave. Duration
- 24h
- Frequency
- 5 times a week
- Estimated price
- $490–700
- Website
- DFDS Seaways
- Family (4 persons + car)
- $525
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