There are 10 ways to get from Limerick to Europe by plane, train, car, car ferry, or bus
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Fly Shannon Airport to Hannover Airport, train
best- Fly from Shannon Airport (SNN) to Hannover Airport (HAJ)plane SNN - HAJ
- Take the train from Hannover Hauptbahnhof to Göttingentrain
- Take the train from Göttingen to Eschwege-Niederhone Bahnhoftrain
12h 42mBus to Dublin Airport, fly to Frankfurt, train
cheapest- Take the bus from Limerick Arthur's Quay to Dublin Airport Terminal 1 Zone 2bus
- Fly from Dublin Airport (DUB) to Frankfurt (FRA)plane DUB - FRA
- Take the train from Frankfurt to Fulda Bahnhoftrain
- Take the train from Fulda Bahnhof to Bebra Bahnhoftrain
12h 5m$102–331Drive, car ferry
- Drive from Limerick to Rosslare Harbourcar
- Take the car ferry from Rosslare Harbour to Dunkirkcarferry
- Drive from Dunkirk to Europecar
32h 58m$357–773Bus, train
- Take the bus from Limerick Arthur's Quay to Dublin Airport Terminal 1 Zone 2bus 712
- Take the bus from Dublin to Rădăuțibus
- Take the bus from Rădăuți to Frankfurtbus
- Take the train from Frankfurt to Wabern Bahnhoftrain
3d 9h$210–515Bus to Cork Airport, fly to Frankfurt, train
- Take the bus from Henry Street to Cork Airportbus
- Fly from Cork Airport (ORK) to Frankfurt (FRA)plane ORK - FRA
- Take the train from Frankfurt to Fulda Bahnhoftrain
- Take the train from Fulda Bahnhof to Bebra Bahnhoftrain
11h 27m$175–411Bus to Dublin Airport, fly to Düsseldorf International Airport, train
- Take the bus from Limerick Arthur's Quay to Dublin Airport Terminal 1 Zone 2bus
- Fly from Dublin Airport (DUB) to Düsseldorf International Airport (DUS)plane DUB - DUS
- Take the train from Duesseldorf Flughafen to Kassel-Wilhelmshoehetrain
- Take the train from Kassel Bahnhof Wilhelmshöhe to Bebra Bahnhoftrain
13h 32m$143–440Fly Shannon Airport to Cologne Bonn Airport, train
- Fly from Shannon Airport (SNN) to Cologne Bonn Airport (CGN)plane SNN - CGN
- Take the train from Siegburg Bf to Frankfurttrain
- Take the train from Frankfurt to Eisenach Hbftrain
13h 26m$142–466Bus to Cork Airport, fly to Amsterdam Airport Schiphol, train
- Take the bus from Henry Street to Cork Airportbus
- Fly from Cork Airport (ORK) to Amsterdam Airport Schiphol (AMS)plane ORK - AMS
- Take the train from Schiphol Airport to Utrecht Centraaltrain
- Take the train from Utrecht Centraal to Kassel-Wilhelmshöhetrain
- Take the train from Kassel Bahnhof Wilhelmshöhe to Bebra Bahnhoftrain
15h 27m$206–581Bus to Dublin Airport, fly to Amsterdam Airport Schiphol, train
- Take the bus from Limerick Arthur's Quay to Dublin Airport Terminal 1 Zone 2bus
- Fly from Dublin Airport (DUB) to Amsterdam Airport Schiphol (AMS)plane DUB - AMS
- Take the train from Schiphol Airport to Utrecht Centraaltrain
- Take the train from Utrecht Centraal to Kassel-Wilhelmshöhetrain
- Take the train from Kassel Bahnhof Wilhelmshöhe to Bebra Bahnhoftrain
16h$163–571Bus, train via Cologne
- Take the bus from Limerick Arthur's Quay to Bachelors Walkbus
- Take the bus from Dublin to Rădăuțibus
- Take the bus from Rădăuţi to Kölnbus
- Take the train from Köln Hbf to Bebra Bahnhoftrain
3d 16h$180–582
Shannon Airport (SNN) to Hannover Airport (HAJ) flights
Questions & Answers
The cheapest way to get from Limerick to Europe is to bus and fly and train which costs $100 - $340 and takes 12h 5m.
The fastest way to get from Limerick to Europe is to bus and fly and train which takes 11h 27m and costs $170 - $420.
The distance between Limerick and Europe is 1478 km.
The best way to get from Limerick to Europe without a car is to bus and train which takes 3 days 9h and costs $210 - $550.
It takes approximately 12h 42m to get from Limerick to Europe, including transfers.
Europe is 1h ahead of Limerick. It is currently 4:40 AM in Limerick and 5:40 AM in Europe.
There are 788+ hotels available in Europe.
What companies run services between Limerick, Ireland and Europe?
There is no direct connection from Limerick to Europe. However, you can take the line 343 bus to Shannon Airport, walk to Shannon Airport (SNN) airport, fly to Hannover Airport (HAJ), walk to Langenhagen Flughafen, take the train to Hannover Hauptbahnhof, take the train to Göttingen, take the train to Eschwege-Niederhone Bahnhof, take the train to Sontra Bahnhof, walk to Sontra Breitwiese, then take the line 260 bus to Nentershausen-Süß Gerstunger Straße. Alternatively, you can take a vehicle from Limerick to Europe via Rosslare Harbour and Dunkirk in around 32h 58m.
- Website
- ryanair.com
Flights from Shannon Airport to Cologne Bonn Airport via Manchester
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 15m
- When
- Friday and Sunday
- Estimated price
- $65–260
Flights from Shannon Airport to Cologne Bonn Airport via London Stansted
- Ave. Duration
- 8h 50m
- When
- Monday
- Estimated price
- $65–260
Flights from Dublin Airport to Amsterdam Airport Schiphol
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 40m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- $40–220
- Website
- klm.com
Flights from Shannon Airport to Hannover Airport via Manchester, Amsterdam Airport Schiphol
- Ave. Duration
- 5h 57m
- When
- Monday and Thursday
- Estimated price
- $100–550
Flights from Cork Airport to Frankfurt via Amsterdam Airport Schiphol
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 50m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- $65–370
Flights from Dublin Airport to Frankfurt via Amsterdam Airport Schiphol
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 10m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- $50–290
Flights from Dublin Airport to Düsseldorf International Airport via Amsterdam Airport Schiphol
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 52m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- $55–310
Flights from Cork Airport to Amsterdam Airport Schiphol
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 42m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- $65–380
Flights from Dublin Airport to Amsterdam Airport Schiphol
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 41m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- $50–300
- Website
- lufthansa.com
Flights from Shannon Airport to Hannover Airport via Frankfurt
- Ave. Duration
- 5h 5m
- When
- Saturday
- Estimated price
- $130–420
Flights from Cork Airport to Frankfurt
- Ave. Duration
- 2h
- When
- Sunday
- Estimated price
- $100–300
Flights from Dublin Airport to Frankfurt
- Ave. Duration
- 2h
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- $70–340
Flights from Dublin Airport to Düsseldorf International Airport via Frankfurt
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 47m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- $90–360
- Website
- aerlingus.com
Flights from Dublin Airport to Frankfurt
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 7m
- When
- Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- $40–170
Flights from Dublin Airport to Düsseldorf International Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 50m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- $35–150
Flights from Dublin Airport to Amsterdam Airport Schiphol
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 40m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- $40–160
- Website
- britishairways.com
Flights from Shannon Airport to Hannover Airport via London Heathrow
- Ave. Duration
- 7h
- When
- Saturday
- Estimated price
- $120–600
Flights from Cork Airport to Frankfurt via London Heathrow
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 22m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- $85–380
Flights from Shannon Airport to Cologne Bonn Airport via London Heathrow
- Ave. Duration
- 6h 50m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- $75–340
- Website
- airfrance.com
Flights from Shannon Airport to Hannover Airport via Paris Charles de Gaulle
- Ave. Duration
- 8h 40m
- When
- Thursday and Sunday
- Estimated price
- $90–430
- Website
- eurowings.com
Flights from Dublin Airport to Düsseldorf International Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 40m
- When
- Friday
- Estimated price
- $65–230
- Website
- jet2.com
Flights from Shannon Airport to Cologne Bonn Airport via Manchester
- Ave. Duration
- 6h 30m
- When
- Friday
- Estimated price
- $110–340
- Phone
- +49 30 311 682904
- Website
- bahn.de
Train from Hannover Hauptbahnhof to Göttingen
- Ave. Duration
- 32 min
- Frequency
- Every 30 minutes
- Estimated price
- $15–50
- Website
- https://int.bahn.de/en
Train from Frankfurt to Fulda Bahnhof
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 11m
- Frequency
- Every 3 hours
- Estimated price
- $15–50
- Website
- https://int.bahn.de/en
Train from Duesseldorf Flughafen to Kassel-Wilhelmshoehe
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 6m
- Frequency
- Twice daily
- Estimated price
- $50–130
- Website
- https://int.bahn.de/en
Train from Kassel Bahnhof Wilhelmshöhe to Bebra Bahnhof
- Ave. Duration
- 38 min
- Frequency
- 6 times a week
- Estimated price
- $28–32
- Website
- https://int.bahn.de/en
Train from Siegburg Bf to Frankfurt
- Ave. Duration
- 53 min
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- $29–95
- Website
- https://int.bahn.de/en
Train from Frankfurt to Eisenach Hbf
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 49m
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- $29–70
- Website
- https://int.bahn.de/en
Train from Köln Hbf to Bebra Bahnhof
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 25m
- Frequency
- Twice a week
- Estimated price
- $75–85
- Website
- https://int.bahn.de/en
- Phone
- +43 5 1717
- Website
- konzern.oebb.at
Train from Hannover Hauptbahnhof to Göttingen
- Ave. Duration
- 1h
- Frequency
- Once daily
- Estimated price
- $30–45
- Website
- https://konzern.oebb.at/en/
- Phone
- +49 561 766396-0
- info@cantus-bahn.de
- Website
- cantus-bahn.de
Train from Göttingen to Eschwege-Niederhone Bahnhof
- Ave. Duration
- 34 min
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Website
- cantus Verkehrsgesellschaft mbH
Train from Fulda Bahnhof to Bebra Bahnhof
- Ave. Duration
- 38 min
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Website
- cantus Verkehrsgesellschaft mbH
Train from Kassel Bahnhof Wilhelmshöhe to Bebra Bahnhof
- Ave. Duration
- 43 min
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Website
- cantus Verkehrsgesellschaft mbH
- Phone
- +49 30 2970
- Website
- bahn.de
Train from Frankfurt to Wabern Bahnhof
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 46m
- Frequency
- Every 3 hours
- Estimated price
- $29–45
- Website
- https://int.bahn.de/en
Train from Fulda Bahnhof to Bebra Bahnhof
- Ave. Duration
- 36 min
- Frequency
- Twice daily
- Estimated price
- $14–20
- Website
- https://int.bahn.de/en
Train from Kassel Bahnhof Wilhelmshöhe to Bebra Bahnhof
- Ave. Duration
- 37 min
- Frequency
- 5 times a week
- Estimated price
- $13–20
- Website
- https://int.bahn.de/en
- Phone
- 0221 13 999 444
- Website
- nationalexpress.de
Train from Duesseldorf Flughafen to Kassel-Wilhelmshoehe
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 13m
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- $50–75
- Schedules at
- nationalexpress.de
- Phone
- +31 30 751 5155
- Website
- ns.nl
Train from Schiphol Airport to Utrecht Centraal
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 5m
- Frequency
- Every 15 minutes
- Estimated price
- $12–35
- Website
- https://www.ns.nl/en
- 2nd Class
- $12–18
- 1st Class
- $20–35
Train from Utrecht Centraal to Kassel-Wilhelmshöhe
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 28m
- Frequency
- Once daily
- Estimated price
- $70–240
- Website
- https://www.ns.nl/en
- 2nd Class
- $70–110
- 1st Class
- $140–240
- Phone
- 0800-0232 545
- Website
- arriva.nl
Train from Schiphol Airport to Utrecht Centraal
- Ave. Duration
- 46 min
- Frequency
- Once a week
- Estimated price
- $14–16
- Website
- https://www.arriva.nl/en/
- 2nd Class
- $14–16
- Phone
- +353 91 564 164
- info@citylink.ie
- Website
- citylink.ie
Bus from Limerick Arthur's Quay to Dublin Airport Terminal 1 Zone 2
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 28m
- Frequency
- Every 2 hours
- Estimated price
- $22–35
- Website
- https://www.citylink.ie/
Bus from Henry Street to Cork Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 50m
- Frequency
- Every 4 hours
- Estimated price
- $15–22
- Website
- https://www.citylink.ie/
- Phone
- +40 230 562 929
- tarsin_irlanda@yahoo.com
- Website
- tarsin.ro
Bus from Dublin to Rădăuți
- Ave. Duration
- 47h
- Frequency
- Once a week
- Estimated price
- $35–240
- Schedules at
- tarsin.ro
Bus from Rădăuți to Frankfurt
- Ave. Duration
- 24h 6m
- Frequency
- Once a week
- Estimated price
- $24–180
- Schedules at
- tarsin.ro
Bus from Rădăuţi to Köln
- Ave. Duration
- 26h 45m
- Frequency
- Once a week
- Estimated price
- $25–200
- Schedules at
- tarsin.ro
- Phone
- 0745 638 910
- transnicolaescu@yahoo.com
- Website
- transnicolaescu.ro
Bus from Rădăuți to Frankfurt
- Ave. Duration
- 27h 30m
- Frequency
- Once a week
- Estimated price
- $13–65
- Schedules at
- transnicolaescu.ro
- Phone
- +353 (0)1 465 9972
- info@dublincoach.ie
- Website
- dublincoach.ie
Bus from Limerick Arthur's Quay to Bachelors Walk
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 45m
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- $19–27
- Website
- https://www.dublincoach.ie/
- Phone
- 0724 122 272
- contact@euro-fratello.ro
- Website
- euro-fratello.ro
Bus from Rădăuţi to Köln
- Ave. Duration
- 28h 44m
- Frequency
- Twice a week
- Schedules at
- euro-fratello.ro
- 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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