There are 10 ways to get from Limerick to Europe by bus, plane, train, car, car ferry, or taxi
Select an option below to see step-by-step directions and to compare ticket prices and travel times in Rome2Rio's travel planner.
Bus to Cork Airport, fly to Frankfurt, train
best- Take the bus from Henry Street to Cork Airport
- Fly from Cork Airport (ORK) to Frankfurt (FRA)ORK - FRA
- Take the train from Frankfurt to Fulda Bahnhof
- Take the train from Fulda Bahnhof to Bebra Bahnhof
10h 28m$189–423Bus to Dublin Airport, fly to Frankfurt, train
cheapest- Take the bus from Limerick Arthur's Quay to Dublin Airport Terminal 1 Zone 2
- Fly from Dublin Airport (DUB) to Frankfurt (FRA)DUB - FRA
- Take the train from Frankfurt to Fulda Bahnhof
- Take the train from Fulda Bahnhof to Bebra Bahnhof
11h 6m$121–342Drive, car ferry
- Drive from Limerick to Rosslare Harbour
- Take the car ferry from Rosslare Harbour to Dunkirk
- Drive from Dunkirk to Europe
32h 57m$357–773Bus, train, taxi
- Take the bus from Limerick Arthur's Quay to Bachelors Walk300
- Take the bus from Dublin to Rădăuți
- Take the bus from Rădăuţi to Köln
- Take the train from Köln Hbf to Bebra Bahnhof51
- Take the taxi from Bebra Bahnhof to Sontra-Blankenbach250
3d 16h$179–589Fly Shannon Airport to Hannover Airport, train
- Fly from Shannon Airport (SNN) to Hannover Airport (HAJ)SNN - HAJ
- Take the train from Hannover Hauptbahnhof to Göttingen
- Take the train from Göttingen to Eschwege Stadtbahnhof
14h 47mBus to Dublin Airport, fly to Düsseldorf International Airport, train
- Take the bus from Limerick Arthur's Quay to Dublin Airport Terminal 1 Zone 2
- Fly from Dublin Airport (DUB) to Düsseldorf International Airport (DUS)DUB - DUS
- Take the train from Duesseldorf Flughafen to Kassel-Wilhelmshoehe
- Take the train from Kassel Bahnhof Wilhelmshöhe to Bebra Bahnhof
12h 41m$158–476Fly Shannon Airport to Cologne Bonn Airport, train
- Fly from Shannon Airport (SNN) to Cologne Bonn Airport (CGN)SNN - CGN
- Take the train from Siegburg Bf to Frankfurt
- Take the train from Frankfurt to Eisenach Hbf
13h 7m$143–437Bus to Cork Airport, fly to Amsterdam Airport Schiphol, train
- Take the bus from Henry Street to Cork Airport
- Fly from Cork Airport (ORK) to Amsterdam Airport Schiphol (AMS)ORK - AMS
- Take the train from Schiphol Airport to Utrecht Centraal
- Take the train from Utrecht Centraal to Kassel-Wilhelmshöhe
- Take the train from Kassel Bahnhof Wilhelmshöhe to Bebra Bahnhof
14h 4m$214–571Bus to Dublin Airport, fly to Amsterdam Airport Schiphol, train
- Take the bus from Limerick Arthur's Quay to Dublin Airport Terminal 1 Zone 2
- Fly from Dublin Airport (DUB) to Amsterdam Airport Schiphol (AMS)DUB - AMS
- Take the train from Schiphol Airport to Utrecht Centraal
- Take the train from Utrecht Centraal to Kassel-Wilhelmshöhe
- Take the train from Kassel Bahnhof Wilhelmshöhe to Bebra Bahnhof
14h 37m$166–570Bus, car ferry, train, taxi
- Take the bus from Limerick Colbert Station to Waterford Bus Station55
- Take the bus from Waterford Bus Station to Rosslare Europort40
- Take the car ferry from Rosslare Harbour to Dunkirk
- Take the bus from Dunkerque Port to Duisburg central train station
- Take the train from Duisburg Hbf to Bebra Bahnhof51
- Take the taxi from Bebra Bahnhof to Sontra-Blankenbach250
42h 42m$348–743
Cork Airport (ORK) to Frankfurt (FRA) flights
Questions & Answers
The cheapest way to get from Limerick to Europe is to bus and fly and train which costs $120 - $350 and takes 11h 6m.
The fastest way to get from Limerick to Europe is to bus and fly and train which takes 10h 28m and costs $180 - $430.
The distance between Limerick and Europe is 1495 km.
The best way to get from Limerick to Europe without a car is to bus and train and taxi which takes 3 days 16h and costs $170 - $600.
It takes approximately 10h 28m to get from Limerick to Europe, including transfers.
Europe is 1h ahead of Limerick. It is currently 12:30 AM in Limerick and 1:30 AM in Europe.
There are 781+ 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 bus to Cork Airport, walk to Cork Airport (ORK) airport, fly to Frankfurt (FRA), walk to Frankfurt, take the train to Fulda Bahnhof, take the train to Bebra Bahnhof, walk to Bebra Bahnhof, then take the bus to Nentershausen Oderstraße. Alternatively, you can take a vehicle from Limerick to Europe via Rosslare Harbour and Dunkirk in around 32h 57m.
- Website
- klm.com
Flights from Cork Airport to Frankfurt via Amsterdam Airport Schiphol
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 25m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- $70–360
Flights from Shannon Airport to Hannover Airport via Manchester, Amsterdam Airport Schiphol
- Ave. Duration
- 7h 25m
- When
- Wednesday
- Estimated price
- $95–500
Flights from Shannon Airport to Hannover Airport via Birmingham, Amsterdam Airport Schiphol
- Ave. Duration
- 8h 45m
- When
- Monday and Wednesday
- Estimated price
- $90–330
Flights from Dublin Airport to Frankfurt via Amsterdam Airport Schiphol
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 6m
- 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
- $55–300
Flights from Cork Airport to Amsterdam Airport Schiphol
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 45m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- $65–360
Flights from Dublin Airport to Amsterdam Airport Schiphol
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 40m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- $45–280
- Website
- ryanair.com
Flights from Shannon Airport to Cologne Bonn Airport via London Stansted
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 2m
- When
- Monday and Saturday
- Estimated price
- $65–210
Flights from Shannon Airport to Cologne Bonn Airport via Manchester
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 15m
- When
- Friday and Sunday
- Estimated price
- $65–210
Flights from Dublin Airport to Amsterdam Airport Schiphol
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 40m
- When
- Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday, Saturday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- $40–220
- Website
- aerlingus.com
Flights from Dublin Airport to Frankfurt
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 7m
- When
- Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- $40–180
Flights from Dublin Airport to Düsseldorf International Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 50m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- $40–180
Flights from Dublin Airport to Amsterdam Airport Schiphol
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 40m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- $40–170
- Website
- lufthansa.com
Flights from Cork Airport to Frankfurt
- Ave. Duration
- 2h
- When
- Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, Friday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- $160–360
Flights from Shannon Airport to Hannover Airport via Frankfurt
- Ave. Duration
- 9h 15m
- When
- Saturday
- Estimated price
- $130–400
Flights from Dublin Airport to Frankfurt
- Ave. Duration
- 2h
- When
- Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday, Saturday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- $80–250
Flights from Dublin Airport to Düsseldorf International Airport via Frankfurt
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 42m
- When
- Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday, Saturday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- $90–350
- Website
- britishairways.com
Flights from Cork Airport to Frankfurt via London Heathrow
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 22m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- $85–390
Flights from Shannon Airport to Hannover Airport via London Heathrow
- Ave. Duration
- 10h 15m
- When
- Monday, Tuesday, Saturday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- $120–550
Flights from Shannon Airport to Cologne Bonn Airport via London Heathrow
- Ave. Duration
- 6h 50m
- When
- Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday, Saturday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- $70–340
- Website
- airfrance.com
Flights from Shannon Airport to Hannover Airport via Paris Charles de Gaulle
- Ave. Duration
- 8h 40m
- When
- Sunday
- Estimated price
- $85–410
- Website
- eurowings.com
Flights from Dublin Airport to Düsseldorf International Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 40m
- When
- Friday and Sunday
- Estimated price
- $65–230
- Website
- jet2.com
Flights from Shannon Airport to Cologne Bonn Airport via Birmingham
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 55m
- When
- Monday
- Estimated price
- $100–320
- Phone
- +49 30 311 682904
- Website
- bahn.de
Train from Frankfurt to Fulda Bahnhof
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 4m
- Frequency
- Every 2 hours
- Estimated price
- $15–55
- Website
- https://int.bahn.de/en
Train from Köln Hbf to Bebra Bahnhof
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 25m
- Frequency
- 3 times a week
- Estimated price
- $75–85
- Website
- https://int.bahn.de/en
Train from Hannover Hauptbahnhof to Göttingen
- Ave. Duration
- 32 min
- Frequency
- Every 30 minutes
- Estimated price
- $11–50
- Website
- https://int.bahn.de/en
Train from Duesseldorf Flughafen to Kassel-Wilhelmshoehe
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 5m
- Frequency
- Twice daily
- Estimated price
- $60–160
- Website
- https://int.bahn.de/en
Train from Kassel Bahnhof Wilhelmshöhe to Bebra Bahnhof
- Ave. Duration
- 38 min
- Frequency
- Once daily
- Estimated price
- $28–32
- Website
- https://int.bahn.de/en
Train from Siegburg Bf to Frankfurt
- Ave. Duration
- 53 min
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- $30–95
- Website
- https://int.bahn.de/en
Train from Frankfurt to Eisenach Hbf
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 49m
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- $29–90
- Website
- https://int.bahn.de/en
Train from Duisburg Hbf to Bebra Bahnhof
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 28m
- Frequency
- 3 times a week
- Estimated price
- $65–75
- Website
- https://int.bahn.de/en
- Phone
- +49 561 766396-0
- info@cantus-bahn.de
- Website
- cantus-bahn.de
Train from Fulda Bahnhof to Bebra Bahnhof
- Ave. Duration
- 38 min
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Website
- cantus Verkehrsgesellschaft mbH
Train from Göttingen to Eschwege Stadtbahnhof
- Ave. Duration
- 37 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 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
- $14–20
- 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
- 0221 13 999 444
- Website
- nationalexpress.de
Train from Duesseldorf Flughafen to Kassel-Wilhelmshoehe
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 13m
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- $50–80
- Schedules at
- nationalexpress.de
- Phone
- +31 30 751 5155
- Website
- ns.nl
Train from Schiphol Airport to Utrecht Centraal
- Ave. Duration
- 33 min
- Frequency
- Every 15 minutes
- Estimated price
- $10–28
- Website
- https://www.ns.nl/en
- 2nd Class
- $10–16
- 1st Class
- $16–28
Train from Utrecht Centraal to Kassel-Wilhelmshöhe
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 28m
- Frequency
- Once daily
- Estimated price
- $70–250
- Website
- https://www.ns.nl/en
- 2nd Class
- $70–110
- 1st Class
- $140–250
- Phone
- 0800-0232 545
- Website
- arriva.nl
Train from Schiphol Airport to Utrecht Centraal
- Ave. Duration
- 46 min
- Frequency
- Once a week
- Estimated price
- $12–14
- Website
- https://www.arriva.nl/en/
- 2nd Class
- $12–14
- Phone
- +353 91 564 164
- info@citylink.ie
- Website
- 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/
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/
- 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
- +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
- $30–240
- 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
- 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
- 0818 15 15 15
- Website
- expressway.ie
Bus from Limerick Colbert Station to Waterford Bus Station
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 22m
- Frequency
- Every 4 hours
- Estimated price
- $22–30
- Website
- https://www.expressway.ie/
Bus from Waterford Bus Station to Rosslare Europort
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 25m
- Frequency
- 4 times a day
- Estimated price
- $17–24
- Website
- https://www.expressway.ie/
- Phone
- +353 1 836 6111
- Website
- buseireann.ie
Bus from Waterford Bus Station to Rosslare Europort
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 43m
- Frequency
- Twice daily
- Estimated price
- $11–16
- Website
- https://www.buseireann.ie/
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Contact Details
- Phone
- +49 30 300 137 300
- service@flixbus.com
- Website
- flixbus.fr
Bus from Dunkerque Port to Duisburg central train station
- Ave. Duration
- 5h 30m
- Frequency
- Once a week
- Estimated price
- $30–50
- Website
- https://www.flixbus.co.uk
- 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
- $210–531
- Website
- https://www.dfds.com/en
- Family (4 persons + car)
- $531
- Ave. Duration
- 50 min
- Estimated price
- $10–14
Deutsche Bahn Regio (DB Regional)
- Phone
- +49 30 2970
- Website
- bahn.de
Deutsche Bahn Regio (DB Regional)
- Phone
- +49 30 2970
- Website
- bahn.de
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