There are 8 ways to get from Newcastle upon Tyne to Costa Rica by train, plane, or shuttle
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Train to Edinburgh Airport, fly to Juan Santamaría International Airport
best- Take the train from Newcastle to Edinburgh Waverleytrain
- Fly from Edinburgh Airport (EDI) to Juan Santamaría International Airport (SJO)plane EDI - SJO
20h 39m$492–1,525Fly Newcastle to Juan Santamaría International Airport
cheapest- Fly from Newcastle (NCL) to Juan Santamaría International Airport (SJO)plane NCL - SJO
20h 12m$365–1,406Train to Durham Tees Valley Airport, fly to Juan Santamaría International Airport
- Take the train from Newcastle to Darlingtontrain
- Fly from Durham Tees Valley Airport (MME) to Juan Santamaría International Airport (SJO)plane MME - SJO
18h 24m$664–2,428Train to Manchester Airport, fly to Juan Santamaría International Airport
- Take the train from Newcastle to Manchester Airporttrain
- Fly from Manchester Airport (MAN) to Juan Santamaría International Airport (SJO)plane MAN - SJO
22h 14m$597–1,268Train to Leeds Bradford International Airport, fly to Juan Santamaría International Airport
- Take the train from Newcastle to Leedstrain
- Fly from Leeds Bradford International Airport (LBA) to Juan Santamaría International Airport (SJO)plane LBA - SJO
19h 45m$832–1,293Train, train to Humberside Airport, fly to Juan Santamaría International Airport
- Take the train from Newcastle to Doncastertrain
- Take the train from Doncaster to Barnetbytrain
- Fly from Humberside Airport (HUY) to Juan Santamaría International Airport (SJO)plane HUY - SJO
20h 34m$698–2,623Train, train to London Gatwick Airport, fly to Juan Santamaría International Airport
- Take the train from Newcastle to King's Crosstrain
- Take the train from London Victoria to Gatwick Airporttrain
- Fly from London Gatwick Airport (LGW) to Juan Santamaría International Airport (SJO)plane LGW - SJO
17h 33m$528–1,228Train to Edinburgh Airport, fly to Liberia International Airport, shuttle
- Take the train from Newcastle to Edinburgh Waverleytrain
- Fly from Edinburgh Airport (EDI) to Liberia International Airport (LIR)plane EDI - LIR
- Take a shuttle bus from Liberia Airport to Monteverde
- Take a shuttle bus from Monteverde to Puntarenas
35h 22m$957–3,324
Edinburgh Airport (EDI) to Juan Santamaría International Airport (SJO) flights
Questions & Answers
The cheapest way to get from Newcastle upon Tyne to Costa Rica is to train and fly which costs $550 - $1,300 and takes 22h 14m.
The fastest way to get from Newcastle upon Tyne to Costa Rica is to train and fly which takes 17h 33m and costs $500 - $1,300.
The distance between Newcastle upon Tyne and Costa Rica is 8733 km.
It takes approximately 20h 39m to get from Newcastle upon Tyne to Costa Rica, including transfers.
Costa Rica is 6h behind Newcastle upon Tyne. It is currently 3:06 PM in Newcastle upon Tyne and 9:06 AM in Costa Rica.
There are 775+ hotels available in Costa Rica.
What companies run services between Newcastle upon Tyne, England and Costa Rica?
Aer Lingus, American Airlines, and Ryanair fly from Newcastle (NCL) to Juan Santamaría International Airport (SJO) 4 times a week.
- Website
- klm.com
Flights from Edinburgh Airport to Juan Santamaría International Airport via Atlanta
- Ave. Duration
- 19h 15m
- When
- Monday, Wednesday, Friday, Saturday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- $290–1,100
Flights from Durham Tees Valley Airport to Juan Santamaría International Airport via Amsterdam Schiphol
- Ave. Duration
- 16h 25m
- When
- Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- $650–2,400
Flights from Durham Tees Valley Airport to Juan Santamaría International Airport via Amsterdam Schiphol, Panama City
- Ave. Duration
- 18h 30m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- $650–2,500
Flights from Manchester Airport to Juan Santamaría International Airport via Atlanta
- Ave. Duration
- 19h 15m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- $290–1,100
Flights from Leeds Bradford International Airport to Juan Santamaría International Airport via Amsterdam Schiphol
- Ave. Duration
- 16h 22m
- When
- Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- $350–1,300
Flights from Leeds Bradford International Airport to Juan Santamaría International Airport via Paris Charles de Gaulle
- Ave. Duration
- 15h 50m
- When
- Monday and Friday
- Estimated price
- $350–1,300
Flights from Leeds Bradford International Airport to Juan Santamaría International Airport via Amsterdam Schiphol, Panama City
- Ave. Duration
- 18h 27m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- $360–1,400
Flights from Humberside Airport to Juan Santamaría International Airport via Amsterdam Schiphol
- Ave. Duration
- 16h 25m
- When
- Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- $650–2,500
Flights from Humberside Airport to Juan Santamaría International Airport via Amsterdam Schiphol, Panama City
- Ave. Duration
- 18h 27m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- $700–2,600
Flights from Edinburgh Airport to Liberia International Airport via Atlanta
- Ave. Duration
- 32h 20m
- When
- Friday
- Estimated price
- $750–2,800
- Website
- airfrance.com
Flights from Durham Tees Valley Airport to Juan Santamaría International Airport via Amsterdam Schiphol
- Ave. Duration
- 16h 25m
- When
- Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- $650–2,400
Flights from Durham Tees Valley Airport to Juan Santamaría International Airport via Amsterdam Schiphol, Panama City
- Ave. Duration
- 18h 27m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- $650–2,500
Flights from Leeds Bradford International Airport to Juan Santamaría International Airport via Amsterdam Schiphol
- Ave. Duration
- 16h 22m
- When
- Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- $350–1,300
Flights from Leeds Bradford International Airport to Juan Santamaría International Airport via Paris Charles de Gaulle
- Ave. Duration
- 15h 50m
- When
- Monday and Friday
- Estimated price
- $350–1,300
Flights from Leeds Bradford International Airport to Juan Santamaría International Airport via Amsterdam Schiphol, Panama City
- Ave. Duration
- 18h 24m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- $360–1,400
Flights from Humberside Airport to Juan Santamaría International Airport via Amsterdam Schiphol
- Ave. Duration
- 18h 15m
- When
- Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- $650–2,500
Flights from Humberside Airport to Juan Santamaría International Airport via Amsterdam Schiphol, Panama City
- Ave. Duration
- 18h 52m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- $700–2,600
- Website
- aircanada.com
Flights from Edinburgh Airport to Juan Santamaría International Airport via Montreal
- Ave. Duration
- 20h
- When
- Sunday
- Estimated price
- $280–1,100
Flights from Edinburgh Airport to Juan Santamaría International Airport via Toronto
- Ave. Duration
- 19h 50m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- $290–1,300
Flights from Manchester Airport to Juan Santamaría International Airport via Toronto
- Ave. Duration
- 21h 15m
- When
- Wednesday, Friday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- $290–1,200
Flights from Edinburgh Airport to Liberia International Airport via Newark
- Ave. Duration
- 32h 19m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- $700–2,800
Flights from Edinburgh Airport to Liberia International Airport via Montreal
- Ave. Duration
- 35h 40m
- When
- Wednesday
- Estimated price
- $750–2,800
Flights from Edinburgh Airport to Liberia International Airport via Toronto
- Ave. Duration
- 35h 45m
- When
- Wednesday, Friday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- $750–2,800
- Website
- aa.com
Flights from Edinburgh Airport to Juan Santamaría International Airport via Chicago O'Hare
- Ave. Duration
- 17h
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- $300–1,200
Flights from Manchester Airport to Juan Santamaría International Airport via Dublin, Miami
- Ave. Duration
- 17h 40m
- When
- Friday and Sunday
- Estimated price
- $340–1,300
Flights from Newcastle to Juan Santamaría International Airport via Dublin, Miami
- Ave. Duration
- 17h 32m
- When
- Friday and Sunday
- Estimated price
- $360–1,400
Flights from Edinburgh Airport to Liberia International Airport via Philadelphia
- Ave. Duration
- 31h 2m
- When
- Friday
- Estimated price
- $700–2,800
Flights from Edinburgh Airport to Liberia International Airport via New York JFK
- Ave. Duration
- 32h 44m
- When
- Friday
- Estimated price
- $700–2,800
- Website
- britishairways.com
Flights from Manchester Airport to Juan Santamaría International Airport via Dublin, Miami
- Ave. Duration
- 17h 40m
- When
- Friday and Sunday
- Estimated price
- $340–1,300
Flights from Newcastle to Juan Santamaría International Airport via Dublin, Miami
- Ave. Duration
- 17h 47m
- When
- Friday and Sunday
- Estimated price
- $360–1,400
Flights from Leeds Bradford International Airport to Juan Santamaría International Airport via Dublin, Miami
- Ave. Duration
- 18h 17m
- When
- Friday and Sunday
- Estimated price
- $390–1,500
Flights from London Gatwick Airport to Juan Santamaría International Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 11h 40m
- When
- Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday
- Estimated price
- $260–1,200
- Website
- delta.com
Flights from Edinburgh Airport to Juan Santamaría International Airport via Atlanta
- Ave. Duration
- 19h 15m
- When
- Monday, Wednesday, Friday, Saturday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- $290–1,100
Flights from Manchester Airport to Juan Santamaría International Airport via Atlanta
- Ave. Duration
- 19h 15m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- $290–1,100
Flights from Edinburgh Airport to Liberia International Airport via Boston
- Ave. Duration
- 31h 5m
- When
- Friday
- Estimated price
- $700–2,800
Flights from Edinburgh Airport to Liberia International Airport via Atlanta
- Ave. Duration
- 32h 20m
- When
- Friday
- Estimated price
- $750–2,800
- Website
- united.com
Flights from Edinburgh Airport to Juan Santamaría International Airport via Newark
- Ave. Duration
- 16h 28m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- $280–1,100
Flights from Edinburgh Airport to Liberia International Airport via Chicago O'Hare
- Ave. Duration
- 31h 25m
- When
- Wednesday to Sunday
- Estimated price
- $750–2,900
Flights from Edinburgh Airport to Liberia International Airport via Newark
- Ave. Duration
- 32h 19m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- $700–2,800
- Website
- airtransat.com
Flights from Edinburgh Airport to Juan Santamaría International Airport via Toronto
- Ave. Duration
- 18h 5m
- When
- Thursday and Saturday
- Estimated price
- $330–1,300
Flights from London Gatwick Airport to Juan Santamaría International Airport via Toronto
- Ave. Duration
- 17h 55m
- When
- Thursday
- Estimated price
- $390–1,300
Flights from London Gatwick Airport to Juan Santamaría International Airport via Montreal
- Ave. Duration
- 18h 20m
- When
- Wednesday, Friday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- $390–1,300
- Website
- jetblue.com
Flights from Edinburgh Airport to Liberia International Airport via New York JFK
- Ave. Duration
- 28h 12m
- When
- Friday
- Estimated price
- $700–2,800
Flights from Edinburgh Airport to Liberia International Airport via Boston
- Ave. Duration
- 33h 20m
- When
- Tuesday, Saturday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- $700–2,800
- Website
- westjet.com
Flights from Edinburgh Airport to Liberia International Airport via Toronto
- Ave. Duration
- 30h 29m
- When
- Wednesday
- Estimated price
- $850–3,300
- Phone
- +44 345 722 5333
- customers@lner.co.uk
- Website
- lner.co.uk
Train from Newcastle to Edinburgh Waverley
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 23m
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- $27–50
- Website
- https://www.lner.co.uk/
Train from Newcastle to Darlington
- Ave. Duration
- 29 min
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- $10–13
- Website
- https://www.lner.co.uk/
Train from Newcastle to Doncaster
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 17m
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- $30–70
- Website
- https://www.lner.co.uk/
Train from Newcastle to Edinburgh Waverley
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 30m
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- $28–55
- Website
- https://www.crosscountrytrains.co.uk/
Train from Newcastle to Darlington
- Ave. Duration
- 30 min
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- $7–14
- Website
- https://www.crosscountrytrains.co.uk/
Train from Newcastle to Leeds
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 25m
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- $70–180
- Website
- https://www.crosscountrytrains.co.uk/
- Standard
- $70–100
- 1st Class
- $130–180
Train from Newcastle to Doncaster
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 24m
- Frequency
- Every 4 hours
- Estimated price
- $35–65
- Website
- https://www.crosscountrytrains.co.uk/
- Phone
- +44 345 600 1671
- tpecustomer.relations@tpexpress.co.uk
- Website
- tpexpress.co.uk
Train from Newcastle to Edinburgh Waverley
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 44m
- Frequency
- Every 4 hours
- Estimated price
- $11–30
- Website
- https://www.tpexpress.co.uk/
Train from Newcastle to Darlington
- Ave. Duration
- 32 min
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- $9–12
- Website
- https://www.tpexpress.co.uk/
Train from Newcastle to Manchester Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 8m
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- $45–170
- Website
- https://www.tpexpress.co.uk/
Train from Newcastle to Leeds
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 26m
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- $29–70
- Website
- https://www.tpexpress.co.uk/
- Standard
- $29–45
- 1st Class
- $55–70
Train from Doncaster to Barnetby
- Ave. Duration
- 39 min
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- $16–18
- Website
- https://www.tpexpress.co.uk/
- Phone
- +44 330 060 0500
- enquiry@sleeper.scot
- Website
- sleeper.scot
Train from Newcastle to Edinburgh Waverley
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 45m
- Frequency
- Twice a week
- Estimated price
- $80–110
- Website
- https://www.sleeper.scot/
- Sleeper Berth Classic
- $280–310
- Sleeper Seat
- $80–110
- Sleeper Berth Club Solo
- $330–380
Train from Newcastle to Doncaster
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 49m
- Frequency
- 3 times a week
- Estimated price
- $80–110
- Website
- https://www.sleeper.scot/
- Sleeper Berth Classic
- $280–310
- Sleeper Seat
- $80–110
- Sleeper Berth Club Solo
- $330–380
- Phone
- +44 800 200 6060
- enquiries@northernrailway.co.uk
- Website
- northernrailway.co.uk
Train from Newcastle to Darlington
- Ave. Duration
- 38 min
- Frequency
- Once daily
- Estimated price
- $12–14
- Website
- https://www.northernrailway.co.uk/
- Phone
- 0800 031 8542
- Passengerassistance@lumo.co.uk.
- Website
- lumo.co.uk
Train from Newcastle to King's Cross
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 52m
- Frequency
- 5 times a day
- Estimated price
- $35–90
- Website
- https://www.lumo.co.uk/
- Phone
- +44 3451 27 29 20
- Website
- southernrailway.com
Train from London Victoria to Gatwick Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 32 min
- Frequency
- Every 15 minutes
- Estimated price
- $18–35
- Website
- https://www.southernrailway.com/
- Phone
- +44 345 850 1530
- Website
- gatwickexpress.com
Train from London Victoria to Gatwick Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 30 min
- Frequency
- Every 30 minutes
- Estimated price
- $33–35
- Website
- https://www.gatwickexpress.com/
- Phone
- 1 800 715 1970
- info@ridecr.com
- Website
- ridecr.com
Shuttle from Liberia Airport to Monteverde
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 45m
- Frequency
- On demand
- Estimated price
- $223
- Website
- https://www.ridecr.com/
Shuttle from Monteverde to Puntarenas
- Ave. Duration
- 30 min
- Frequency
- On demand
- Estimated price
- $171
- Website
- https://www.ridecr.com/
- Phone
- +506 2640 1900
- info@tropicaltourshuttles.com
- Website
- tropicaltourshuttles.com
Shuttle from Liberia Airport to Monteverde
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 10m
- Frequency
- Once daily
- Estimated price
- $55–75
- Website
- https://tropicaltourshuttles.com/
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