There are 13 ways to get from Scotland to Plovdiv by plane, train, bus, night train, car, car train, shuttle, busferry, or car ferry
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Fly Edinburgh Airport to Sofia Airport, train
best- Fly from Edinburgh Airport (EDI) to Sofia Airport (SOF)plane EDI - SOF
- Take the train from Iskarsko Shose to Plovdivtrain
9h 51m$79–252Train, bus, night train
- Take the train from Glasgow Central to Lancastertrain
- Take the train from Lancaster to Manchester Piccadillytrain
- Take the bus from Manchester, Coach Station to Bucharest Oborbus
- Take the night train from Bucharest to Dimitrovgradnighttrain
- Take the train from Dimitrovgrad to Plovdivtrain 492
34h 18m$157–270Drive, Eurotunnel
- Drive from Glasgow to Folkestonecar
- Take the car train from Folkestone to Calais-Fréthuncartrain
- Drive from Calais-Fréthun to Plovdivcar
29h 57mFly Glasgow Airport to Sofia Airport, train
- Fly from Glasgow Airport (GLA) to Sofia Airport (SOF)plane GLA - SOF
- Take the train from Iskarsko Shose to Plovdivtrain
11h 31m$83–256Fly Edinburgh Airport to Bucharest Otopeni, shuttle
- Fly from Edinburgh Airport (EDI) to Bucharest Otopeni (OTP)plane EDI - OTP
- Take a shuttle bus from Bucharest Otopeni Airport to Plovdiv
12h 2m$348–643Fly Edinburgh Airport to Plovdiv Airport
- Fly from Edinburgh Airport (EDI) to Plovdiv Airport (PDV)plane EDI - PDV
10h 52m$104–369Fly Glasgow Airport to Plovdiv Airport
- Fly from Glasgow Airport (GLA) to Plovdiv Airport (PDV)plane GLA - PDV
16h 36m$98–353Fly Aberdeen Airport to Plovdiv Airport
- Fly from Aberdeen Airport (ABZ) to Plovdiv Airport (PDV)plane ABZ - PDV
11h 24m$113–435Fly Inverness Dalcross Airport to Plovdiv Airport
- Fly from Inverness Dalcross Airport (INV) to Plovdiv Airport (PDV)plane INV - PDV
17h 2m$122–458Bus
- Take the bus from Buchanan Bus Station to Newhall Stbus
- Take the bus from Birmingham to Praha, ÚAN Florencbus
- Take the bus from Praha, ÚAN Florenc to Plovdiv Bus Station Southbus
2d 4h$195–430Bus via Munich
- Take the bus from Buchanan Bus Station to London Victoriabus
- Take the bus from London Victoria to Munich central bus stationbus
- Take the bus from Munich central bus station to Plovdiv Train stationbus
2d 9h$235–434Train, bus and ferry, night train
- Take the train from Glasgow Central to Prestontrain
- Take the train from Preston to Manchester Piccadillytrain
- Take the busferry from Manchester Piccadilly to Bucharestbusferry
- Take the night train from Bucharest to Stara Zagoranighttrain
- Take the train from Stara Zagora to Plovdivtrain
3d 4h$160–414Drive, car ferry
- Drive from Glasgow to Port of Dovercar
- Take the car ferry from Port of Dover to Calaiscarferry
- Drive from Calais to Plovdivcar
31h 9m$590–895
Edinburgh Airport (EDI) to Sofia Airport (SOF) flights
Questions & Answers
The cheapest way to get from Scotland to Plovdiv is to fly and train which costs $75 - $260 and takes 9h 51m.
The fastest way to get from Scotland to Plovdiv is to fly and train which takes 9h 51m and costs $75 - $260.
No, there is no direct bus from Scotland station to Plovdiv station. However, there are services departing from Buchanan Bus Station and arriving at Plovdiv Bus Station South via Birmingham and Praha, ÚAN Florenc. The journey, including transfers, takes approximately 2 days 4h.
The distance between Scotland and Plovdiv is 2573 km.
The best way to get from Scotland to Plovdiv without a car is to train and bus and night train which takes 34h 18m and costs $150 - $270.
It takes approximately 9h 51m to get from Scotland to Plovdiv, including transfers.
Scotland to Plovdiv bus services, operated by FlixBus, depart from Buchanan Bus Station.
The best way to get from Scotland to Plovdiv is to fly which takes 10h 52m and costs $100 - $370. Alternatively, you can bus, which costs $190 - $430 and takes 2 days 4h.
Scotland to Plovdiv bus services, operated by FlixBus, arrive at London Victoria station.
Plovdiv is 2h ahead of Scotland. It is currently 1:55 PM in Scotland and 3:55 PM in Plovdiv.
What companies run services between Scotland and Plovdiv, Bulgaria?
Ryanair, Wizz Air, and three other airlines fly from Edinburgh Airport (EDI) to Plovdiv Airport (PDV) 6 times a week. Alternatively, you can take a bus from Buchanan Bus Station to Plovdiv Bus Station South via Newhall St, Birmingham, and Praha, ÚAN Florenc in around 2d 4h.
- Website
- ryanair.com
Flights from Edinburgh Airport to Sofia Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 30m
- When
- Monday, Wednesday, and Saturday
- Estimated price
- $60–170
Flights from Edinburgh Airport to Sofia Airport via Budapest
- Ave. Duration
- 5h 20m
- When
- Monday, Tuesday, Friday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- $60–170
Flights from Edinburgh Airport to Sofia Airport via Vienna
- Ave. Duration
- 6h 52m
- When
- Monday, Wednesday, and Saturday
- Estimated price
- $60–170
Flights from Edinburgh Airport to Bucharest Otopeni
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 35m
- When
- Tuesday, Wednesday, and Saturday
- Estimated price
- $60–160
Flights from Edinburgh Airport to Bucharest Otopeni via Vienna
- Ave. Duration
- 5h 25m
- When
- Saturday
- Estimated price
- $60–160
Flights from Edinburgh Airport to Plovdiv Airport via London Stansted
- Ave. Duration
- 12h 35m
- When
- Monday
- Estimated price
- $95–350
Flights from Edinburgh Airport to Plovdiv Airport via Birmingham
- Ave. Duration
- 14h 15m
- When
- Friday
- Estimated price
- $100–350
Flights from Glasgow Airport to Plovdiv Airport via London Stansted
- Ave. Duration
- 14h 5m
- When
- Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, and Friday
- Estimated price
- $95–340
Flights from Glasgow Airport to Plovdiv Airport via Birmingham
- Ave. Duration
- 18h 35m
- When
- Friday
- Estimated price
- $95–340
Flights from Aberdeen Airport to Plovdiv Airport via Manchester
- Ave. Duration
- 15h 10m
- When
- Friday and Sunday
- Estimated price
- $120–420
Flights from Aberdeen Airport to Plovdiv Airport via Birmingham
- Ave. Duration
- 16h 5m
- When
- Friday
- Estimated price
- $120–420
Flights from Aberdeen Airport to Plovdiv Airport via Amsterdam Schiphol, Milan Malpensa
- Ave. Duration
- 7h 35m
- When
- Friday
- Estimated price
- $120–430
Flights from Inverness Dalcross Airport to Plovdiv Airport via Manchester
- Ave. Duration
- 15h 20m
- When
- Friday and Sunday
- Estimated price
- $120–440
- Website
- wizzair.com
Flights from Edinburgh Airport to Plovdiv Airport via London Luton
- Ave. Duration
- 13h 5m
- When
- Thursday, Saturday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- $85–350
Flights from Glasgow Airport to Plovdiv Airport via London Luton
- Ave. Duration
- 13h 26m
- When
- Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday
- Estimated price
- $85–340
Flights from Aberdeen Airport to Plovdiv Airport via London Luton
- Ave. Duration
- 13h
- When
- Thursday and Sunday
- Estimated price
- $100–420
Flights from Inverness Dalcross Airport to Plovdiv Airport via London Luton
- Ave. Duration
- 14h 33m
- When
- Tuesday, Thursday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- $110–440
- Website
- lufthansa.com
Flights from Glasgow Airport to Sofia Airport via Frankfurt
- Ave. Duration
- 7h 48m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- $100–410
Flights from Edinburgh Airport to Bucharest Otopeni via Munich
- Ave. Duration
- 5h 30m
- When
- Friday and Saturday
- Estimated price
- $100–400
- Website
- air.bg
Flights from Glasgow Airport to Sofia Airport via Prague
- Ave. Duration
- 5h 45m
- When
- Sunday
- Estimated price
- $80–250
- Website
- ryanair.com
Flights from Edinburgh Airport to Bucharest Otopeni
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 30m
- When
- Tuesday
- Estimated price
- $60–200
- Website
- austrian.com
Flights from Edinburgh Airport to Bucharest Otopeni via Vienna
- Ave. Duration
- 5h 5m
- When
- Tuesday
- Estimated price
- $95–410
- Website
- wizzair.com
Flights from Edinburgh Airport to Plovdiv Airport via Bratislava
- Ave. Duration
- 6h 50m
- When
- Saturday
- Estimated price
- $95–340
- Phone
- +35929311111
- onlineticket@bdz.bg
- Website
- bdz.bg
Train from Iskarsko Shose to Plovdiv
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 22m
- Frequency
- Every 4 hours
- Estimated price
- $5–8
- Website
- https://www.bdz.bg/en
- 2nd Class
- $5–7
- 1st Class
- $7–8
Night train from Bucharest to Dimitrovgrad
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 39m
- Frequency
- Twice a week
- Estimated price
- $12–28
- Website
- https://www.bdz.bg/en
- 2nd Class
- $12–17
- 1st Class
- $16–21
Train from Dimitrovgrad to Plovdiv
- Ave. Duration
- 56 min
- Frequency
- Every 2 hours
- Estimated price
- $3–5
- Website
- https://www.bdz.bg/en
- 2nd Class
- $3–5
- 1st Class
- $3–5
Night train from Bucharest to Stara Zagora
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 11m
- Frequency
- Twice a week
- Estimated price
- $10–24
- Website
- https://www.bdz.bg/en
- 2nd Class
- $10–15
- 1st Class
- $14–18
Train from Stara Zagora to Plovdiv
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 37m
- Frequency
- Every 3 hours
- Estimated price
- $3–6
- Website
- https://www.bdz.bg/en
- 2nd Class
- $3–6
- 1st Class
- $5–6
- Phone
- +44 345 528 0253
- Website
- avantiwestcoast.co.uk
Train from Glasgow Central to Lancaster
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 3m
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- $80–140
- Website
- https://www.avantiwestcoast.co.uk/
Train from Glasgow Central to Preston
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 23m
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- $90–150
- Website
- https://www.avantiwestcoast.co.uk/
- Phone
- +44 345 600 1671
- tpecustomer.relations@tpexpress.co.uk
- Website
- tpexpress.co.uk
Train from Glasgow Central to Lancaster
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 20m
- Frequency
- Every 3 hours
- Estimated price
- $80–140
- Website
- https://www.tpexpress.co.uk/
Train from Lancaster to Manchester Piccadilly
- Ave. Duration
- 59 min
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- $25–45
- Website
- https://www.tpexpress.co.uk/
Train from Glasgow Central to Preston
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 39m
- Frequency
- Every 3 hours
- Estimated price
- $90–160
- Website
- https://www.tpexpress.co.uk/
Train from Preston to Manchester Piccadilly
- Ave. Duration
- 45 min
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- $15–26
- Website
- https://www.tpexpress.co.uk/
- Phone
- +44 800 200 6060
- enquiries@northernrailway.co.uk
- Website
- northernrailway.co.uk
Train from Lancaster to Manchester Piccadilly
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 7m
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- $26–50
- Website
- https://www.northernrailway.co.uk/
Train from Preston to Manchester Piccadilly
- Ave. Duration
- 55 min
- Frequency
- Every 30 minutes
- Estimated price
- $16–30
- Website
- https://www.northernrailway.co.uk/
- Phone
- +44 (0) 8443 35 35 35
- Website
- leshuttle.com
Car train from Folkestone to Calais-Fréthun
- Ave. Duration
- 35 min
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Website
- https://www.leshuttle.com/uk-en
- Phone
- +44 330 060 0500
- enquiry@sleeper.scot
- Website
- sleeper.scot
Train from Glasgow Central to Preston
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 26m
- Frequency
- 6 times a week
- Estimated price
- $50–85
- Website
- https://www.sleeper.scot/
- Phone
- +40 230 560 555
- tarsin_irlanda@yahoo.com
- Website
- 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
- +359 89 345 5533
- info@atlastaxi.eu
- Website
- atlastaxi.eu
Shuttle from Bucharest Otopeni Airport to Plovdiv
- Ave. Duration
- 5h 30m
- Frequency
- On demand
- Estimated price
- $270–410
- Website
- https://atlastaxi.eu/
Rome2Rio's guide to FlixBus
Contact Details
- Phone
- +49 30 300 137 300
- service@flixbus.com
- Website
- flixbus.fr
Bus from Buchanan Bus Station to Newhall St
- Ave. Duration
- 6h 5m
- Frequency
- Every 2 hours
- Estimated price
- $35–60
- Website
- https://www.flixbus.co.uk
Bus from Buchanan Bus Station to London Victoria
- Ave. Duration
- 9h 20m
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- $45–85
- Website
- https://www.flixbus.co.uk
Bus from London Victoria to Munich central bus station
- Ave. Duration
- 21h 45m
- Frequency
- Once daily
- Estimated price
- $90–160
- Website
- https://www.flixbus.co.uk
Bus from Munich central bus station to Plovdiv Train station
- Ave. Duration
- 24h 20m
- Frequency
- Once daily
- Estimated price
- $110–190
- Website
- https://www.flixbus.co.uk
- Phone
- +421 55 680 73 06
- onlinepredaj@eurobus.sk
- Website
- eurobus.sk
Bus from Birmingham to Praha, ÚAN Florenc
- Ave. Duration
- 22h 1m
- Frequency
- 4 times a week
- Estimated price
- $75–190
- Website
- https://www.eurobus.sk/en
- Phone
- +359 700 20 544
- Website
- ardatur.bg
Bus from Praha, ÚAN Florenc to Plovdiv Bus Station South
- Ave. Duration
- 21h 55m
- Frequency
- Once daily
- Estimated price
- $110–180
- Website
- https://ardatur.bg/en/
- Phone
- +359-887-208-506
- racic_bg@yahoo.com
- Website
- racicbg.com
Bus from Praha, ÚAN Florenc to Plovdiv Bus Station South
- Ave. Duration
- 21h
- Frequency
- 4 times a week
- Estimated price
- $85–110
- Website
- https://www.racicbg.com/bg/
- Phone
- +359 0885700870
- support@citylines.eu
- Website
- citylines.eu
Bus from Munich central bus station to Plovdiv Train station
- Ave. Duration
- 24h
- Frequency
- 3 times a week
- Estimated price
- $95–130
- Website
- https://citylines.eu/
- Phone
- 0040263701919
- latinoexpres@yahoo.com
- Website
- latinoexpres.ro
Busferry from Manchester Piccadilly to Bucharest
- Ave. Duration
- 2d 17h
- Frequency
- Once a week
- Estimated price
- $80–200
- Schedules at
- latinoexpres.ro
- Phone
- 01304 44 88 88
- customer.services@poferries.com
- Website
- poferries.com
Car ferry from Port of Dover to Calais
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 35m
- Frequency
- Every 2 hours
- Estimated price
- $8–23
- Website
- https://www.poferries.com/en
- Phone
- +353 818 300 400
- info@irishferries.com
- Website
- irishferries.com
Car ferry from Port of Dover to Calais
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 30m
- Frequency
- Every 3 hours
- Estimated price
- $6–18
- Website
- https://www.irishferries.com/uk-en/Travel-to-Ireland
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