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Travel from Santiago to Oviedo to begin Primitivo

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Hi Everyone. I'm new to this forum and this is my first post. I travel to Santiago on 27th September and intend staying overnight and wish to transfer to Oviedo the following morning. I checked out bus and train. There seems to be shared option also. Can anyone help with further information or if intending to travel at the same time. Did the CF last sep Oct and can't wait go again. Buen Camino
 
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Hi James, welcome to the forum! Where are you travelling from? It seems a bit strange to go to Santiago first, only to go, the next day, to Oviedo, some 320kms away. Can’t you fly/bus/train in to somewhere closer, like Santander? Confused :confused:
 
Service is not frequent. Travel time is anywhere from 4 hours to all day.

Try Empresa Freire bus from Santiago to Lugo and ALSA from Lugo to Oviedo. (ALSA goes to Lugo via A Coruna)

Renfe train requires a transfer at Leon or Medina del Campo.

You could also try Monbus from Santiago to Ferrol and Renfe Feve train from Ferrol to Oviedo.

Empresa Freire
http://www.empresafreire.com/html/castelan/seccion0.php

ALSA
https://www.alsa.es/en

Renfe (and FEVE)
http://www.renfe.com/EN/viajeros/

Monbus
http://www.monbus.es/es
 
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Hi James, welcome to the forum! Where are you travelling from? It seems a bit strange to go to Santiago first, only to go, the next day, to Oviedo, some 320kms away. Can’t you fly/bus/train in to somewhere closer, like Santander? Confused :confused:

Or Asturias? aka Oviedo Airport.
 
Thanks for quick reply. I'm flying from Dublin and just managed to get a flight to Santander which I've booked. Transfer is so much more convenient. I've had to change date to 28th sepþember. Thanks for advice. Hopefully the weather will be kind!:)
 
From Santander you can take the ALSA bus or go by the narrow guage FEVE railcar. The latter leaves twice a day. Times in 2012 were 9.10am and 16.10 pm arriving at 14.30 and 20.30, but these times need checking. See the Renfe/Feve website for times this year.
 
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Too late now but another easier option would have been to take the train or bus to Leon and walk to Oviedo from there on the San Salvador.
(Jill, Sometimes it is cheaper to fly into the place you are leaving from and then backtrack than to get an open-jaw ticket which allows you to arrive in one destination and leave from another)
 
Jill, Sometimes it is cheaper to fly into the place you are leaving from and then backtrack than to get an open-jaw ticket which allows you to arrive in one destination and leave from another

Hi, yes, that's why I asked where he was travelling from :).
 
Hi, yes, that's why I asked where he was travelling from :).
Sorry - my misunderstanding! I thought you couldn't fathom why on earth someone would arrive in Santiago only to leave it immediately!!
 
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Sorry - my misunderstanding! I thought you couldn't fathom why on earth someone would arrive in Santiago only to leave it immediately!!

Hi Rachel, you’re right :), I couldn’t fathom at all why James was flying into Santiago! If he was travelling from outside Europe, and he’d said Madrid or Paris, that would make sense. But if he was travelling from inside Europe, then there is no need to go to Santiago first :confused:. It’s a very small airport; no long-haul flights arrive there. Fortunately, he is now headed for Santander first :rolleyes:. Just hope he has good weather now :D!
Jill
 

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