There are 11 ways to get from Dublin to Stara Zagora by plane, train, ferry, bus, night train, car ferry, car, or busferry
Select an option below to see step-by-step directions and to compare ticket prices and travel times in Rome2Rio's travel planner.
Fly to Sofia Airport, train
best- Fly from Dublin Airport (DUB) to Sofia Airport (SOF)plane DUB - SOF
- Take the train from Iskarsko Shose to Stara Zagoratrain
11h 22m$77–269Ferry, train, bus, night train via Silverstone
- Take the ferry from Dublin Ferryport B+I to Holyhead Ferryferry 0
- Take the train from Holyhead to Milton Keynes Centraltrain
- Take the bus from Coach Park to London Victoriabus S1 / ...
- Take the bus from London Victoria to Bucharestbus
- Take the nighttrain from Bucharest to Stara Zagoranighttrain
46h 16m$399–517Car ferry, drive
- Take the carferry from Dublin Terminal 1 to Port of Cherbourgcarferry
- Drive from Port of Cherbourg to Stara Zagoracar
45h 45m$1,057–2,362Fly to Bucharest Otopeni, night train
- Fly from Dublin Airport (DUB) to Bucharest Otopeni (OTP)plane DUB - OTP
- Take the nighttrain from Bucharest to Stara Zagoranighttrain
10h 44m$83–320Fly to Burgas Airport, train
- Fly from Dublin Airport (DUB) to Burgas Airport (BOJ)plane DUB - BOJ
- Take the train from Burgas to Stara Zagoratrain
9h 36m$81–260Fly to Plovdiv Airport, train
- Fly from Dublin Airport (DUB) to Plovdiv Airport (PDV)plane DUB - PDV
- Take the train from Plovdiv to Stara Zagoratrain
12h 2m$109–572Fly to Istanbul, bus, night train
- Fly from Dublin Airport (DUB) to Istanbul (IST)plane DUB - IST
- Take the bus from Istanbul Airport Bus to Çerkezköybus
- Take the nighttrain from Çerkezköy to Stara Zagoranighttrain
14h 9mFly to Istanbul Sabiha Gökçen International Airport, bus
- Fly from Dublin Airport (DUB) to Istanbul Sabiha Gökçen International Airport (SAW)plane DUB - SAW
- Take the bus from Istanbul Büyük Otogari to Stara Zagorabus
14h 44m$138–321Ferry, train, bus, night train
- Take the ferry from Dublin Ferryport B+I to Holyhead Ferryferry 0
- Take the train from Holyhead to London Eustontrain
- Take the bus from London Stonebridge to Bucureşti Autogara Oborbus
- Take the nighttrain from Bucharest to Stara Zagoranighttrain
2d 13hBus
- Take the bus from Dublin to Rădăuțibus
- Take the bus from Suceava to Chernivtsi Bus stationbus
- Take the bus from Chernivtsi Bus station to Stara Zagorabus
2d 16h$133–378Ferry, train, bus and ferry, night train
- Take the ferry from Dublin Ferryport B+I to Holyhead Ferryferry 0
- Take the train from Holyhead to Manchester Piccadillytrain
- Take the busferry from Manchester Piccadilly to Bucharestbusferry
- Take the nighttrain from Bucharest to Stara Zagoranighttrain
3d 6h$177–355
Dublin Airport (DUB) to Sofia Airport (SOF) flights
Comparing Your Travel Options
The cheapest way to get from Dublin to Stara Zagora is to fly and train which costs $75 - $270 and takes 11h 22m.
The fastest way to get from Dublin to Stara Zagora is to fly and train which takes 9h 36m and costs $80 - $260.
No, there is no direct bus from Dublin to Stara Zagora. However, there are services departing from Dublin and arriving at Stara Zagora via Rădăuţi, Suceava and Chernivtsi Bus station. The journey, including transfers, takes approximately 2 days 16h.
The distance between Dublin and Stara Zagora is 2746 km.
The best way to get from Dublin to Stara Zagora without a car is to ferry and train and bus and night train via Silverstone which takes 46h 16m and costs $390 - $550.
It takes approximately 11h 22m to get from Dublin to Stara Zagora, including transfers.
Dublin to Stara Zagora bus services, operated by Tarsin, depart from Dublin station.
Dublin to Stara Zagora bus services, operated by Tarsin, arrive at Rădăuți station.
Stara Zagora is 2h ahead of Dublin. It is currently 9:09 AM in Dublin and 11:09 AM in Stara Zagora.
There are 153+ hotels available in Stara Zagora.
What companies run services between Dublin, Ireland and Stara Zagora, Bulgaria?
You can take a vehicle from Dublin to Stara Zagora via Dublin, Rădăuți, Rădăuţi, Suceava, and Chernivtsi Bus station in around 2d 16h.
- Website
- lufthansa.com
Flights from Dublin Airport to Sofia Airport via Munich
- Ave. Duration
- 6h
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- $100–340
Flights from Dublin Airport to Sofia Airport via Frankfurt
- Ave. Duration
- 7h 36m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- $80–380
Flights from Dublin Airport to Bucharest Otopeni via Munich
- Ave. Duration
- 5h 40m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- $85–390
Flights from Dublin Airport to Bucharest Otopeni via Frankfurt
- Ave. Duration
- 5h 35m
- When
- Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- $85–390
Flights from Dublin Airport to Burgas Airport via Munich
- Ave. Duration
- 6h 50m
- When
- Wednesday
- Estimated price
- $110–350
Flights from Dublin Airport to Istanbul via Munich
- Ave. Duration
- 6h 20m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- $160–360
- Website
- ryanair.com
Flights from Dublin Airport to Sofia Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 40m
- When
- Tuesday and Saturday
- Estimated price
- $70–210
Flights from Dublin Airport to Bucharest Otopeni
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 40m
- When
- Wednesday, Friday, Thursday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- $65–250
Flights from Dublin Airport to Bucharest Otopeni via Berlin Brandenburg
- Ave. Duration
- 5h 45m
- When
- Thursday to Saturday
- Estimated price
- $65–250
Flights from Dublin Airport to Burgas Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 50m
- When
- Saturday
- Estimated price
- $65–240
Flights from Dublin Airport to Plovdiv Airport via Manchester
- Ave. Duration
- 5h 37m
- When
- Monday
- Estimated price
- $80–400
Flights from Dublin Airport to Plovdiv Airport via Milan Malpensa
- Ave. Duration
- 12h
- When
- Tuesday
- Estimated price
- $80–400
- Website
- turkishairlines.com
Flights from Dublin Airport to Istanbul
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 28m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- $200–340
- Website
- hisky.aero
Flights from Dublin Airport to Bucharest Otopeni
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 30m
- When
- Tuesday and Friday
- Estimated price
- $100–320
Flights from Dublin Airport to Bucharest Otopeni via Cluj-Napoca
- Ave. Duration
- 6h
- When
- Sunday
- Estimated price
- $100–320
- Website
- norwegian.com
Flights from Dublin Airport to Bucharest Otopeni
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 30m
- When
- Tuesday and Saturday
- Estimated price
- $95–370
- Website
- lufthansa-city.com
Flights from Dublin Airport to Bucharest Otopeni via Munich
- Ave. Duration
- 5h 25m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- $85–390
- Website
- aerlingus.com
Flights from Dublin Airport to Burgas Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 4h
- When
- Tuesday and Thursday
- Estimated price
- $75–500
- Website
- ryanair.com
Flights from Dublin Airport to Plovdiv Airport via London Stansted
- Ave. Duration
- 6h 30m
- When
- Thursday
- Estimated price
- $130–440
- Website
- flypgs.com
Flights from Dublin Airport to Istanbul Sabiha Gökçen International Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 20m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- $100–440
- Phone
- +359 2 931 11 11
- [email protected]
- Website
- Bulgarian Railways (BDZh)
Train from Iskarsko Shose to Stara Zagora
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 57m
- Frequency
- Every 2 hours
- Estimated price
- $4–6
- Website
- Bulgarian Railways (BDZh)
- 2nd Class
- $4–6
- 1st Class
- $4–6
Night train from Bucharest to Stara Zagora
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 11m
- Frequency
- Twice a week
- Estimated price
- $5–23
- Website
- Bulgarian Railways (BDZh)
- 2nd Class
- $5–8
- 1st Class
- $6–8
Night train from Bucharest to Stara Zagora
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 11m
- Frequency
- Twice a week
- Estimated price
- $5–23
- Website
- Bulgarian Railways (BDZh)
- 2nd Class
- $5–8
- 1st Class
- $6–8
Train from Burgas to Stara Zagora
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 59m
- Frequency
- Every 4 hours
- Estimated price
- $3–5
- Website
- Bulgarian Railways (BDZh)
- 2nd Class
- $3–5
- 1st Class
- $3–5
Train from Plovdiv to Stara Zagora
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 8m
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- $1–4
- Website
- Bulgarian Railways (BDZh)
- 2nd Class
- $1–3
- 1st Class
- $2–4
Night train from Çerkezköy to Stara Zagora
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 54m
- Frequency
- Twice a week
- Estimated price
- $4–8
- Website
- Bulgarian Railways (BDZh)
- 2nd Class
- $4–7
- 1st Class
- $5–8
Night train from Bucharest to Stara Zagora
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 11m
- Frequency
- Twice a week
- Estimated price
- $5–23
- Website
- Bulgarian Railways (BDZh)
- 2nd Class
- $5–8
- 1st Class
- $6–8
Night train from Bucharest to Stara Zagora
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 11m
- Frequency
- Twice a week
- Estimated price
- $5–23
- Website
- Bulgarian Railways (BDZh)
- 2nd Class
- $5–8
- 1st Class
- $6–8
- Phone
- +44 (0)345 528 0253
- Website
- Avanti West Coast
Train from Holyhead to Milton Keynes Central
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 16m
- Frequency
- Twice a week
- Estimated price
- $95–150
- Website
- Avanti West Coast
Train from Holyhead to London Euston
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 48m
- Frequency
- 5 times a day
- Estimated price
- $110–190
- Website
- Avanti West Coast
- Phone
- 03333 211 202
- Website
- Transport for Wales
Train from Holyhead to Manchester Piccadilly
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 51m
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- $55–90
- Website
- Transport for Wales
- Phone
- +44 (0)3717 81 81 81
- Website
- National Express
Bus from Coach Park to London Victoria
- Ave. Duration
- 2h
- Frequency
- Twice daily
- Estimated price
- $13–23
- Website
- National Express
- Phone
- +40 745 766 766
- [email protected]
- Website
- maxibustravel.autogari.ro
Bus from London Victoria to Bucharest
- Ave. Duration
- 30h
- Frequency
- Twice a week
- Estimated price
- $159
- Schedules at
- maxibustravel.autogari.ro
- Phone
- 0850 222 59 59
- [email protected]
- Website
- istanbulseyahat.com.tr
Bus from Istanbul Airport Bus to Çerkezköy
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 15m
- Frequency
- Twice daily
- Schedules at
- istanbulseyahat.com.tr
- Phone
- +90 212 658 00 61
- [email protected]
- Website
- Huntur
Bus from Istanbul Büyük Otogari to Stara Zagora
- Ave. Duration
- 5h 30m
- Frequency
- 3 times a week
- Estimated price
- $23–45
- Website
- Huntur
- Phone
- 0724 122 272
- [email protected]
- Website
- euro-fratello.ro
Bus from London Stonebridge to Bucureşti Autogara Obor
- Ave. Duration
- 46h
- Frequency
- Twice a week
- Schedules at
- euro-fratello.ro
- Phone
- +40 230 560 555
- [email protected]
- Website
- tarsin.ro
Bus from Dublin to Rădăuți
- Ave. Duration
- 47h
- Frequency
- Once a week
- Estimated price
- $30–230
- Schedules at
- tarsin.ro
- Phone
- +380 (93) 320-44-44
- [email protected]
- Website
- Gunsel
Bus from Chernivtsi Bus station to Stara Zagora
- Ave. Duration
- 11h 5m
- Frequency
- Twice a week
- Estimated price
- $60–80
- Website
- Gunsel
- Phone
- 0040263701919
- [email protected]
- Website
- latinoexpres.ro
Busferry from Manchester Piccadilly to Bucharest
- Ave. Duration
- 2d 17h
- Frequency
- Once a week
- Estimated price
- $80–190
- Schedules at
- latinoexpres.ro
- Phone
- +44 844 770 7070
- [email protected]
- Website
- Stena Line
Ferry from Dublin Ferryport B+I to Holyhead Ferry
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 30m
- Frequency
- Every 4 hours
- Estimated price
- $35–55
- Website
- Stena Line
Ferry from Dublin Ferryport B+I to Holyhead Ferry
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 30m
- Frequency
- Every 4 hours
- Estimated price
- $35–55
- Website
- Stena Line
Ferry from Dublin Ferryport B+I to Holyhead Ferry
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 30m
- Frequency
- Every 4 hours
- Estimated price
- $35–55
- Website
- Stena Line
- Phone
- +353 818 300 400
- [email protected]
- Website
- Irish Ferries
Car ferry from Dublin Terminal 1 to Port of Cherbourg
- Ave. Duration
- 20h
- Frequency
- 6 times a week
- Estimated price
- $550–1,700
- Website
- Irish Ferries
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