There are 11 ways to get from Sofia to Loch Ness by plane, bus, train, car, car train, night train, busferry, or car ferry
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 Inverness Dalcross Airport
best- Fly from Sofia Airport (SOF) to Inverness Dalcross Airport (INV)plane SOF - INV
11h 10m£87–314Bus, train
- Take the bus from Sofia Central Bus Station to Beograd, Autobuska stanicabus
- Take the bus from Beograd, Autobuska stanica to Rotterdambus
- Take the train from Rotterdam Centraal to London St Pancras Intltrain Eil
- Take the train from King's Cross to Invernesstrain
- Take the bus from Inverness Union Street to Fort Augustusbus
2d 4h£462–704Drive, Eurotunnel
- Drive from Sofia to Calais-Fréthuncar
- Take the cartrain from Calais-Fréthun to Folkestonecartrain
- Drive from Folkestone to Fort Augustuscar
31h 29m£564–780Fly to Glasgow Airport, bus
- Fly from Sofia Airport (SOF) to Glasgow Airport (GLA)plane SOF - GLA
- Take the bus from Glasgow Airport to Fort Williambus
- Take the bus from Fort William Bus Station to Fort Augustusbus
14h 15m£104–251Fly to Aberdeen Airport, train
- Fly from Sofia Airport (SOF) to Aberdeen Airport (ABZ)plane SOF - ABZ
- Take the train from Aberdeen to Invernesstrain
14h 10m£109–348Fly to Edinburgh Airport, bus, train
- Fly from Sofia Airport (SOF) to Edinburgh Airport (EDI)plane SOF - EDI
- Take the bus from Edinburgh Airport to Perth stationbus
- Take the train from Perth to Invernesstrain
13h 2m£98–267Fly to Newcastle, train
- Fly from Sofia Airport (SOF) to Newcastle (NCL)plane SOF - NCL
- Take the train from Newcastle to Invernesstrain
16h 15m£135–466Train, night train, bus
- Take the train from Sofia Sever to Gorna Oryahovitsatrain Ic / ...
- Take the nighttrain from Gorna Oryahovitsa to Bucharestnighttrain
- Take the bus from Bucharest to London Victoriabus
- Take the bus from London Victoria to Rail Stationbus 561 / ...
- Take the train from York to Invernesstrain
2d 5h£288–371Bus
- Take the bus from Sofia Central Bus Station to Praha, ÚAN Florencbus
- Take the bus from Praha, ÚAN Florenc to London Victoriabus
- Take the bus from London Victoria to Buchanan Bus Stationbus
- Take the bus from Buchanan Bus Station to Bus Stationbus 915
- Take the bus from Fort William Bus Station to Fort Augustusbus
2d 9h£193–346Train, bus and ferry, bus
- Take the train from Sofia to Vidintrain Ic
- Take the train from Vidin to Craiovatrain Ic
- Take the busferry from Craiova, Autogara Pelendava Nord to London Edmuntonbusferry
- Take the train from Finsbury Park to Invernesstrain
- Take the bus from Inverness Union Street to Fort Augustusbus
2d 17h£196–350Drive, car ferry
- Drive from Sofia to Calaiscar
- Take the carferry from Calais to Port of Dovercarferry
- Drive from Port of Dover to Fort Augustuscar
32h 30m£481–737
Sofia Airport (SOF) to Inverness Dalcross Airport (INV) flights
Comparing Your Travel Options
The cheapest way to get from Sofia to Loch Ness is to fly and bus which costs £100 - £260 and takes 14h 15m.
The fastest way to get from Sofia to Loch Ness is to fly which takes 11h 10m and costs £85 - £320.
No, there is no direct bus from Sofia station to Loch Ness. However, there are services departing from Sofia Central Bus Station and arriving at Fort Augustus via Praha, ÚAN Florenc, London Victoria, Buchanan Bus Station and Fort William Bus Station. The journey, including transfers, takes approximately 2 days 9h.
The distance between Sofia and Loch Ness is 1618 miles.
The best way to get from Sofia to Loch Ness without a car is to bus and train which takes 2 days 4h and costs £460 - £750.
It takes approximately 11h 10m to get from Sofia to Loch Ness, including transfers.
Sofia to Loch Ness bus services, operated by Union Ivkoni, depart from Sofia Central Bus Station.
The best way to get from Sofia to Loch Ness is to fly which takes 11h 10m and costs £85 - £320. Alternatively, you can bus, which costs £190 - £350 and takes 2 days 9h.
Sofia to Loch Ness bus services, operated by Union Ivkoni, arrive at Praha, ÚAN Florenc station.
Loch Ness is 2h behind Sofia. It is currently 1:43 PM in Sofia and 11:43 AM in Loch Ness.
What companies run services between Sofia, Bulgaria and Loch Ness, Scotland?
Bulgaria Air, KLM, and five other airlines fly from Sofia Airport (SOF) to Inverness Dalcross Airport (INV) twice daily. Alternatively, you can take a bus from Sofia Central Bus Station to Fort Augustus via Praha, ÚAN Florenc, London Victoria, Buchanan Bus Station, and Fort William Bus Station in around 2d 9h.
- Website
- britishairways.com
Flights from Sofia Airport to Inverness Dalcross Airport via London Heathrow
- Ave. Duration
- 9h 25m
- When
- Monday, Wednesday, Friday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- £100–500
Flights from Sofia Airport to Inverness Dalcross Airport via Manchester
- Ave. Duration
- 11h
- When
- Sunday
- Estimated price
- £80–300
Flights from Sofia Airport to Aberdeen Airport via London Heathrow
- Ave. Duration
- 7h 40m
- When
- Monday, Wednesday, and Friday
- Estimated price
- £100–490
Flights from Sofia Airport to Aberdeen Airport via Birmingham
- Ave. Duration
- 6h
- When
- Thursday
- Estimated price
- £75–270
Flights from Sofia Airport to Aberdeen Airport via Manchester
- Ave. Duration
- 7h 5m
- When
- Sunday
- Estimated price
- £80–300
- Website
- lufthansa.com
Flights from Sofia Airport to Inverness Dalcross Airport via Frankfurt
- Ave. Duration
- 10h 35m
- When
- Saturday
- Estimated price
- £120–430
Flights from Sofia Airport to Glasgow Airport via Munich
- Ave. Duration
- 6h 20m
- When
- Sunday
- Estimated price
- £70–220
Flights from Sofia Airport to Glasgow Airport via Frankfurt
- Ave. Duration
- 7h 10m
- When
- Monday
- Estimated price
- £85–310
Flights from Sofia Airport to Edinburgh Airport via Munich
- Ave. Duration
- 5h 30m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- £85–300
Flights from Sofia Airport to Edinburgh Airport via Frankfurt
- Ave. Duration
- 6h 35m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- £70–330
- Website
- klm.com
Flights from Sofia Airport to Inverness Dalcross Airport via Amsterdam Schiphol
- Ave. Duration
- 8h 50m
- When
- Monday to Saturday
- Estimated price
- £140–470
Flights from Sofia Airport to Glasgow Airport via Amsterdam Schiphol
- Ave. Duration
- 9h 32m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- £100–330
Flights from Sofia Airport to Aberdeen Airport via Amsterdam Schiphol
- Ave. Duration
- 7h 20m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- £140–450
Flights from Sofia Airport to Newcastle via Amsterdam Schiphol
- Ave. Duration
- 8h 10m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- £100–340
- Website
- easyjet.com
Flights from Sofia Airport to Inverness Dalcross Airport via London Gatwick
- Ave. Duration
- 8h
- When
- Thursday
- Estimated price
- £80–310
Flights from Sofia Airport to Glasgow Airport via Birmingham
- Ave. Duration
- 11h 10m
- When
- Monday and Thursday
- Estimated price
- £55–190
Flights from Sofia Airport to Newcastle via Berlin Brandenburg
- Ave. Duration
- 7h 15m
- When
- Friday
- Estimated price
- £60–310
- Website
- loganair.co.uk
Flights from Sofia Airport to Inverness Dalcross Airport via Manchester
- Ave. Duration
- 11h
- When
- Sunday
- Estimated price
- £80–300
Flights from Sofia Airport to Aberdeen Airport via Birmingham
- Ave. Duration
- 6h
- When
- Thursday
- Estimated price
- £75–270
Flights from Sofia Airport to Aberdeen Airport via Manchester
- Ave. Duration
- 7h 5m
- When
- Sunday
- Estimated price
- £80–300
- Website
- jet2.com
Flights from Sofia Airport to Newcastle via Prague
- Ave. Duration
- 5h 35m
- When
- Friday
- Estimated price
- £65–220
Flights from Sofia Airport to Newcastle via Berlin Brandenburg
- Ave. Duration
- 6h
- When
- Thursday
- Estimated price
- £55–310
Flights from Sofia Airport to Newcastle via Vienna
- Ave. Duration
- 6h 45m
- When
- Friday
- Estimated price
- £65–220
- Website
- ryanair.com
Flights from Sofia Airport to Edinburgh Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 45m
- When
- Tuesday and Friday
- Estimated price
- £65–170
Flights from Sofia Airport to Edinburgh Airport via Budapest
- Ave. Duration
- 5h 55m
- When
- Friday
- Estimated price
- £65–170
- Phone
- +44 (0)3432 186 186
- Website
- Eurostar
Train from Rotterdam Centraal to London St Pancras Intl
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 29m
- Frequency
- Every 4 hours
- Estimated price
- £150–260
- Website
- Eurostar
Train from King's Cross to Inverness
- Ave. Duration
- 8h 2m
- Frequency
- Once daily
- Estimated price
- £190–270
- Website
- London North Eastern Railway Limited (LNER)
Train from Perth to Inverness
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 12m
- Frequency
- Once daily
- Estimated price
- £35–55
- Website
- London North Eastern Railway Limited (LNER)
Train from Newcastle to Inverness
- Ave. Duration
- 5h 2m
- Frequency
- Once daily
- Estimated price
- £100–150
- Website
- London North Eastern Railway Limited (LNER)
Train from York to Inverness
- Ave. Duration
- 5h 59m
- Frequency
- Once daily
- Estimated price
- £130–180
- Website
- London North Eastern Railway Limited (LNER)
- Phone
- +44 (0) 8443 35 35 35
- [email protected]
- Website
- LeShuttle
Car train from Calais-Fréthun to Folkestone
- Ave. Duration
- 35 min
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- £117
- Website
- LeShuttle
- Standard fare
- £117
- Phone
- +44 (0)344 811 0141
- Website
- ScotRail
Train from Aberdeen to Inverness
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 15m
- Frequency
- Every 3 hours
- Estimated price
- £40–70
- Website
- ScotRail
Train from Perth to Inverness
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 23m
- Frequency
- Every 3 hours
- Estimated price
- £45–75
- Website
- ScotRail
- Phone
- +44 330 060 0500
- Website
- Caledonian Sleeper
Train from Aberdeen to Inverness
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 23m
- Frequency
- Once a week
- Estimated price
- £24–35
- Website
- Caledonian Sleeper
Train from Perth to Inverness
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 52m
- Frequency
- 6 times a week
- Estimated price
- £26–40
- Website
- Caledonian Sleeper
Train from Newcastle to Inverness
- Ave. Duration
- 6h 35m
- Frequency
- Once a week
- Estimated price
- £70–100
- Website
- Caledonian Sleeper
Train from Finsbury Park to Inverness
- Ave. Duration
- 10h 53m
- Frequency
- Once a week
- Estimated price
- £130–180
- Website
- Caledonian Sleeper
- Phone
- +359 2 931 11 11
- [email protected]
- Website
- Bulgarian Railways (BDZh)
Train from Sofia Sever to Gorna Oryahovitsa
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 38m
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- £3–6
- Website
- Bulgarian Railways (BDZh)
- 2nd Class
- £3–5
- 1st Class
- £4–6
Night train from Gorna Oryahovitsa to Bucharest
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 15m
- Frequency
- Twice a week
- Estimated price
- £2–4
- Website
- Bulgarian Railways (BDZh)
- 2nd Class
- £2–4
- 1st Class
- £3–4
Train from Sofia to Vidin
- Ave. Duration
- 5h 11m
- Frequency
- Twice daily
- Estimated price
- £3–5
- Website
- Bulgarian Railways (BDZh)
- 2nd Class
- £3–5
- 1st Class
- £3–5
Train from Vidin to Craiova
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 13m
- Frequency
- Twice daily
- Estimated price
- £1–2
- Website
- Bulgarian Railways (BDZh)
- 2nd Class
- £1–2
- 1st Class
- £1–2
- Phone
- +381 11 8728111
- [email protected]
- Website
- Trans-Jug
Bus from Sofia Central Bus Station to Beograd, Autobuska stanica
- Ave. Duration
- 5h
- Frequency
- 3 times a week
- Estimated price
- £31–34
- Website
- Trans-Jug
- Phone
- +381 800 334 334
- [email protected]
- Website
- lasta.rs
Bus from Beograd, Autobuska stanica to Rotterdam
- Phone
- +44 (0)131 510 4007
- [email protected]
- Website
- Ember
Bus from Inverness Union Street to Fort Augustus
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 7m
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- £6–10
- Website
- Ember
Bus from Glasgow Airport to Fort William
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 40m
- Frequency
- 4 times a day
- Estimated price
- £11–16
- Website
- Ember
Bus from Fort William Bus Station to Fort Augustus
- Ave. Duration
- 53 min
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- £6–10
- Website
- Ember
Bus from Edinburgh Airport to Perth station
- Ave. Duration
- 1h
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- £7–10
- Website
- Ember
Bus from Buchanan Bus Station to Bus Station
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 10m
- Frequency
- 4 times a day
- Estimated price
- £11–17
- Website
- Ember
Bus from Fort William Bus Station to Fort Augustus
- Ave. Duration
- 53 min
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- £6–10
- Website
- Ember
Bus from Inverness Union Street to Fort Augustus
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 7m
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- £6–10
- Website
- Ember
- Phone
- 0141 352 4444
- [email protected]
- Website
- Scottish Citylink Coaches Ltd
Bus from Glasgow Airport to Fort William
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 54m
- Frequency
- 4 times a day
- Estimated price
- £29–45
- Website
- Scottish Citylink Coaches Ltd
Bus from Buchanan Bus Station to Bus Station
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 11m
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- £19–40
- Website
- Scottish Citylink Coaches Ltd
- Single
- £19–40
- Phone
- +40 745 766 766
- [email protected]
- Website
- maxibustravel.autogari.ro
Bus from Bucharest to London Victoria
- Ave. Duration
- 30h
- Frequency
- Twice a week
- Estimated price
- £120
- Schedules at
- maxibustravel.autogari.ro
- Phone
- +44 (0)3717 81 81 81
- Website
- National Express
Bus from London Victoria to Rail Station
- Ave. Duration
- 5h 30m
- Frequency
- 4 times a day
- Estimated price
- £30–55
- Website
- National Express
Bus from London Victoria to Buchanan Bus Station
- Ave. Duration
- 11h 15m
- Frequency
- Every 4 hours
- Estimated price
- £60–110
- Website
- National Express
- Phone
- +359 88 949 0000
- [email protected]
- Website
- Union Ivkoni
Bus from Sofia Central Bus Station to Praha, ÚAN Florenc
- Ave. Duration
- 18h 5m
- Frequency
- Once a week
- Estimated price
- £40–70
- Website
- Union Ivkoni
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Contact DetailsContact Details
- Phone
- +49 30 300 137 300
- [email protected]
- Website
- Flixbus
Bus from Praha, ÚAN Florenc to London Victoria
- Ave. Duration
- 23h 10m
- Frequency
- Once daily
- Estimated price
- £90–140
- Website
- Flixbus
Bus from London Victoria to Buchanan Bus Station
- Ave. Duration
- 9h 15m
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- £45–75
- Website
- Flixbus
- Phone
- 0040263701919
- [email protected]
- Website
- latinoexpres.ro
Busferry from Craiova, Autogara Pelendava Nord to London Edmunton
- Ave. Duration
- 40h 11m
- Frequency
- Twice a week
- Estimated price
- £55–150
- Schedules at
- latinoexpres.ro
- Phone
- +353 818 300 400
- [email protected]
- Website
- Irish Ferries
Car ferry from Calais to Port of Dover
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 30m
- Frequency
- Every 3 hours
- Estimated price
- £25–75
- Website
- Irish Ferries
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