Spanish travel planning site

[tindora]

Does anyone know of a general travel planner for Spain? I mean the sort of thing where you type in A to B and it tells you that bus company 1 leaves at 9:30 and takes 3 hours, bus company 2 leaves at 12 o'clock with an express service, and that you could, for example, take a train with two transfers.

I have had moderate luck with google maps directions, but I have found that queries involving places not on a major train line are often "can not be planned", or that you get answers like Caceres-Ourense takes 18 hours, 12 of them spent waiting overnight in the Madrid train station.

It would certainly save a lot of time searching individual bus companies...

 

[whariwharangi]

The situation is usually only one bus company operates on any particular route.

My strategy is to find the bus station for a particular destination and work backwards. There is usually a list of destinations accompanied by the service provider websites or schedules. If there isn't a bus station website the next best thing is to find the Concello or Ayuntamiento government pages and look for the bus schedule ... often a once a day service.

The bus networks are like a star with the hub city at the center. If you can't find the bus schedule for a particular village look for the largest city nearby. Keep in mind Spain is not so much a country as a conglomeration of autonomous regions ... the bus networks provide service within a region. So there usually is no direct service getting from one village to the next if there is a boundary to be crossed.

Going from Caceres to Ourense would likely involve transiting through several hubs. Such as bus Caceres to to Salamanca and onward to Zamora and then train from Zamora to Ourense