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  1. kenwilltravel

    Train from Porto to Santiago

    I know that CP does offer discounts for tickets bought in advance but in a situation like this, you're better off monitoring the strike situation. If things look clear a week before you need the train tickets, go ahead and buy them (you can use the CP app to do that). If things change at the...
  2. kenwilltravel

    Train from Porto to Santiago

    I've done this trip in reverse: Renfe train from Santiago to Vigo, and then Vigo to Porto via CP, or Comboios de Portugal. It worked our fine, although we did have to wait a few hours in the Vigo station to pick up the Portuguese train. You'd have to examine the schedules to see what kind of...
  3. kenwilltravel

    Luggage shipping

    We just went to a post office in Porto, where they boxed up the items, and sent the package to Casa Ivar in Santiago (https://casaivar.com/luggage-storage-in-santiago-de-compostela/) , where I picked it up (and met Ivar himself) a few weeks later. No problems at all.
  4. kenwilltravel

    Pont de Lima to Porto airport

    Here's another option. Trains leave virtually every half hour from Braga to Porto, which is a one-hour trip. The earliest starts at 4:30 a.m. Take an early morning taxi to Braga, which is only a half hour away by car, then jump on one of those trains. My wife and I did this trip last year...
  5. kenwilltravel

    Santiago to Lisbon transport

    You can take a Spanish train to Vigo, and there pick up a Portuguese train at Vigo that crosses the border at Valença and proceeds by the coast to Porto, where you can pick up the train to Lisbon.
  6. kenwilltravel

    Public transit along Camino Portugués

    There is also public bus service up and down the coastal highway on the Portuguese side. That's a little tricky because there are several different companies plying parts of the route from Porto to Caminha, but you can go into any tourist office and get the schedules. Also, note that the metro...
  7. kenwilltravel

    Time to get through Madrid Airport Passport control queues/Covid checks?

    My wife and I just flew into Madrid yesterday from the U.S., arriving in terminal 1. We did run into the "health check" people after immigration but all we had to do is wave our EU digital Covid certificates (they scanned the QR codes) and we were through in minutes. Immigration was also very...
  8. kenwilltravel

    Pack transport on Variante Espiritual

    This is true. We included the Spiritual Variant in our 2019 Camino and Tuitrans was willing to include that, but only because we booked all the way with them from Viana do Costello to Santiago. But I'm surprised to hear that Top Santiago won't cover the SV separately, given what the nun in...
  9. kenwilltravel

    Pack transport on Variante Espiritual

    We contacted them via WhatsApp: +351 915-989-726.
  10. kenwilltravel

    Pack transport on Variante Espiritual

    My wife and I recently used Top Santiago, a new company, on the Portuguese Central and they worked quite well. We just let them know every night where we would be the next day. It was 8 euros per transport. From talking to some of the people running lodging along the trail we got the impression...
  11. kenwilltravel

    Transportation from Porto to Valencia or Tui

    The easiest, fastest and most comfortable way to get to Valença from Porto is by train. According to my Portuguese rail app (CP, or Comboios de Portugal) there are about 15 trains on an average day from Porto's Sao Bento station with times ranging between two and three hours. It's very easy to...
  12. kenwilltravel

    transport from Santiago to Lisbon

    That was our experience in 2019. However, in our case, the Spanish train from Santiago went to the Guixar station in Vigo, which is also where we picked up the Portuguese train for Porto, about an hour or two later. I can't explain the discrepancy. What I would suggest is: download the apps for...
  13. kenwilltravel

    Purchasing Train Tickets

    In my experience, the best way to purchase Portuguese train tickets is to download the Comboios de Portugal app into your phone and then book directly on Portuguese rail. That always worked for me.

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