Best and cheapest transport out of Santiago to Paris

[JulianM]

Currently in Santiago (March 29) and need to go to Paris, France. Does anyone know best + cheapest way out of Santiago from March 30 onwards to Paris?

 

[alexwalker]

Why not take the train? A great trip backwards on the Camino & more... And green travel...

 

[mspath]

Try Rome2Rio for various transport possibities. At this moment due to strikes throughout France you might have problems going all the way to Paris by train or even plane. However there usually is a RENFE train which runs from Santiago to Hendaye at the French border.
Good luck and Bon voyage!

 

[SabsP]

Although I am all pro train but with all the strikes going on in France this time I would choose a plane. Lots of flights with Iberia / Vueling tommorow.An average of 300 € but I did not find any trains available.
Alsa bus available at almost 200 € and it takes over more than a day to get there.

 

[MinaKamina]

Flixbus. you will meet the world.

April first, 3 seats available, 7 stops, 120 euro. Travel time 20 hrs.

 

[Bradypus]

Ryanair flight to Beauvais early on 1 April for 69 euro?

 

[naplesdon]

Flixbus is "cheap" and the one thing they are good at is starting on schedule if they are beginning a trip from the first terminal on their route. After that you are on your own. I took one of their buses from Toulouse that was supposed to leave around 18h, it had departed early in the morning from Rome and was headed to Madrid, it arrived in Toulouse at 1h and arrived in Bilbao about 10 hours behind schedule, still headed to Madrid.

 

[SabsP]

Ryanair flight to Beauvais early on 1 April for 69 euro?

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Then you have to get public transport from Beauvais to Paris. There might be a shuttlebus but Beauvais is still a long way....

 

[Bradypus]

Then you have to get public transport from Beauvais to Paris. There might be a shuttlebus but Beauvais is still a long way....

True but then @JulianM would be 100km from Paris rather than 1500km away

 

[Perambulating Griffin]

Currently in Santiago (March 29) and need to go to Paris, France. Does anyone know best + cheapest way out of Santiago from March 30 onwards to Paris?

I just had to book this same trip -- different date. I went around and around trying to find a flight from Santiago, or a train... as directly as possible to Paris. In the end: train to Madrid 48 euros, incl taxes. and easyJet from Madrid to Charles de Gaulle 79 euros. I won't need to add a taxi in Santiago or in Paris.
It is unfortunate that the train no longer goes directly from Santiago to Irun/Hendaye... but there you have it.
I will leave Santiago around 7:30 am, will have about 4.5 hours layover in Madrid -- so plenty of time for getting from Chamartin station to Barajas airport.

 

[mspath]

I just had to book this same trip -- different date. ...
It is unfortunate that the train no longer goes directly from Santiago to Irun/Hendaye... but there you have it.
I will leave Santiago around 7:30 am, will have about 4.5 hours layover in Madrid -- so plenty of time for getting from Chamartin station to Barajas airport.

PG,
Thanks for your update re the lack of train from SdC to Irun/Hendaye. I am sorry to read that it no loner runs. Glad that you were able to get a flight through Madrid to Paris.

 

[Perambulating Griffin]

PG,
Thanks for your update re the lack of train from SdC to Irun/Hendaye. I am sorry to read that it no loner runs. Glad that you were able to get a flight through Madrid to Paris.

Yeah... I'm super sad about that absent train too. I rode it about a decade ago to return to Bordeaux and had always thought I could do that again... Alas. There is a way via Vitoria/Guiteriz *but* that route had no listings for when I needed to get to Hendaye and then on to Paris.

 

[chinacat]

We went from SdC to Pamplona by slooow train, stayed overnight, then took train to Bordeaux via Irun/Hendaye (had to walk from one to the other because of difference in rail gauges).
But that was a very long time ago ….

@Perambulating Griffin seems to have the most useful/reliable (in times of rail strikes) suggestion, though that cheap flight to Beauvais looks very tempting

Bon voyage!