John Fraser
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So, from that current website it appears I was wrong, that the 17:30 bus does not start operating until 1 April - which is tomorrow, so you should be OK!
I just booked an Alsa bus from Pamplona to St. Jean 2 days ago. It leaves at 2:30 and 17:30 I believe every day, though I'm not positive about that. I booked for April 29th and that was the case. It was 22 euros.Hello fellow pilgrims
I have a problem that has been touched on a bit, but I am still a bit unclear. Arriving on Monday, April 24 at 10:15AM in Madrid, I wanted to get flight to Biarritz and then on to St Jean. For some reason that Monday, the flight is at 9AM and not at 12:05 like other days.
I have explored going thru Pamplona, but from there to St Jean has rather limited choices.
Any ideas?
Thanks for help.
There is a Pamplona to St. Jean schedule at http://www.conda.es/eventos.php?tipo=3&id=438
I reworked the data into this format:
January 1 to end of February: No service
March 1 to March 31: 14:30
April 1 to May 30: 14:30 17:30
June 1 to June 19: 10:00 14:30 17:30
June 20 to September 5: 10:00 12:00 14:30 17:30
September 6 to September 30: 10:00 14:30 17:30
October 1 to November 2: 14:30 17:30
November 3 to December 31: No service
Here is an interactive map for use getting a street bus from Pamplona's train station to its bus station. Click the red pins to get instructions and pictures.
Hello fellow pilgrims
I have a problem that has been touched on a bit, but I am still a bit unclear. Arriving on Monday, April 24 at 10:15AM in Madrid, I wanted to get flight to Biarritz and then on to St Jean. For some reason that Monday, the flight is at 9AM and not at 12:05 like other days.
I have explored going thru Pamplona, but from there to St Jean has rather limited choices.
Any ideas?
Thanks for help.
I just booked an Alsa bus from Pamplona to St. Jean 2 days ago. It leaves at 2:30 and 17:30 I believe every day, though I'm not positive about that. I booked for April 29th and that was the case. It was 22 euros.
I have not seen anything about buses running from the Pamplona airport to the city. There is a street bus (line 16) that runs past the terminal but does not stop there. You could walk out the access road and cross the street and walk north (left) through an industrial area to a bus shelter or south (right) to one. That is is a commercial/residental zone. From views with Google streetview that is the way I would go. That walk would be about 1.2 km (0.75 mi.) Line 16 has a stop right across the street from the bus station.I'm assuming I can get a bus from Pamplona airport to Pamplona where I would like to spend the night before going on to St. Jean the next day.
Great info. I've been wondering about this ever since I booked my flight (May 31st/Arrive Pamplona June 1st). I'm assuming I can get a bus from Pamplona airport to Pamplona where I would like to spend the night before going on to St. Jean the next day. Thanks for the post.
Great info. I've been wondering about this ever since I booked my flight (May 31st/Arrive Pamplona June 1st). I'm assuming I can get a bus from Pamplona airport to Pamplona where I would like to spend the night before going on to St. Jean the next day. Thanks for the post.
Stay overnight at Irun/Hendaye or Bayonne instead.
Take Renfe train from Pamplona to Irun/Hendaye or ALSA/CONDA bus from Pamplona to San Sebastian. Then take Renfe Cercanias from San Sebastian to Irun.
ALSA and PESA operate buses from San Sebastian to Bayonne and Irun/Hendaye.
Take SNCF train or Transports64 bus from Hendaye to Bayonne.
Take SNCF train (service is currently provided by bus due to damage to tracks) from Gare Bayonne to SJPdP.
The advantage is the first train leaves Bayonne at 0745 while the first bus (in April) leaves Pamplona at 1430. The train arrives SJPdP at 0845 leaving enough time to walk to Roncesvalles.
On March 31 I used the https:/www.alsa.es/en/ website to get the 2017 schedule of departures of CONDA buses going from Pamplona to St. Jean Pied de Port (by the way, travel time is 1 hour and 45 minutes.) The ALSA/CONDA sites does not post a schedule. You have to enter dates into a form. I entered a number of dates where I thought service would change based on previous years' schedules. Below is what I think the 2017 service will be. However, there is a possibility that there may be additional service on the weekends (though based on previous years there will not be.)Problem with this is the CONDA site does not accurately show the schedule.
Good plan. If you're coming on an overseas flight to Madrid, you can do some sightseeing around Pamplona in the afternoon and use the night there to sleep off the jet lag. That way you can skip the sightseeing as you pass through Pamplona once you've started your Camino walk. By the way, if you've looked at bus schedules, I'm sure you noticed that you can get a bus to Pamplona right at the Madrid airport. When you arrive at the Pamplona bus terminal, you can purchase your ticket for the next day's ride to St Jean. Or as an alternative, you'll surely meet other pilgrims on the way from Madrid to Pamplona -- perhaps you could gather two or three of them and share a taxi to St Jean the same day you arrive in Pamplona.I would like to thank U all for this wonderful information. I found the bus schedule. I believe I will either take the 17:30 bus on Monday the 24th or stay in Pamplona and get the 14:30 bus the next afternoon. Buen Camino.
Stay overnight at Irun/Hendaye or Bayonne instead.
Take Renfe train from Pamplona to Irun/Hendaye or ALSA/CONDA bus from Pamplona to San Sebastian. Then take Renfe Cercanias from San Sebastian to Irun.
ALSA and PESA operate buses from San Sebastian to Bayonne and Irun/Hendaye.
Take SNCF train or Transports64 bus from Hendaye to Bayonne.
Take SNCF train (service is currently provided by bus due to damage to tracks) from Gare Bayonne to SJPdP.
The advantage is the first train leaves Bayonne at 0745 while the first bus (in April) leaves Pamplona at 1430. The train arrives SJPdP at 0845 leaving enough time to walk to Roncesvalles.
Take Renfe train from Pamplona to Irun/Hendaye or ALSA/CONDA bus from Pamplona to San Sebastian. Then take Renfe Cercanias from San Sebastian to Irun.
I find it so easy to go from Madrid to St Jean via Pamplona that I've never considered going via Biarritz. What is limited about the route from Pamplona to St Jean? There are local buses going directly from Pamplona to St Jean several times a day.
As a tourist, I would probably just take a taxi. According to Rome2Rio.com the cost should be about 9 - 11 Euros.Sorry to be so dense, but if I can take a ALSA/CONDA bus from Pamplona to San Sebastian, how do I get to Pamplona in the first place from the airport? And if I do make it to Pamplona, I can stay there overnight and take a bus to SJPP which has been my plan all along. Then I can avoid Pamplona when walking to Santiago. How do foreign travelers get from Pamplona airport to Pamplona? Believe it or not... this one issue is my only fear on this whole pilgrimageThanks for your help though.
Street bus at less than 1.5 euros. But you have a 3/4 mile walk to catch it. See this post above with the link to the map:how do I get to Pamplona in the first place from the airport?
Sorry to be so dense, but if I can take a ALSA/CONDA bus from Pamplona to San Sebastian, how do I get to Pamplona in the first place from the airport? And if I do make it to Pamplona, I can stay there overnight and take a bus to SJPP which has been my plan all along. Then I can avoid Pamplona when walking to Santiago. How do foreign travelers get from Pamplona airport to Pamplona? Believe it or not... this one issue is my only fear on this whole pilgrimageThanks for your help though.
Look for another pilgrim and share a taxi. That worked for me one trip. For a long time there was bus service from the airport. I have no idea why it was dropped a few years back. The airports at Pamplona and Leon have seen a drop in the number of flights since British Airways acquired Iberia. I suspect that there simply are not enough people to justify regular buses. The nearest bus stop is not far away, so you could walk to it (which brings up the question why buses cannot travel the extra kilometer to the airport). Unless you are energetic the walk from the airport to the center of Pamplona is a fairly long walk. If it is any consolation, the train station is a hike from the center of town as well, but it has bus service!This is actually quite disheartening because it was suggested that I fly directly to Pamplona via Madrid. My flight is booked and now you tell me there is no bus to Pamplona from airport (not your fault of course). After a long international flight I just want to spend the night in Pamplona then catch the bus to St. Jean the next day. Okay, I now envision more sleepless nights trying to figure this all out and I've been sleeping well because I thought I had the perfect solutionHow far from airport to center of town? Is a taxi a reasonable alternative within in a reasonable (low) budget? Back to the drawing board.
Look for another pilgrim and share a taxi. That worked for me one trip. For a long time there was bus service from the airport. I have no idea why it was dropped a few years back. The airports at Pamplona and Leon have seen a drop in the number of flights since British Airways acquired Iberia. I suspect that there simply are not enough people to justify regular buses. The nearest bus stop is not far away, so you could walk to it (which brings up the question why buses cannot travel the extra kilometer to the airport). Unless you are energetic the walk from the airport to the center of Pamplona is a fairly long walk. If it is any consolation, the train station is a hike from the center of town as well, but it has bus service!
Buen camino. I hope it all improves after getting through Pamplona the first time. I think you will love the city, so the small investment in a taxi ride will be rewarded.
If you are locked in to flying to Pamplona, then take a taxi from Pamplona airport into the city of Pamplona.
It it were me, on my first camino and a little apprehensive, I would book into an albergue in Pamplona and get the taxi to drop me there. Once inside the albergue there will be plenty of people to help. You might even decide it would be easier to start walking from Pamplona, with the others who are staying in the albergue. There is nothing compulsory about starting in St-Jean-Pied-de-Port.
Foreign travelers to Pamplona get from the airport by taxi.
Si yo fuera tu, take a taxi. Tell the driver (or write it on a piece of paper previous to travel) 'Estacion de Autobuses por favor'. (the bus station please)
There are no other public transport options.
Foreign travelers to Pamplona get from the airport by taxi.
Si yo fuera tu, take a taxi. Tell the driver (or write it on a piece of paper previous to travel) 'Estacion de Autobuses por favor'. (the bus station please)
There are no other public transport options.
No worries ... you can do it!
Approximate fares are listed on the airport website.
Here is official AENA Pamplona Airport Website.
http://www.aena.es/en/pamplona-airport/index.html
Here is Pamplona bus station website. You might want to view the photo at the top of the page so you recognize it when your taxi arrives there. The bus station is mostly underground so it might seem a bit small at ground level.
http://www.estaciondeautobusesdepamplona.com/Inicio.aspx.html
Your other main option is to find your way to the closest bus stop ... about a km from the airport.
There was a person who considered to start walking from the airport. He would have had to do his own map reading until he merged with the usual camino route ... but the idea made sense to me.
No worries ... you can do it!
Approximate fares are listed on the airport website.
Here is official AENA Pamplona Airport Website.
http://www.aena.es/en/pamplona-airport/index.html
Here is Pamplona bus station website. You might want to view the photo at the top of the page so you recognize it when your taxi arrives there. The bus station is mostly underground so it might seem a bit small at ground level.
http://www.estaciondeautobusesdepamplona.com/Inicio.aspx.html
Your other main option is to find your way to the closest bus stop ... about a km from the airport.
There was a person who considered to start walking from the airport. He would have had to do his own map reading until he merged with the usual camino route ... but the idea made sense to me.
As a tourist, I would probably just take a taxi. According to Rome2Rio.com the cost should be about 9 - 11 Euros.
@bbates225 these three albergues in Pamplona get good reviews:
https://www.gronze.com/navarra/pamplona/albergue-jesus-y-maria
https://www.gronze.com/navarra/pamplona/albergue-casa-paderborn
https://www.gronze.com/navarra/pamplona/albergue-casa-ibarrola
I should have added that the bus (Conda, a subsidiary of Alsa) leaves from Pamplona to St Jean at 1730 each day. It takes one hour and 45 minutes. By June there is a second bus - it could run earlier this year because last year they extended the season to December, to meet the demand. It runs at 1430.
There are extensive links in the "Traveling to/from the Camino" section of the forum, giving you various options:
https://www.caminodesantiago.me/com...to-roncesvalles-and-sjpdp-via-pamplona.23395/
https://www.caminodesantiago.me/com...ravel-from-madrid-to-sjpdp-via-bayonne.23517/
Hey folks,i arrive Madrid airport June 22nd 09:30 and need to bus it to Pamplona,anyone any idea what time bus goes at ??,cheers.
The best way to get accurate schedule information is to go to the Alsa website. I plugged in your date and came up with the schedule, which I hope will still be in this link. https://www.alsa.es/checkout?p_auth=bgAq7Ylj&p_p_id=PurchasePortlet_WAR_Alsaportlet&p_p_lifecycle=1&p_p_state=normal&p_p_mode=view&p_p_col_id=column-1&p_p_col_count=3&_PurchasePortlet_WAR_Alsaportlet_javax.portlet.action=searchJourneysAction&originForm=journeySearchForm&_JourneySearchPortlet_WAR_Alsaportlet_code=&serviceType=&accessible=0&originStationNameId=Madrid+(todas+las+paradas),+Madrid,+España&originStationId=90155&destinationStationNameId=Pamplona+(todas+las+paradas),+Navarra,+España&destinationStationId=93100&departureDate=22/06/2017&travelTypeOutward=OUTWARD&numPassengers=1&passengerType-1=1&passengerType-3=0&passengerType-2=0&locationMode=1®ionalZone=&travelType=OUTWARD&promoCode=&jsonAlsaPassPassenger=
If not, just go to ALSA.es and you will easily be able to find out. You can see the stops for both the buses that stop at the airport and those that only stop at Avenida de las Americas, which is a major bus station in downtown Madrid. If you wind up needing to go into town for a bus because of timing issues, there is a direct bus from the airport that drops you off at Avenida de las Americas, it's bus number 200 and it picks up passengers at all terminals.
You also need to know which terminal you will be arriving in, because things are slightly easier if you arrive in T4 (on an Iberia flight or one of its One World Alliance partners) or T1, 2, or 3. The ALSA bus only stops at T4, but there is an intra-airport bus that is fast and frequent. Buen camino, Laurie
For some reason I had better luck using the Alsa app.Have been trying for hours to book the bus from Pamplona to St. Jean. The alsa website is of no help. Can someone help navigate this mess?
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