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No, I personally didn't find it neigh to impossible to figure out the busses in Spain. In fact, I was pleased about the offer for public transport and the cheap fees. For internet searches, it helps to use a few useful words like transporte, mapa, autobus, ruta, parada, estacion, ayuntamiento + name of town. Also simply talking with the staff at your accommodation or in a bar and asking them where the bus stop is.Anyone finding it nigh on impossible to figure out the busses in Spain?
"I get that there may be no bus to such a small town, but it's an issue I've found all over the country, whether I'm in a big city or tiny town. There's barely any route maps, no timetables, information on where to actually get the bus, nothing on Google maps' route finder etc."Anyone finding it nigh on impossible to figure out the busses in Spain?
Currently looking for a bus from Burgos to Villanueva de Argano or Villalbilla de Burgos and the Websites are offering 0 help. I get that there may be no bus to such a small town, but it's an issue I've found all over the country, whether I'm in a big city or tiny town. There's barely any route maps, no timetables, information on where to actually get the bus, nothing on Google maps' route finder etc.
Rome2Rio states that Amaya busses runs 4 times a day, but going to their website shows a page that hasn't been updated in over 5 years and shows one route, at 8pm, with no information on where to actually get the bus from. Its an awful experience
To be fair I think the UK is pretty well served with online bus information. Thinking particularly of the Traveline website and app in its various national flavours. All of more interest to me now since I received my all-Wales bus pass a few months back!Sounds just like the UK!
If you're already in central Burgos, the bus station is back over the river. I picked up a map from my accommodation and it is clearly marked. The process was pretty simple.Anyone finding it nigh on impossible to figure out the busses in Spain?
Currently looking for a bus from Burgos to Villanueva de Argano or Villalbilla de Burgos and the Websites are offering 0 help. I get that there may be no bus to such a small town, but it's an issue I've found all over the country, whether I'm in a big city or tiny town. There's barely any route maps, no timetables, information on where to actually get the bus, nothing on Google maps' route finder etc.
Rome2Rio states that Amaya busses runs 4 times a day, but going to their website shows a page that hasn't been updated in over 5 years and shows one route, at 8pm, with no information on where to actually get the bus from. Its an awful experience
As others have said, it’s hard to imagine a country with better public transportation than Spain. But getting access to information about the connections you may need, especially if you go from one comunidad autónoma to another, can be challenging.Anyone finding it nigh on impossible to figure out the busses in Spain?
Switzerland comes easily to mind!As others have said, it’s hard to imagine a country with better public transportation than Spain. But getting access to information about the connections you may need, especially if you go from one comunidad autónoma to another, can be challenging.
If @ElCascayal sees this, she can tell you about her effort to find how to get from León to Tui on public transportation. It wound up involving four buses, different lines, unsearchable as a continuous trip, or at least that was her experience. She had to figure out what the logical hubs were, realize that the short distance bus lines are typically intra-regional, and book separate tickets. So a map and some knowledge of regional boundaries would be helpful.
She wound up going Leon to Ponferrada, Ponferrada to Lugo, Lugo to Vigo, and Vigo to Tui. And made it in one day!
I don’t doubt what you say, but for those of us in the US, it is impossible to believe that it can get any better. I would think I had died and gone to heaven.Switzerland comes easily to mind!
Trains - excellent as they are - prioritise Madrid’s role as deliberately-located central capital city and transport hub; so the ‘spoke’ routes are better enabled than the inter-regional ones and it’s often necessary to travel two sides of a triangle than go directly between two large and reasonably close large cities.
Sometimes the websites of the towns themselves give information.Currently looking for a bus from Burgos to Villanueva de Argano or Villalbilla de Burgos
This thread is so interesting. Laurie summed up my odyssey well of searching for transport from Leon to Vigo and Tui. It takes some sleuthing to figure it all out, and I personally enjoy doing the research.As others have said, it’s hard to imagine a country with better public transportation than Spain. But getting access to information about the connections you may need, especially if you go from one comunidad autónoma to another, can be challenging.
If @ElCascayal sees this, she can tell you about her effort to find how to get from León to Tui on public transportation. It wound up involving four buses, different lines, unsearchable as a continuous trip, or at least that was her experience. She had to figure out what the logical hubs were, realize that the short distance bus lines are typically intra-regional, and book separate tickets. So a map and some knowledge of regional boundaries would be helpful.
She wound up going Leon to Ponferrada, Ponferrada to Lugo, Lugo to Vigo, and Vigo to Tui. And made it in one day!
Agreed! Think there may be some age related bargains in Scotland too (compared to England) on the trains which I need to start checking out as I get closer to 60.To be fair I think the UK is pretty well served with online bus information. Thinking particularly of the Traveline website and app in its various national flavours. All of more interest to me now since I received my all-Wales bus pass a few months back!
I have taken two ALSA buses into and out of Leon. Booked my tickets on their website. Time schedules published on the website, and the buses left and arrived on schedule both times. I did have to know my Bus' ultimate destination in the big León bus terminal, to get the correct route.Anyone finding it nigh on impossible to figure out the busses in Spain?
Currently looking for a bus from Burgos to Villanueva de Argano or Villalbilla de Burgos and the Websites are offering 0 help. I get that there may be no bus to such a small town, but it's an issue I've found all over the country, whether I'm in a big city or tiny town. There's barely any route maps, no timetables, information on where to actually get the bus, nothing on Google maps' route finder etc.
Rome2Rio states that Amaya busses runs 4 times a day, but going to their website shows a page that hasn't been updated in over 5 years and shows one route, at 8pm, with no information on where to actually get the bus from. Its an awful experience
Not only does RENFE provide the legendary tarjeta dorada for over-60 riders, which provides extraordinary discounts, but most bus services will give you similar discounts, although a few will only do so for electronic ticket purchases. Feel free to enquire, especially at turismos or main bus stations. In Saint Sebastian, the turismo set me up for the local bus service with a card.Agreed! Think there may be some age related bargains in Scotland too (compared to England) on the trains which I need to start checking out as I get closer to 60.
Best source of information are the albergues, specially the municipal albergues. Good luck and Buen CaminoAnyone finding it nigh on impossible to figure out the busses in Spain?
Currently looking for a bus from Burgos to Villanueva de Argano or Villalbilla de Burgos and the Websites are offering 0 help. I get that there may be no bus to such a small town, but it's an issue I've found all over the country, whether I'm in a big city or tiny town. There's barely any route maps, no timetables, information on where to actually get the bus, nothing on Google maps' route finder etc.
Rome2Rio states that Amaya busses runs 4 times a day, but going to their website shows a page that hasn't been updated in over 5 years and shows one route, at 8pm, with no information on where to actually get the bus from. Its an awful experience
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