Travel options from Greece to Portugal

I'm not aware of any practical alternative to flying, given your time requirement. Rome2Rio.com gives the Athens-Porto driving distance as over 2500 miles--not that you'd want to drive, but that's an indication of how terribly far apart Greece and Portugal are. A bus trip would apparently be a 2-1/2 day nightmare.

Greece has a barely existent rail network, and trains through the Balkans are relatively slow. You won't find the sort of express trains in that area that are available to the traveler farther to the west.

I think traveling by ship would surely be far too slow for you.

I've linked to the Rome2Rio website above so you can get an idea of the challenge facing you. It is important that you not trust the travel times, frequencies or fares shown on the Rome2Rio website. They are often (usually?) way off-base. If you want to dig into one of the options, drill down on Rome2Rio until you find the name of each transportation company you would need to use and check the specifics of the schedule on its website.

Thank you!

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Flying is the only sensible option. Sorry, but if you are budget conscious, then the flights should have been booked last autumn, when prices were at their cheapest, but you probably hadn’t decided to travel at that point!

Budget travel and school holidays aren’t a compatible idea - airfares and accommodation prices mean a surge in demand and therefore prices. Athens to Porto isn’t a popular route, which is why there is only one operator on this route - Aegean. I was surprised that there were any direct flights.

Aegean have an 8kg hand luggage allowance, which is low.

It’s a 4+ hour flight and fares for Athens - Porto don’t seem that expensive to me for late April. Fares for my local London airport to Porto are £164 on EasyJet in April and drop to £38 for the same flight 2 weeks later when it’s not school holidays - this is for a 2 hour flight.

Thanks again, a flying we shall go!

www.skyscanner. com has good coverage of European budget carriers. Non-stop is a four-hour flight so the $200 US range doesn't seem unreasonable. Buy your tickets as soon as you can and read all the instructions on the airline website carefully, especially baggage rules, which may be different than trans-Atlantic carriers.