We are heading back to Spain for three months. I book all my trains and buses online.
We are travelling between Seville & Cadiz and usually take a train, however we prefer buses.
I note Alsa buses don’t seem to do this route.
Has anyone travelled by bus between Seville & Cadiz?
Generales Comes buses operate on that route. I took the train.
Thank you.
We usually take trains for longer trips, but as we travel from New Zealand we tend to have larger suitcases and find it much easier to load them onto buses than trains. I'll have look on that site.
I always have a larger-than-carry-on suitcase, too, and I like buses for the same reason when the trip isn't too long. What a joy to know you can just roll your bag over to the side of the bus and lift it about a foot off the ground.
I am hoping to make the same trip. Can bus tickets be bought at the tourist office or bus station?
For Seville to Cadiz, another advantage of the bus, is that the main bus station is right there in central Seville, so an easy walk from most of where you will stay. The rail station is out on the outskirts of Seville, so you would need to take a local bus to the rail station, adding 20 minutes or so to your journey.
I'd be extremely surprised if big-city tourist offices sell bus tickets; I'm not aware of that happening even in smaller places in Spain, though they're often good about providing schedule info. You can certainly buy tickets at the bus station, and quite likely at the station in other cities where the company has a presence. There are also many bus-ticket vending machines in Spanish bus stations, though I don't know that Comes has them. I've found the machines easy to use, with an English-language option. There has never been a problem with my US credit card. At least some of the machines have the option to print the schedule, which I find handy to have. I'll often print out the schedule soon after I arrive in town and tuck it into my wallet until I'm ready to book the outbound trip.
One quirk that's perhaps not obvious is that both machines and staffed windows stop selling tickets at an arbitrary time (5 minutes? 10 minutes?) before the bus is scheduled to depart. It doesn't matter whether you're the only one wanting to buy a ticket--if you're too late, you're out of luck (unless you can somehow work a deal with the driver, and doubt that would be possible). It's my strong impression that even if the bus is delayed substantially, the original purchase deadline still holds. I
It's never a good idea to wait till the last minute to buy a train or bus ticket. I once arrived 10 or 15 minutes before departure only to discover a system outage made all the vending machines unusable. Naturally, there were substantial lines at all the ticket windows. I was very lucky to get through the line in time. You never know when the person in front of you wants to buy six tickets on a convoluted itinerary.
Seville has two bus stations. The Comes buses to Cadiz use the one at Prado de San Sesbastian.
I am re visiting my thread in regards to buses Seville to Cadiz.
So far we have only travelled on Alsa buses within Spain and between Portimao to Seville.
I have previously purchased Alsa tickets online, or at Plaza de Armas bus station whilst in Seville. We prefer to have our bus tickets organized before we depart NZ.
As mentioned in the excellent responses above. The buses between Seville and Cadiz are Comes buses operating from Prado de San Sebastian.
We arrive in Seville 9 days before we depart for Cadiz. Perhaps I’m being over cautious, but I assume that’s enough time to buy tickets for this sector. There are quite a few buses daily.
Renfe only have about two trains a day for this sector. We have previously driven from Seville to Cadiz, hence I’m not familiar with Come buses.
Or buy your bus tickets on line on their website, then you can choose your seat as well- https://www.tgcomes.es/
