advice on the best way to get from Barcelona Airport to Caldes d' Estrac (Costa Brava)

[Fenwickl]

Can anybody suggest a website or perhaps first hand information, to advise me on the best way to travel from Barcelona Airport to Caldes d' Estrac? are there trains or busses and what time do they run until?

[grasscarp]

http://www.barcelonay...hes-outside-barcelona
This website suggests the train is the best bet.

[Buenchico]

See the map here:
http://www.atm.cat/pdfs_cat/A3ATM_Global.pdf
Barcelona (El Prat) Airport is in square E2. Caldes d'Estrac is in E9. You'll see that Renfe Line R2 will take you to Barcelona Sants, where you can change to Line R1.

Trains on Line R2 leave the airport at 0542, then every 30 minutes from 0608 to 2108, with a final departure at 2208. (There are a few later trains but they don't have connections available for Line R1). The total journey time to Caldes d'Estrac is around 1½ hours.

Timetable here:
http://www.renfe.com/.../barcelona/index.html

Chris

[grasscarp]

Buenchico - your post deserves an award for detail, relevance and kindness. Even if Fenwickl doesnt thank you I cant let it go un remarked on. You are a very good ABer. Perhaps we should have feedback on here like on Ebay!

[jrtv]

I agree with you grasscarp, Buenchico's answer was spot on and deserves credit.
I have done this journey many times and it's cheap and easy, when you get off the plane head for the train station across the road and get the train to Sants, this is Barcelona's main station, where you get off and you now need the Macanet train on R1, you stay on the platform you are on and look for the train time on the electronic sign's above you, if it's late at night and you have missed the last train then another will take you as far as Mataro, it then parks up for the night, you then take a taxi from outside to Caldes d' Estrac, about 20 euro.

[Fenwickl]

Buenchico, you are a rare gem!! an absolute star, you have saved me so much time and effort, I am travelling to Barcelona with 14 12 year olds and your advice is invaluable and hugely appreciated. so sorry for not responding earlier, havent checked answers for a while, but enormously grateful to you!

[Fenwickl]

jrtv, your help is also greatly appreciated. I never expected to get such fantastic info from such a random and obscure question, I am in awe of ab!!! thank you so much for taking the time to help me.