Travel to Barcelona in Spain
Barcelona is beautiful large city with many districts in Spain . Its been a tourist hot spot, attracting millions of people from all over the world every year. City is filled with wealth of Historic culture and architecture. Best time to travel to Barcelona is September 24 th , city will be filled with lot of celebrations with whole day night of dance and music, theater and most of that is free. Likewise particular dates in some month are jubilating in the selected streets, those days will be a real fun filled days for the travelers. Getting into Barcelona has many options of transportations like flight, train, buses, taxis, metros and sea.
Barcelona international airport is one of the major airports of the Spain and is known as El Prat. Airport is as near as 10 kilo meters from the city center. From the airport reaching city is very easy by bus, taxi, or trains. Better option for any tourist getting down in El Prat is to buy a T-10 ticket at the airport ticket vending machine that can be used for ten trips in metros and buses included within the 75 minutes of time by paying just €6.90 Euros. Taxis are an expensive option which run with a zonal map and may price €25. The cheapest and the faster transport system, which takes only 15 minutes to reach the city, is regular RENFE trains to Sants Train Station which are suburban service and charge just € 2.20.
The bus service from the airport is after every 6 to 9 minutes to the city center, travel takes around half an hour and priced at €3.90. These are called Aerobus and they stop their service at midnight and the Nit bus start running. Nit buses are the Night bus service and you can catch it at nights and reach to the desired place in the city. If you travel to Barcelona by low coat flights like the Ryanair, you will land up in Girona airport that is 100kms north to the city or In Reus airport which is also around 100km to he south of Barcelona , as these air service can not afford to use the El Prat.
The BBS (Barcelona Bus service) runs a regular shuttle bus service to Girona from Estacio del Nord at various flight timings; this bus travel one way is priced up at €12 and return at € 21. The journey is long and takes around one hour 15 minutes. For reaching Reus airport easy transportation is by train from Sants station at Barcelona to the Reus and a bus from there to the airport, this will cost you € 6.45in train and €2 in bus, taking around one hour and 30 minutes roughly. There are several express train services from all part of the Europe in day and overnight.
Barcelona can be reached by water transportation from Balaric Islands , Genoa and from Rome by boats. If traveling from Rome to Barcelona then boat will be cheaper than bus service. To go around the city visitor can make use of the city bus and metro services that are at reasonable rates.