Trip Fact File

Location: Spain

Getting to Santiago de Compostela: For visitors from North America and Australia/New Zealand, we recommend getting flights to London. From London you can get one of the many budget flights across to Spain. Direct flights from the USA/Australia/New Zealand do exist but the cost does not make this a good option.

Flights from the USA start from US$300 from the east coast and around $400 from the west coast.

Flights from Australia and New Zealand will be around A$2000 and NZ$2500. Flights from Europe are very cheap with the budget airlines dominating the competition. Budget flights from London to Santiago de Compostela with Ryan Air cost around £50 return though checked in baggage will cost £5 per piece.

Getting to San Sebastian: Again it will best for you to fly into London and from there catch a flight to Spain. Flights from London go to the nearby City of Bilbao for around £96 return with BA and from Bilbao it’s just a 3 hour train ride to San Sebastian which costs around €7.

Getting to Cordoba: Once again like all flights from outside the United Kingdom, we recommend catching a flight to London. From here a Budget flight can take you to Sevilla, which is linked by rail to Cordoba. A flight to Sevilla is £75 with Ryan Air, though remember the baggage surcharge. Alternatively BA has a flight from London for £80 return. Trains from Sevilla to Cordoba run regularly throughout the day and will only take around an hour and will set you back about €9.

Currency: The currency of Spain is the Euro which is divided up into 100 cents. At the time of publishing the exchange rate was… 

  GB £1   =  Euro 1.44

  US $1   =  Euro 0.79 

  CA $1   =  Euro 0.70 

   A $1     =  Euro 0.58 

NZ $1   =   Euro 0.47