Asturias Airport Bus

Asturias airport is in the council area of Castrillón, beside the coast and far from Oviedo, which is in the middle of the region. Without a car, the usual way to reach the city is the Alsa bus, which links the terminal with the three big cities of the region: Avilés, Gijón and Oviedo. In Oviedo the service ends at the bus station, on calle Pepe Cosmen, a few minutes on foot from the train station and the start of calle Uría.

When it leaves and how long it waits

According to Aena, buses leave the airport roughly every hour, from six in the morning until midnight. There is one useful detail if your plane lands at the last minute: when a flight shows on the boards as landing at the departure time, the bus may wait up to fifteen minutes. Even so, do not count on that margin if the flight is badly delayed; check the next departure before getting off the plane.

Services to Avilés and Gijón also stop at Piedras Blancas and Salinas. Aena does not publish the journey time or the ticket price on its page: exact timetables, stops and fares are on Alsa's website and app, and on its information line, 902 422 242. For airport queries, Aena's information line is 913 211 000.

Ticket and CONECTA card

The ticket is bought from Alsa, on its website or app, or at the bus station itself. If you are going to travel for several days by bus and train around Asturias, also look at the CONECTA card of the Asturias Transport Consortium, a personal e-purse that is applied for and topped up online. The consortium answers on 985 105 858, Monday to Friday mornings. We do not give prices here because they change and the operators publish them up to date.

On arrival in Oviedo

Oviedo bus station has information on 902 499 949 and at estaciondeautobusesdeoviedo.com. From there you can walk to the centre: the train station is next door and calle Uría runs down to the Campo de San Francisco, where the kiosk of the tourist office is. If you have a lot of luggage, there are TUA city buses (985 222 422) and you can order a taxi from Radio Taxi Principado (985 252 500) or Radio Taxi Ciudad de Oviedo (985 250 000).

Tips

For the return, allow for the journey time, security control and the possibility that the bus is full in summer and on bank-holiday weekends: if your flight leaves early, the first bus of the morning may not arrive in time, and then the alternative is a taxi or sleeping near the airport. If your plan is to tour the coast, think about whether it is worth getting off in Avilés or Gijón instead of going all the way to Oviedo.

Once in the city, the old town and the Fontán and the cathedral are fifteen or twenty minutes on foot from the station.