Union Ivkoni International

The main stations covered by Union Ivkoni International ’s buses include:

• Piraeus Port Astiggos
• Sofia Central Bus Station
• Athens Karaiskaki
• Ulm Long distance
• Sofia Serdica Bus Station
• Plovdiv South
• Amsterdam Prins Hendrikkade
• Macedonia Intercity Bus Station
• Blagoevgrad
• Kaiserslautern
• Dresden Bayrische Street
• Augsburg P R Oberhausen Nord
• Thessaloniki Train Station
• Ruse Bul Midia Enos
• Vienna INTL Bus Terminal
• Munich Bus station
• Serres
• Salzburg Lastenstrasse
• Frankfurt Stuttgarter Strasse
• Antwerp Berchem
• Bucharest Militari Bus Station
• Brussel Train North Station
• Geneva Bus Station
• Victoria Green Line Station
• Narbonne Train Station
• Dresden
• Metz Bus Station
• Avignon Le Pontet Bus Station
• Rue des Terres de Borde
• Bremen Central Bus Station
• Sergeant Triaire Bvd Bus Stop
• Nuremberg Central Bus Station
• The Hague Bus Station
• Stuttgart Airport
• Sevilla Central Bus Station
• Barcelona Sants Bus Station
• Paris Place du Pantheon
• Burgos Calle Miranda
• Strasbourg Bus Station
• Toulouse Central
• Varna Central
• Bordeaux Center
• Stara Zagora Bus Station
• Benidorm Central
• Saarbrucken Bus Station
• Cesena Train Station
• Sandanski Bus Station
• Alicante Central
• Lorca Bus Station
• Antwerp Berchem
• Albufeira Bus Station
• Ferrara Railway Station
• Prague UAN Florenc
• Girolamo Cardinale Avenue
• Linz
• Valencia Bus Station
• Huercal Overa
• Plovdiv Central Train Station
• Larissa Bus Station
• Razgrad Central
• Cartaya Av San Bartolome
• Paris Bercy Seine
• Pleven
• Ljubljana Bus Station
• Halle Central
• Rotterdam CS Bus Station
• Lyon Gare Perrache
• Sofia Airport Departure 1
• Deva Train Station
• Nafplio Bus Station
• Kirklareli Bus Station
• Zvonarka Bus Station
• Sofia Airport Arrivals 2
• Munich Central Bus Station
• Veliko Tarnovo South
• Madrid South Bus Station
• Nantes Baco
• Aytos
• Montpellier Sabines
• Valencia Bus Station
• Basel Bus Station
• Faro Av da Republica
• Valladolid Central
• Metropark Centrale Bus Stop
• Cologne Airport
• Seville
• Berlin Central Bus Station
• Bern Car Terminal Neufeld
• Genoa Railway Station
• Reims Central Train Station
• Bilbao Bus Station
• Corinth
• Sliven Central Bus Station
• Cascina Gobba Bus Station
• Istanbul Central Bus Station
• Ghent Pr Clementinalaan
• Bremen Fernbusterminal Bus Stop
• Ruse Central
• Almeria
• Corso Vittorio Emanuele II
• Piraeus
• Eindhoven
• Rimini Centro Studi
• Oradea Bus Station
• Utrecht Jaarbeursplein
• Lille Europe
• Trieste Central
• Strasbourg Bvd Bus Stop
• Arnhem Amsterdamseweg
• Magdeburg Bus Station
• Aranda de Duero
• Venice Bus Station
• Mannheim Central Bus Station
• Brasov Bus Station 2
• Nice Airport 1
• Pazardzhik Bus Station
• Zaragoza Delicias Bus Station
• Vitoria Central
• Corlu Adnan Dogu
• Thessaloniki KTEL Macedonia
• Lausanne Bus Station
• Sandanski
• Hanover Central Bus Station
• Bologna Bus Terminal
• San Sebastian Bus Station
• Murcia Bus Station
• Barcelona Sants Station
• Lagos Bus Station
• Silivri Bus Station
• Marseille Saint Charles
• Portimao Cardosas
• Karlsruhe Bus Station
• Duesseldorf Bus Station
• Padua
• Dortmund Bus Station
• Lisbon Oriente Bus Station
• Haskovo Central Bus Station
• Milan Lampugnano M1
• Silistra
• Babaeski Bus Station
• Tavira
• Monastiriou Bus Stop
• Florence Bus Station
• Zagreb Central
• Malaga Bus Station
• Rome Tiburtina
• Huelva Central
• Bratislava Mlynske nivy
• Leipzig Bus Station
• Wurzburg Bus Station
• Metz Bus Station
• Innsbruck Ice Stadium
• Pazardzhik
• Burgas South
• Aachen Main Train
• Gandia
• Pamplona Yanguas y Miranda
• Beziers De Gaulle
• Limoges Benedictins
• Gare SNCF Chateaucreux
• Nice Airport Terminal 2
• Ancona Piazza Rosselli
• Pesaro Railway Station
• Passau Rail
• Shumen
• Volos Bus Station
• Kalamata Psaron
• Kyllini Ferry Terminal
• Lamia EO Livadias Lamias
• Patras Othonos kai Amalias
• Pyrgos Central
• Gastouni EO Patras Pirgou
• Kavala Central
• Almonte Av de la Juventud
• Ayamonte
• Almeria El Ejido
• Lepe
• Palos de la Frontera
• Penafiel Av Valladolid Soria
• Segovia
• Breda slaan
• Freiburg Hornusstrasse
• Angers
• Clermont Ferrand
• Orleans
• Tours Pl du General Leclerc
• Avcilar
• Dulovo
• Dupnitsa
• Isperih
• Karnobat
• Nova Zagora Patriarh Evtimiy
• Chambery
• Cologne Airport
• Zurich Limmatstrasse
• Hamburg Adenauerallee
• Braganca Bus Station
• Duisburg Portsmouthplatz
• Chambery Place de la Gare
• Rennes Place de la Gare
• Regensburg Bahnhofstrasse
• Henri Coanda Airport
• Ploiesti
• Timisoara Normandia
• Sibiu Vest
• Targu Mures
• Shumen Bus Station
• Corso Vittorio Emanuele II
• Pazardzhik Coach Station
• Kirklareli Pazaryeri Sk
• The Hague Rijnstraat
• Plovdiv Hristo Botev
• Varna Airport
• Fribourg Chem de lAbbe Freeley
• Katerini Central Bus Station
• Cluj Napoca Bus Station
• Erd Annahagyi
• Maastricht Meerssenerweg
• Arad Calea 6 Vanatori
• Linz Wissensturm
• Iasi West
• Megalopoli
• Tripoli Nafpliou
• Nantes Le Cardo
• Argos
• Faro Pra a Largo de Camoes
• Portimao R da Abicada
• Prague Prague Florenc Bus Station
• Terminalul de sosiri Aeroport Henri Coanda Bucuresti
• Lille Bus Station Europe
• Marseille Bourdet Nedelec
• Narbonne Bus Station Av Marechal Foch
• Nimes Parking Du Parnasse
• Strasbourg Bus Station
• Leipzig Hbf Ostseite
• E80 4444
• Pleven Bus Station
• Sliven bul Hadzhi Dimitar
• Stara Zagora Bus Station Slavianski
• Zagreb Bus Station
• Athens Chiou
• Drama KTEL Drama Perfecture SA
• Katerini Station
• Lamia KTEL Fthiotidos Bus Station
• Larissa Niavis Restaurant Group
• Tanagra E75
• Alicante C Heliodoro Madrona A
• Sandanski Happy Bar and Grill
• Sofia Airport Terminal 2 Bus Stop
• Katerini Masoutis Supermarket
• Piraeus Thesmoforiou Street
• Lyon Av Tony Garnier
• Saarbr cken Dudweilerstrasse 96
• Stara Zagora Boulevard Slavianski
• Heraklion Heraklion Bus Station
• Kozani EO Kozanis Loanninon
• Veria Trempesinas
• Anatoli Shell Gas Station
• Venice Station Avenue
• Pazardzhik Bus Station

Union Ivkoni International buses ply a number of routes and here is the list of some of the most popular ones:

• Brussels - Amsterdam
• Amsterdam - Brussels
• Prague - Vienna
• Vienna - Bratislava
• Paris - Zurich
• Munich - Salzburg
• Zurich - Paris
• Berlin - Vienna
• Athens - Thessaloniki
• Thessaloniki - Athens
• Prague - Bratislava
• Milan - Nice
• Bratislava - Prague
• Nice - Milan
• Salzburg - Munich
• Amsterdam - Antwerp
• Vienna - Berlin
• Antwerp - Amsterdam
• Bucharest - Sofia
• Basel - Paris
• Paris - Basel
• Sofia - Bucharest
• Sofia - Thessaloniki
• Lyon - Milan
• Milan - Lyon
• Thessaloniki - Sofia
• Zurich - Salzburg
• Berlin - Prague
• Patras - Athens
• Piraeus - Athens
• Salzburg - Zurich
• Milan - Marseille
• Athens - Piraeus
• Marseille - Milan
• Nuremberg - Amsterdam
• Paris - London
• Bratislava - Brno
• Salzburg - Paris
• Brno - Bratislava
• Sofia - Prague
• Bucharest - Prague
• Sofia - Bratislava
• Prague - Sofia
• London - Paris
• Salzburg - Frankfurt
• Salzburg - Amsterdam
• Volos - Thessaloniki
• Hamburg - Vienna
• Mannheim - Paris
• Marseille - Barcelona
• Salzburg - London
• Thessaloniki - Bucharest
• Amsterdam - Munich
• Frankfurt - Amsterdam
• Munich - Amsterdam
• Strasbourg - Zurich
• Bucharest - Bratislava
• Bratislava - Sofia
• Bucharest - Thessaloniki
• Thessaloniki - Plovdiv
• Basel - Strasbourg
• Munich - Paris
• Stuttgart - London
• Paris - Munich
• Wurzburg - Amsterdam
• Paris - Mannheim
• Athens - Sofia
• Mannheim - Salzburg
• Amsterdam - Wurzburg
• London - Mannheim
• Salzburg - Nuremberg
• Sofia - Serres
• Serres - Sofia
• Sofia - Athens
• Plovdiv - Thessaloniki
• Sofia - Piraeus
• Athens - Bucharest
• Ruse - Otopeni
• Zagreb - Stuttgart
• Avignon - Murcia
• Thessaloniki - Blagoevgrad
• Blagoevgrad - Thessaloniki
• Bucharest - Athens
• Piraeus - Sofia
• Madrid - Zagreb
• Barcelona - Nice
• Valencia - Nice
• Dresden - Vienna
• Ljubljana - Munich
• Frankfurt - Zagreb
• Mestre Venice - Zagreb
• Zagreb - Dortmund
• Munich - Zagreb
• Volos - Sofia
• Sofia - Zagreb
• Zagreb - Milan
• Bucharest - Ruse
• Vienna - Prague
• Verona - Zagreb
• Dresden - Prague

One of the best things about bus travel is that you can almost tailor-make your trip adjusting it to your requirements for privacy and comfort. Different classes and types of buses cater to the different needs of travellers. The cheapest trips are normally offered by standard-class buses. They may be called local, express or ordinary. These are a good choice for shorter trips. Sleepers or VIP coaches are good both for longer and overnight trips. They may offer berths or wide soft reclining seats, sometimes with built-in massage options, blankets, soft drinks, and snacks, or more substantial meals on board or during toilet or refuelling stops. Travelling by night buses allows you to save on a hotel room, but to ensure the most comfortable ride do choose the class of your bus wisely. Prices always depend on the distance you ride and the type of coach. For some, even shorter trips, it is worth investing some extra money and buying a seat on a VIP bus as it can save you twice as much time as you spend travelling by an ordinary bus.

Pros of Bus Travel

• Bus is the best choice to get to destinations that are not connected by rail or planes. The network of buses often covers almost the whole country, and their routes are well and long-established.
• Opposite to air travel and sometimes rail travel, taking a bus does not require arriving at the bus station much in advance. Check-in, even on international routes, does not take much time. Luggage allowances are usually very traveller-friendly, and the fee for extra luggage, if limits are set, is normally not very high.
• Bus tickets can be more affordable compared to air or fast train tickets. There is always a choice of ticket classes for all pockets. Cheaper standard options may be a bit slow and do not offer top comfort, but anyway acceptable and bring you to your destination. On longer routes, toilets or toilet stops as well as snacks, water, and sometimes toiletries and blankets are almost always included in the price.
• If you are ready to spend more, some VIP coaches offer seating comparable to business class on a plane with wide soft reclining seats, blankets, fewer passengers, and many other perks to make your trip a pleasant journey.

Cons of Bus Travel

• Newer intercity bus terminals are very often located out of the city close to bigger highways to allow buses to avoid city congestion. Unfortunately, it may create extra challenges for travellers, too. Getting to such a terminal may be a problem as in some destinations there are restrictions on vehicles allowed to enter the terminal, and you will have to use special carriers to get there. This results in higher costs as prices may be inflated. Also do calculate extra time if you are travelling during rush hours, especially if you are not familiar with the traffic situation at your starting point.
• Buses are probably the means of transport which runs out of schedule more often than trains or planes. They are heavily dependent on the road situation which sometimes can be unpredictable – accidents, road construction works, detours, etc. This is especially true for travels during weekends, high season, or national holidays. Do keep this in mind and do not plan tight connections.
• Travelling on certain routes or during the most popular periods may require advanced booking. Bear in mind that it is not always possible to show up at the bus station and hop on the next bus – tickets may well be all sold out, so organize your trip accordingly.