Our plan was to take the bus between Burgas Bulgaria and Sunny Beach Bulgaria.
But we had a VERY hard time finding information about it.
During our affordable luxury time in Burgas Bulgaria we tried to book bus tickets online. But the various online bus ticket agencies we tried kept erroring out.
We couldn’t even find the bus schedule between Burgas and Sunny Beach anywhere online.
Frustrated, we asked a few locals about the bus. Did we need to buy bus tickets in advance? How often does the bus between Burgas and Sunny Beach run? What’s the bus schedule to and from Sunny Beach?
No one we asked knew anything about the bus from Burgas to Sunny Beach!
Finally we decided that we would just pack up, walk to the bus station in Burgas and figure out how to get to Sunny Beach there…or not.
Buuuuut….then it started raining.
So we thought about it some more.
We remembered that we like affordable luxury travel….which does not include walking in a downpour to the bus station for a bus that might or might not be available.
So we booked a car from Burgas to Sunny Beach for about $28 US.
Turns out that was a big waste of money.
Don’t make the same mistake we did!
How to Take the Bus Between Burgas and Sunny Beach
Don’t worry, I’m not going to leave you hanging.
After that debacle I made it my mission to figure out this bus route and tell the world about it!
HERE is how the bus from Burgas to Sunny Beach and the bus from Sunny Beach to Burgas works during the summer: You go to the bus station in Burgas or Sunny Beach. That’s it!
Ok, there’s a little more.
Simply look for the Number 22 Bus. Sometimes the Number 22 Bus between Burgas and Sunny beach looks like a city bus, sometimes it’s a tour bus.
Just look for the bus route ‘Burgas to Sunny Beach,’ ‘Sunny Beach to Burgas’ or the number 22 in the front windshield of the bus.
Bus Schedule
During the summer a Number 22 Bus from Burgas to Sunny Beach departs every 20 minutes or when it fills up, whichever comes first.
Same schedule on the Number 22 Bus from Sunny Beach to Burgas.
Again, the way to take the bus from Burgas to Sunny Beach or take the bus from Sunny Beach to Burgas is to just go to the bus station and find the Number 22 Bus.
The journey takes about 1 to 1.5 hours.
Bus Costs Burgas to Sunny Beach – Bus Cost Sunny Beach to Burgas
The cost for the bus trip between Burgas and Sunny Beach is 6 BGN or about $3.50 US.
You can pay at the bus station or pay as you get on the bus.
Bottom Line – Burgas and Sunny Beach by Bus
Now you know how to take the bus from Burgas to Sunny Beach.
AND you know how to take the bus from Sunny Beach to Burgas!
Just go to the bus station. Within 20 minutes or so you will be on a Route 22 bus and your way!
3 comments
Thank you for such a clear explanation. We are going for the first time to Sunny Beach but are staying at the far north end in Helena Sands Hotel. The No5 bus will take us from there to the bus station and I assume that we will have to pay two separate fares and also I doubt if the services will be linked so there could be quite a combined wait. However, we like the