Santa Luzia to Placas bus

Buses from Santa Luzia to Placas start at €117.33 and take 35h 56m at their fastest.

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The Buses from Santa Luzia to Placas starts at €117.33 and takes 35h 56m door to door, run by 1 operator over 2,410 km, with around 2 departures a day. Fares bottom out about 21 days before departure.

Checked 15 September 2026Priced for 6 October 2026One passenger, all fees included

  • 35h 56mDoor to door
  • 35h 12mMoving
  • €117.33 to €341.18From
  • 06:37 to 07:30First and last departure
  • 2Per day
  • 65.1 kgCO2

First and last are taken from the services we sell on 6 October 2026. The return direction keeps its own timetable and is not these times reversed.

€117.33 to €341.18 for one passenger across the 14 departure dates priced here. The low end is one day, not every day. Worked out from this corridor rather than held for anybody. The operator sets the price on the day.

Fares by date

What this journey usually costs, by departure date. It shows which days run dearer.

Typical fares

  1. about €274.63Wed16
  2. about €341.18Thu17
  3. about €198.18Fri18
  4. about €272.98Sat19
  5. about €231.18Sun20
  6. about €179.48Mon21
  7. about €117.33Tue22
  8. about €132.18Wed23
  9. about €221.83Thu24
  10. about €203.13Fri25
  11. about €149.23Sat26
  12. about €191.58Sun27
  13. about €167.38Mon28
  14. about €117.88Tue29

Based on what this route has cost recently. The operator sets the price on the day, and the live fare is confirmed when you book.

Real services

The cheapest and the fastest on 6 October 2026

Cheapest€93.13
  1. Viação Ouro e Prata VO712306:3735h 12m17:49Antiga RodoviáriaPlacas bus station

Door to door 35h 56mCO2 65.1 kgChanges 0Changeable for a fee

Carriers

Bus operators

Every operator we sell on this corridor. Speed is the carrier's own typical cruising speed, not the average over this route.
OperatorFromFastestTypical speedFlexibilityOn board
Viação Ouro e Prata€93.1331h 55m72 km/hChangeablePower sockets, Toilets, Wi-Fi

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A room in Placas for the night the coach gets in

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Booking window

When to book Santa Luzia to Placas

The same search run across the whole booking window, so the shape of the curve is visible rather than described.

  1. €115.1390 days
  2. €125.0360 days
  3. €112.3845 days
  4. €114.0330 days
  5. €93.1321 days
  6. €117.8814 days
  7. €117.337 days
  8. €198.183 days
  9. €274.631 days
Cheapest lead time
Fares bottom out around 21 days ahead, at €93.13.
How much it moves
The gap between the cheapest and dearest lead time is 195 percent. The dearest point is €274.63, 1 days out.
What that means
Today sits inside the cheap window, which closes about 21 days before departure. Waiting from here has usually cost money on this corridor rather than saved it.
Day of the week

Which departure day costs least

Median cheapest fare for each weekday, taken across the next three weeks of real prices.

  1. €191.58Sun
  2. €167.38Mon
  3. €117.33Tue
  4. €132.18Wed
  5. €221.83Thu
  6. €198.18Fri
  7. €149.23Sat
Terminals

Where you leave from and where you arrive

Santa Luzia

Coach
  • Antiga Rodoviária
The journey

What the journey actually looks like

Direct or connecting
50% of the services we sell on this corridor run through without a change. The remaining 50% involve one connection.
How far it really runs
The route covers 2,410 km against 2,095 km in a straight line, a detour of 15 percent. Track and road geometry account for the difference.
Where the change is
Connections are made at Santa Inês. The gap between arriving and leaving is 60 minutes, of which about 5 is walking.
If the connection is missed
The tightest connection we sell here has a 16 percent chance of not being made on the timetable alone. Part of this journey is a self transfer between separate tickets, so leave more time than the minimum and expect to check in again.
First and last departure
The first service of the day leaves Santa Luzia at 06:37 and the last at 07:30, across 2 departures The return direction keeps its own timetable, so the times back are not these times reversed.

Questions about Santa Luzia to Placas

The questions people actually ask about this journey, answered from the same prices and times the page above is built on rather than written once and left to go stale.

How long does the Coach from Santa Luzia to Placas take?

The Coach from Santa Luzia to Placas takes 35h 56m door to door, of which 35h 12m is spent moving. The route runs 2,410 km. The difference between the two times is reaching the terminal and leaving it at the far end, which every time on this page includes.

How much does the Coach from Santa Luzia to Placas cost?

The Coach from Santa Luzia to Placas starts at €117.33 for one passenger, as of 15 September 2026. A typical fare is €112.93. Both are the total including taxes, supplier fees and our service fee, so the price here is the price at checkout.

Who runs the Coach from Santa Luzia to Placas?

1 operators run the Coach from Santa Luzia to Placas: Viação Ouro e Prata. Between them they file around 2 departures a day. The operator table on this page compares them on fare, journey time, cruising speed, fare conditions and what is provided on board.

Which terminal does the Coach from Santa Luzia to Placas use?

The Coach from Santa Luzia to Placas leaves from Antiga Rodoviária and arrives at Placas bus station. Allow about 44m for reaching the departure terminal and leaving the arrival one. That time is already inside every door to door figure quoted on this page.

When should I book the Coach from Santa Luzia to Placas?

Fares for the Coach from Santa Luzia to Placas bottom out around 21 days ahead, at €93.13. The gap between the cheapest and dearest lead time across the window is 195 percent, measured on 15 September 2026. Booking inside the final week has consistently cost more.

How much CO2 does the Coach from Santa Luzia to Placas produce?

The Coach from Santa Luzia to Placas produces about 65.1 kg of CO2 per passenger over 2410 km, which works out at roughly 27 grams per passenger kilometre. That figure is for the whole journey and for one traveller, not for the vehicle.

What is provided on board the Coach from Santa Luzia to Placas?

Operators on the Coach from Santa Luzia to Placas publish Power sockets, Toilets, Wi-Fi. That is what 1 carriers on this corridor state about their own fleets, across a journey of 35h 56m door to door. Where a carrier publishes nothing, this page lists nothing for it.

Where these numbers come from

Places, coordinates, operators, which operator serves which pair, and every distance on this page are real and come from open data. Where a corridor has a filed timetable the departure times are real too, and ferry fares are the prices the operators publish themselves.

Observed service A carrier record shows this named operator serving this named pair, and we carry that through unchanged.

Where no operator publishes a fare for a corridor, the price here is our own estimate, worked out from the real distance and the real operator through a fare curve that follows lead time, day of the week and season. It tells you roughly what the journey costs. It is not a seat anyone has agreed to sell, and the payment step will not take it.

Defined in full at Door to door, Fares, The booking window, Carbon

On this page
Every figure above was computed for Santa Luzia to Placas on 15 September 2026: 2410 km of route against 2095 km in a straight line, 2 services a day, 1 operator a cheapest fare of €117.33, and 35h 56m door to door on the fastest mode. The return direction is computed separately and its numbers are not these numbers.

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