The season for this holiday is:
11 April 2022 - 15 July 2022
01 September 2022 - 30 October 2022
7 nights: 11 April 2022 - 15 July 2022 & 01 September 2022 - 30 October 2022
Start any day | End by latest date(s) shown above
| Starting | Price | Single room |
|---|---|---|
| 11 - 28 Apr 2022 | £625 | £290 |
| 29 Apr - 8 May 2022 | £680 | £345 |
| 9 - 26 May 2022 | £645 | £295 |
| 27 May - 4 Jun 2022 | £730 | £390 |
| 5 - 24 Jun 2022 | £745 | £385 |
| 25 Jun - 8 Jul 2022 | £785 | £440 |
| 1 - 12 Sep 2022 | £785 | £440 |
| 13 - 18 Sep 2022 | £745 | £385 |
| 19 - 30 Sep 2022 | £730 | £390 |
| 1 - 10 Oct 2022 | £680 | £345 |
| 11 - 23 Oct 2022 | £625 | £290 |
| 3rd & 4th person discount | -£10 | |
| Single traveller supplement | £10 |
Includes accommodation, meals, travel between hotels and any other services integral to the holiday as described, plus a detailed information pack, but no travel from the UK, nor any connecting travel from the airport unless stated below.
Included travel: rail pass for up to 10 single journeys
Pay locally for travel arrangements between rail stations and hotels
Book your flights through us and we'll find the best route and times to suit you. Please contact us to find out more about our flight booking service. We can also book connecting travel - see below.
Room upgrades (£ per person per night)
| Casona de la Paca, Cudillero | ||
|---|---|---|
| Larger: 11 Apr - 15 Jul 2022 | £18 | |
| Larger: 01 Sep - 30 Oct 2022 | £18 |
| Cervantes Hotel, Oviedo | ||
|---|---|---|
| 'Premium': 11 Apr - 15 Jul 2022 | £22 | |
| 'Premium': 01 Sep - 30 Oct 2022 | £22 |
| Villa Rosario, Ribadesella | ||
|---|---|---|
| Sea view: 11 Apr - 04 May 2022 | £24 | |
| Sea view: 05 May - 12 May 2022 | £30 | |
| Sea view: 13 May - 31 May 2022 | £24 | |
| Sea view: 01 Jun - 30 Jun 2022 | £18 | |
| Sea view: 01 Jul - 15 Jul 2022 | £36 | |
| Sea view: 01 Sep - 23 Sep 2022 | £18 | |
| Sea view: 24 Sep - 14 Oct 2022 | £30 | |
| Sea view: 15 Oct - 30 Oct 2022 | £24 |
Extra nights (£ per person per night) in a double or single room
| Casona de la Paca, Cudillero (B&B) | Double room | Single room |
|---|---|---|
| 11 Apr - 04 Jun 2022 | £66 | £92 |
| 05 Jun - 09 Jul 2022 | £72 | £98 |
| 10 Jul - 15 Jul 2022 | £82 | £120 |
| 01 Sep - 12 Sep 2022 | £82 | £120 |
| 13 Sep - 26 Sep 2022 | £72 | £98 |
| 27 Sep - 30 Oct 2022 | £66 | £92 |
| Cervantes Hotel, Oviedo (B&B) | Double room | Single room |
|---|---|---|
| 11 Apr - 15 Jul 2022 | £58 | £106 |
| 01 Sep - 30 Oct 2022 | £58 | £106 |
| Villa Rosario, Ribadesella (B&B) | Double room | Single room |
|---|---|---|
| 11 Apr - 04 May 2022 | £59 | £104 |
| 05 May - 12 May 2022 | £72 | £129 |
| 13 May - 31 May 2022 | £59 | £104 |
| 01 Jun - 30 Jun 2022 | £84 | £156 |
| 01 Jul - 15 Jul 2022 | £103 | £193 |
| 01 Sep - 23 Sep 2022 | £84 | £156 |
| 24 Sep - 14 Oct 2022 | £72 | £129 |
| 15 Oct - 30 Oct 2022 | £59 | £104 |
Travelling from the UK
| Outward route | Airline |
|---|---|
| Bristol - Bilbao | easyJet |
| Outward route | Airline |
|---|---|
| Glasgow - Bilbao (via Amsterdam Schiphol) | KLM |
| Outward route | Airline |
|---|---|
| Gatwick - Asturias (Oviedo) | Vueling |
| Gatwick - Asturias (Oviedo) (via Barcelona) | Iberia |
| Gatwick - Bilbao | British Airways, easyJet, Vueling |
| Outward route | Airline |
|---|---|
| Heathrow - Asturias (Oviedo) via Madrid | Iberia |
| Heathrow - Bilbao | British Airways, Iberia, Vueling |
| Heathrow - Bilbao (via Madrid) | Iberia |
| Outward route | Airline |
|---|---|
| Stansted - Santander | Ryanair |
| Outward route | Airline |
|---|---|
| Manchester - Asturias (Oviedo) (via Barcelona) | Vueling |
| Manchester - Asturias (Oviedo) (via Madrid) | Iberia |
| Manchester - Bilbao | easyJet |
| Manchester - Bilbao (via Barcelona) | Iberia |
| Manchester - Bilbao (via Heathrow) | Iberia |
| Manchester - Oviedo (via Lisbon) | TAP Air Portugal |
This list of flight options should be used as a guide only, and you should check each airline’s website for current routes, frequency and schedules. Not all flights operate daily, and may not run for the entire season. You should also heed the latest flight arrival time and earliest flight departure time, as it may not be possible to arrange connecting travel outside these times. Please do not book your flights until we have confirmed your accommodation to you. Alternatively, our expert reservations team will be happy to offer advice and to make flight bookings for you for any of the options listed above except those operated by Ryanair. We charge £35 per person for our flight booking service. Your flights are then covered by our package-booking conditions, which give you greater protection in the event of delay or cancellation, as well as providing ATOL cover.
Connecting travel options - flying via Asturias (Oviedo)
| Outward route | Price per person |
Latest flight arrival time |
|---|---|---|
| taxi Asturias (Oviedo) airport to hotel (0h20) | £15 | flexible |
| Homeward route | Price per person |
Earliest flight departure time |
|---|---|---|
| taxi hotel to Asturias (Oviedo) airport (1h15) | £66 | flexible |
| taxi hotel to Ribadesella coach station (0h05), coach Ribadesella to Asturias (Oviedo) airport (2h45-3h45) | £28 | 1300 |
Connecting travel options - flying via Bilbao
| Outward route | Price per person |
Latest flight arrival time |
|---|---|---|
| taxi Bilbao airport to hotel (3h15) | £200 | flexible |
| Homeward route | Price per person |
Earliest flight departure time |
|---|---|---|
| taxi hotel to Bilbao airport (2h15) | £138 | flexible |
| taxi hotel to Llanes coach station (0h30), coach Llanes to Bilbao city centre (3h-3h55) | £36 | 1330 |
Connecting travel options - flying via Santander
| Outward route | Price per person |
Latest flight arrival time |
|---|---|---|
| taxi Santander airport to hotel (2h15) | £142 | flexible |
| coach Santander to Gijón (2h40-3h40), taxi Gijón to hotel (0h40) | £54 | 1800 |
| Homeward route | Price per person |
Earliest flight departure time |
|---|---|---|
| taxi hotel to Santander airport (1h15) | £80 | flexible |
| taxi hotel to Llanes coach station (0h30), coach Llanes to Santander (1h30-2h) | £30 | 1200 |
| taxi hotel to Ribadesella coach station (0h05), coach Ribadesella to Santander (2h30) | £15 | 1500 |
If you've experienced this holiday first hand, why not write a review?
We are keen for as many customers as possible to review their holiday. To make it easier to do so, we include a specific review section on our post-holiday questionnaire, and this is what we publish here, unedited. Read our full review policy >
Fixed price lunches were good everywhere we visited but a special recommendation for El Volante restaurant in Ribadesella which was outstanding and generous. A 16 euro menu had 3 courses (and a pre-first course thrown in) with good red and white wine. Perhaps it was better than usual because it was a Saturday with many family groups?
Both holidays ('A Slow Train Through Asturias' journey and 'High Paths of Northern Portugal' self-guided walk) were wonderful. We love traveling with Inntravel, especially for the service and organization of the trips. The Feve (rail journey) is highly recommended and the Penedas-Geres Park was an amazing walk.
My personal highlight was the genuine friendliness of everyone at Casona de la Paca. The Inntravel suggestions on what to do or see in each place were excellent. The notes for the Town Trail in Oviedo were much better than anything the Tourist Office could come up with! The suggestions for places to eat were very welcome and always good. And here’s a recommendation for Arenas de Cabrales! Cafe El Raitan, Plaza del Castaneu. Small, friendly, tasty food and they know their wines!
INNTRAVEL NOTE: These customers combined our rail journey A Slow Train Through Asturias with our add-on short walking break in Picos de Europa at Arenas de Cabrales
Fixed price lunches were good everywhere we visited but a special recommendation for El Volante restaurant in Ribadesella which was outstanding and generous. A 16 euro menu had 3 courses (and a pre-first course thrown in) with good red and white wine. Perhaps it was better than usual because it was a Saturday with many family groups?
Both holidays ('A Slow Train Through Asturias' journey and 'High Paths of Northern Portugal' self-guided walk) were wonderful. We love traveling with Inntravel, especially for the service and organization of the trips. The Feve (rail journey) is highly recommended and the Penedas-Geres Park was an amazing walk.
My personal highlight was the genuine friendliness of everyone at Casona de la Paca. The Inntravel suggestions on what to do or see in each place were excellent. The notes for the Town Trail in Oviedo were much better than anything the Tourist Office could come up with! The suggestions for places to eat were very welcome and always good. And here’s a recommendation for Arenas de Cabrales! Cafe El Raitan, Plaza del Castaneu. Small, friendly, tasty food and they know their wines!
INNTRAVEL NOTE: These customers combined our rail journey A Slow Train Through Asturias with our add-on short walking break in Picos de Europa at Arenas de Cabrales
Our highlight? The setting of Villa Rosario
The holiday guide was very detailed and informative and easy to follow. We were all pleased with the folio and additional items - map, train ticket, luggage labels.
The Casona de la Paca was outstanding in terms of friendliness, accommodation, service and the breakfasts were delicious. Nothing was too much trouble for the staff.
Villa Rosario is in a magnificent location and the breakfasts excellent. This hotel lacked some of the coziness of Casona de la Paca but was very smart and stylish.
Hotel Barcelo was ideally placed for visiting Oviedo and again the breakfast was very good.
A fascinating way to visit a lesser known area of Spain with beautiful countryside, coastline and towns. The proud Asturians demonstrated aspects of their culture for us to appreciate. The variety of fish to eat is excellent along with pork products, cheeses and cider. Not that good for the vegan or vegetarian. Accommodation in two Casa de Indianos [Casona de la Paca, Cudillero] was a particular highlight. However, the train is much more modern and speedier than we expected. Slow is a slightly misleading title perhaps, although the train makes many stops along its route to serve the passengers which makes it slower in this sense.
Selecting Asturias is brilliant! It is pure and authentic and beautiful in every way. In fact I want to return there with my husband and sons.
Too many highlights to include! Lovely Cudillero and the wonderful staff at Casona de la Paca, the coastal walk to San Esteban, lunch at Tierra Astur in Avilés, the walk to the Ermita in Ribadesella, the Tito Bustillo Caves, the Cares Gorge. Everything was green, peaceful and beautiful. We really experienced the beauty of this part of Spain and were not merely tourists getting a superficial view.
INNTRAVEL NOTE: These customers enjoyed our self-guided walking holiday in the Picos de Europa following our Slow Train Through Asturias Journey by Rail.
The holiday was everything we had hoped for, relaxing, scenic, not full of other non-Spanish tourists, and we loved the little FEVE trains. One comment is that this holiday is certainly not just for energetic walkers - 3 of the four of us have arthritic knees and cannot walk too far, too fast or up and down too many steps! We walked around each town where we stayed and used the FEVE to visit other villages/towns and happily explored them, and we used taxis to and from the stations or back to the hotel in Cudillero (having managed to walk down to the port) and the taxis were prompt and inexpensive. We also found it perfectly possible to eat dinner at 8.00 or 8.30 and not have to wait anywhere until 9.00 (that was when it was busiest) and eat lunch at any time from 12.30 or 1.00.
In terms of "warnings" - it costs 6 or 7 euros (depending on age) to enter the Cathedral in Oviedo which we did not feel was worth it so didn't go in. We would also give a very poor review of the nearest restaurant in Cudillero (nearest to the hotel) - while service was good, the food was very poor - flabby calamares, patatas bravas which were chips with tomato sauce, and in general nothing seemed to have been freshly cooked or prepared (with the exception of the mixed salad!). We were awe-struck by the Tito Bustillo caves and by the Information Centre which is very modern and well curated. We booked (in April) for the Friday and then worked the holiday dates around that. It is dark and very uneven underfoot, so a head torch would be useful if you are a bit unsteady but would also detract somewhat from the atmosphere. We also found in Ribadesella that some restaurants only opened on Fridays/Saturdays and Sundays. Unfortunately we could not book for dinner at the hotel with its Michelin chef as both Friday and Saturday evenings were fully booked.
Positive tips are for the San Francisco park in Oviedo which is beautiful and so well planted, and for the Al Quera restaurant in Llanes - recommended by our taxi driver and we had a lovely set price "tasting menu" lunch there for 34.50 or 39.50 euros on their terrace with glorious views. We also loved the local white Albarina wine - dry and light and inexpensive - and will see if we can find it in London.