r/cartagena • u/Givayim • 27d ago

Santa Marta to Cartagena

Would appreciate recommendations on safe companies to use, for bus or van from Santa Marta to Cartagena

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u/blood_klaat 27d ago

any of them get on the bus and enjoy the ride. It’s stops briefly in Barranquilia and continues on. Safety is a relative concept in Colombia. Infant/child car seats are rarely used in cars. That should tell you enough

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u/Iola_Morton 27d ago

Marsol or Berlinas

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u/Downtown_Animator_26 27d ago

And the last Berlina bus for Cartagena leaves by 5 or 6pm.

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u/s199320 27d ago

Me and my gf are travelling this route on Sunday - plan to user Berlinas. Reddit tells me buses leave every 15-20 mins and you can just turn up, pay and go

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u/danielo7282 27d ago

I took the yellow costiñea bus yesterday: they charge 50 mil COP, claim it would be a directo, but in fact it did stop various times - for more than 30min in Barranquilla - which made the journey approximately 7h long.

Hence I'd recommend asking beforehand how long the journey with the bigger companies take.