I'd like to travel to Valencia later this month to watch a performance and do some sightseeing, but because of the performance schedule and my commitments at home, if I do go, I will have to arrive on a Saturday, watch the performance the following night, and then leave on Monday. I'd like to fly on AA (my carrier of choice, and thereby taking advantage of DBEQM's) which has a nonstop from JFK to BCN, but the departure from BCN is at 11 am. IB has a flight from VLC that's early enough, but it prices at over $400, and trying it as a roundtrip doesn't help much (plus it looks like their Saturday schedule from BCN to VLC won't work well). Pricing the entire trip on AA straight through to VLC is very expensive. The Spanair morning flight from VLC to BCN would be too tight. The earliest morning train, which leaves Valencia at about 5 am (!) arrives in Barcelona (I think downtown ) at 935, which I think is also too tight. It looks like there's an ALSA bus that leaves Valencia at around 4 am (!) and is scheduled to arrive at BCN at 905, which should be sufficient time, but is it (a) reliable and (b)tolerable? Are there any other choices (other than driving myself, which I'd prefer not to do)?