Originally Posted by nyc123zoe55
I was in Madrid and walked up the same day, and bought a bus ticket. I went to a bus station and had my guide book and told him I wanted to go to Toledo. It was very easy to do. Once you are in Toledo there are buses that leave quite often.
The busses of Continental Auto still leave the terminal Mendez-Alvero very frequently at a cost of euro 4.25 each way. The problem is that depending on time of day the scheduled 1 hour or 1.25 hour trip can easily take up to 2 hours if you are unlucky. (More problems on the inbound I think) They depart every 15 minutes at rush and then every 30 minutes rest of day.
With the time savings of the high-speed AVE train (35 min) and the added comfort it is well worth the euro 13.30 same day round-trip