The city center does not require the use of public transport. But if you need to get to more remote areas, convenient trams and buses will come to your aid. Minimum fare 0,75 USD = 0.70. EUR Detailed information is available on the website: dpb.sk/en/
Intercity buses in Slovakia
Bratislava - Vienna
]Bratislava - Budapest
Note: on some international routes, without any prior warning, this company charges an additional fee of 34 RUB = 0.50 EUR for checked baggage. Luggage will not be allowed into the cabin.
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Car rental in Bratislava
Car rental is relatively inexpensive. Examples of prices from international car rental companies when booking 1 month in advance for 10 days. For full insurance without a deductible, a surcharge of 9,5 USD = 10 EUR per day
- Vokswagen polo, mechanics 8 USD = 10 EUR
- Vokswagen golf, mechanics 12 USD = 12 EUR
Parking cost
- Parking usually costs 0,45 USD = 0.50 EUR for 30 minutes
- Parking 1 - 1,1 USD = 1.2 - 1.5 EUR per hour
On the territory of Slovakia there is a wide network of roads, which consists of highways, high-speed roads, roads of the 1st, 2nd and 3rd class. In 2004, there were 316 km of motorways in Slovakia. Traffic and lane markings comply with European regulations. The quality of the road surface is good enough, but in mountainous areas the roads are often somewhat worse and rather winding.
Payment for the use of highways and expressways in Slovakia is carried out with a special sticker, which is valid for one year, one month or one week. The weight of the vehicle is also taken into account. For vehicles up to 3.5 tonnes, you can also buy a sticker with a validity period of 24 hours.
Within a settlement, the maximum permitted speed is 50 km / h, outside settlements- 90 km / h, on motorways - up to 130 km / h. It is necessary to turn on the dipped headlights at any time of the year and day, regardless of weather conditions. The use of seat belts is mandatory both in the city and on the highway. Drinking alcohol, even beer, is prohibited. It is forbidden to speak on a mobile phone while driving, as well as to install anti-radar detectors in the car.
On February 1, 2009, new traffic rules came into force in Slovakia. They tighten requirements for drivers and impose heavy fines for offenders. For exceeding the speed limit by 20 km / h, the driver will have to pay a fine of 20 euros, and exceeding the speed of 80 kilometers per hour - already 1300 euros. Driving while intoxicated will cost 1000 euros. The fine can be paid on the spot either in cash or by credit card. In this case, the policeman can withdraw driver's license if the offender does not have the required amount.
The size of the country is very small, so most of the traffic is carried out by trains and buses. Traveling between cities by train will cost tourists a little less than a bus trip along the same route.
Last changes: 24.02.2013
Public transport
Trams, buses and trolleybuses act as urban transport.Intercity bus service is somewhat more expensive than rail, but it is more "flexible" and connects more settlements. Bus tickets are sold both at the ticket offices of bus stations and from the drivers.
In Slovakia, there is a system of youth and student discounts, plus the price of a ticket for intercity buses is much lower on weekends than on weekdays.
Last changes: 24.02.2013
Taxi
Taxis are widespread and inexpensive. They are necessarily equipped with meters, but due to the small size of Slovak cities, they are not very popular.Last changes: 04.06.2010
Air transport
There is only one scheduled airline in Slovakia. Flights on the Bratislava-Kosice route are operated by the low-cost airline Sky Europe three times a day. The fare ranges from 40 to 60 euros, depending on the workload of the flight and the advance of the ticket purchase.Last changes: 04.06.2010
Railway transport
Slovak railways- the main means of transportation in the country. Trains to most destinations run once an hour, in areas major cities- more often. The slowest regional trains are called Osobni (Os) and stop at all stops. Fast trains named Rychlik (R) and Express (Ex). The fastest are InterCity trains (IC).
The most important railway routes are: Bratislava - Kuta, Bratislava - Zilina, Zilina - Kosice and Bratislava - Sturovo.
The Slovak railway network is linked to neighboring countries and is an integral part of European railways. There are direct international connections with Vienna, Warsaw, Budapest, Bucharest, Moscow, Kiev and Prague.
Last changes: 24.02.2013
Water transport
River transportation passengers and cargo in Slovakia is carried by the Danube River, which is the most important transport artery country. The Danube connects Bratislava, Vienna, Budapest, connecting Slovakia, Austria and Hungary, respectively, and thanks to the Danube-Rhine-Main canal connects the North and Black Seas.Water transport Slovakia - www.lod.sk
Last changes: 24.02.2013
Car rental
Car rental is possible if you have a driver's license (both international and Russian), a passport and credit card... Cash is often accepted for payment, but credit card in the form of a pledge is required.Slovakia has no outlet to the sea. Instead of beach holiday this picturesque country can offer sightseeing and skiing holidays. The nature is stunning, Slovakia invites you to admire mountain peaks, clear lakes, forests and visit medieval castles.
Transport system Slovakia is represented by a well-developed bus, railway and by air... Tickets for buses, trains and airplanes or for other transport can be bought both at the ticket office of railway stations and via the Internet. The scale of the country is small, so most of the transportation is carried out by trains and buses. The main railway line passes through the following stations: Kosice- List - Spisska Nova Ves - Poprad - Zilina - Trecin - Bratislava... Don't miss this opportunity and take advantage of student discounts or weekend discounts.
Transport hubs in Slovakia:
The largest transport hub in Slovakia is located in Bratislava. Also, a lot of flights dock in Kosice, the second most populous city in the country. The capital is located in the west of the state, and Kosice in the east, which makes it possible to evenly provide passenger transportation services throughout the territory. In these cities and not only, you can change from bus to train or vice versa to get further to Michalovce or Poprad... International railway traffic connects Slovakia with neighboring states: Austria, Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, Ukraine.
International transport to Slovakia
Plane to Slovakia
Airplanes fly to Slovakia from anywhere in the world. At the same time, many airlines are connected to a global system through which air tickets can be bought directly on the website www.site.
Slovakia is an extremely popular country for travel, which is why all kinds of flights from different cities Europe, for example, from Paris, Rome, Milan, Berlin and others. All airlines have united into one universal system to make it easy and simple to navigate. Airplanes, by the way, are the fastest mode of transport, so their cost may surprise you. All flights can be divided into several types: with transfers and direct. Of course, many choose direct, but if you need to find yourself on the road in some other cities or you simply did not have enough ticket for a direct flight. The ticket can be purchased online, but you can also go to the airport. On the website you can see the flight schedule, as well as check the availability of tickets.
In special times of the year, you can find “hot” tickets at very low prices, you must make sure to book such tickets in advance, because you may not be in time. In general, booking allows and helps people out in many cases. The cost of the ticket depends on the distance, on the class (economy, business or first class), on the privileged category (people of retirement age, students and children).
Major international airports in Slovakia and transfers:
- Bratislava airport operates flights to the following directions: Rhodes, Zakynthos, Dublin, Liverpool, Edinburgh, London, Palma de Mallorca, Antalya, Milan Bergamo, London, Birmingham, Burgas and others. Nearest major airport be located in Vienna (49 km. from Bratislava). Before railway station can be reached by bus route No. 61. Bus N61 runs at night (from 23:30 to 3:30). Daytime bus tickets: travel up to 15 minutes - 0.70 euros. 60 minutes - 0.90 euros. Night time - 1.60 euros. Tickets can be bought from the machine at the bus stop. From the central railway station in Bratislava by train you can reach the Slovak cities of Bystrica, Zilina, Poprad and Kosice (the second international Airport Slovakia), as well as before European capitals: Budapest, Prague and Vienna.
- Kosice airport ... Destinations: Enfida, Antalya, Rhodes, London, Prague, Vienna, Corfu, Burgas and others. The city bus number 23 arrives in 20 minutes. Ending station - Train Station Kosice. Tickets cost 0.50 - 0.70 euros. Night line - 1 euro.
You can book air tickets from Slovakia, as well as air tickets to Slovakia itself, through the Wikitransport website.
The site provides an opportunity for free booking of tickets for flights of many airlines. Buying flights to Slovakia time is saved through the site, while a large number of flights makes it possible to find the cheapest air ticket to Slovakia.
Bus to Slovakia
Among all the other types of transport, I would also like to highlight the bus, it is bus routes that are now gaining incredible popularity, all because they are cheaper, they spend not much time on the road, but longer than the same planes. You can order a ticket for an international bus route to Slovak cities on the website. This will be a direct connection, no intermediaries, no overpayments. On this site, which is open 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, you can also buy, book a ticket, or simply find out the information you need: flight schedule or ticket availability. Just imagine how convenient it is, now you will not need to spend time and money on the road, so that later, after standing in line, you will find out that the ticket is no longer available. Now you can learn all this while sitting at home or at work, or at school. Anywhere and anytime, wherever there is the Internet. By the way, a feature of such an order is also payment, which is made through bank card Master Card or Visa systems. Let's try to book a ticket: select the place of departure and destination, the date, if there are flights and tickets, then move on, if not, then you can try to find another flight, for this you need to check the “with transfers” module. If everything worked out, then enter the name, surname and other contact details of the passenger in Latin letters, proceed to payment while your ticket is sent to your e-mail. There you need to download and print it, this document gives you the right to travel along the specified route on the specified day.
When you take your seat on the bus, you need to present this (electronic) ticket to the driver or stewart. In general, we recommend arriving thirty minutes in advance: you can find a platform, a regular bus, drop oversized bags into the luggage compartment and take your place on a comfortable bus. An air-conditioned bus has spotlights, comfortable chairs, a shelf for things, a small kitchen that looks like a bar, a toilet, the upholstery does not let in noise. During the whole trip, you can watch something, for example, watch that movie for which we have always felt sorry for the time or revise your favorite movie. Read a book, grab your sleeping glasses, and relax. This trip will give you a lot of new impressions.
Each flight to Slovakia has a license, according to which stops in transit countries are conditionally allowed, and in other places - always, please. On international flights, gas stations become stopping points, where the bus can undergo technical inspection or refueling, and passengers can drink coffee in the cafeteria, stretch their legs and breathe fresh air. Flights depart according to the schedule, and arrive according to it. No delays or delays, namely international flights help us to quickly and efficiently cover long distances.
Do not forget to take your documents with you to the salon. At the bus station, you hand over all oversized bags to the luggage compartment, but there is no access to it all the way, so you must have your documents with you. If you are asked for documents when crossing borders or going through customs, you need to show them. Otherwise, you may be detained for three days.
The carrier or driver is not responsible for the passenger being removed from the flight. Therefore, be careful, find out what can and cannot be imported / exported to the territory of Slovakia. These can be different things: food, medicine, or other things.
You can order bus tickets to Slovakia on the website online.
Popular bus routes from Slovakia: Hamburg, Dresden, Berlin, Karlsruhe, London, Munich, Paris, Prague, Rotterdam, Strasbourg, Vienna, Brno, Geneva. Such flights leave from large cities but smaller ones pass along the way.
International buses to Slovakia:
- Riga - Panevezhes - Vilnius - Kaunas - Bialystok - Warsaw - Petrkow Trybunalski - Czestochowa - Katowice - Krakow - Bratislava- Vienna - Budapest - Sofia;
- bus Warsaw - Czestochowa - Katowice - Bratislava - Vienna;
- Prague - Brno - Bratislava - Budapest - Sofia - Pazardzhik - Plovdiv - Haskovo;
- Haskovo - Plovdiv - Pazardzhik - Sofia - Budapest - Bratislava - Brno - Prague;
- Bratislava - Brno - Prague;
- Budapest - Bratislava - Brno - Prague;
- Oslo - Sarpsborg - Uddevalla - Gothenburg - Halmstad - Angelholm - Helsingborg - Landskrona - Malmo - Copenhagen - Gedser - Rostock - Berlin - Prague - Brno - Bratislava - Budapest - Kosovska Mitrovica - Pristina;
- Athens - Lamia - Larissa - Katerini - Thessaloniki - Evzones - Theotokos - Tabanovce - Presevo - Horgos - Roske - Budapest - Komarom - Komarno - Bratislava - Brodske - Breclav - Brno - Prague;
- Berlin - Dresden - Prague - Bratislava - Gyor - Budapest;
- Prague - Brno - Breclav - Brodské - Bratislava - Raika - Roske - Horgos - Presevo - Tabanovce - Kumanovo - Skopje.
- Milan - Verona - Padua - Venice - Graz - Piestany - Trencin - Zilina - Poprad - Presov - Kosice (Fri);
- Michalovce (Slovakia) - Kosice - Poprad - Zilina - Prague - Plzen - Brussels - Dover - London - Peterborough - Leicester - Birmingham - Derby - Sheffield - Bradford;
- Rzeszow - Tarnow - Brzesko - Krakow - Myslenice - Mszana Dolna - Nowy Targ - Jablonka - Bratislava - Vienna;
- Bremen - Hamburg - Hanover - Braunschweig - Magdeburg - Berlin - Halle - Leipzig - Dresden - Prague - Brno - Bratislava - Sofia;
- Prague - Brno - Trencin - Zilina - Ruzomberok - Poprad - Presov - Kosice ;
- Express bus Vienna - Bratislava - tickets cost 7.70 Euro.
From Ukraine:
- Kiev (Dachnaya bus station) - Zhytomyr - Rivne - Lviv - Uzhgorod - Chop checkpoint (Ukraine / Hungary) - Budapest - Vienna - Bratislava;
- Uzhgorod - Vyshne Nemetskoe - Sobrantse - Michalovce - Kosice;
- Ivano-Frankivsk - Nadvirna - Rakhiv - Tyachiv - Khust - Mukachevo - Uzhgorod - Vyshne Nemecke - Michalovce - Kosice - Roznava - Zvolen - Nitra - Bratislava - Brno - Prague - Mlada Boleslav - Liberec;
- Mukachevo - Uzhgorod - Sobrantse - Michalovce - Kosice.
- Regular buses: Kiev-Bratislava , Kiev-Kosice , Kiev-Michalovce , Kiev-Poprad , Kiev-Zhilina , Kiev-Presov , Kiev-Ruzomberok , Kiev-Vyshne German , Kiev-Sobrantse , Kiev-Rozhnyava.
The price of tickets for the bus Ukraine-Slovakia (check the actual price through the search engine):
- Kiev - Bratislava - 82 euros.
- Lviv-Bratislava - 75 euros.
- Ivano-Frankivsk - Bratislava -35 euros.
- Ivano-Frankivsk - Kosice - 22 euros.
- Uzhgorod - Kosice - 6 euros.
- Mukachevo - Kosice - 7 euros.
Raye buses to Slovakia, or buses from Slovakia are on the website www ..
Trains to Slovakia
The cheapest vehicle that can take us to Slovakia is the train. Despite this, the train is also the slowest mode of transport, although this is good, because you can watch and enjoy those beauties indefinitely. You can choose your own reserved seat, coupe or suite. You can also clarify: you need a suite for two people (be it men or women). Purchase Railway tickets it is possible at any ticket office of any railway station, but it is also possible on the website, to whom it is convenient. A branch of the railway has grown throughout Slovakia, so such a correspondence even makes me happy. In general: the conductor will always offer you tea or coffee, bedding, if you took a ticket without it, but will go at night. The train is a real romance, when you can drink tea from faceted cups in aprons and talk to a complete stranger about everything.
International trains from Slovakia:
- Train Bratislava - Vienna (about 5 trains per day). Travel time - 57 minutes. Arrival at the Wien Hbf train station.
- Train Bratislava - Prague (about 4 direct trains per day). On the way - 4:11. Arrival: Praha hl.n.
- Train Bratislava - Budapest (about three direct flights a day - Metropol, Alava, Petrov). On the way - 2 hours 47 minutes. Arrival at the Budapest-Keleti train station.
- Train Bratislava - Kiev. The journey takes 28 hours. Arrival at the station Kiev Passenger.
- Train Bratislava-Berlin. On the way - 9 hours 05 minutes. Arrival: Berlin HBF (Tief).
Internal transport of Slovakia
Inland transport in Slovakia is represented by a well-developed railway connection, as well as a dense network of regional buses. So a trip between the two major cities the country takes almost six hours and the price of an adult train ticket from Bratislava to Kosice is 18 euros.
Domestic flights in Slovakia
Due to the small size of the country railway transport Slovakia is better developed than the domestic aviation.
Buses of Slovakia
Regional bus transport is well developed in Slovakia, especially in mountainous regions.
Major bus stations in Slovakia:
- Banska Bystrica
- Brezno
- Bratislava
- Dudince
- Dunaszerdahely
- Komarno
- Kosice
- Levice
- Presov
- Prievidza
- Sered
- Topolchany
- Trnava
Trains and railway connections in Slovakia
Popular railway directions Slovakia:
- The price of a railway ticket for the Bratislava - Bystrica train: about 9 euros (2nd class); On the way - 3h 35min.
- Cost of a railway ticket for the Bratislava - Zilina train: approx. 9 euros (2nd class); 13.50 euros (1st class). On the way - 2 hours 46 minutes.
- Price of a railway ticket for the Bratislava - Poprad train: about 14 euros (2nd class); € 21.50 (1st class). On the way - 4 hours 40 minutes.
- The cost of a railway ticket for the Bratislava - Kosice train: approximately 18 euros (2nd class); 26 euros (1st class). On the way - 5 hours 57 minutes.
