Kiev Transportation Tips by hunterV

'Mode': AROUND
Category: Subway/Metro
Getting TO/AROUND: The fastest and the most reliable means of geeting around in Kiev is, of course, the underground called the Metro there.
Kiev has an efficient subway (Metro) consisting of about 40 stations.
You only have to be able to read the signs in Ukrainian. No English signs for the present.
There are lots of bus, trolley bus and streetcar routes in the Ukrainian capital.
The metro fare is usually 50 kopecks (10C) - you have to buy a plastic token at the booking-office located at the entrance to the metro station.
There are minibuses run by private companies that charge a bit more.
It’s always better to order a taxi by dialing 058 (or several other numbers) in Kiev.
You can travel in all directions by three lines containing more than 40 stations, forever expanding.
Personally I prefer traveling by the metro wherever I need to go in Kiev.
You only have to know the location and have the metro map about you...

Leave a Comment

'Mode': AROUND
Category: Bus
Getting TO/AROUND: The city transport is not expensive: about 1 UAH (20C) a ticket in buses, trolley buses, streetcars and in the funicular that functions between the river terminal in Sahaydachnyi Street (Post Square Metro station) and St.Michael's Square.
The city route buses can cost you 1 UAH a ride. They run along all the main avenues and streets and are reliable means of transportation.

Leave a Comment

'Mode': AROUND
Category: Car/Motor Home
Getting TO/AROUND: If you are in a hurry and prefer neither underground railway nor buses, you can call a taxi.
There are lots of offers and this is one of them.
You can call taxi yourself or ask the receptionist at your hotel or your local friends to do it for you.
You can hire a taxi from ranks at any bus stop throughout the city.
The taxi fare about the city is about $5-6, up to $10.
If you wish to make a longer journey, say, out of the city area, it’s a good idea to arrange fare calculations with the driver before starting.

Leave a Comment

Phone: 502 02 02

'Mode': TO
Category: Train
Getting TO/AROUND: You can travel from Kiev for a trip around Ukraine by modern comfortable trains where you can get a compartment seat for an average price of about $20.
A trip from Kiev to the Far East of Ukraine, to Luhansk, will take you about 16 hours in a sleeping car of a fast train (#20).
Now there are modern express trains (imitation of the German ICE...) to Kharkiv and Dnipropetrovsk. Such an express train covers the distance to Kharkiv in 5.5 hours.
You can also get to Kiev by bus, take a look at www.autolux.com.ua
(a web site of a bus transport company in Kiev, available also in English).

Leave a Comment

Website: www.autolux.com.ua

'Mode': AROUND
Category: Bus
Getting TO/AROUND: Going by city buses from one metro station to another and all about the city is not expensive at all: 75 copecks (15C) or 1 UAH.
You only have to know the direction and the name of the street you are going to.
Of course, the affable drivers and Kievites will help you find the way.

Leave a Comment

'Mode': TO
Category: Other
Getting TO/AROUND: The best way to get to Kiev is by air when you arrive to Boryspil International Airport located about 30 km to the east of downtown Kiev (one hour's drive to the railway station by taxi).
The airport has all modern conveniences and Terminal "A" for domestic flights and flights to former Soviet Union republics.
If you need travel assistants to help you with your railway tickets for yoru further travel in Ukraine, why not ask Yana travel agency who desk is located right near the arrivals.

Leave a Comment

Phone: 380 44 281 74 84
Website: www.yana.kiev.ua
Other Contact: tour@yana.kiev.ua