Travel Reference
In-Depth Information
Hop-on, Hop-off Bus Tours
—
Tallinn City Tours
offers three different one-
hour bus tours—you can take all three (on the same day) for one price. Aside
from a stop near Toompea Castle, the routes are entirely outside the Old
Town,andthefrequencyislow(just5/dayMay-Sept,2/dayOct-April,soyou
need to coordinate your sightseeing to the infrequent departures). But if you
want to rest your feet and listen to a fairly good recorded commentary, the
tours do get you to outlying sights such as Kadriorg and the towering Rus-
salkaMonument.YoucancatchthebusattheportterminalsandneartheViru
Turg clothing market (€16, free with Tallinn Card valid for 24 hours or more,
5 daily departures May-Sept plus some summer evening trips, 2 daily de-
partures Oct-April, tel. 627-9080,
www.citytour.ee
)
.
CitySightseeing Tallinn
also runs three similar routes, with a similarly sparse frequency (€16, or €13
for just one “basic” line,
www.citysightseeing.ee
)
.
City Bike Tours
—City Bike offers a two-hour, nine-mile
Welcome to
Tallinn
biketourthattakesyououtsidethecitywallstoTallinn'smoredistant
sights: Kadriorg, Song Festival Grounds, the beach at Pirita, and more (€16,
free with Tallinn Card valid 24 hours or more; includes helmet and reflect-
ive vest, daily at 11:00 year-round, weather permitting, departs from their of-
fice at Uus 33 in the Old Town). They also run a
Soviet Bike Tour
with an
emphasis on Tallinn's USSR connection, stopping at Kadriorg Park, the Song
Festival Grounds, the Lasnamäe suburb, and the Maarjamäe WWII Memorial
(€13, free or discounted with Tallinn Card, daily May-Sept at 16:00, same de-
parture point). They also do €49 day trips (car and bike) to
Lahemaa Nation-
Estonia (mobile 511-1819,
www.citybike.ee
)
.
Toomas the Tourist Train
—This red choo-choo train, mostly for kids and
their parents, leaves (when full) from the top of Town Hall Square (€5, June-
Aug daily 12:00-17:00, May and Sept Sat-Sun only, doesn't run Oct-April,
look for
Rong Toomas
sign).