Travel Reference
In-Depth Information
The glossy English-language lifestyle and listings magazine
Lviv Today
(
www.lvivtoday.com.ua
)
is available at many hotels.
Central Post Office
(vul Slovatskoho 1;
9am-8pm Mon-Fri, to 4pm Sat, to 3pm Sun)
252 7590; vul Mykolaychuka 9)
Municipal Hospital
OFFLINE MAP
Hospital with emergency room.
pl Rynok 1, Ratusha; 10am-8pm Mon-Fri, to 7pm Sat, to 6pm Sun)
Ukraine's best tourist in-
formation centre, which publishes a free, daily what's on schedule. There are branches at
the airport
(
067 673 9194;
10am-8pm Mon-Sat, to 6pm Sun)
and the train station
(
9am-8pm Mon-Sat, to 6pm Sun)
.
226 2005; Ticket Hall;
Getting There & Away
A cheap way to enter Ukraine is to fly to Poland on a budget airline then proceed over-
land to Lviv from there.
AIR
ska 168)
stands 7km west of the city centre. The only surviving domestic flight is the Lviv
260 3228;
www.kiyavia.com
; vul Hnyatuka 20;
8am-8pm Mon-Fri,
9am-5pm Sat, 10am-3pm Sun)
.
Internationally, Lviv is attracting an ever-increasing number of flights to Western
Europe and Russia. There are currently services to/from Vienna, Munich, Warsaw, Tim-
işoara, İstanbul, Dortmund, Venice, Wrocław, Kraków, Naples, Milan, Rome, Tel Aviv,
Hurghada and Moscow. Sadly (or maybe not) Ryanair pulled out of planned flights that
would have linked Lviv with London Stansted.
BUS
The extremely inconveniently located
Main bus station
(Holovny Avtovokzal; vul Stryska)
is
a whopping 7km south of the city centre. To reach the city centre take trolleybus 5. Con-
fusing
Bus Station No 8
( 032 238 8308),
in front of the main train station, is the place
to pick up a quick
marshrutka
(fixed-route minibus) if you miss your train or there are no
tickets; it also handles a few services to western and southern destinations and is the de-
parture point for the Shehyni border
marshrutka
.
Bus Station No 2
is 3km north of
the city centre (take bus 1A from pr Svobody) but is only good for services to Zhovkva
