Travel Reference
In-Depth Information
Post office
(pr Karla Marksa 62; internet per hr 6uah; 8am-8pm Mon-Fri, to 7pm Sat)
Handle
both your snail-mail and email needs at the post office.
Getting There & Away
AIR
International carriers Austrian Airlines, Turkish Airlines and Aeroflot all have flights to
Dnipropetrovsk International Airport
( 395 209)
, which is about 15km southeast of
the city towards Zaporizhzhya (the airport is also convenient for that city). There are at
least 10 flights a day to Kyiv.
BUS
Kurchatova 10)
, west of the city centre, about a 10-minute walk from the train station.
To save time take
marshrutky,
not buses, to Zaporizhzhya (40uah, 1½ hours, every 15
minutes). 'Luxury' bus operators
Autolux
( 371 0353)
and
Gunsel
( 778 3935)
have
overnight trips to Kyiv (170uah to 210uah, seven to eight hours), and you'll find plenty
of buses to Poltava, Kharkiv, Odesa and Simferopol.
TRAIN
From the
central train station
( 005 395 209; pr Karla Marksa 108)
the fast Stolichny Ex-
press (108uah, six hours) to Kyiv runs early in the morning and late evening, plus there
are other services to Kyiv (112uah, eight hours). Trains also rumble to Odesa (120uah,
11½ hours, at least daily), Simferopol (90uah, seven hours, five daily) and all other major
cities.
There are daily fast
elektrychky
to Kharkiv (70uah, 4½ hours) and Donetsk (31uah, 4½
hours), plus a few slower passenger trains to both destinations. Some slow trains pass
through nearby Zaporizhzhya, but it's much easier and quicker by
marshrutka
.
Getting Around
From the airport, take bus 60 or 109 to the central train station, from you where you can
catch tram 1 into the city centre. A taxi should cost about 100uah.
Tram 1 runs the length of pr Karla Marksa, originating at the train station. The metro
line currently connects the train station with outlying districts. It will become more use-
ful for travellers once the construction of two stations is completed in the city centre.
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