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Trains Vilnius
16 Reviews Vilniaus geležinkelio stotis, or Vilnius Train Station, is located at Geležinkelio gatvė 16, south of the city center. While buses are more popular and frequent to most destinations, trains are a...
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Buses Vilnius
30 Reviews Vilnius has a good system of buses and trolleybuses to get you where you need to go. Tickets can be purchased at most newspaper kiosks for 2 Litas per ride. When you board a bus or trolleybus, look...
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Taxis Vilnius
7 Reviews Instead of hailing a cab off the street, call the cab company directly and you pay less per kilometer. Most cabs have the telephone numbers posted on the side. A good way to save a bit so you can buy...
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Trolleybuses Vilnius
10 Reviews The public transport network of Vilnius consists of buses, trolleybuses and minibuses (Marshrutki). They operate from 05:00 a.m until about 23:30 h. Tickets for buses and trolleybuses can be...
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Driving a car Vilnius
13 Reviews We drove to Vilnius from a tiny Polish village near the Lithuanian border. The way seemed simple enough but my husband wanted to take a short cut, which wasn't a good idea. After some time we came...
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Aeroplanes Vilnius
10 Reviews Vilniaus oro uostas, or Vilnius International Airport (IATA Code: VNO), is approximately 5 km south of the city center. As of 2012, 18 airlines run scheduled service into and out of the airport, from...
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Mini-buses Vilnius
5 Reviews Budget carrier Ryanair fly into Kaunas airport, around a one hour bus journey from Vilnius. There is a minibus that meets flights and does the journey into town, then dropping off at three central...
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Walking Vilnius
7 Reviews Although Vilnius with its 580.000 inhabitants is a big city, its compact city centre where most sights are located is best explored on foot. The old town has many pedestrianised streets or pathways...
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Bicycles Vilnius
3 Reviews In Vilnius (also in other big Lithuania cities) it's interesting, comfortable, but not safe to travel by bicycle. First of all there are not lot of cycleways. Riding on the streets it's dangerous,...
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Hitchhiking Vilnius
2 Reviews Hitch Hiking is still widely used by students and people living in rural areas outside of the main cities or towns, as a hitch-hiker myself I made use of the Lithuanian people's willingness to help...
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This one is the airport with longest runway in Lithuania, but despite of some military and charter flights (in cases when other airports' runways are too short), it is almost unused. No scheduled routes from this airport, although there were and are plans to revive it. It is in village of Zokniai near Šiauliai, the fourth largest city. Formerly it was Soviet secret military base and an alternate landing strip for Russian space shuttle Buran.
To Lithuania and inside Lithuania you can travel with most popular and known transportation. The best autobahns are Vilnius-Kaunas-Klaipeda (connecting biggest Lithuania cities) and Vilnius-Panevezys. All other roads are not so significant, but in good condition. About buses: it goes practically everywhere - the best choose of transportation, of my opinion, if you don't have car.About trains: train is good choose for going Vilnius-Kaunas, but Kaunas-Klaipeda train trip takes more time, as it goes not directly, but making big wing.About cars: have your car or rent at special places - in Lithuania still there are no payable roads, so go through roads for free.About microbuses: don't be afraid if instead of big bus you will see smaller microbus - it is usual in Lithuania. Let's say if you buy bus ticket Vilnius-Kaunas, the trip can be made by bus or microbus.About planes: don't know how it...
If you are few people, then maybe the best way is to get to Cross Hill by taxi from Siauliai, it is only twelve kilometers one way from the city. It will be most comfortable and really not expencive solution. If you are alone, then it will be more expencive than buss. You can always ask taxi driver what will be a price for going there, waiting for 30-40 minutes and comming back. Maybe you can contact Tourism info center to get advice for local taxi.
I visited Lithuania with a few other members of my family; we travelled all around Lithuania in a van with a private chauffeur, whom I highly recommend.His name is Vidas Puodziunas, and he became a good friend of all of us although his English was pretty basic. He is a good and careful driver, took us everywhere we asked him to with a gentle and friendly smile. We felt very safe in his van.
If you travel by car and you want to wander here and about, you should remember that although main roads are of good quality, side roads are very often covered in gravel what can make your journey significantly longer as one can drive at a speed not more that 30 kph.
Some signs in Lithuania are like in other countries, but some are different.I will talk about main signs and rules. First of all you must drive in right of way. Speed in cities - 50 km/h, autobahn from March 1st to September 31st 130 km/h and from November 1st to May 31st 110 km/h, other roads 90 km/h. In ways with green line between sides 100 km/h.Don`t drive drunk. In Lithuania norm is 0.4 promiles.Talking with mobile phone (without free-hands equipment) is not legal.There I wrote fines that may be interesting for tourists from other countries:1) Speeding (10 - 20 km/h) - 40-100 Litas2) Speeding (20 - 30 km/h) - 100-300 Litas3) Speeding (30-40 km/h) - 400-600 Litas4) Speeding (40-50 km/h) - 600-800 Litas5) Speeding (more then 50 km/h) - 1000 - 1500 Litas6) Don`t stop when see red light or near crosswalk - 100-200 Litas7) U-turn in crosswalks, on / under bridge, tunnels, parking on...
In Lithuania I used to drive my car (which I love) but in Vilnius I left it in the car park close to the place we stayed and used public transport. I found it very good- reliable, operating very often and cheap. The only trap is that there's no difference between the numbers of buses and trolleybuses (in Gdynia for instance buses are for ex. 171, 180 and R, W, S and trolleybuses 21, 31) In Vilnius one has to be watchful- once we mistook the bus NO7 with the trolleybus and made a tour aroun new districts hehehe)I don't recommend driving your car in the city centre, especially in the old town as the streets are narrow and overcrowded.
I arrived by night train from Warsaw in Vilnius i think this is the best way. Leaving there are not many trains, i went to the bus station, good service to Riga., reasonable fare. The Bus station is nearby. Just a tip in Warsaw make sure the train to Vilnius dose not go through Belarus , because you need a visa.
Please take time out to ride the funicular up to the tall white church, the ride will cost you approx 10p and you will be escorted by a proud uniformed gentleman to the top. If this is not used some day it will be obsolete and it is well worth keeping.
We took the train from Kaunus to the capital Vilnius which is approx 100K away, the timetable was easy to follow and the price was an unbeleivable £2.50 each way per person. The trip took approx 1hour 30 mins, not pure luxury but when in a foriegn country you have to accept their way of travelling, we found it good fun and an adventure. Well recommended for a day out.
Radisson SAS Astorija Hotel Vilnius Vilnius
8 Reviews and 101 Opinions The Radisson Sas is one very nice hotel here in the old city. Good location where you can walk to...
Park Inn Kaunas Kaunas
5 Reviews and 115 Opinions New modern hotel. Now name Reval hotel Neris. I work in Reval hotel so i know how everything is...
Promenada Klaipeda
4 Reviews and 8 Opinions I didn't stay in the hotel myself, but I know from my guests, that there is a good breakfast and...
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Q: How would somebody describe a road Trakai – Alytaus – Lazdiai – Augustow (Poland). If do it, than via Dirvoniskes or not? I am...
A: hi It depends what you want. If you are just driving then it's ordinary road, going mostly through forest, fields and small villages. Road quality is quite o.k. If you...
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