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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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The best way to travel around Lithuania is by bus. There are really many of them leaving from Vilnius and Kaunas bus-stations, going almost anywhere around the country. They are quite cheap, maybe not always very modern, but functional.Going by car could be better, but it is said to be quite dangerous because of thieves, expecially in Kaunas.
If you are going to the famous Saint Petersburg, but you want also visiting Lithuania, you have a direct train, that connect just these two cities !Departure: St Petersburg (Vitebskii station) at 19:41 - arrival in Vilnius 09:22 Also you have in opposite direction:Departure: Vilnius at 17:14 - arrival in St Petersburg (Vitebskii) 08:28
Normally, I prefer train travel, but the buses in Lithuania were great. First, they cost next to nothing. I think the most expensive trip I had was 15 litas, and that was from Siauliai to Riga. That's about $7.00 CDN, if that. Connections are frequent, even to out of the way places like Pakruojis. A couple were too hot due to lack of access to the outside air, but overall I had some wonderful, lazy country rides.
There are only two daily trains going directly to Poland :- Vilnius 12h35 - Kaunas 14h00 - Warszawa 22h28- Vilnius 20h58 - Kaunas 22h25 - Warszawa 05h53 Anyway, I recommend the train that departs at 20h58, as it is a sleeper train. After all, in the other one, you must change of train in Sestokai, with a forced stop of 1 hour !.
Since the weather was clear and warm during our stay, there were perfect conditions to take a ballon ride just before sunset. A perfect way to enjoy the Lithuanian landscape from the bird-eye perspecrtive.
We hired a car, so we never used public transportation in Lithuania. Roadas are, in general, in good state, even in remote areas; but this is not a general rule. Although for the most part, they were paved, a few of the roads we drove in were full of holes. There is a motorway that connects the three main cities of the country: from Klaipeda to Vilnius via Kaunas. Vilnius is also connected by motorway with Panevezys, in the North of the country.Drivers are careful and respectful and there is not a lot of traffic, even in the cities, so driving is very enjoyable in Lithuania.
Roads in Lithuania are very good, especially if compared with other Eastern Europe. Two main highways are built - A1 (Vilnius-Kaunas-Klaipëda) and A2 (Vilnius-Paneveþys), also there are portions of highways elsewhere. Smaller roads are also of good quality and frequently repaired. In winter, they are washed and sand is being put on them, so you may drive (although having winter tires is still recomended - cars should have them if you rent them here). All roads in Lithuania are free. Speed limits:Major highways (at least 4 lane, wide divided highways): 130 km/h in summer, 110 km/h in winterOther highways (4 lane not necesarily wide divided highways): 110 km/h in summer, 100 km/h in winterMain roads (2 lane): 90 km/hInside city limits: 50 km/hPolice may stop you if you are going too fast, although in some municipalities (Vilnius for instance) there is no traffic police checking speed in...
Railways are cheap, but aren't the best means of travelling around Lithuania (unless money is the most important thing for you). Schedules are in most cases not very frequent, railways are not everywhere and also in most rails speed is limited to 80km/h, thus the journey will be longer than with bus. Railways probably isn't the best mean to get into Lithuania either - because of different gauges in Lithuania (broad gauge) and Western Europe (normal gauge) train will stop to change wheels before entering Lithuania, also in most cases it will cross a portion of Belarus (if it is coming from Poland) and thus Belorussian transit visa will be needed. This is because railway was built in Soviet Russian occupation times and the Belarus and Lithuania was parts of single country.
A subsidary of Lithuanian Airlines, operating from Kaunas (Karmëlava International Airport) and Palanga. Uses ATR-42 planes. Most of flights are operated from Kaunas via Palanga, you can enter the plane in both cities. Ground connections are available to Kaliningrad (Russia), VIlnius and some other cities.
Lithuanian Airlines operates flights mostly from Vilnius airport, but also from Palanga in summer. Code used in flight numbers is TE. It uses only western-built planes by now which are very comfortable and has good leg space. There are Boeing 737-500, Boeing 737-200 (only for charter routes) and SAAB-2000 planes in use. You can buy tickets on the internet or contact airline representives in your country (look for local contacts on their website). This is the biggest airline in Baltic States and definitely very good, but it is quite expensive also. As chiefs of airline notes themselves, their prime market is bussines travelers.
Radisson SAS Astorija Hotel Vilnius Vilnius
8 Reviews and 104 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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