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if you choose to use some public transportation in Timisoara, you have to buy tickets and is possible not to find in every station. Theese are:
- one travel or two for regular transportation and cost 2.4 RON (2 travels). in stations you'll find a programm.
- express tickets (another tipe of bus) different price, just one way ticket. Theme: BusPhone: 295174
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 Romanian countryside thru the
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Buses and trolleys run through Timisoara regularly
Once in the down town core it is very easy to access most restaurants, shopping areas, the opera house, and the cathedral. Leave a Comment Theme: Bus
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You can take an overnight sleeper to Timisoara from Bucharest. If you are driving through Romania, it is easily accessiible by road and can make a good starting or finishing point for a driving tour, e.g. (coming in from Hungary) Timisoara-Cluj Napoca-Tirgu Mures-Sighisoara-Brasov-Sinaia-Bucharest, or as many stops as you can manage on the way. Leave a Comment Theme: Other
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Either by train, airplane, or car.
It's best when you have your own car. But anyway to see most attraction you can walk because they are many of them in the center and/or very close to it. The public mean of transport are quite good and come usually in time. But in the summer it's too hot in most of them. So better by car. You can rent a car from a company which has its office close to the Continental Hotel and also the Bastion place. Leave a Comment Theme: Train
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The city is very old. The traffic in Timisoara is like nothing else you have seen. It sometimes happens that you travel faster by foot than by car. Many streets are narrow, there's not a single parking house in the city. Unless you are used to that kind of traffic, you are likely to scratch or damage your car quite soon after entering the city.
On the other hand, public transportation is cheap and quite good, provided you don't have to travel at the very outskirts of the city. It gets you from one place to another way faster than a car. What's more, taxi is cheap too.
Unfortunately, you won't be able to buy a map of the public transportation, and none is displayed in buses, trams or stations (Timisoara has no subway). However, if you ask ppl on the streets in English, French, German, italian, Hungarian or Serbian, besides Romanian, you are likely to receive a detailed answer. Maybe not from the first bypasser, however.
So my recommendation is not to rent a car or bring your own car if you visit Timisoara. Theme: Car/Motor Home
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There is a bus going from the city centre to the airport it is the E4, express four or express patru in Romanian, and it leaves from near Punti Cardinale which is a roundabout a couple of blocks from the Continental hotel a well known landmark. And what's more the fare to (or from) the airport is a mere 2 Lei or 0.5 Euro. You will probably have to buy the ticket in advance from one of the many RAT kiosks, I am not sure.
However it only runs from around 5 or 6 in the morning until around 10 or 11 in the evening, check the schedule with the Timisoara tourist information office near piaza Victoriei not far from McDonald's. The buses tend to leave according to schedule which can minimise waiting time.
If your flight is far out of those times call or take directly from the street a taxi belonging to a respectable company like for example Radio Taxi or Tudo Taxi and not an independant who may well rip you off. The late night fare to the airport which is around 10 Km away is around 35 to 40 Lei (9 or 10 Euro). Always agree fare in advance to avoid any misunderstandings.
Apparently no taxi driver will accept the use of a taxi meter (in which case the night fare would be in the region of 25 Lei since night rides to outside the city cost typically around 2.0 - 2.5 Lei per Km plus a starting fare of a couple of Lei) on this route but instead they charge the above flat fare. Independent taxi drivers are unlikely to charge less than 20 Euro and very probably a lot more than that. Airport taxi rides during the day should be around 25 Lei. Leave a Comment Theme: OtherOther Contact: nickmat@hotmail.com
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Travelled in October 2009 by minibus (they provide a door to door service) from Belgrade. It took 2 hours to reach the border, 20 minutes to clear border controls on both sides and another 40 minutes to reach destination in the centre of Timisoara, a total of 3 hours. But traffic at the border was light.
Total road distance was 160 Km and the cost was 25 Euro one way or 40 Euro return within a month. This company will actually take you to or pick you from the Timisoara airport for that price within the hours they operate. But I believe the pick up must be arranged some time in advance.
See:
http://www.geatours.co.yu/eng/index.htm
The train from Belgrade would have cost 900 Dinar which was about 10 Euro then add 5 euro for taxi fares, assuming honest taxi drivers are used, from hotel to train station and vice versa making a total of around 15 Euro. Leave a Comment Theme: Other
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