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 gipsy taxi by fipsi
Never pay more than 15 Hrivnas for rides inside the city. You can also rent them for a whole day, I payed approx. € 30 (including police fees and petrol). Leave a Comment Theme: Car/Motor Home
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 Odessa taxi service is
fast and reliable! by hunterV
There are a lot of taxi stands and you can catch a taxi in any street or at any bus stop.
But here are some useful phone numbers for you just in case:
Amsterdam Taxi Service
Nickolay: 775 88 87; 8 067 485 88 87;
Yuriy: 777 06 66;
Vyacheslav: 774 81 58;
Gennady: 31 60 49Once when I was in Odessa last we had to pay $10 for a half an hour ride downtown. The prices depend on what you agree upon.
Don’t forget to ask the taxi driver what you have to pay for the ride before you depart.
It is also good just to show him a visiting card of the place you are going to if you have one. Leave a Comment
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 To and from Odessa, Ukraine! by hunterV
The shortest distance to a regional center is 120 km to Mykolayiv, a sea and river port at the Dnipro and the Black Sea.
The longest distance is to Luhansk by railway: about 1,000 km ( 24-hour ride by a passenger train). It is also a long way to Uzhgorod, the capital of Transcarpathian Region: about 900 km.
Other distances in kilometers:
Kiev – about 500 km;
Kharkiv – 650 km;
Donetsk – 660 km;
Simferopol – 500 km;
Lviv – 800 km;
Sumy – 700 km. Leave a Comment
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 "South Ailines", Odessa,
Ukraine by hunterV
One day my American friend and I were in a hurry and took a plane to Kiev ($85).
We had to wait at the booking-office before we got a seat. The flight turned out to be very popular and the plane, Antonov-24 was full of people.
It took the plane one hour and twenty minutes to get to Boryspil International aiport.
There are also planes to Donetsk and to some other Ukrainian cities from Odessa, to say nothing of the foreign flights.
The office of South Airlines is at: 85 Kanatnaya (Rope) Street in Odessa. Leave a Comment Theme: Airplane
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 "Tauria" flights, Odessa,
Ukraine by hunterV
The office is in Cathedral Square.
They also have their own web site:
www.tavrey.com/eng/index.htm Leave a Comment
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 Odessa Airlines, Ukraine by hunterV
Booking offices are at the Main Post Office (10 Sadovaya Street), at the main office at 17 De Ribas Street and at the airport itself (booking office # 1). Leave a Comment
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 Getting on the No. 12 Tram by bilgeez
If one wants to travel in less crowded, more comfortable accomodations, one can catch a "machina". This is a minibus that holds up to 24 passengers. They are usually white, but some are green or red or blue. They run routes and have yellow route cards in the front window and sides of the bus that have route number and major streets they travel. One can hail these anywhere, like a taxi. But they only go certain routes, so try to find out if the machina goes to where you want to go. Most drivers only speak Russian, so if you don't know it, you may have trouble finding out if they are going where you want to go.
Once one gets on, pay the 1,25 Hrv. fare to the driver (about 25 cents, US) or sit and pass it up. If the machina is busy, one may spend most of the trip passing fares up and change back. If you don't want to do this, sit in the back. When one wants to get off, one alerts the driver and they will stop as soon as they can, usually at the next corner.
Machinas are comfy, have tour bus type seats, and many are air-conditioned. They may be worth the extra cents, but drivers will pack them full, so one may end up standing on these as well, but it is less likely than on a tram or bus. Leave a Comment Theme: Other
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 Odessa airport by hunterV
Once we took a plane to Vienna by Austrian Airlines.
I also took a plane from Odessa to Kiev one day.
South Airlines is a company that flies from Odessa. Leave a Comment Theme: Airplane
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I took the overnight train from Odessa to Kiev and it was excellent. Odessa station is modern and efficient. There is a left luggage room at the end of one of the platforms, if you need it.
A sleeper to Kiev cost me 43.70 UAH. Sheets, blankets, a mattress and pillow were provided. The train left Odessa at 22.45 and arrived in Kiev at 08.30. Leave a Comment Theme: Train
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Odessa is a city over 1 million citizens so it's not easy to see everything without using some transport. But if you want to use the public transportation you'll have to pass, because it nearly doestn't exist! Few barely running trolleys go around once in a blue moon and almost noone gets inside.
That's because Odessa is dominated by private companies which have hundreds of minibuses in different condition (some really fine, but most lower than avarage). But if you consider getting anywhere you want within the city limits for a sum of approximately €0,2 than you get more than you pay for :).
Plus there are some (but few) free buses that will get you to the largest shopping centre (compared to our Polish ones- dramatically small!), but they offer nothing more than the rest...
All in all the transport is a rather exciting experience for someone from the West. But the people are open and the atmosphere is nice when you are inside. Leave a Comment Theme: Bus
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