- Important points
- Choosing wings
- Hotel or apartment
- Transport subtleties
- Nightingales are not fed with fables
- Useful details
- Perfect travel to Lithuania
Always a little mysterious, but still such close Lithuania for many years was the object of desire of the Soviet tourist, like the rest of the Baltic States. Amber and white dunes of the Baltic coast, green pine trees on cool beaches and cleanliness of well-groomed city parks, ancient castles and European shopping - traveling to Lithuania has many obvious advantages, thanks to which romantics and pragmatists alike willingly come here.
Important points
- Lithuania, which has joined the European Union, requires a Russian traveler to have a Schengen visa. Well, we are no strangers, and in order to receive the cherished mark in the passport, we are ready to collect a standard package of documents and pay a fee of 35 euros.
- Credit cards in Lithuania are accepted in most hotels, shops and restaurants. In a remote province, as elsewhere in the world, it is worth having cash with you.
- Rubles are willingly converted into euros both in banks and in exchange offices, but the rate may not seem very profitable to a Russian tourist. When preparing for a trip, it makes sense to stock up on cash euros at home or take a currency bank card with you.
Choosing wings
You can get to Lithuania from Russia by air, by rail, or by car:
- Direct flight from the Russian to the Lithuanian capital is operated daily by UTair. The road from Vnukovo to Vilnius Airport will take a little over one and a half hours, and for a ticket you will have to pay from 130 euros.
- With a transfer in Riga, Russian tourists are delivered to Lithuania by a Latvian air carrier. A ticket on board Air Baltic costs from 140 euros; the journey, taking into account the connection, will take about three hours.
- ECOLINES buses start from Moscow to the capital of Lithuania every day. Departure from the bus station near the Cosmos hotel (VDNKh metro station). Travel time is about 16 hours, and the ticket price is 55 euros. Passengers can count on air conditioning, Wi-Fi, sockets for charging electronic gadgets and a dry closet.
- Trains Moscow - Vilnius leave from Belorussky railway station twice a day and arrive at their destination 14 hours later. A ticket to a reserved seat carriage will cost about 65 euros one way.
- From St. Petersburg to Vilnius, a train leaves daily from the Vitebsk railway station. Travel time - 17 hours, the price of a seat in a reserved seat - from 70 euros.
Hotel or apartment
Lithuanian hotels are an excellent example of European hotels, in which the most comfortable conditions are created for the convenience of guests, but there is nothing superfluous. Hotels in general adhere to the star system generally accepted in the Old World, and for a not too fastidious, but economical traveler, three stars on the facade will be enough for the eyes.
It is not difficult to book a room in a 3 * hotel in Vilnius for 30-35 euros. The guests of such a hotel will be offered free wireless Internet, parking, private bathrooms and a dining room with European breakfasts, which are usually included in the cost of living. 4 * hotels in the capital are available for 40-50 euros, and for a night in the "five" you will have to pay at least a hundred.
The cheapest way to get the keys to the hotel will go to those who do not neglect economical options and are ready to spend the night in a hostel dormitory room. A bed will cost 10-12 euros per day, and a separate room will cost from 20-25 euros. At the same time, guests of hostels are not deprived of the opportunity to access the Internet for free, use kitchen equipment and a shared bathroom.
In the beach resort of Palanga, a night in a four-star hotel in the high season will have to pay 50-60 euros, and at other times of the year prices drop by half. Inexpensive rooms in apartments will be offered for 20 euros, and the cost of a day in the "five" on the shores of the Baltic Sea in the "high" season starts from 110 euros.
Lithuanians offer attractive apartments on specialized Internet resources to foreign tourists at a very low price. You can rent a one-bedroom apartment in the old part of Vilnius for 35-40 euros, and a room in an apartment with the owner will cost half the price.
Transport subtleties
The main feature of all types of public urban and intercity transport in Lithuania is strict adherence to the timetable. It is posted at stops and you can easily find out when the next trolleybus or bus is expected in all Lithuanian cities.
Payment for travel in public transport in the capital is made with the help of refillable plastic cards. There are two types of tickets in Vilnius. They are valid from the moment of activation for 30 and 60 minutes and cost 0, 64 and 0, 93 euros, respectively. During this time, the passenger can make any number of transfers to any type of transport. The card itself costs 1.5 euros, and is sold and replenished at the kiosks of Lietuvos spauda. Paper tickets, as before, can be purchased from the driver. The price of one coupon is 1 euro. It is valid for a trip in one bus or trolleybus from the place of boarding to the desired stop for the passenger or to the final one.
Nightingales are not fed with fables
Lithuanian cuisine is a successful symbiosis of culinary traditions of several peoples at once - Poles and Belarusians, Scandinavians and Latvians. The main dishes are prepared from meat, potatoes and fish, baked goods and ordinary bread are very tasty.
The most budgetary option is to taste national dishes - taverns and grill bars. Each of them has a very extensive menu and tourists will be offered not only zeppellins, pork sausages and smoked eels, but even caraway vodka and honey-based kvass. The average bill for a dinner without alcohol in such a pub is about 7-8 euros.
In a more impressive restaurant, you will have to pay from 25 to 35 euros for a dinner for two with wine or beer, which is also quite affordable in modern European realities.
The most economical option is fast food restaurants such as McDonald's, but this has nothing to do with the classic travel to Lithuania in compliance with all national culinary traditions.
Useful details
- The price of a liter of gasoline in the republic is about 1, 1 euro.
- When traveling to Lithuania by car, take a reflective vest and winter tires from November 10 to March 31.
- The use of anti-radars is prohibited. It is also not allowed to talk on the phone while driving, if it is not equipped with the Hand Free system, and to drive with not wearing seat belts. Fines range from 28 to 57 euros, depending on the type of violation.
- It is not possible to use one transport card to pay for the travel of two or more passengers; each group member will have to buy their own "Vilnius Card".
- It is inexpensive to get from the airport to the city and back by train. It runs between the railway station and the airport every 40 minutes, the ticket costs a little less than euros, and the travel time is only 8 minutes.
Perfect travel to Lithuania
Lithuania's mild climate allows you to spend your summer in comfort. It is rarely hot on the beaches, and even at the height of July the air temperature hardly rises above + 25 ° C. The water invigorates throughout the entire swimming season, because the thermometers in the Baltic Sea almost never cross the + 17 ° C mark.
Snow sometimes falls in Vilnius in winter, making the streets of the Lithuanian capital ideal backdrops for celebrating Christmas and New Years. Most of January and February still remain warm enough and the mercury columns, if they go into minus, then only by five to seven divisions.
