- Travel options to Karlovy Vary by plane
- How to get from Prague to Karlovy Vary
- To Karlovy Vary by bus
Karlovy Vary is considered the most popular spa resort in the Czech Republic. The best resort areas of the country are concentrated on the territory of this small town, offering a wide range of health services. Therefore, tourists very often ask themselves how to get to Karlovy Vary.
Travel options to Karlovy Vary by plane
Air traffic between major Russian cities and the Czech Republic is well established. If you wish, you can easily purchase a plane ticket at any time of the year. The most demanded air carriers are: CSA Czech Airlines; Aeroflot; Lufthansa.
If you fly from Moscow on a direct flight, you will be at Karlovy Vary airport in 3 hours. The ticket will cost about 17,000 rubles one way. It should be noted separately that the airport in Karlovy Vary is small and it is very convenient to navigate there. A flight from Moscow, involving transfers, can take up to 15 hours, depending on the number of connections and the waiting time at the airports of Munich, Dusseldorf and Prague.
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Direct flights to Karlovy Vary are also provided from St. Petersburg, Tyumen, Samara, Yekaterinburg and Nizhny Novgorod. The cost of tickets for these directions varies from 18 to 80 thousand rubles, which is quite expensive. For this reason, tourists choose an airplane flight to Prague, from where it is easy to get to the famous resort by other means of transport.
How to get from Prague to Karlovy Vary
Once in the Czech capital, choose the best option for travel to Karlovy Vary. You can travel: by train; on a regular bus; by taxi.
As for the regular buses, a significant number of them run from Prague to Karlovy Vary. The first thing you should do is get to the central bus station called "Florenc". Buses leave for Karlovy Vary every half an hour and arrive in the city in 2, 5 hours. Separately, it should be noted the high level of service offered by local carriers. All vehicles have sockets, toilets, air conditioning, WiFi and comfortable seating. At the same time, the cost of tickets is from 80 to 150 CZK.
If you decide to go from Prague to Karlovy Vary by taxi, then get ready to pay a large sum by Russian standards. The average price for such a trip will be around 1800 CZK. It is better to order a car in advance by calling the official taxi service. The whole road between Prague and Karlovy Vary will take you on average 1.5 hours.
The longest way to get to the resort from the capital of the Czech Republic is to use the services of Czech railways. Arriving at the main station "Praha hlavní nádraží", you can take any train to Karlovy Vary. The seats on the train are mostly seated and there is an opportunity to move freely around the spacious carriage. In 3, 5 hours the train will arrive at its final destination.
To Karlovy Vary by bus
It is possible to get to Karlovy Vary by bus directly only from Moscow or St. Petersburg. Departure of flights from the capital is carried out from the Novoyasenevskaya and Teply Stan bus stations and the Shchelkovsky bus station.
It is recommended to purchase tickets in advance on specialized websites or directly at the station ticket offices. For the cheapest ticket, you will give about 3,500 rubles, and the expensive ticket will cost you 5,400 rubles. You will spend 48 to 50 hours on the trip. This point should be taken into account, since not every tourist easily tolerates such long trips.
As a rule, buses in the direction Moscow - Karlovy Vary make stops in Brest, Minsk and Warsaw. You will spend about 1-2 hours in these cities, after which you will go further. Some of the flights involve transfers in Warsaw to another bus. Having reached Prague or Warsaw, some tourists continue the trip by taxi or rented car.
Flights from St. Petersburg to Prague and Karlovy Vary are organized via Kaunas, Marijampole, Riga, Minsk and Warsaw. Choosing this option of transportation, you will arrive in Karlovy Vary in about 2, 5 days.
