Transportation from the City Center to Belize Airport
Belize Airport (Philip S. W. Goldson International Airport) is of vital importance in the country's tourism as the only international airport of Belize, a Caribbean country.
Although the city of Belize, which was the capital of the country in the past, has lost this title due to water rise and flood risk, it is still the most important and known city of the country. Despite this, your options are very limited to get to the airport from Belize city center, where public transportation is not very developed.
Among your options, there is a private transfer that you can book from the hotel you are staying in or from a professional tourism agency. With this transfer, it takes approximately 20 minutes to be picked up from the door of your hotel and dropped off at the airport, which is 15 km away.
Another option is to use taxis, which you can easily find from anywhere in the city. You can find taxis here, especially in touristic places and clustered around big hotels.
You can distinguish Belize taxis by their green license plates. Taxis here do not have taximeters, so you should definitely have talked about how much your trip will cost before you start your journey. You can also consider hiring a car, as it is a known fact that taxis in Belize are not very affordable means of transportation.
If you have rented a car, it is also very smart to deliver it at the airport. You can deliver the car to the rent-a-car companies that have offices in the airport parking lot and catch your flight immediately.
Considering that your passport and check-in procedures may take longer than usual in high season, it is useful to plan ahead. You may need to confirm with the airline whether the two hours required for international flights will be sufficient for your flight.
Transportation from Cartagena Rafael Nunez International Airport to Cartagena City Center
Cartagena Airport is located 6 km from the city center and transportation options include buses, minibuses, taxis and Uber. Getsemani historical city center is the most central place where places to visit in Cartagena are gathered, so most travelers' hotels are located on this side.
You can easily get to Getsemani from Cartagena Airport with the T102, one of the orange and white buses operated by TransCaribe. These buses depart from the airport every 15-20 minutes from 05:30 in the morning until 21:30 at night.
It is possible to go to the city center of Cartagena by taking the T102 from the main street no. 70 just outside the airport. You can buy the ticket directly from the driver, or you can get a local transport card from the airport.
It takes about 20 minutes to get to the city center from Cartagena Airport by bus. When you come to Getsemani, the city center of Cartagena, you need to get off at the Parque Apolo or San Diego stop. When getting on the bus, if you say “Centro” to the driver, he will drop you off at the center.
Taxis are available at Cartagena Airport 24 hours a day, and contrary to rumors, taxis in Colombia are extremely safe. You can get to the city center in 15 minutes with one of the taxis that are waiting as soon as you leave the terminal. Cartagena taxis do not have a meter. Instead, there is a taxi fare vending machine just outside the arrivals terminal. When you enter the address of your destination from the machine, it gives you the fixed taxi fare of that region and prints a receipt. You get into the taxi by showing this receipt to the taxi driver.
Among other taxi-like options, the most used are Cabify and Uber. It is possible to call a taxi from both applications, but the prices are very close to normal taxis and taxi applications do not work very well in Colombia, unfortunately.
Latin American countries also have a dolmuş culture similar to Turkey. Again, you can go to the city center by stopping the collectivo minibuses from the main street outside Cartagena Airport. But it can take up to 1 hour to go to Cartagena city center by collectivo because they are very slow.
Apart from taxi or public transportation options, you can consider the option of private transfer from Cartagena Airport. Although the price is higher than other options, it is a very comfortable transportation method to be met by someone waiting with your name when you leave the arrivals terminal and taken directly to the hotel. There are many companies that provide private transfer services from Cartagena Airport, the fees vary according to the type of vehicle desired, but all of them have air conditioning and water.