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 Kingston Airport to City Center
Kingston Airport, officially known as Norman Manley International Airport (KIN), serves the city of Kingston, the capital city of Jamaica. The most economical option to go from the airport to the city center is to take the 98 numbered Port Royal – City center bus.
This bus operates between 05.35 and 22.11 on weekdays, between 05.28 and 09.52 on Saturdays, and between 05.53 and 22.13 on Sundays and public holidays. You can check the stops and times of the bus on the official website of JUTC.
Another economical option is to use the private buses of the Knutsford Connect company. These large, air-conditioned buses arrive at Kingston Bus Terminal in New Kingston in approximately 30 minutes. You can find the times of reciprocal flights on the company's website.
While the two options above drop off their passengers at certain stops, shuttles like minibuses departing from the airport drop their passengers off at their hotels in the city center. Since these minibuses take off when they are full in direct proportion to their names, the waiting time can sometimes reach 45 minutes. You can recognize these vehicles by their red license plates and the PPV or JUTA letters on their license plates.
As you can rent a private shuttle service to your hotel from the same company, your hotel probably also has a shuttle service. By using this service, you will reach your hotel directly from the airport and you will not have to deal with anything else.
Kingston is a city rich in sights. You can reach your hotel in the city center by renting a car as soon as you land, and you will not have to find another means of transportation as long as you stay in the city. In addition to global brands such as Avis and Budget, there are offices of several local companies in the terminal building. You can find the full list of companies and their contact information on the boards at the airport and the information center.