Transportation from City Center to Monterrey Airport
Serving the city of Monterrey, Monterrey International Airport (official name: General Mariano Escobedo International Airport) is located approximately 30 km from the city center.
One of the most economical options to go to the airport is to take the bus. The buses of the company VivaBus depart from Monterrey Bus Terminal, which is 3 kilometers from the city center, every 30 minutes and pass through Fundidora Park in the Fierro neighborhood, reach the airport and drop off its passengers at all three terminals of the airport, respectively.
You can buy bus tickets online from official websites or from the ticket office at the bus terminal. With these buses, the journey to Monterrey airport takes approximately 40 minutes.
VivaBus: https://www.vivaaerobus.com/en
Again, as an economical option, you can also take the minibuses, namely “Collectivos”, which only go to Terminal A. There are minibuses departing from 3 different points in the city center. One of these routes is “Centro”, the minibuses departing from the activity center called Pabellón M. in the city center.
Another is San Pedro and its first stop is Hotel Camino Real. The last one is the “Sur”, that is, the southern route. The first stop of this route is Rectoría ITESM, that is, the Rectorate of Monterrey University of Technology. If your flight is not in terminal A, you can change terminals using the free shuttle service.
For a more comfortable journey, you can call a taxi, as well as from applications such as Uber and Bolt, which are widely used in the country. One plus of transportation applications is that it eliminates your need for cash. It normally takes 30 minutes to reach the city center, which is about 30 km away, by this type of passenger vehicle.
Find out if your hotel offers a shuttle service to the airport. If your hotel does not provide this service, you can find many reliable transfer companies by using online sites that serve globally, such as Viator.
Transportation from Bogota El Dorado International Airport to Bogota City Center
Bogota Airport in Colombia is approximately 20 minutes by taxi from the city center. There are actually many options to go from the airport to the city center of Bogota, but Transmilenio buses are the most convenient.
Bogota is a very big city and when the city center is mentioned, La Candelaria region, which is most preferred by tourists, comes to mind. Transmilenio buses are also the most convenient option to go from Bogota airport to La Candelaria.
You can take the free bus number 16-14 from Bogota Airport to Portal El Dorado, the main stop of Transmilenio. When you come to the stop, you should choose the bus that moves in the direction of Universidades to go to the city center.
These buses operate between 04.30-23.00 from Monday to Friday, between 05.00-23.00 on Saturdays and between 05.30 and 22:00 on Sundays and only accept payments with Tullave Card.
One of the options is to reach the Santa Fe stop with the buses of Transmilenio buses that depart directly from Bogota Airport and transfer to a bus going to Bogota city center from there. Just follow the signs to find the Transmilenio stop at the airport.
Another public transportation method to get to the city center from El Dorado Airport is the P500 buses. You can reach the city center by taking this bus from Gate 7 of Terminal 1. In order to be able to pay, it is necessary to purchase Tullave Card from the airport. If you want to pay cash, you can go to a few points in Bogota city center by minibuses you will see when you exit Gate 9 of Terminal 1.
If your flight to Bogota arrives late, airport taxis are one of the safest options to get to the city centre. Bogota airport taxis go to the city center with a standard fare, and tickets are printed from the box office at the airport in front of them. Then, with this ticket, it is enough to take a taxi from the taxi queue in front of the airport and tell you where you will go. When you arrive at the city center of Bogota, you present the price on the ticket to the driver.
Uber is a more economical way to get from Bogota airport to the city center than a taxi. Actually, Uber is not legal in Colombia, but the app still works. You can tell a vehicle by downloading the Uber application to your phone and entering the address of your hotel in the city center. In the meantime, it is useful to be careful, there may be some vehicles walking around saying that they are an Uber driver, so it can be unsafe to get into unregistered vehicles.
Apart from these, you can also use the private transfer option. Moveo, Tedecol, GuateGo or Colombian Buddy are some companies that provide private transfer services from Bogota Airport. You can make a reservation in advance and provide your flight information and have them pick you up from the airport and take you to the city center of Bogota. Thus, you will get rid of flight fatigue and the hassle of searching for a transportation.