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 Guadalajara Airport to the City Center
Guadalajara Airport (GDL) or Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla Guadalajara International Airport, with its full name, serves as the main airport for the Mexican city of Guadalajara. Transportation to this airport, which serves the capital of a developed region, is provided by a wide variety of vehicles.
The most economical of these vehicles is to take the Guadalajara airport bus. Buses stop at the bus stop on the highway, which passes right in front of the arrivals terminal. After a short 2-minute walk from the terminal, you come to this stop.
Autotransportes Guadalajara Chapala company has flights to the city center between 06:00 and 21:00. The other two companies operating in the same direction are Autobuses Primera Plus and Autovias. The distance of 18 km to the city center takes an average of 35 minutes.
You can find more information on the official websites of Primer Plus, Autovias and Chapala Plus.
If you are going to continue to cities such as Acapulco, Aguas Calientes, Ciudad Juárez and Cuernavaca, not from the airport to the city center, ETN Turistar offers direct flights to these cities from Guadalajara Airport. You can take a look at the official website of the company for voyage times and fare schedule.
Another common option in the city is to take a taxi. Taxi stands are located right at the exit of the arriving passenger terminal. There are taxis available 24/7. After you tell the toll booths on the arrivals floor of your destination and make your payment, you can take the next taxi with the invoice they give you and go to the city center. The journey takes about 30 minutes.
The Uber app is also widely used here. Since there is no special hop-on hop-off point for Uber vehicles, you can meet your driver at a convenient place. Since vehicles other than the registered taxis at the airport are not allowed to pick up passengers from here, your driver may want to meet you outside the airport, be prepared for this.
Guadalajara is a very rich place in terms of places to see. You can rent a car from the car rental offices in the terminal building and go to the city center quickly. When you have your own car, you can make your own schedule and tour around with your own rhythm. You can rent a car with some reliable car rental companies. Do not sign a contract without agreeing on the deposit, insurance and additional terms.