Popular Airport | Tan Son Nhat Intl. Airport |
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Popular Airlines | |
Approximate Flight Duration | 6 hour 40 min |
Approximate Travel Distance | 5443 Km |
The province of Kyzylorda of Kazakhstan is a city with a population of approximately 160,000 people. The city, which has a coast on Lake Aral in the south, borders on Uzbekistan, Aktobe and Karaganda. Kyzylorda Airport lies 21 kilometers southeast of the city center, and you can reach the airport only by taxi or renting a car.
Since there is no public transportation and bus network connecting the city center with the airport, going to Kyzylorda Airport by taxi, which you can take in the city center, is the easiest and most economical alternative. The price procedure applied by each cooperative taxi is different, and 45 Tenges are paid minimum per kilometer. The duration of the journey may change between 23 and 30 minutes depending on traffic and the situation of the road.
To go to the airport from the city center, you can rent a car from Hertz, AVIS, Alamo, Budget, Dollar, Thrifty, Enterprise and Europcar. If you would like to, you can drive the car yourself and leave it at the airport or you can call a car with a driver. The most reasonable prices in car rental are provided in online reservation you are going to make before traveling. It is also possible to rent a car instantly from the offices in the city center.
You can learn whether your hotel in Kzylorda provide airport transfers while getting a reservation made, and if it has such a service, you can plan your transfers according to your dates of entry and exit.
Kzylorda Airport, which is quite a small airport established on the outskirts of the city, has a small cafe and lounge. You can travel via the taxis waiting right in front of the airport, where there is no Wi-Fi network, and car rental offices inside.
You can buy a ticket for the bus, or take one of the taxis waiting in front of the terminal as soon as you land in Tan Son Nhat Airport, located just 5 kilometers from Ho Chi Minh City center. Another option is to rent a car. It is possible to get to the city center from Tan Son Nhat Airport in 30 minutes by bus and in a maximum of 10 minutes by other means of transportation.
Go out when you arrive at the arrival terminal of the airport, and there you will see the stops of the direct buses to the city center. You can get on bus number 152 by purchasing your ticket immediately from the offices. These light cream and green colored minibus sized buses depart every 30 minutes from Tan Son Nhat Airport to the famous Ben Tanh Market, which is a 15-minute walk from to the city center. It is economical and easy to go to the city center by bus number 152, which runs between 6 am and 6 pm. The single-use fare is only 30 cents as of 2017. In addition to this, bus number 109, operated by SATSCO which runs every 15-20 minutes, provides access to the city center from Tan Son Nhat Airport. The bus number 109, which provides transportation services from 05.30 in the morning to 01.30 at night, departs from the column 18 of the domestic terminal and the column 15 of the international terminal and arrives at Ben Thanh Station within 45 minutes. Some of the bus stops on this route are Troug Son, Tran Quoc Hoan, Hoang Van Thu, Nguyen Dinh Chieu, Pham Ngu Lao Park 2. The fare for bus number 109 varies between 12.000 (less than 5 km) – 20.000 (more than 5 km) Viet Nam Dong as of March 16, 2016.
The taxis, those take you directly from Tan Son Nhat Airport to the center of Ho Chi Minh City, for only 5-7 dollars (150.000-170.000 Viet Nam Dong), wait for the passengers 7/24 outside the terminal. If you want to use private taxis outside the airport, you can ask for a taxi by calling Vinasun Taxi (+84838272727) or Malinh Taxi Group (+84838383838).
The most known car rental companies at Tan Son Nhat Airport arrival terminal are Avis, Budget, Europcar, Hertz and Sixt. If you are going to stay in Ho Chi Minh for a few days, you might benefit from renting a car. Because renting a car on an hourly basis is generally not possible. It would take 10-12 minutes to reach Ho Chi Minh City center by the car you book in advance and pick up as soon as you land.