Popular Airport | Nanjing Lukou Intl. Airport |
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Popular Airlines | |
Approximate Flight Duration | 5 hour 50 min |
Approximate Travel Distance | 4757 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.
There are several ways to get to Nanjing city center from Nanjing Lukou Airport. The most popular options are metro, shuttle and regular city buses, taxi and Uber, transfer and car rental services. It takes a maximum of 1 hour from the airport, which is 35 kilometers away from the city, to Nanjing.
It is quite common to use metro in Nanjing. Because of this, there is a subway line called S1 (Airport Line) which provides continuous transportation between Nanjing Lukou Airport and Nanjing city center. In fact, we can say that the cheapest way to get to the city from the airport is to use the metro. You can get your metro ticket for only 6 Chinese Yuan and get off at one of the city center metro stops. You can reach the city center by metro within 30 minutes. When you use this route which is also called Line 1, you reach Shinjiekou, which is considered as a central district of the city.
The most affordable and reliable way to reach the city center from Nanjing Lukou Airport is to use the shuttle buses that are operated by the airport. There are two shuttle bus routes, Line 1 and Line 2. With Line 1 you can easily go both to bus and railway station from Nanjing airport and with the Line 2 you can easily go to the central bus station and the hotels located in the center. As of 2016, shuttle service costs 20 Chinese Yuan. At the end of the 40-minute bus journey you arrive at Nanjing city center.
When you exit the airport arrival terminal you would see the taxi stands. If you are in a rush, or if you have arrived late at night and do not want to wait for public transport, taking a taxi might be a good idea for you. The taxi fare from Nanjing Lukou Airport to the city center can vary around 90-120 Chinese Yuan, depending on where you want to go. It is very practical to reach Drum Bell Square for 105 yuan and to Nanjing railway station for 120 yuan by taxi.
In addition, it is possible to reach Nanjing in a comfortable, fast and very economical way by using Uber system. There is only one thing you need to do to benefit from this system: you should either download Uber application to your smart phone or by following it on the internet.
There are a lot of foreign car rental companies at the airport because it is an international one. You can choose one of these companies and head to Nanjing city center. You can also save time by using express highway which shortens this distance significantly.