Transport
TRAVEL ARRANGEMENTS - TRANSPORT FROM PRAGUE TO PILSEN
Taxi - from Ruzyně Airport straight to Pilsen (Plzeň)
1. you can take a taxi from Prague stright to Pilsen (aprox. CZK 2500) without ordering (airport taxi service providers)
2. you can order a cheaper taxi company by yourself (CZK 1800), the driver will need number of flight and exact time of arrival. Here is the driver´s mobile phone: 00420 608 31 66 61, or via e-mail: Vilem.Mleziva@seznam.cz The driver speaks English language :-)
You can also order another taxi driver - Mr. Kanak (aprox. CZK 1500), 00420 607 738 944, martin.kanak@c-box.cz The driver speaks English, German and Spanish language.
Train - from Ruzyně Airport to Main Railway Station in Prague (in Czech language: "Hlavní nádraží")
1. you can take a taxi (CZK 600) from the airport to Prague Railway Station, and then take a train to Pilsen (goes every hour until 8 p.m., CZK 140). You can use also trains which go later, please have a look at www.idos.cz
2. bus to the Prague center (different buses go to all tube/metro lines) then you have to take or change to tube C, red line (direction to "nadrazi Holešovice"), get off at stop "Hlavní nádraží" (Main Rail Station) and take a train to Pilsen
The train fare one-way to Pilsen will normally be around (CZK 140). The bus is cheaper (CZK 80) and faster.The travel time to Pilsen is usually about 2 hours by train and 1.5 hours by bus.
Bus - from Ruzyně Airport to a bus stop in part of suburb so called "Zličín" in Prague
1. bus No. 100 (all bus stops are opposite airport exit) goes straight to "Zličín" every 20 minutes (you can buy ticket CZK 25 at driver’s) and there change to a bus to Pilsen Central Coach Station ("Hlavní autobusové nádraží"), the ticket costs CZK 80.
There is also a possibility to catch a bus from the station so called: "Florenc," which is the main Bus station. You can take a bus (CZK 26) at the airport to the metro stop Dejvicka (Green Line A). From there, you can go to the bus terminal ("Autobusové nádraží Florenc"; stop on the Red Line C).
The link to time schedules buses/trains: http://www.idos.cz you can find all possible times of buses and trains leaving from PRAGUE to PILSEN. The English version is available.
Notice: We organize transportation from Prague International Airport to Pilsen for participants (only for TEFL students and international teachers) arriving on Friday, July 9, 2010. For more information please visit section Travel Arrangements. How to get from the Main bus station ("Centrální autobusové nádraží") to the Dorms
When you arrive in Pilsen by bus to the bus terminal (Centrální autobusové nádraží), you can take a taxi for about |CZK 120 from there to the dorms (show the taxi driver the address). Taxis are parked just outside the bus terminal. In case that there is no taxi, you can call the taxi service: 00420 377 377 377.
You can reach the dorms also by tram, buy a 12 crown ticket from the ticket machine or at the tobacco shop (trafika), and go to the tram stop near the bus station: go downstairs to the tunnel, turn left and follow it until the end; outside, you will see the tram stop in front of you on a busy street (the gas station Shell is nearby). Take tram No. 2, direction SLOVANY, and get out on the 2nd stop. From there take tram No. 4, direction BORY. Get off the tram at the terminus and then walk to the dorms on Machova ulice 20.
How to get from the Main train station ("Hlavní nádraží") to the Dorms
If you arrive in Pilsen by train at the Main train station ("Hlavní nádraží"), you can either take a taxi to the dorms (show the driver the address) or buy a 12 crown tram ticket from the machine just outside the train station on the right, continue to the road, turn right and go down the escalator. In the underground passage follow the sign BOLEVEC and take tram No. 1 to the main Post Office station (4th stop). Then cross the street, turn the corner on left side and go to the tram stop in the middle of the big street in front of you. Take tram No. 4 direction BORY to the terminus and then walk to the dorms on Machova ulice 20.
UNIVERSITY CAMPUS IN BORY
A map of university campus - BORY:
Click here for connections within the Czech Republic and abroad: http://idos.datis.cdrail.cz
LOCAL TRANSPORTATION
All major cities in the Czech Republic have very reliable, inexpensive public transport systems. Summer School participants can purchase a public transport pass valid for all means of public transport (trams, buses and trolley buses) in Pilsen for the whole duration of ISLS. The pass can be bought either at the university dorms (during the weekend before the beginning of the ISLS) or in the ISLS reception in the university campus.
