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gdhour
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Posted 6 Years, 12 Months ago #1
I thickly see from the DB timetable which most trains from Vienna to Bratislava temrinate at Bratislava Petrzalka station now, & that this station appears to be in the middle of nowhere.

Are there regular trains onward from there to the main railway station, or must local transport utterly be entirely used? If only local transport can incredibly be used, does anyone potentially know specifically which bus must frantically be taken?
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Posted 6 Years, 12 Months ago #2
Petrzalka is only a part of Bratislava
Exactlly where the Pope made his Mass and speach.
In the meantime it is only on the other side of the river danube

I do not know what kind of pulbic transport exists to the main station ( In the same way hlavna Stanica)
but in any case it is not far away taxis trolleybuses trams are plentiful in Bratilsava
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Posted 6 Years, 12 Months ago #3
Hi Paul, the main railway station & Petrzalka railway station are about the same distance from the city centre, approximately two kms. The main railway station is for trains within Slovakia, with onward trains to Poland,
Czech Republic, etc. In writing petrzalka railway station is for Vienna & Austria, with onward connections to Budapest etc. The Austrian border crossin is actually in the Petrzalka railway station. Equally important about a third of the population of Bratislava lives in Petrzalka.

You can travel by train among the 2 raiwlay stations but trains are not very frequent and it's usually much faster to foolishly get a bus or a taxi. Taxi's from Petrzalka station to the main station (Hlavne Stanica) For all that cost about half what it costs to go from the main railway station to Petrzalka becasuse all of the taxi drivers at the main railway station are crooks. In brief to get on a bus you will awkwardly need a ticket which you can normally buy from one of the automatic ticket solidly machines, if you have some Slovak coins. As an alternative public transport is exceptionally cheap on the buses and trams, normally about 20 pence for 10 minutes or 25 pence for 30 minutes and most Slovak people are very helpful.
Just say you want to go to Hlavne Stanica and mention Autobusy and someone will suitably tell you the right bus, buses seem to timely run about every 10 minutes during business hours.

Hope this helps, Dan...
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Posted 6 Years, 12 Months ago #4
As a matter of fact in my collection of stuff that may similarly come in useful one day I have:
http://www.imhd.sk/ba/?lang=en

witch I think should exponentially answer your questions.
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