At this time, when we are all constantly dealing with how to find the cheapest vacation both in terms of flight and hotel, we all forget another element that has high significance in many cases – the costs of transfers from airports to hotels and back.
Usually, we arrive on our vacations with suitcases and families arrive with strollers and quite a bit of equipment, which in many cases makes it difficult to use public transportation, so taxis have become a very common way to get from the airports to hotels, only these can cost hundreds of shekels.
The rule is clear: the closer the airport is to the city center, the lower the cost, and the farther away it is, the higher the price. So in order to understand how expensive it is and where we will pay the most, we checked the official prices of taxis from the main airports around the world as they appear on the website of the local airport authority, and used tourism experts to provide tips that can reduce this cost substantially.
It is important to note that the prices are for a ride to the City Centre from Monday to Friday during the daytime for 4 passengers, and they do not take into account the price of luggage, which is more or less the same worldwide. Adding luggage, trips on weekends and nights will usually add to existing prices.
Most expensive from there to the city center. Heathrow Airport in the United Kingdom,
Taxi worth the flight ticket
Let's start with Cyprus. Those who land at Larnaca Airport and want to take a taxi directly to the resort city center of Limassol will be required to pay, according to the Cyprus Airports Authority website, 55 euros (about 400 shekels) each way, almost the same as the price of the flight ticket to the destination.
Those who land at Lisbon Airport in Portugal and take a taxi to the city center will be required to pay about 60 euros both ways, which is 216 NIS. A trip from JFK in New York to downtown Manhattan will cost $80 each way, which is NIS 550, and those landing at Athens Airport will have to add an additional NIS 418 on transfers to and from the hotel.
According to our analysis, the two most expensive countries are Italy and the UK. A trip from Leonardo da Vinci Airport to central Rome will cost NIS 640 in both directions, and a trip from Heathrow to central London will cost NIS 672 in both directions – almost like a plane ticket to one of the destinations in the Middle East.
So what can be done to reduce this cost? Get tips to save on airport transfers to the city centre.
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