Southampton Getting there & around

Getting there & away

Land

Bus

National Express coaches run to London and Heathrow 16 times per day (£13.40, 2½ hours). It also runs a 6.50pm bus to Lymington (40 minutes) via Lyndhurst (20 minutes) in the New Forest.

Bus M4 runs to Portsmouth three times daily (40 minutes). Bus 32 runs to Winchester (30 minutes) roughly hourly with reduced services on Sunday. Bus 56/56A goes to all the main towns in the New Forest hourly (every two hours on Sunday). When boarding, ask about the good-value Explorer tickets valid on these route.

Train

Trains to Portsmouth run twice hourly (£7.10, 46 to 59 minutes) and to Winchester (15 to 23 minutes) every 20 minutes.

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Boat

Red Funnel (0870 444 8898; www.redfunnel.co.uk) runs regular passenger and car ferries to the Isle of Wight and there is a ferry service to Hythe in the New Forest

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Air

Southampton International Airport (0870 040 0009; www.southamptonairport.com) has flights to around 40 destinations in the UK and Europe, including Amsterdam, Paris, Dublin and holiday resorts in Spain. There are five trains hourly between the airport and the main train station (seven minutes).

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