Getting around
Veracruz airport (934-70-00) is 11km southwest of town near Hwy 140. It’s small, modern and well organized with a café and several shops. There’s no bus service to or from town; taxis cost M$120.
To get into the city center from the 1st-class bus station, take a bus marked ‘Díaz Mirón y Madero’ (M$5). It will head to Parque Zamora then up Madero. For the zócalo, get off on the corner of Madero and Lerdo and turn right. Returning to the bus stations, pick up the same bus going south on Av 5 de Mayo. Booths in the 1st- and 2nd-class stations sell taxi tickets (zócalo area, M$30). In the tourist office, you can get a summary sheet of official taxi ride costs that’s helpful to guard against tourist price inflation.
Buses marked ‘Mocambo–Boca del Río’ (M$7 to Boca del Río) leave regularly from the corner of Zaragoza and Serdán, near the zócalo; they go via Parque Zamora then down Blvd Camacho to Playa Mocambo (20 minutes) and on to Boca del Río (30 minutes). AU buses also go there from the 2nd-class station.
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