Toluca Getting there & around

Getting there & away

Toluca’s Aeropuerto Adolfo López Mateos is conveniently located off Hwy 15, near downtown, adjacent to the industrial zone and a group of business-friendly chain hotels. Domestic airline Interjet (www.interjet.com.mx) has Toluca as its hub, offering flights from all over Mexico for those wishing to travel cheaply to the capital.

Continental Express (800-900-50-00, in the US 800-523-3273; www.continental.com) shuttles to Houston, and a couple of other Mexican airlines have scheduled flights from here. There are frequent buses from the airport to both Mexico City and the capital’s Aeropuerto Internacional, which take an hour or two, depending on traffic. A taxi from the airport to downtown Toluca runs around M$12.

Toluca’s bus station (Berriozábal 101) is 2km southeast of the center. Ticket offices for many destinations are on the platforms or at the gate entrances, and it’s fair to say it can be a confusing place.

There are frequent departures to Morelia (M$200, every hour from gate 5), Valle de Bravo (M$48, every 20 minutes from gate 6), Chalma (M$28, every 5 minutes from gate 1), Cuernavaca (M$64, every hour from gate 12), Taxco (M$76, every hour from gate 12) and Ixtapan de la Sal (M$36, every 20 minutes from gate 12). Shuttle buses to Tenango (where you can change for the colectivo to Malinalco) leave every 5 minutes (M$8, from gate 9).

For Mexico City there are a range of services to Terminal Poniente. The 1st-class TMT Caminante (219-50-07; www.tmt-caminante.com.mx) line links the two cities (M$38, one hour) every five minutes from 5:30am to 10:30pm, while the even plusher deluxe ETN services (M$49, one hour) leave every half hour. From Toluca, TMT runs hourly direct service to the Mexico City airport from 4am to 10pm (M$100, 11½ hours).