Bydgoszcz Getting there & around

Getting there & away

IJ Paderewski airport (052 365 4650; www.plb.pl; Al Jana Pawła II 158) is located 3km south of the city centre, accessible via bus 80 (2.20zł, hourly, 20 minutes) from the Old Town. A taxi should cost about 30zł (15 minutes). There are domestic flights to Warsaw via LOT (up to three daily), and international flights via Ryanair to London (daily) and Dublin (twice weekly).

The main train station is 1.5km northwest of the Old Town, while the bus terminal is 1km east; city buses 54 and 94 link the two stations, passing through the centre.

Trains go frequently to Toruń (16zł, one hour), and there are also services to Gdańsk (33zł, 2¼ hours, 15 daily), Poznań (33zł, 2½ hours, 11 daily) and Warsaw (46zł, four hours, seven daily).

Buses head to Toruń regularly through the day (9zł, one hour). Polski Express also runs buses every hour or two to Warsaw (42zł, 4½ hours) via Toruń and Płock, leaving Bydgoszcz from a stand 150m west of the bus station on ul Jagiellońska.