Aberdeen Getting there & around

Getting there & away

Land

Bus

The bus station (Guild St) is next to the train station.

National Express runs direct buses from London (£40, 12 hours) twice daily, one of them overnight. Scottish Citylink runs direct services to Dundee (£11, two hours), Perth (£16, 2½ hours), Edinburgh (£20, 3¼ hours) and Glasgow (£20, 4¼ hours).

Bus 10 runs hourly to Inverness (£11, 3¾ hours) via Huntly, Keith, Fochabers, Elgin (£10, two hours) and Nairn. Service 201 runs every half-hour (hourly on Sunday) to Crathes Castle gate (45 minutes), continuing once an hour (less frequently on Sunday) to Ballater (1¾ hours) and every two hours to Crathie (for Balmoral Castle) and Braemar (£8, 2¼ hours).

Other local buses serve Stonehaven, Fraserburgh, Peterhead, Banff and Buckie.

Train

There are several trains a day from London’s King’s Cross to Aberdeen (£112, 7½ hours); most services involve a change of train at Edinburgh.

Other destinations served from Aberdeen by rail include Edinburgh (£36, 2½ hours), Glasgow (£36, 2¾ hours), Dundee (£22, 1¼ hours) and Inverness (£23, 2¼ hours).

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Boat

Car ferries from Aberdeen to Orkney and Shetland are run by Northlink Ferries (0845 600 0449; www.northlinkferries.co.uk). The ferry terminal is a short walk east of the train and bus stations.

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Air

Aberdeen Airport (722331; www.aberdeenairport.com) is at Dyce, 6 miles northwest of the city centre. There are regular flights to numerous Scottish and UK destinations, including Orkney and Shetland, and international flights to the Netherlands, Norway, Denmark, France and the Czech Republic.

Bus 27 runs regularly from Union St to the airport (£1.80, 35 minutes). A taxi from the airport to the city centre costs £12.

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