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Travel to Guinea

Flying to Guinea

Air France (website: www.airfrance.com) flies regularly from London to Conakry, via Paris. KLM (website: www.klm.com) and Brussels Airlines (website: www.flysn.com) also fly direct from Europe. Air Afrique (www.airafrique.com) operates from New York to Dakar, from where connecting flights to Guinea are available.

Flight times:

From London to Conakry is 11 hours (including a stopover time in Paris or Brussels of up to 3 hours).

Departure tax:

None.

Driving to Guinea

Visitors should also note that political instability is persisting in some neighbouring countries - notably in Guinea-Bissau.

Check with an embassy or relevant organisation for up-to-date travel advice.

By road note:

Visitors should also note that political instability is persisting in some neighbouring countries - notably in Guinea-Bissau.

Check with an embassy or relevant organisation for up-to-date travel advice.

Ferry operators:

The fast hydrofoil service along the coast from Conakry to Freetown in Sierra Leone has been stopped due to the civil war, but will resume once Freetown is rebuilt. There is also a ferry to Mali which operates when the river is high enough.

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