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Travel to Vilnius

Flying to Vilnius

Airlines offering flights to Vilnius from the UK include Lufthansa, Finnair, Austrian Airlines and Air France.

Flight times: 

From London – 3 hours; Berlin – 1 hour 20 minutes.

Travel by road

Summary:

There is a good network of roads in Lithuania, with modern motorways connecting Vilnius with Klaipeda, Kaunas and Panevezys. Traffic drives on the right and the minimum driving age is 18 years. Speed limits are 50kph (31mph) in towns, 90kph (56mph) on country roads and 110-130kph (68-80mph) on motorways. Winter conditions can be severe in Lithuania so winter tyres are a legal requirement from November to March. Dipped headlights are also compulsory all year round. Drivers must be in possession of a valid national driving licence supported by photo-bearing ID.

Emergency breakdown service:

(tel: 1810).

Routes:

Lithuania has the most developed motorway network in the Baltics with a motorway (the A1) linking Vilnius to the Lithuanian cities of Klaipeda and Kaunas. The A2 motorway heads north towards the Latvian border, while the less impressive M7 artery heads southeast to Belarus.

Coaches:

Vilnius’s bus station is centrally located by the main railway station on the edge of the old town at Sodu 22. Services run to all major Lithuanian towns and cities as well as outside the country to Estonia, Riga, Belarus, Germany and as far as the UK. The other main operators are Eurolines (tel: (5) 233 6666; www.eurolines.lt) and ECOLINES (tel: (5) 213 3300; www.ecolines.lt).

Travel by rail

Services:

The centrally located Vilnius Railway Station, Gelezinkelio Stotis, Gelezinkelio 16, offers domestic train services to Lithuania's second city of Kaunas (the journey by double deck electric train now takes under an hour) and other domestic destinations such as Trakai and Klaipeda, as well as international destinations such as Minsk, Kaliningrad, Moscow and Warsaw. Beware that some international trains transit neighbouring Belarus, for which a transit visa is required.

Operators:

The national railway company, Lietuvos Gelezinkeliai (tel: (5) 233 0088; www.litrail.lt), has a sales agency at the train station.

Journey times:

From St Petersburg – 10 hours.

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