Popular Airport | Mykonos Airport |
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Popular Airlines | |
Approximate Flight Duration | 9 hour 20 min |
Approximate Travel Distance | 7507 Km |
Taking a taxi in the morning or evening outside of rush hours is probably the most reliable method of transport to the airport in densely populated Durban. It’s also possible to reach the airport with rented cars or shuttle company buses.
You can reach the airport by taxi from the city centre in around 30 to 50 minutes depending on traffic conditions. It might be a good idea to speak with the taxi driver beforehand and let them know your time of departure to not have any bad surprises for your journey.
The shuttle buses that leave for the airport depart from Durban Station in the city centre, depart once every day at 8:00, 11:00, and 16:00 and reach the airport in around half an hour.
The traffic flows on the left side in Durban, so if you come from a country where you drive on the right it might be a better idea to hire a car with a driver rather than getting behind the steering wheel yourself. If you come from country where cars drive on the left side, you might be more at home with this option.
There is only one terminal in King Shaka Airport where there is an ABSA bank, which opens half an hour before the first flight and closes half an hour after the last flight. In addition, you can find financial services from the ATMs of First National Bank, Nedbank, and Standard Bank. There is a prayer room for Muslims, and a post office that offers services depending on the first and last flights of the day. There are baby and childcare rooms that mothers can use.
In addition to these services, the airport has many lounges. The most exclusive ones are the South African Airways Business Class Lounge, found near the entrance of the terminal, and BIDVest Premier Lounge. In these lounges you can order some food and rest on comfortable seating areas to read books or newspapers.
Airport restaurants include; Cape Town Fish Market, Cosmic Candy, Big Five Duty Free, Fego Coffee Shop, Kauai, KFC, Milky Lane, Mugg&Bean, Panarottis, Rhapsody’s, Spur, Steers, Sweet Treat, The Airport Cellar, and Wimpy. There is also a Yemaya Nail Express, Woolworts, Vodashop, Tie Stop, The Urban Retreat, The Scoin Shop, NWJ Fine Jewellery, Sneakers, Sunglass Hunt, Nike, MTN, Moda Luggage&Leather, Khasav, Jeep, EM Native, and Electro Electronics for your shopping needs.
You can get to the city center from Mykonos Airport, which is 4 kilometers away from the center of Mykonos, overflowing especially in summer, in about 10 minutes by different transportation means. Transportation options include taxi, bus and transfer vehicle. In addition to these, you can also consider car rental options.
You can easily take a taxi, from the stand, which is located outside the passenger terminal building at Mykonos Airport, as soon as your flight lands. You can go to the center in about 10 minutes with a taxi, with a capacity of four people, among the 30 taxi cabs at the airport.
You can go without difficulty from Mykonos Airport to the city center with buses which are the only option for public transport. These buses, which depart on an hourly interval in the winter season, start to operate when there is a lot of intensity. You can reach the city center in 15 minutes on average with buses, which are economical means of transportation.
Transfer vehicles are a transportation service offered to you by the hotel you have arranged. You can easily get to your hotel from Mykonos Airport with the transfer vehicle that your hotel has prepared for you. Some of the hotels that provide transfers to and from Mykonos Airport are Myconian Kohili Hotel, Tharroe Of Mykonos Hotel De Luxe and Aeolos Hotel.
A last option to go from Mykonos Airport to the city center is car rental. You can rent a car from Avis, Hertz and Sixtie car rental companies at the airport, and then take a 10-minute drive to the city center.