Tres Cruces Bus Station

Tres Cruceshas a strategic position in Montevideo, as it is located where to important avenues start: Italia Avenue, which takes you to the east beaches, and 18 de Julio Avenue, Montevideo’s backbone. Besides being a bus station, it’s also a shopping mall, which offers more than 110 shops.
Taxi and remise services are very reliable, reason why it’s not necessary to go to the street to catch one. Anyways, if you prefer going by bus, you just have to go to Artigas Boulevard and take one. The time estimated goes from 10 minutes by taxi to 15 minutes by bus. It’s important to remember Tres Cruces is a safe station, where you can arrive late at night without any problem.

Tres Cruces Bus Station offers:

• Information Office, open 24 hours a day.
• Exchange bureau
• Cash dispenser
• Food square
• Drugstore
• Bathrooms in excellent conditions
• Libraries
• Supermarket

Tres Cruces website has a lot of information, where frequencies and timetables can be found for each company.
www.trescruces.com.uy

How to get to Red Hostel Montevideo from Tres Cruces Bus Station?

There are three options:
• Taking a local bus (180, 187 or 188) whose destiny must be either “Ciudad Vieja”, “Ciudadela” or “Aduana”. The bus stop is in front of Tres Cruces. Once you catch one, you have to get off in 18 de Julio Avenue and Santiago de Chile, where you will see the City Council.

• Taking a taxi, that costs 3 dollars (60 pesos), approximately.
• The cheaper option: by feet!
Red Hostel Montevideo is just 22 blocks away from Tres Cruces Bus Station.

 Buquebus

Buquebus has two ports in Uruguay: one in Montevideo and one in Colonia.

www.buquebus.com

How to get to Red Hostel Montevideo from the Port?

• Best option is to take a taxi, which will cost 3 dollars, approximately.

 Carrasco International Airport

It’s considered to be the fourth most beautiful airport in the world by Travel + Leisure Magazine. It was inaugurated on December 2009, and from the first moment it became Uruguay’s architectonical icon, which represents an emblematic entrance to our country.
Its modern and innovative design was made by the famous Uruguayan architect, Rafael Viñoly. It has big transparencies that emphasize the space amplitude. It’s close to the city; time travel to Red Hostel Montevideo by taxi is approximately half an hour, and 45 minutes by bus. There’re also easy transportation systems of taxis and remises, as well as big bus frequency to Tres Cruces Bus Station.

The airport offers:

• Exchange bureau
• Information Office
• Drugstore
• Telephone boots
• Locutorio para llamadas internacionales
• Wi Fi user is Antel, and password is wi fi)
• Food square
• Free-shops
• Taxi services and bus lines
• Viewpoint terrace

The airport’s website has timetables, updated every minute:

www.aeropuertodecarrasco.com.uy

¿How to get to Red Hostel Montevideo from Carrasco Airport?

• You can take and “interdepartamental” bus that will leave you at the Centre, precisely in Uruguay and Yaguarón streets, just five blocks away from Red Hostel Montevideo. The ticket costs 1 dollar, much cheaper than taking a taxi, which costs 21 dollars.

• You can take a taxi or remise. Both are the most comfortable options, as well as the most expensive ones.

How to get to Montevideo from Argentina?  

 By boat:

There are four companies that offer moving from Buenos Aires to Montevideo by boat, combined with bus. The prices vary according to the comfort they offer and the time it takes them to get to Montevideo.

 By bus:

Buses leave Retiro Bus Station in Buenos Aires and go to Concordia, where they cross to Uruguay. Once they’re in Salto, they go to Montevideo.

• CAUVI
Tel. Bs. As.: 4314-6999/ 4880
Tel. Montevideo: (00598) 2401-9196 / 2401-9199

• BUS de la carrera:
Tel. Bs. As.:4313-1700
Tel. Montevideo: (00598) 2402-1313

 By plane:

Flights depart from Jorge Newbery Airport and takes about 45 minutes to get to Montevideo.

How to get to Montevideo from Brazil? 

  By bus:

From the border (CHUY):
• COT
Tel. (00598) 2409-4999

• RUTAS DEL SOL
Tel. (00598) 2408-1880
Bus 9 Road (4.30 hs.)

From Florianópolis, Río de Janeiro, San Pablo, Porto Alegre and Curitiba: