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Popular Airport

St Charles Railway Station

Popular Airlines

Approximate Flight Duration

4 hour 50 min

Approximate Travel Distance

3860 Km

Transportation to Airport from Dakar City Center

Leopold Sedar Senghor Intl. Airport

In the city where the rail transport system is not available, the only public transport alternative is the bus to get to the airport from the city center. You can reach the airport by bus only during the day as it does not serve at night.

You can rent a car from the city center, use hotel shuttle or take a taxi to get to the airport in about half an hour in normal traffic conditions. Private shuttle services are another convenient alternative.

Airport Shuttle Service

These private shuttle services, which operate with car rental logic, take you from your address and leave you at the airport gate. In order to benefit from this service, it is absolutely necessary to make a reservation in advance. You can ask your hotel to help you with the reservation. This service costs a little bit more than normal taxi.  

Bus

You can reach the airport by bus number 8, which can be accessed from the city center. This bus line operates between 06:00 and 21:00. Since bus is the only public transport you can use to get to the airport, it is not possible to get to the airport by public transport from the city center if your flight is at night.

Hotel Shuttle

You should learn in advance whether your hotel offers this service and make a reservation. With the hotel shuttle you will be picked up right in front of your hotel at the most convenient time and you will have a very comfortable means of transportation to reach the airport.

Taxi

Cars that work as a taxi in Dakar are quite old, but they are often preferred for fast and cheap transportation. You should definitely negotiate a good deal about the fare beforehand with your driver. You can get information about an average rate from your hotel and ask there for a taxi call. So you do not have to worry about the amount you will pay. You can reach the airport from the city center in a half hour by taxi.

Car Rental

You can rent a car suitable for your budget by contacting the car rental offices located in the city center. You can find both extremely cheap as well as luxury car options. If you are renting the car only for the last day to get to the airport, it is a convenience to ask for a car with a driver. The hotel you are staying at can also help you about car rental.

Airport Information

The airport in Dakar's northern district is named after Léopold Sédar Senghor, Senegal's first president. The public also refer to the airport as Dakar Yoff Airport, with the airport’s former name. International flights as well as charter flights and cargo flights are organized from the airport. Dakar Léopold Sédar Senghor International Airport offers only basic services.

A new airport is being built as an alternative to the airport, which cannot satisfy its guests both in terms of capacity and facilities. There is no clear information on when the airport, whose construction started in 2007, will be opened.

Transportation to Marseille City Center from Airport

Marseille Provence Airport

The Provence Airport is 27 kilometers away from the city center in Marseille, which is the center of the Provence Alpes Cote d’azur region in France. Provence Airport, which is among France's busiest 50 airports, is also the third largest airport in terms of air freight transportation traffic in France.

Provence Airport offers a large number of alternatives for transportation to and from the city center as well as ample parking spaces at terminal building for those who want to travel by their own cars.

You can take advantage of different transportation alternatives to reach the city center from Provence Airport, which is 27 kilometers away from Marseille city center. It is possible to go to the city center by choosing from the options such as taxi, train, bus, transfer vehicle and car rental.

Taxi

You can comfortably get to the city center by taking a taxi from Provence Airport, which provides you this service with 86 taxis each day of the week and every hour of the day. You can pay cash or by credit card as well as you can pay by check; if you want to find out about taxi fare, you can find information at the website of the airport.

Train

It is possible to reach the city center in about 20 minutes by train that you can take at the entrance building of Provence Airport. It is very easy to go to the city center by getting train tickets from ticket sales office. A total of 66 trains are at your service from 6 am to 10 pm every day at Provence Airport.

Bus

You can also get to the city center from Provence Airport by bus, which is another option as public transportation, without having any difficulty. You will arrive at the city center in about 20 minutes by taking a bus at the entrance of the airport.

Transfer Vehicle

Transfer vehicles are at your service as a transportation service offered to you by the hotel you have agreed with. You can easily get to your hotel from Provence Airport by the transfer vehicle that your hotel offers to you.

Rent a car

The last option to get to the city center from Provence Airport is to rent a car. You can reach the city center after a journey that takes about 15 minutes by renting a car from the car rental companies such as Avis, Budget, Enterprise, Europcar, Interrent, Firefly, Sixt and Hertz at the airport.

Weather in Marseille

DayMin - Max
MondayMin 5ºC - Max 9ºC
TuesdayMin 2ºC - Max 11ºC
WednesdayMin 1ºC - Max 13ºC
ThursdayMin 2ºC - Max 14ºC
FridayMin 3ºC - Max 15ºC

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