Tickets (all valid for use on metro, bus and tram) can be bought from some kiosks bearing the green and yellow RUCH logo, or anywhere with a sign reading Bilety. There are now also a series of ticket machines with instructions in English dotted around the city, and English translations are printed on tickets.To save yourself the hassle of working out which ticket you need or trying to buy to explain it to the lady in the kiosk.
A standard public transport single ticket costs 3.60zł. If you’re travelling to the further reaches of Warsaw you’ll be needing a ticket that covers both zones 1 and 2 – these are priced at 5.60zł. Note that the airport is in Zone 1. Still with us? Good. Tickets are also available for specific time periods and come valid for 20, 40 and 60 minutes. These are priced at 2,60zł, 3,80zł and 5,20zł. Tickets valid for 24 hrs are priced at 12 or 19zł if travelling through both zones. Three day tickets cost 24zł, or 38zł for both zones. Children up to the age of 7 years travel for free (have proof of age ID handy). Everyone else pays full fare unless in possession of an ISIC card. This entitles you to buy a reduced ticket (ulgowy) which costs approximately 50% of the full fare.
You can buy single tickets from the driver, though you must have exact change. Once you’ve got a ticket you will need to validate it in one of the box-style kasowniks, thus activating the magnetic strip on the back. On the metro this must be done before you get on board. It is no longer necessary to buy an extra ticket for animals or large pieces of luggage. Plain clothes ticket inspectors regularly stalk the lines, dishing out 180zł fines for those without valid tickets. They often don't look very official and you are within your rights to request identification, or even do as the locals do, and attempt to bargain them down.
You can go eaisly to Modlin using 'Translud' private buses company. They run from several stops in Warsaw but the most central are 'Plac Bankowy' or 'DT Centrum' (ul. Marszałkowska 104 122) I think.You need to catch bus No 2 to Modlin. Here are links to schedules from Pl. Bankowy www.translud.aplus.pl tabliczki tpo_15550055.htmlfrom DT Centrum http www.translud.aplus.pl tabliczki tpo_15550046.htmlYou can also catch PKS bus from Dworzec Zachodni at 15 45 - arrives to Modlin at 16 50.
can anyone please tell me if there is a bus service from modlin airport warsaw to the city center and if so what number bus? or other means of public transport to and from the airport! Ted. thank you!
Ah found it ZTM under "website" (nice and cryptic that one!). Might be an idea to embed it in the text and make it clear what the link is. Not the most user friendly of sites though even though its in English as well.
I am not certain about your claim that the locals negotiate the fine down. Those I have observed always display their ID when they start to examine tickets and remove people from the tram/bus to take their details so that they can either pay up then and there or pay later ( Poles have to carry a Dowod - ID card). Your link doesn't point straight to the the Warsaw Tourist Card site but after having trawled through it, if that the best the authorities can come up with then their hope that the WTC will lead to people falling in love with the City may come to nothing (the English version is at the top "helpfully" marked EN. A link to Warsaws MPK timetables would be helpful. Incidentally Warsaw is a wonderful City despite the fact that the Nazis destroyed 84% of it through sheer spite.
It is advisable to inform your readers whether the Warsaw airport is within the zone 1 or the zone 2, because on this the cost of a single ride depends.Thanks.